Phase transitions are a common phenomenon in condensed matter and act as a critical
degree of freedom that can be employed to tailor the mechanical or electronic properties of …

Domain boundaries typically constitute only a minute fraction of the total volume of a crystal.
However, a special (but not unusual) situation can occur in which the domain boundary …

In situ X-ray diffraction during loading and unloading is used to investigate the effects of
grain size (GS) on the stress-induced nanoscale phase transition (PT) mechanism in …

Futuristic technologies such as morphing aircrafts and super-strong artificial muscles
depend on metal alloys being as strong as ultrahigh-strength steel yet as flexible as a …

Strain glass is a new strain state discovered recently in ferroelastic systems that is
characterized by nanoscale martensitic domains formed through a freezing transition. These …

This work reports the existence of the strain glass state in Ni-rich Ni-Ti-Zr shape memory
alloys induced by the precursor stages of the H-phase precipitation, typical of this alloy …

Reentrant glass transition, referring to a reversible transition from a high-temperature
ordered phase to a low-temperature glassy phase, is unusual and difficult to be understood …

Superelastic alloys, being successfully used in cutting-edge space technologies, are desired
to possess large recoverable strain and wide working temperature range simultaneously …

Development of miniaturized magnetostriction-associated devices requires low-field-
triggered large magnetostriction. In this study, we acquired a large magnetostriction (800 …

Strain glass is a frozen disordered strain state with local strain order manifested by nano-
sized strain domains, which is formed as a result of doping sufficient point defects into the …