Effect of twin boundaries on the strength of body-centered cubic tungsten nanowires

J Cui, L Ma, G Chen, N Jiang, P Ke, Y Yang… - Materials Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Twin boundaries (TBs) are assumed to be obstacles to dislocation motion and increase the
… -centered cubic (BCC) tungsten (W). [1–11]-oriented W nanowires with (121) twin planes and …

Discrete twinning dynamics and size-dependent dislocation-to twin transition in body-centred cubic tungsten

J Wang, AHM Faisal, X Li, Y Hong, Q Zhu, H Bei… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
… BCC tungsten (W) nanowires using in situ nanomechanical testing. Quantitative experimental
studies directly visualize that deformation twins in W nanowirestwins in face-centred cubic

Bending-induced deformation twinning in body-centered cubic tungsten nanowires

S Wei, Q Wang, H Wei, J Wang - Materials Research Letters, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
… In this study, we investigate the deformation of [112]-oriented BCC tungsten nanowires under
… composed of numerous stepwise {112} twin boundaries. These findings shed light on the …

Unstable twin in body-centered cubic tungsten nanocrystals

X Wang, J Wang, Y He, C Wang, L Zhong… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
twin stability and the detwinning process in Bcc tungsten (W) are strongly dependent on the
type of twin boundary. … could induce the detwinning in Bcc nanowires during unloading 17 , …

Discrete shear band plasticity through dislocation activities in body-centered cubic tungsten nanowires

J Wang, Y Wang, W Cai, J Li, Z Zhang, SX Mao - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
… band in body-centered cubic (BCC) tungsten nanowires via an … on dislocation nucleation in
tungsten nanowires, in which {111… deformation morphology of BCC nanowires, but also shed …

Anti-twinning in nanoscale tungsten

J Wang, Z Zeng, M Wen, Q Wang, D Chen, Y Zhang… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
… , in nanoscale body-centered cubic (BCC) tungsten crystals. By conducting in situ … the
nucleation and growth of anti-twins in tungsten nanowires with diameters less than about 20 nm. …

Enhanced tensile ductility of tungsten microwires via high-density dislocations and reduced grain boundaries

C Dang, W Lin, F Meng, H Zhang, S Fan, X Li… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
… W micro/nanowires are not only excellent field emitters [2,3] … : (i) the body-centered cubic
(BCC) crystalline structure with a … (ii) the poor cohesion nature of grain boundaries (GBs) [12]. …

Twinning dynamics in nanoscale body-centered cubic tungsten

X Li, Q Zeng, J Wang - Scripta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
… Based on the evolution of lattice strain in our W nanowires, the critical resolved shear
stress for the twin nucleation was measured to be ∼9 GPa. The measured stresses are on the …

In situ atomic-scale observation of twinning-dominated deformation in nanoscale body-centred cubic tungsten

J Wang, Z Zeng, CR Weinberger, Z Zhang, T Zhu… - Nature materials, 2015 - nature.com
… The bicrystal nanowire in MD exhibits twin nucleation and thickening from the intersection
between grain boundary and free surface (Fig. 1k), which penetrates into both crystals, similar …

An atomistic study of the deformation behavior of tungsten nanowires

S Xu, Y Su, D Chen, L Li - Applied Physics A, 2017 - Springer
… Large-scale atomistic simulations are performed to study tensile and compressive \(\langle
112\rangle\) loading of single-crystalline nanowires in body-centered cubic tungsten (W). …