Most industrial alloys contain a matrix phase and dispersed second-phase particles. Several
thermomechanical processing (TMP) steps are usually needed to produce a final product …

The dynamic recrystallization (DRX) phenomena occurring in different thermo-mechanical
processing (TMP) conditions for various metallic materials are reviewed. Several types of …

X-ray computer tomography (CT) is fast becoming an accepted tool within the materials
science community for the acquisition of 3D images. Here the authors review the current …

Ferroelectrics have a spontaneous electrical polarization that is arranged into domains and
can be reversed by an externally-applied field. This high versatility makes them useful in …

The understanding and management of strain is of fundamental importance in the design
and implementation of materials. The strain properties of nanocrystalline materials are …

Many physical and mechanical properties of crystalline materials depend strongly on their
internal structure, which is typically organized into grains and domains on several length …

Polymer Microscopy, Third Edition, is a comprehensive and practical guide to the study of
the microstructure of polymers, and is the result of the authors' many years of academic and …

The evolution in the understanding of the recrystallization phenomena is summarized in this
paper. Initially the main developments concerning recrystallization are presented from a …

X-ray microbeams are an emerging characterization tool with broad implications for science,
ranging from materials structure and dynamics, to geophysics and environmental science, to …

We demonstrate that grain boundaries (GBs) behave as Brownian ratchets, exhibiting
direction-dependent mobilities and unidirectional motion under oscillatory driving forces or …