Owing to their unique mechanical and functional properties, both amorphous and
nanocrystalline alloys have attracted extensive research interest over the past decades …

Grain boundaries can undergo phase-like transitions, called complexion transitions, in
which their structure, composition, and properties change discontinuously as temperature …

Nanocrystalline metals are transitioning from laboratory curiosities to engineering materials,
in large part due to advances in improving their stability, making their exceptional properties …

Alloying nanocrystalline materials to stabilize them against grain growth is proving a critical
enabling strategy for the processing and usage of bulk nanocrystalline parts. Alloying …

Solute segregation at grain boundaries (GBs) is a key mechanism to stabilize
nanocrystalline alloys. To date, the standard approach to design and screen for …

Grain boundaries (GBs) can be treated as two‐dimensional (2‐D) interfacial phases (also
called “complexions”) that can undergo interfacial phase‐like transitions. As bulk phase …

Grain boundary complexions have been observed to affect the mechanical behavior of
nanocrystalline metals, improving both strength and ductility. While an explanation for the …

Complexions are phase-like interfacial features that can influence a wide variety of
properties, but the ability to predict which material systems can sustain these features …

Grain boundary (GB) solute segregation has been proposed as a route to mitigate grain
growth in nanocrystalline (NC) metals and stabilize their grain structures. An interesting …

There has recently been a great deal of interest in employing immiscible solutes to stabilize
nanocrystalline microstructures. Existing modeling efforts largely rely on mesoscale Monte …