There are several facets of aluminum when it comes to sustainability. While it helps to save
fuel due to its low density, producing it from ores is very energy-intensive. Recycling it shifts …

Atom probe tomography (APT) provides three-dimensional compositional map** with sub-
nanometre resolution. The sensitivity of APT is in the range of parts per million for all …

Atom probe tomography (APT) is routinely used for analyzing property-enhancing particles
in the nanometer-size range and below, and plays a prominent role in the analysis of solute …

The natural aging (NA) response of a commercial Al–Zn–Mg alloy has been tracked to
investigate the effects of solute clusters on its mechanical properties. It has been observed …

It is well known that long time natural aging (NA) after quenching from solution treatment will
significantly reduce the precipitation hardening kinetics and peak hardness of most 6xxx …

The precipitation sequence in Al–Zn–Mg alloys has been subject to many revisions over the
years as more structural details of the early-stage Guinier-Preston (GP) zones and …

Introducing high density of nano-precipitates to recrystallized ultrafine grains is helpful to
realize strength-ductility synergy but is a challenging task, because recrystallization and …

A key question in materials science is how fast properties evolve, which relates to the
kinetics of phase transformations. In metals, kinetics is primarily connected to diffusion …

Dislocations and the residual strain they produce are instrumental for the high thermoelectric
figure of merit, zT≈ 2, in lead chalcogenides. However, these materials tend to be brittle …

The artificial ageing (AA) at 160–240° C with and without prior natural ageing (NA) in a
commercial Al-Cu-Li-Mg alloy has been systematically investigated by hardness test, high …