Forming alloys with impurity elements is a routine method for modifying the properties of
metals. An alternative approach involves the incorporation of interfaces into the crystalline …

Nearly 90 per cent of service failures of metallic components and structures are caused by
fatigue at cyclic stress amplitudes much lower than the tensile strength of the materials …

High-entropy alloys have shown exceptional damage tolerance at cryogenic temperatures.
Here we report that this essential property can be maintained even when exposing the …

As a relatively new class of hierarchically structured materials, nanotwinned (NT) metals
exhibit an exceptional combination of high strength, good ductility, large fracture toughness …

In the first report [HZ Zhao, ZS You, NR Tao, L. Lu, Acta Mater. 210 (2021) 116830],
anisotropic strengthening of nanotwin bundles in the heterogeneous nanostructured (HNS) …

The strength-controlling dislocation mechanism of a material can be illuminated by partition
of the flow stress into its effective stress and back stress components. Recent experiments …

Hydrogen embrittlement behavior, micro-deformation, and crack propagation mechanism of
CoCrFeNiMn high-entropy alloy (HEA) fabricated by laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) under …

The recrystallized and pre-deformed CoCrNi medium-entropy alloy (MEA), introduced with
high-density deformation twins, exhibits an unprecedented high yield strength up to 2.1 GPa …

Selective area epitaxy is a promising approach to define nanowire networks for topological
quantum computing. However, it is challenging to concurrently engineer nanowire …

Inspired by gradient structures in the nature, Gradient Nanostructured (GNS) metals have
emerged as a new class of materials with tunable microstructures. GNS metals can exhibit …