Due to their individual plastic deformation behavior and mechanistic performances, gradient
nano-grained (GNG) metals have been identified as promising materials for application in …

Gradient nano-grained (GNG) structures exhibit an excellent combination of high strength
and toughness. In this paper, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have been utilized to …

Gradient nano-grained (GNG) metals are an emerging class of heterogeneous structured
materials with extraordinary mechanistic performances and unnatural plasticity mechanisms …

Gradient nano-grained (GNG) metals are a unique class of metallic materials by
manipulating the gradient size distribution, but the optimal grain size distribution producing …

Low-excess energy twin boundary can effectively stabilize the conventional grain boundary.
It has been reported that deformation-activated nanotwins in nanograined metals produced …

Gradient structured (GS) materials are ubiquitous in biological systems and now
increasingly adopted in engineering systems to achieve desirable combinations of …

Gradient nano-grained (GNG) metals have shown a better strength-ductility combination
compared to their homogeneous counterparts. In this paper, the mechanical properties and …

Gradient nano-grained (GNG) materials, inside which grain size increases gradually from
nano-scale in the surface to micro-scale in the substrate, have shown synergetic strength …

Gradient nano-grained (GNG) materials have shown synergetic high strength and ductility
due to their unique gradient microstructure, where the grain size changes from tens of …

Gradient nano-grained (GNG) metals have achieved superior strength-ductility synergy than
their homogeneous counterparts. The high strength is usually attributed to the grain size …