The materials science behind sustainable metals and alloys

D Raabe - Chemical reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Production of metals stands for 40% of all industrial greenhouse gas emissions, 10% of the
global energy consumption, 3.2 billion tonnes of minerals mined, and several billion tonnes …

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 …

Texture control of commercial Zn foils prolongs their reversibility as aqueous battery anodes

Z Chen, J Zhao, Q He, M Li, S Feng, Y Wang… - ACS Energy …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Crystallography modulation of aqueous zinc metal anodes can effectively inhibit their
dendrite growth and unfavorable side reactions. However, the ability to directly endow the …

[HTML][HTML] An overview of tailoring strain delocalization for strength-ductility synergy

H Wu, G Fan - Progress in Materials Science, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, we systematically proposed the strategy of tailoring strain delocalization to
evade long-standing strength-ductility trade-off dilemma. The scientific contribution is to …

Probing the phase transformation and dislocation evolution in dual-phase high-entropy alloys

Q Fang, Y Chen, J Li, C Jiang, B Liu, Y Liu… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Some high-entropy alloys, which contain two or more component phases with highly
different properties, can achieve an outstanding combination of high strength and high …

A general perspective of Fe–Mn–Al–C steels

OA Zambrano - Journal of materials science, 2018 - Springer
During the last years, the scientific and industrial community has focused on the astonishing
properties of Fe–Mn–Al–C steels. These high advanced steels allow high-density reductions …

Efficient coarse‐grained superplasticity of a gigapascal lightweight refractory medium entropy alloy

Y Jia, S Wu, Y Mu, L Xu, C Ren, K Sun, J Yi… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Superplastic metals that exhibit exceptional ductility (> 300%) are appealing for use in high‐
quality engineering components with complex shapes. However, the wide application of …

[HTML][HTML] Developing superplasticity in magnesium alloys with the help of friction stir processing and its variants–A review

D Harwani, V Badheka, V Patel, W Li… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Friction stir processing (FSP), an adaption of the solid-state joining process friction stir
welding (FSW), is now a widely recognized severe plastic deformation (SPD) technique. It …

Extraordinary superplasticity at low homologous temperature and high strain rate enabled by a multiphase nanocrystalline network

H Wang, K Koenigsmann, S Zhang, Y Li, H Liu… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Superplasticity is a highly sought-after property of components manufactured with complex
geometries in metal forming processes. However, superplasticity usually occurs at high …

Relation of phase fraction to superplastic behavior of multi-principal element alloy with a multi-phase structure

NTC Nguyen, P Asghari-Rad, A Zargaran, ES Kim… - Scripta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract An Al 0.3 CoCrNi medium-entropy alloy was annealed in two conditions to
differentiate the phase fraction of nano-scaled B2 and sigma precipitates in FCC …