A material strength depends on its microstructure, which in turn, is controlled by an
engineering process. Strengthening mechanisms like work hardening, precipitate, and grain …

Bulk metallic glass (BMG) provides plentiful precise knowledge of fundamental parameters
of elastic moduli, which offer a benchmark reference point for understanding and …

The strength of polycrystalline materials increases with decreasing grain size. Below a
critical size, smaller grains might lead to softening, as suggested by atomistic simulations …

Combinations of high strength and ductility are hard to attain in metals. Exceptions include
materials exhibiting twinning-induced plasticity. To understand how the strength-ductility …

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

In conventional metals, there is plenty of space for dislocations—line defects whose motion
results in permanent material deformation—to multiply, so that the metal strengths are …

This review examines the recent literature that has focused on uniaxial compression
experiments of single crystals at the micrometer scale. Collectively, the studies discovered …

Using lithium as the anode material to achieve high energy density lithium-ion/metal
batteries is the ultimate goal of energy storage technology. A recent development of solid …

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 …

The production of large single-crystal metal foils with various facet indices has long been a
pursuit in materials science owing to their potential applications in crystal epitaxy, catalysis …