Recent development of advanced precipitation-strengthened Cu alloys with high strength and conductivity: a review

K Yang, Y Wang, M Guo, H Wang, Y Mo, X Dong… - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Precipitation-strengthened Cu alloys with high strength and conductivity (HSC) has become
widespread in the electronic and electrical industries. Although pure Cu exhibits high …

[HTML][HTML] A review of microstructure and texture evolution with nanoscale precipitates for copper alloys

Y Geng, Y Ban, B Wang, X Li, K Song, Y Zhang… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Copper alloys are widely used in the lead frame, high-speed railway and other applications
due to their high electrical conductivity and adequate mechanical properties. In this work, the …

Effects of pre-aging on microstructure and properties of Cu-Ni-Si alloys

Y Jia, Y Pang, J Yi, Q Lei, Z Li, Z Xiao - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2023 - Elsevier
Thermal-mechanical treatment is critical for the synthesis of Cu-Ni-Si alloys with high
strength and conductivity. In this work, a high-temperature/short-time pre-aging treatment …

Customized development of promising Cu-Cr-Ni-Co-Si alloys enabled by integrated machine learning and characterization

S Pan, J Yu, J Han, Y Zhang, Q Peng, M Yang, Y Chen… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Two types of alloys, Cu-Ni-Co-Si and Cu-Cr-Zr, are considered candidate materials for next-
generation integrated circuits due to their superior comprehensive performance. However …

Microstructure and properties of Cu–Ni–Co–Si–Cr–Mg alloys with different Si contents after multi-step thermo-mechanical treatment

M Ma, Z Li, Z Xiao, Y Jia, X Meng, Y Jiang… - Materials Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, a series of Cu-3.2 Ni-0.6 Co-xSi-0.2 Cr-0.15 Mg (x= 0.62, 0.75, 0.92 and
1.09)(wt.%) alloys were fabricated and subjected to multi-step thermo-mechanical treatment …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of different rolling passes and deformation amounts on the microstructure evolution and strengthening mechanism of Cu–Ni–Si alloy

Y Shan, C Zhang, Y Zhang, J Feng, S Zhao… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
Under the condition of controlling the total rolling deformation to 80.0%, the effects of multi-
pass rolling, the ratio of deformation between the first and second stages in two-stage …

Simultaneous enhancement of mechanical and electrical properties of Cu–Ni–Si alloys via thermo-mechanical process

C Wang, H Fu, H Zhang, X He, J Xie - Materials Science and Engineering: A, 2022 - Elsevier
Developing high-performance copper alloys while simultaneously improving ultimate tensile
strength (UTS) and electrical conductivity (EC) has been a key challenge and direction. Two …

Relationship and mechanism between double cold rolling-aging process, microstructure and properties of Cu–Ni–Si alloy prepared by two-phase zone continuous …

W Liao, X Liu, Y Yang - Materials Science and Engineering: A, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Developing Cu–Ni–Si alloy with high strength and high electrical conductivity is a
key issue in the electrical conductor industries. The C70250 copper alloy was prepared by …

Improving mechanical and electrical properties of Cu-Ni-Si alloy via machine learning assisted optimization of two-stage aging processing

J Liang, F Zhao, G Xie, R Wang, X Liu, W Xue… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent studies have shown that synergistic precipitation of continuous precipitates (CPs)
and discontinuous precipitates (DPs) is a promising method to simultaneously improve the …

Achieving high strength and high-electrical-conductivity of Cu-Ni-Si alloys via regulating nanoprecipitation behavior through simplified process

W Xue, G Xie, X Huang, J Liang, S Guo, X Liu… - Journal of Materials …, 2025 - Elsevier
Overcoming the tradeoff between mechanical strength and electrical conductivity is a long-
standing challenge in developing advanced copper alloys for industrial applications. Herein …