Heterostructured stainless steel: Properties, current trends, and future perspectives

L Romero-Resendiz, M El-Tahawy, T Zhang… - Materials Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The study of heterostructured materials (HSMs) answered one of the most pressing
questions in the metallurgical field:“is it possible to greatly increase both the strength and the …

Design of architectured materials based on mechanically driven structural and compositional patterning

Y Estrin, Y Beygelzimer… - Advanced Engineering …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Providing materials with an inner architecture that improves their mechanical and physical
properties is a potent approach to materials design. Herein, the possibilities of such …

Simultaneously enhanced strength and strain hardening capacity in FeMnCoCr high-entropy alloy via harmonic structure design

G Li, M Liu, S Lyu, M Nakatani, R Zheng, C Ma, Q Li… - Scripta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Harmonic structure (HS), consisting of coarse-grained (CG) areas uniformly embedded in
three dimensional continuously connected ultrafine-grained (UFG) areas, is considered as …

Heterogeneous diamond-cBN composites with superb toughness and hardness

B Li, P Ying, Y Gao, W Hu, L Wang, Y Zhang… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
The traditional hardness–toughness tradeoff poses a substantial challenge for the
development of superhard materials. Due to strong covalent bonds and intrinsic brittleness …

Enhanced ductility in harmonic structure designed SUS316L produced by high energy ball milling and hot isostatic sintering

R Zheng, Z Zhang, M Nakatani, M Ota, X Chen… - Materials Science and …, 2016 - Elsevier
The objective of the present study is to optimize the mechanical properties of commercial
SUS316L stainless steel through harmonic structure design. The harmonic structured …

Bimodal structured chromium-tungsten composite as plasma-facing materials: Sinterability, mechanical properties, and deuterium retention assessment

N Kwak, SG Kang, G Min, R Arredondo, K Jeong… - Acta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
Even though tungsten (W) is considered to be the most favored plasma-facing material
(PFM) for nuclear fusion reactors thanks to its beneficial physical properties, its advantage …

Critical Assesment 37: Harmonic-structure materials-idea, status and perspectives

D Orlov, K Ameyama - Materials Science and Technology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Recent efforts in engineering metals with high structural efficiency have resulted in
developing a new category of artificial materials with heterogeneous microstructures …

Strengthening of Al-Fe3Al composites by the generation of harmonic structures

RN Shahid, S Scudino - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Strengthening of alloys can be efficiently attained by the creation of harmonic structures:
bimodal microstructures generated by controlled milling of the particulate precursors, which …

Strength–ductility trade-off in dual-phase steel tailored via controlled phase transformation

AK Srivastava, NK Patel, B Ravi Kumar… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - Springer
The controlled phase transformation approach is a new generation of microstructure
engineering for enhancing ductility in ultrafine-grained materials. The present study aims to …

Further optimization of strength and ductility in a harmonic structure designed pure copper via thermomechanical processing

G Li, S Lyu, R Zheng, M Kawabata, C Ma, Q Li… - Materials Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, thermomechanical processing (TMP) including cold rolling and subsequent
annealing was applied to a novel tri-dimensional core/shell structured (Harmonic Structure …