Precipitation and hardening in magnesium alloys

JF Nie - Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 2012 - Springer
Magnesium alloys have received an increasing interest in the past 12 years for potential
applications in the automotive, aircraft, aerospace, and electronic industries. Many of these …

Magnesium–air batteries: from principle to application

T Zhang, Z Tao, J Chen - Materials Horizons, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal–air batteries are important power sources for electronics and vehicles because of their
remarkable high theoretical energy density and low cost. In this paper, we introduce the …

Effect of Sn addition on the deformation behavior and microstructural evolution of Mg-Gd-Y-Zr alloy during hot compression

Q Zhang, Q Li, X Chen, J Bao, Z Chen - Materials Science and Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
We have studied the microstructure evolution and deformation behavior of Mg-5Gd-3Y-(1Sn)-
0.5 Zr alloys during hot compression (T= 350° C, 400° C, 450° C and 500° C, ε˙= 0.002 s− 1 …

Physical metallurgy of light alloys

JF Nie - Physical metallurgy, 2014 - Elsevier
Improvements in energy efficiency, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and 3R (reduce,
reuse and recycle) have been one of the central topics in recent years in environment and …

First-principles calculations of transition metal–solute interactions with point defects in tungsten

XS Kong, X Wu, YW You, CS Liu, QF Fang, JL Chen… - Acta Materialia, 2014 - Elsevier
The interactions of solute atoms with point defects can modify the microstructure of materials
and affect microstructural evolution, ultimately leading to macroscopic changes in the …

Density functional theory-based investigations of solute kinetics and precipitate formation in binary magnesium-rare earth alloys: A review

D Choudhuri, SG Srinivasan - Computational Materials Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Magnesium-rare earth (RE) alloys have received substantial attention over the last two
decades for light-weight fuel efficient applications because of their low density of 1.74 gm/cc …

Investigation on corrosion behavior of Zr-bearing TA10-based titanium alloys

Y Yang, B Wang, B Su, L Luo, L Wang, Y Su, Y Xu… - Corrosion …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study elucidated the corrosion behavior of Ti-0.3 Mo-0.8 Ni-2Al-xZr (x= 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and
5 wt.%) alloys utilizing electrochemical techniques and first-principles calculation. Results …

Formation of high-strength β′ precipitates in Mg–RE alloys: the role of the Mg/β ″interfacial instability

A Issa, JE Saal, C Wolverton - Acta Materialia, 2015 - Elsevier
Aging reactions in Mg–RE alloys strengthen magnesium, due to the formation of metastable
β ″and β′ precipitates. We use first-principles calculations to critically assess binary Mg …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of RE (RE= Sc, Y and Nd) concentration on galvanic corrosion of Mg-Al alloy: a theoretical insight from work function and surface energy

J Wang, K Zhang, G Ying, J Cheng, D Song… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Alloying rare earth (RE) elements is an effective method to improve corrosion resistance of
Mg-Al alloy but excessive RE concentration may aggravate galvanic corrosion. In this study …

[HTML][HTML] Hot deformation behavior and dynamic precipitation characteristics of Mg-Gd-Nd (-Sm)-Zr alloys

Z Chen, Q Zhang, Q Li, H Zhu, X Chen, X Li… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
We deeply analyze the deformation behavior of Mg-Gd-Nd (-Sm)-Zr alloys under high
temperature uniaxial compression, and explore the influence mechanism of Sm on the …