Metals can be processed to reach ultra-high strength, but usually at a drastic loss of ductility.
Here, we review recent advances in overcoming this tradeoff, by purposely deploying …

Deformation twinning is an important plastic carrier competing with the ordinary dislocation
slip in a broad class of crystalline solids, which critically controls the mechanical properties …

Nanostructured materials contain an extremely high density of interfaces. The properties of
these materials when exposed to extreme conditions of radiation dose, stress, deformation …

This article reviews recent basic research on two classes of twins: growth twins and
deformation twins. We focus primarily on studies that aim to understand, via experiments …

Twinning is a fundamental deformation mode that competes against dislocation slip in
crystalline solids. In metallic nanostructures, plastic deformation requires higher stresses …

Applications of nanowires into future generation nanodevices require a complete
understanding of the mechanical properties of the nanowires. A great research effort has …

Unraveling the microstructural heterogeneity is an important issue to understand the
physical and mechanical properties of metallic glasses. Structural relaxation below the glass …

The combination of selective laser melting (SLM) and Cu-based alloys has attracted
attention in recent years due to the increasing requirements for components characterized …

The recent studies on nanotwinned (NT) and hierarchical nanotwinned (HNT) face-centered
cubic (FCC) metals are presented in this review. The HNT structures have been supposed …

There has been relatively little study on time-dependent mechanical properties of
nanowires, in spite of their importance for the design, fabrication and operation of nanoscale …