Continuous innovations in design of advanced structural steels are essential for future
progress in manufacturing, automotive and construction industries. Events taking place at …

With the rapid development of high-strength low-alloy (HSLA) steel, Nb as an important
microalloying element has received more and more attention in recent years. The …

Precipitates are known to be effective obstacles for dislocation gliding, which can
substantially increase the strength of metallic materials. In particular, dense nanoscale …

Solute clustering is a technologically important microstructural process in Al alloys. Exerting
control over this process to enhance the alloy properties and reduce the energy costs of …

The third-generation advanced high strength medium manganese steels aim at high-
performance automobile sheet steel applications. Micro-alloying of steels is considered an …

Trace elements diffuse negligible distances through the pristine crystal lattice in minerals:
this is a fundamental assumption when using them to decipher geological processes. For …

The phenomenological interplay in the segregation of phosphorus (P) and transition metal
(TM) elements at grain boundaries (GBs) in steels has long been suspected to be the main …

Precipitates play significant roles in materials design but in-depth understanding of the
evolution of nano-scale precipitates in complex martensitic steels is still limited. In this study …

This review considers the compositions, the main process routes, microstructure and
structural properties of microalloyed steels. The background and brief history are followed by …

This review addresses new developments in the emerging area of “atom probe
crystallography”, a materials characterization tool with the unique capacity to reveal both …