Metallic materials have long been used in a wide range of industrial applications due to their
outstanding physical and mechanical properties as well as high process latitudes …

Mold steel is a typical material in precision molding for the massive production of optical
lenses. It has the outstanding mechanical properties and superior corrosion resistance …

Classical deformation theories are limited to predicting microscopic deformation when the
machining parameters are comparable to the dimension of a single grain. Micro-cutting is …

Single crystal diamond tools are common cutters in the ultraprecision machining, but the tool
wear is a great concern in machining of difficult-to-cut materials. In this paper, material …

Polycrystalline tin is an ideal excitation material for extreme ultraviolet light sources.
However, the existence of grain boundary (GB) limits the surface roughness of …

This paper discusses the microstructure effects on the machinability of Inconel 718 by
conducting machining tests on an additively manufactured (AM) workpiece with a strongly …

A novel innovative catalytic abrasive cluster prepared in the laboratory was used for
tribochemical mechanical polishing of silicon carbide wafers, and the polishing performance …

Ultra-precision machining (UPM) is a state-of-art technique for fabricating micro-components
with exceptional accuracy within micrometer or nanometer range, making it widely employed …

In micro-cutting, microstructure induced anisotropic properties highly affect the machinability
of materials because the removal amount is almost on same level as the size of …

One of the crucial challenges regarding the applications of pure tungsten and its alloys as
structural materials for next-generation fusion reactors is their high brittle-to-ductile transition …