Interfaces play a crucial role in mechanical behaviors of laminated materials. In this study, a
series of hard/soft nanotwinned Cu laminates with varying interface spacing from 200 to 33 …

Microstructures and mechanical properties of the CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloys (HEAs)
treated by various annealing temperatures and times are investigated in this paper. Typical …

Heterogeneous metals and alloys are a new class of materials that emerged recently with
outstanding mechanical performances such as excellent strength-ductility synergy …

Residual stress exists extensively in biological and engineering structures. Here we report
that residual stress can be engineered to significantly enhance the strength and ductility of …

In metastable β-Ti alloys, the primary deformation mechanisms, including ordinary
dislocation plasticity (ODP), deformation twinning (DT), and phase transformation, are …

Abstract Al/Ti/Al laminated metal composites (LMCs), with layer thicknesses≥ 800 μm, were
fabricated via hot rolling bonding and annealing. The fabricated Al/Ti/Al LMCs displayed …

Strong and tough materials are desired for lightweight, energy efficient applications such as
electric cars and aerospace applications. Recently, heterostructures are found to produce …

Designing heterogeneous structures is a promising pathway for overcoming the trade-off
between strength and toughness in metal matrix composites (MMCs). Herein, we report an …

There has been a long-standing controversy on how dislocations interact with interfaces.
Here we report in-situ observations that in a Cu–brass heterostructured TEM film Frank …

Heterogeneous carbon nanotube (CNT)/Al–Cu–Mg composites, consisting of ductile zones
(DZs) free of CNTs and brittle zones (BZs) rich of CNTs, were fabricated in powder …