During the past decade, computer simulations based on a quantum‐mechanical description
of the interactions between electrons and between electrons and atomic nuclei have …

Recent experiments on nanostructured materials, such as nanoparticles, nanowires,
nanotubes, nanopillars, thin films, and nanocrystals have revealed a host of “ultra-strength” …

Magnesium (Mg) and its alloys usually show relatively low strength and poor ductility at
room temperature due to their anisotropic hexagonal close-packed (HCP) crystal structure …

Twinning is a fundamental mechanism behind the simultaneous increase of strength and
ductility in medium-and high-entropy alloys, but its operation is not yet well understood …

Most metallic elements have a crystal structure that is either body-centered cubic (bcc), face-
centered close packed, or hexagonal close packed. If the bcc lattice is the …

Graphene-based sp 2-carbon nanostructures such as carbon nanotubes and nanofibers can
fail near their ideal strengths due to their exceedingly small dimensions. We have calculated …

Abstract Deformation twinning,,,,, in crystals is a highly coherent inelastic shearing process
that controls the mechanical behaviour of many materials, but its origin and spatio-temporal …

Applications of nanowires into future generation nanodevices require a complete
understanding of the mechanical properties of the nanowires. A great research effort has …

It has been known for more than half a century that crystals can be made stronger by
introducing defects into them, ie, by strain-hardening. As the number of defects increases …

Dislocation nucleation is essential to the plastic deformation of small-volume crystalline
solids. The free surface may act as an effective source of dislocations to initiate and sustain …