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 …

Body-centred cubic (BCC) metals possess unstable intrinsic stacking fault and high
resistance for deformation twinning, which often induce complex twinning dynamics that …

Twinning is profuse in bcc transition metals (TMs) except bulk W and Mo. However, W and
Mo nanocrystals surprisingly exhibit twinning during room temperature compression, which …

Under extreme conditions such as impact loads, the dominant mechanism of tungsten (W)
deformation is not well understood, and this problem is crucial for the application of W in …

Slip or twinning is one of the fundamental questions in the deformation studies of metals and
alloys. Internal parameters such as generalized stacking fault energy and size and external …

Nanoscale metals frequently exhibit novel mechanical properties or physiochemical
performances, due to the growing influence of surfaces. Here, we uncover a unique surface …

Nucleation and growth of deformation twins in BCC transition metals have been investigated
in many computational and experimental studies without conclusively describing the critical …

Understanding of dynamical responses and mechanical characteristics of metals and alloys
at high strain rates holds significant importance in fundamental physics and optimizing the …