Molybdenum is a refractory metal that is stable in a body-centred cubic structure at all
temperatures before melting. Plastic deformation via structural transitions has never been …

With our recently developed deformation device, the in situ tensile tests of single crystal
molybdenum nanowires with various size and aspect ratio were conducted inside a …

High-pressure melting anchors the phase diagram of a material, revealing the effect of
pressure on the breakdown of the ordering of atoms in the solid. An important case is …

Because of crystal symmetry, body centred cubic (BCC) metals have large differences in
lattice friction between screw and edge dislocations, and manifest generally different …

The behavior of bcc Mo and Nb under large strain was investigated using the ab initio
pseudopotential density-functional method. We calculated the ideal shear strength for the …

Molybdenum (Mo) is a body-centered-cubic (bcc) transition metal that has widespread
technological applications. Although the bcc transition elements are used as test cases for …

We use first-principles techniques to reexamine the suggestion that transitions seen in high-
P experiments on Mo are solid-solid transitions from the bcc structure to either the fcc or hcp …

Body-centered cubic refractory metallic materials exhibit excellent high-temperature
strength, but often suffer from brittle intergranular fracture due to the recrystallization-induced …

We calculated the phase transition, elastic constants, full phonon dispersion curves, and
thermal properties of molybdenum (Mo) for a wide range of pressures using density …

Using a formulation based on anisotropic elasticity we determine the core energy and
Peierls stress of the a 0∕ 2 [111] screw dislocation in bcc molybdenum at T= 0. We show …