[HTML][HTML] A review of multi-physical fields induced phenomena and effects in spark plasma sintering: Fundamentals and applications

ZY Hu, ZH Zhang, XW Cheng, FC Wang, YF Zhang… - Materials & Design, 2020 - Elsevier
Spark plasma sintering (SPS), also known as pulsed electric current sintering (PECS) or
field-assisted sintering technique (FAST), belongs to a class of powder metallurgy …

Elastocaloric cooling of shape memory alloys: A review

J Chen, L Lei, G Fang - Materials Today Communications, 2021 - Elsevier
Elastocaloric cooling technology based on shape memory alloys (SMAs) exploits the caloric
effect generated by stress-induced phase transformation of elastocaloric materials to realize …

Nanocomposite NiTi shape memory alloy with high strength and fatigue resistance

P Hua, M **a, Y Onuki, Q Sun - Nature Nanotechnology, 2021 - nature.com
Many established, but also potential future applications of NiTi-based shape memory alloys
(SMA) in biomedical devices and solid-state refrigeration require long fatigue life with 107 …

Phase engineering and supercompatibility of shape memory alloys

H Gu, L Bumke, C Chluba, E Quandt, RD James - Materials Today, 2018 - Elsevier
In recent years examples of unprecedented functional and structural fatigue resistance and
lowered hysteresis in shape memory alloys have been achieved by combining conditions of …

Cyclic phase transformation behavior of nanocrystalline NiTi at microscale

P Hua, K Chu, F Ren, Q Sun - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Cuboidal micropillars of nanocrystalline superelastic NiTi shape memory alloys with an
average grain size of 65 nm were fabricated by focused ion beam and then subjected to …

Ultrahigh cycle fatigue of nanocrystalline NiTi tubes for elastocaloric cooling

D Liang, Q Wang, K Chu, J Chen, P Hua, F Ren… - Applied Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Elastocaloric cooling using superelastic NiTi shape memory alloy with reversible phase
transformation is a promising environmentally friendly technology, but the limited fatigue life …

Achieving great comprehensive elastocaloric cooling performances of superelastic NiTi by grain size engineering

J Chen, L Lei, G Fang, D Wang - Materials Today Nano, 2023 - Elsevier
Elastocaloric materials, as cutting-edge alternatives to hazardous refrigerants utilized in
vapor-compression systems, are promising for eco-friendly solid-state cooling, but their …

Brief overview on nitinol as biomaterial

A Wadood - Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Shape memory alloys remember their shape due to thermoelastic martensitic phase
transformation. These alloys have advantages in terms of large recoverable strain and these …

From mechanical behavior and elastocaloric effect to microscopic mechanisms of gradient-structured NiTi alloy: A phase-field study

Q Zhang, J Chen, G Fang - International Journal of Plasticity, 2023 - Elsevier
The introduction of gradient structure has been recently reported as a practical way to tailor
the mechanical behavior of NiTi alloy while improving its elastocaloric effect simultaneously …

Phase field study on the microscopic mechanism of grain size dependent cyclic degradation of super-elasticity and shape memory effect in nano-polycrystalline NiTi …

B Xu, C Yu, G Kang - International Journal of Plasticity, 2021 - Elsevier
A non-isothermal and crystal plasticity based phase field model was established by
incorporating various inelastic deformation mechanisms, ie, martensite transformation …