Chemomechanics of rechargeable batteries: status, theories, and perspectives

LS de Vasconcelos, R Xu, Z Xu, J Zhang… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Chemomechanics is an old subject, yet its importance has been revived in rechargeable
batteries where the mechanical energy and damage associated with redox reactions can …

Void nucleation during ductile rupture of metals: A review

PJ Noell, RB Sills, AA Benzerga, BL Boyce - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Ductile rupture in metals is a phenomenon that affects a wide range of applications from
forming of automotive body panels to failure of pressure vessels. The incipient stage …

Review on superior strength and enhanced ductility of metallic nanomaterials

IA Ovid'Ko, RZ Valiev, YT Zhu - Progress in materials science, 2018 - Elsevier
Nanostructured metallic materials having nanocrystalline and ultrafine-grained structures
show exceptional mechanical properties, eg superior strength, that are very attractive for …

Stability of nanocrystalline metals: The role of grain-boundary chemistry and structure

CA Schuh, K Lu - Mrs Bulletin, 2021 - Springer
Nanocrystalline metals are transitioning from laboratory curiosities to engineering materials,
in large part due to advances in improving their stability, making their exceptional properties …

Hall–Petch strengthening limit through partially active segregation in nanocrystalline Ag-Cu alloys

F Sansoz, X Ke - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
The breakdown from grain-size strengthening to softening mechanisms is generally well
understood for high-purity nanocrystalline materials when the mean grain size decreases to …

Angular-dependent interatomic potential for large-scale atomistic simulation of iron: Development and comprehensive comparison with existing interatomic models

S Starikov, D Smirnova, T Pradhan, Y Lysogorskiy… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
The development of classical interatomic potential for iron is a quite demanding task with a
long history background. A new interatomic potential for simulation of iron was created with …

Strength, plasticity, thermal stability and strain rate sensitivity of nanograined nickel with amorphous ceramic grain boundaries

B Wei, W Wu, D Xie, M Nastasi, J Wang - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
A large fraction of grain boundaries imparts high strength to nanocrystalline (NC) metals but
causes the poor thermal stability of microstructures and a significant reduction of strength …

Grain boundary softening from stress assisted helium cavity coalescence in ultrafine-grained tungsten

WS Cunningham, Y Zhang, SL Thomas, O El-Atwani… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
The formation of helium cavities in coarse-grained materials produces hardening
proportional to the number density and size of the cavities and due to the interaction of …

[HTML][HTML] Computational simulation of grain boundary segregation of solute atoms in nanocrystalline metals

L Zhang, Z Zhang, X Zhang, X Huang - Journal of Materials Research and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The remarkably high strength of nanocrystalline metals is of great interest to researchers
and seems to open up many interesting design applications. However, a particularly vexing …

Suppressing irradiation induced grain growth and defect accumulation in nanocrystalline tungsten through grain boundary doping

WS Cunningham, K Hattar, Y Zhu, DJ Edwards… - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Deliberately designed nanostructured materials containing a high density of dopant
stabilized interfaces provide energetically favorable sites for the annihilation of defects that …