Seventy years of Hall-Petch, ninety years of superplasticity and a generalized approach to the effect of grain size on flow stress

RB Figueiredo, M Kawasaki, TG Langdon - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
The grain size, and therefore the grain boundary density, is known to play a major role in the
flow stress of metallic materials. A linear relationship to the inverse of the square root of the …

Review on superior strength and enhanced ductility of metallic nanomaterials

IA Ovid'Ko, RZ Valiev, YT Zhu - Progress in materials science, 2018 - Elsevier
Nanostructured metallic materials having nanocrystalline and ultrafine-grained structures
show exceptional mechanical properties, eg superior strength, that are very attractive for …

Structural evolutions of metallic materials processed by severe plastic deformation

Y Cao, S Ni, X Liao, M Song, Y Zhu - Materials Science and Engineering: R …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Bulk nanostructured (ns)/ultrafine-grained (UFG) metallic materials possess very
high strength, making them attractive for high strength, lightweight and energy efficient …

A novel multinary intermetallic as an active electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution

Z Jia, T Yang, L Sun, Y Zhao, W Li, J Luan… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Electrochemical water splitting offers an attractive approach for hydrogen production.
However, the lack of high‐performance cost‐effective electrocatalyst severely hinders its …

[HTML][HTML] Alloy design strategies to increase strength and its trade-offs together

SZ Han, EA Choi, SH Lim, S Kim, J Lee - Progress in Materials Science, 2021 - Elsevier
It is an ultimate goal for almost all the metallurgists to improve strength, ductility, formability
and conductivity of metal together. However, ductility, formability and conductivity are …

Development of a novel chemical mechanical polishing slurry and its polishing mechanisms on a nickel alloy

Z Zhang, L Liao, X Wang, W Xie, D Guo - Applied Surface Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Conventional chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) slurries of pure nickel (Ni) and its alloys
usually consist of toxic and corrosive acids, which is dangerous and contaminative to the …

Ultrahigh high-strain-rate superplasticity in a nanostructured high-entropy alloy

NTC Nguyen, P Asghari-Rad, P Sathiyamoorthi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Superplasticity describes a material's ability to sustain large plastic deformation in the form
of a tensile elongation to over 400% of its original length, but is generally observed only at a …

Using high-pressure torsion for metal processing: Fundamentals and applications

AP Zhilyaev, TG Langdon - Progress in Materials science, 2008 - Elsevier
High-pressure torsion (HPT) refers to the processing of metals whereby samples are
subjected to a compressive force and concurrent torsional straining. Although the …

Mechanical alloying and milling

C Suryanarayana - Progress in materials science, 2001 - Elsevier
Mechanical alloying (MA) is a solid-state powder processng technique involving repeated
welding, fracturing, and rewelding of powder particles in a high-energy ball mill. Originally …

Principles of equal-channel angular pressing as a processing tool for grain refinement

RZ Valiev, TG Langdon - Progress in materials science, 2006 - Elsevier
During the last decade, equal-channel angular pressing (ECAP) has emerged as a widely-
known procedure for the fabrication of ultrafine-grained metals and alloys. This review …