Friction stir welding and processing enabled the creation of stronger joints, novel ultrafine-
grained metals, new metal matrix composites, and multifunctional surfaces at user-defined …

Magnesium (Mg) alloys have received an increasing interest in the past two decades for
their tremendous application potential. The strength and corrosion resistance levels of …

Magnesium and its alloys are significant superior metallic materials for structural
components in automobile and aerospace industries due to their excellent …

Formation of profuse I 2-type solute-enriched stacking faults (SESFs) in fine grains and
transformation of SESFs to 18R-long period stacking ordered (LPSO) phase are attained in …

Higher strength is always the goal pursued by researchers for the structural materials,
especially for the lightweight magnesium (Mg) alloys which generally have relatively low …

To further expand the application of magnesium (Mg) alloys, development of the high
strength Mg-rare earth (RE) alloys is strongly desired. The strength of the Mg alloys can be …

Magnesium alloys are highly sought after as environment-friendly engineering materials for
the 21st century. Mg-RE (rare earth) alloys, especially Mg-Gd-(Y)-Zn alloys, have attracted …

High-throughput density functional theory (HT DFT) is fast becoming a powerful tool for
accelerating materials design and discovery by the amassing tens and even hundreds of …

Magnesium alloys have received an increasing interest in the past 12 years for potential
applications in the automotive, aircraft, aerospace, and electronic industries. Many of these …

Thermodynamics is a science concerning the state of a system, whether it is stable,
metastable or unstable, when interacting with the surroundings. In this overview …