supported by the National Natural Science Foun-dation of China(No.52071237,12074290,51871169,52101021,and 12104345);the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(No.BK20191187);the Young Top-notch Talent Cultivation Program of Hubei Province,the Science and Technology Program of Shenzhen(No.JCYJ20190808150407522);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2019M652685).
The knowledge regarding anisotropic mechanical behaviors in nanoscale body-centered cubic (bcc) metals remains obscure. Herein, we report the orientation-dependent ductility in bcc Mo nanocrystals (NCs), which exhibit...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51971152 and 51601216);the Postdoctoral Research Foundation of China(No.2020M682410);the Sichuan Science and Technology Program(No.2020YJ0258).
Omega(ω)phase has a trigonal or hexagonal crystal structure and was first discovered inβ-type Ti-Cr alloys[1].Since then,theω-phase has been widely reported in numerous group IV transition metal(Ti,Ta,Hf,and Zr)bas...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.52071237,12074290,51871169,52101021,and 12104345);the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No.BK20191187);the Young Top-notch Talent Cultivation Program of Hubei Province,the Science and Technology Program of Shenzhen (No.JCYJ20190808150407522);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No.2019M652685).
Deformation twinning serves as an important mode of plastic dissipation processes in nanoscale body-centered cubic(BCC)metals,but its origin and spatio-temporal features are mysterious.Here,applying in situ tensile ex...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51922082 and 51971170)and the“111 Project"of China 2.0(Grant No.BP0618008).E.M.acknowl-edges XJTU for hosting his work at the Center for Alloy Innovation and Design。
Ductile-to-brittle transition(DBT)is a well-known phenomenon in body-centered-cubic(BCC)metals,in-termetallics and semiconductor materials.A quantitative prediction of the DBT temperature,however,has so far remained i...
The authors appreciate Dr.Jinmin Liu and Dr.Xiaolan Wang for TEM measurements.
Mechanism of FCC→HCP reverse phase transformation in face-centered cubic zirconium(FCC-Zr)along with a concomitant 70.5°rotation ofα-Zr matrix were investigated in zircaloy-4(Zr-4)cladding tube by using transmissio...
Twinning is found to impart favorable mechanical,physical and chemical properties to nanostructured materials.Deformation twinning prevails in face-centered cubic(FCC)nanocrystalline materials upon loading.In FCC stru...
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council(EPSRC)(No.EP/P006566/1)under Manufacture using Advanced Powder Processes(MAPP);the Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials,funded through EPSRC(Nos.EP/R00661X/1,EP/S019367/1,EP/P02470X/1 and EP/P025285/1);the UKRI for his Future Leaders Fellowship(No.MR/T019123/1)。
Realizing high work hardening and thus elevated strength–ductility synergy are prerequisites for the practical usage of body-centered-cubic high entropy alloys(BCC-HEAs).In this study,we report a novel dynamic streng...
financially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan province(nos.2021JJ40736,2019JJ60062 and 2020JJ6090)。
Interstitial atoms that commonly occupy the octahedral or tetrahedral interstices of face-centered cubic(FCC)lattice,can significantly affect the dislocation behaviors on deformation.Recently,interstitial doping has b...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(Nos.51871048 and 52171108);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under(No.N2002014).
To probe a pathway to improve the low-cycle fatigue life of face-centered cubic(FCC)metals via grain boundary engineering(GBE),the tension-tension fatigue tests were carried out on the non-GBE and GBE Cu-16 at.%Al all...
supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Project(Grant No.DP160104632);an Aus-tralian Government Research Training Program Scholarship.Y.J.Chen acknowledges the support provided by the Australian Re-search Council(Grant No.DE210101773).
Fe_(72.4)Co_(13.9)Cr_(10.4)Mn_(2.7)B_(0.34)high entropy steel was prepared by magnetron sputtering.The alloy exhibits a high yield strength of 2.92±0.36 GPa while achieving appreciable plasticity of 13.7±1.9%at the ...