Grain boundaries influence mechanical, functional, and kinetic properties of metallic alloys.
They can be manipulated via solute decoration enabling changes in energy, mobility …

Silicides and ohmic contacts are an interesting and important part of integrated circuit
technology. The integration of silicides and ohmic contacts in advanced CMOS devices uses …

Laser-powder bed fusion (L-PBF) additive manufacturing offers unprecedented
microstructural fine-tuning capabilities. Naturally, benefitting from such capability requires …

Grain boundaries exhibit phase-like behavior in which their structure, chemistry and
properties may change discontinuously at critical values of thermodynamic parameters such …

Understanding the composition evolution of grain boundaries and grain boundary
precipitation at near-atomic scale in aluminum alloys is crucial to tailor mechanical …

Grain boundary segregation leads to nanoscale chemical variations that can alter a
material's performance by orders of magnitude (eg, embrittlement). To understand this …

Abstract In an Fe–9 at.% Mn maraging alloy annealed at 450° C reversed allotriomorphic
austenite nanolayers appear on former Mn decorated lath martensite boundaries. The …

Elemental segregation to grain boundaries (GBs) can induce structural and chemical
transitions at GBs along with significant changes in material properties. The presence of …

Despite the commercial importance of grain refinement and the volume of scientific studies
on this topic, its mechanism is still unclear. There are several theories as to how and why …

Grain boundary (GB) segregation has a substantial effect on the microstructure evolution
and properties of polycrystalline alloys. The mechanism of nanoscale segregation at the …