Phase engineering of nanostructural metallic materials: Classification, structures, and applications

J Gu, F Duan, S Liu, W Cha, J Lu - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Metallic materials are usually composed of single phase or multiple phases, which refers to
homogeneous regions with distinct types of the atom arrangement. The recent studies on …

Tribological behavior of high entropy alloy coatings: a review

D Luo, Q Zhou, Z Huang, Y Li, Y Liu, Q Li, Y He… - Coatings, 2022 - mdpi.com
As engineering equipment is applied in a harsh environment with a heavy load, cyclic stress,
and a wide range of temperatures, the reliability of the equipment becomes a challenge …

Abnormal hardening and amorphization in an FCC high entropy alloy under extreme uniaxial tension

K Jiang, Q Zhang, J Li, X Li, F Zhao, B Hou… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ever more extreme environments in advancing industrial applications motivate efforts to
design new generation of alloys with excellent mechanical properties. High entropy alloys …

A crystal glass–nanostructured Al-based electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction

S Liu, H Li, J Zhong, K Xu, G Wu, C Liu, B Zhou… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Platinum-based catalysts are widely used in hydrogen evolution reactions; however, their
applications are restricted because of the cost-efficiency trade-off. Here, we present a …

Substantially enhanced homogeneous plastic flow in hierarchically nanodomained amorphous alloys

G Wu, S Liu, Q Wang, J Rao, W Xia, YQ Yan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
To alleviate the mechanical instability of major shear bands in metallic glasses at room
temperature, topologically heterogeneous structures were introduced to encourage the …

How Amorphous Nanomaterials Enhanced Electrocatalytic, SERS, and Mechanical Properties

J Kang, F Li, Z Xu, X Chen, M Sun, Y Li, X Yang, L Guo - JACS Au, 2023 - ACS Publications
There is ever-growing research interest in nanomaterials because of the unique properties
that emerge on the nanometer scale. While crystalline nanomaterials have received a surge …

Optimized strength and conductivity of multi-scale copper alloy/metallic glass composites tuned by a one-step spark plasma sintering (SPS) process

W Bao, J Chen, G Xie - Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
A superiority in interfacial bonding is favorable to fabricate high-strength conductive
composites for electrical contact applications. In the present work, high strength and high …

Properties and processing technologies of high-entropy alloys

X Yan, Y Zou, Y Zhang - Materials Futures, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) are emerging materials that are developed based on entropy,
and draw significant attention for the potential to design their chemical disorder to bring out …

Dendrite refinement and wear performance enhancement in laser-cladded Fe-based coatings after multi-step laser remelting

B Sun, Q Wang, Y Chen, J Cheng, H Zhao… - Surface and Coatings …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, Fe-based coatings were prepared by laser cladding and the effects of multi-step
laser remelting (MLR) on phase components, microstructure evolution, hardness and wear …

Hierarchical crystalline–amorphous nanocomposites with high strength and large deformability enabled by elemental diffusion

L Wang, H Wang, X Zhou, H Fu, JU Surjadi… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
Amorphous/nanocrystalline dual-phase structures have recently emerged as an effective
way for overcoming the strength–ductility trade-off and breaking the limitation of the reverse …