Grain-size dependent mechanical behavior of nanocrystalline metals

EN Hahn, MA Meyers - Materials Science and Engineering: A, 2015 - Elsevier
Grain size has a profound effect on the mechanical response of metals. Molecular dynamics
continues to expand its range from a handful of atoms to grain sizes up to 50 nm, albeit …

Review of thermal stability of nanomaterials

RA Andrievski - Journal of materials science, 2014 - Springer
Current developments in kinetic and thermodynamic stabilization of grains in nanostructured
metals, alloys, and compounds are generalized and discussed in detail. As applied to the …

[HTML][HTML] Structural phase transformations in metallic grain boundaries

T Frolov, DL Olmsted, M Asta, Y Mishin - Nature communications, 2013 - nature.com
Structural transformations at interfaces are of profound fundamental interest as complex
examples of phase transitions in low-dimensional systems. Despite decades of extensive …

[HTML][HTML] The role of grain boundary character in solute segregation and thermal stability of nanocrystalline Pt–Au

CM Barr, SM Foiles, M Alkayyali, Y Mahmood, PM Price… - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanocrystalline (NC) metals suffer from an intrinsic thermal instability; their crystalline grains
undergo rapid coarsening during processing treatments or under service conditions. Grain …

Combustion synthesis in nanostructured reactive systems

AS Mukasyan, AS Rogachev, STR Aruna - Advanced Powder Technology, 2015 - Elsevier
New classes of reactive systems that are characterized by nano-scale heterogeneity and
possess extremely high reactivity, as compared to that for similar reactive systems with micro …

Thermodynamics and design of nanocrystalline alloys using grain boundary segregation spectra

M Wagih, CA Schuh - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Solute segregation at grain boundaries (GBs) is a key mechanism to stabilize
nanocrystalline alloys. To date, the standard approach to design and screen for …

Mitigating grain growth in binary nanocrystalline alloys through solute selection based on thermodynamic stability maps

KA Darling, MA Tschopp, BK VanLeeuwen… - Computational Materials …, 2014 - Elsevier
Mitigating grain growth at high temperatures in binary nanocrystalline alloys is important for
processing nanocrystalline alloy systems. The objective of this research is to develop a …

Ultrahigh strength, thermal stability and high thermal conductivity in hierarchical nanostructured Cu-W alloy

JG Ke, R Liu, ZM Xie, LC Zhang, XP Wang, QF Fang… - Acta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
The wider application of copper alloys is challenged due to their relatively low strength and
thermal stability. Here we report a nano-reinforcement dispersion strategy to achieved an …

Microstructure and mechanical properties of bulk nanostructured Cu–Ta alloys consolidated by equal channel angular extrusion

KA Darling, MA Tschopp, RK Guduru, WH Yin, Q Wei… - Acta materialia, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Nanostructured Cu–Ta alloys have shown promise as high-strength nanocrystalline
materials in part due to their limited grain growth at high temperatures. In the present study …

Materials selection rules for amorphous complexion formation in binary metallic alloys

JD Schuler, TJ Rupert - Acta Materialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Complexions are phase-like interfacial features that can influence a wide variety of
properties, but the ability to predict which material systems can sustain these features …