A review on alloy design, biological response, and strengthening of β-titanium alloys as biomaterials

SS Sidhu, H Singh, MAH Gepreel - Materials Science and Engineering: C, 2021 - Elsevier
From the past few years, developments of β-Ti alloys have been the subject of active
research in the medical domain. The current paper highlights significant findings in the area …

A review on fundamental of high entropy alloys with promising high–temperature properties

J Chen, X Zhou, W Wang, B Liu, Y Lv, W Yang… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2018 - Elsevier
High entropy alloys (HEAs) have five or more principal elements with four core effects: high
entropy, sluggish diffusion, severe lattice distortion, and cocktail effects. These effects lead to …

Ductile 2-GPa steels with hierarchical substructure

Y Li, G Yuan, L Li, J Kang, F Yan, P Du, D Raabe… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Mechanically strong and ductile load–carrying materials are needed in all sectors, from
transportation to lightweight design to safe infrastructure. Yet, a grand challenge is to unify …

A precipitation-hardened high-entropy alloy with outstanding tensile properties

JY He, H Wang, HL Huang, XD Xu, MW Chen, Y Wu… - Acta Materialia, 2016 - Elsevier
Recent studies indicated that high-entropy alloys (HEAs) possess unusual structural and
thermal features, which could greatly affect dislocation motion and contribute to the …

Hierarchical microstructures enabled excellent low-temperature strength-ductility synergy in bulk pure tungsten

XF Xie, ZM Xie, R Liu, QF Fang, CS Liu, WZ Han, X Wu - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Refractory tungsten (W) is notoriously brittle at room temperature, which restricts its
workability and narrows the temperature range of critical applications. Here, we report a …

C and N doping in high-entropy alloys: A pathway to achieve desired strength-ductility synergy

MY He, YF Shen, N Jia, PK Liaw - Applied materials today, 2021 - Elsevier
High-entropy alloys (HEAs) have attracted great attention because they provide diversified
possibilities for obtaining many exceptional properties. They are expected to serve as …

Microstructure-mechanical properties relationships for quenching and partitioning (Q&P) processed steel

EJ Seo, L Cho, Y Estrin, BC De Cooman - Acta Materialia, 2016 - Elsevier
The quenching and partitioning (Q&P) processing of advanced high strength steels has
been shown to result in a distinct improvement of their strength and ductility. The selection of …

Excellent high-temperature strength and ductility of the ZrC nanoparticles dispersed molybdenum

K Jing, R Liu, ZM Xie, JG Ke, XP Wang, QF Fang… - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
The interface control is critical in the development of high-performance molybdenum (Mo)
alloys for high-temperature applications like space reactors. In this work, nanostructured Mo …

Excellent strength–ductility balance of Sc-Zr-modified Al–Mg alloy by tuning bimodal microstructure via hatch spacing in laser powder bed fusion

Y Ekubaru, O Gokcekaya, T Ishimoto, K Sato… - Materials & Design, 2022 - Elsevier
The bimodal microstructure, which comprises ultrafine grains (UFGs) forming along the melt
pool boundary and relatively coarse grains inside the melt pool, is a characteristic of the Sc …

Simultaneous improvement of strength and plasticity: Additional work-hardening from gradient microstructure

CW Shao, P Zhang, YK Zhu, ZJ Zhang, YZ Tian… - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Enhancing strength-ductility synergy of materials has always been a hot but difficult topic in
material science, for most structural materials, steels in particular, it is inevitable to sacrifice …