[HTML][HTML] Primary radiation damage: A review of current understanding and models

K Nordlund, SJ Zinkle, AE Sand, F Granberg… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2018 - Elsevier
Scientific understanding of any kind of radiation effects starts from the primary damage, ie
the defects that are produced right after an initial atomic displacement event initiated by a …

Interfacial segregation and grain boundary embrittlement: An overview and critical assessment of experimental data and calculated results

P Lejček, M Šob, V Paidar - Progress in Materials Science, 2017 - Elsevier
One of the most dangerous technical failures of materials is intergranular brittle fracture
(temper embrittlement) as it proceeds very quickly and its appearance is often hardly …

Control of nanoscale precipitation and elimination of intermediate-temperature embrittlement in multicomponent high-entropy alloys

T Yang, YL Zhao, L Fan, J Wei, JH Luan, WH Liu… - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Thermally stable high-entropy alloys (HEAs) consisting of a high density of coherent
precipitates show a great potential for high-temperature applications. In this work, we …

[HTML][HTML] Learning grain boundary segregation energy spectra in polycrystals

M Wagih, PM Larsen, CA Schuh - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
The segregation of solute atoms at grain boundaries (GBs) can profoundly impact the
structural properties of metallic alloys, and induce effects that range from strengthening to …

[HTML][HTML] Manipulating the interfacial structure of nanomaterials to achieve a unique combination of strength and ductility

A Khalajhedayati, Z Pan, TJ Rupert - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
The control of interfaces in engineered nanostructured materials has met limited success
compared with that which has evolved in natural materials, where hierarchical structures …

Extreme creep resistance in a microstructurally stable nanocrystalline alloy

KA Darling, M Rajagopalan, M Komarasamy… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Nanocrystalline metals, with a mean grain size of less than 100 nanometres, have greater
room-temperature strength than their coarse-grained equivalents, in part owing to a large …

Effects of stacking fault energy on deformation induced grain boundary relaxation in nanograined Cu alloys

YA Sun, ZP Luo, XY Li, K Lu - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Deformation induced grain boundary (GB) relaxation with resultant enhancements in
thermal stability was observed in various metals with grain sizes below a critical size. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Nanomaterials by design: a review of nanoscale metallic multilayers

A Sáenz-Trevizo, AM Hodge - Nanotechnology, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Nanoscale metallic multilayers have been shown to have a wide range of outstanding
properties, which differ to a great extent from those observed in monolithic films. Their …

Thermal stability of nanocrystalline materials: thermodynamics and kinetics

HR Peng, MM Gong, YZ Chen, F Liu - International materials …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
As nanocrystalline (NC) materials exhibit many unique properties, which are often superior
to the properties of their coarse-grained counterparts, they offer significant potential for use …

Stability criteria for nanocrystalline alloys

AR Kalidindi, CA Schuh - Acta Materialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Alloying nanocrystalline materials to stabilize them against grain growth is proving a critical
enabling strategy for the processing and usage of bulk nanocrystalline parts. Alloying …