In this article, we review recent developments in the experimental study of grain growth in
nanocrystalline metallic thin films, emphasizing transmission electron microscopy-based …

The energetics of triple lines are often negligible in polycrystalline systems, but may play a
significant role in the finest nanocrystals, and in fact lower the excess defect energies of …

Heterogeneous laminated structure (HLS) design offers new opportunities to enhance the
mechanical performance of high-entropy alloys (HEAs) through synergistic effects from …

Grain boundaries play an important role in governing the mechanical and physical
properties of polycrystalline materials. Therefore, quantitative analysis of grain structure is …

Grain growth in nanosized polycrystalline Al was studied via molecular dynamics. In
particular, the volumetric growth rate of grains as a function of size, topology and mean …

Many material properties can be traced back to properties of their grain boundaries. Grain
boundary energy (GBE), as a result, is a key quantity of interest in the analysis and modeling …

Inspired by the modeling of grain growth in polycrystalline materials, we consider a
nonlinear Fokker–Plank model, with inhomogeneous diffusion and with variable mobility …

We develop a thin-film microstructural model that represents structural markers (ie, triple
junctions in the two-dimensional projections of the structure of films with columnar grains) in …

Most technologically useful materials spanning multiple length scales are polycrystalline.
Polycrystalline microstructures are composed of a myriad of small crystals or grains with …

Abnormal grain growth, a pervasive phenomenon witnessed during the annealing of
nanocrystalline metals, precipitates a swift diminution of the distinctive properties inherent to …