Nanoparticle strengthening provides a crucial basis for developing high-performance
structural materials with potentially superb mechanical properties for structural applications …

Controlling site disorder in ternary and multinary compounds enables tuning optical and
electronic properties at fixed lattice constants and stoichiometries, moving beyond many of …

Recent work indicates that materials with nanoscale architectures, such as nanolayered Cu-
Nb composites and nanoscale oxide dispersion-strengthened steels, are both thermally …

Designing structural materials for tailored response at extreme conditions is a grand
challenge in materials research. Such materials can be made using either “top-down” or …

Lightweighting of structural materials has proven indispensable in the energy economy,
predicated on alloy design with high strength-to-weight ratios. Modern aluminum alloys have …

High entropy alloys (HEAs) exhibit outstanding radiation resistance over traditional alloys
owing to severe lattice distortion, and therefore, would be regarded as candidate materials …

The emergent multi-principal element alloys (MPEAs) provide a vast compositional space to
search for novel materials for technological advances. How to screen promising …

It is a longstanding notion that alloying different sized elements can cause lattice distortion
and phase transition in chemically complex alloys. However, a quantitative understanding of …

Nanocrystalline (NC) metals are stronger and more radiation-tolerant than their coarse-
grained (CG) counterparts, but they often suffer from poor thermal stability as nanograins …

Many of the purported virtues of Multi-Principal Element Alloys (MPEAs), such as corrosion,
high-temperature oxidation and irradiation resistance, are highly sensitive to vacancy …