Radiation damage in nanostructured materials

X Zhang, K Hattar, Y Chen, L Shao, J Li, C Sun… - Progress in Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
Materials subjected to high dose irradiation by energetic particles often experience severe
damage in the form of drastic increase of defect density, and significant degradation of their …

Metals by Micro‐Scale Additive Manufacturing: Comparison of Microstructure and Mechanical Properties

A Reiser, L Koch, KA Dunn, T Matsuura… - Advanced functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Many emerging applications in microscale engineering rely on the fabrication of 3D
architectures in inorganic materials. Small‐scale additive manufacturing (AM) aspires to …

Chemical fluctuation enabling strength-plasticity synergy in metastable single-phase high entropy alloy film with gigapascal yield strength

JY Zhang, QF He, J Li, Y Yang - International Journal of Plasticity, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, we synthesized a FeCoNiCrCu high entropy alloy film (HEAF) via magnetron
sputtering, which exhibited a metastable single FCC phase with random chemical …

Stabilizing defective coherent twin boundaries for strong and stable nanocrystalline nanotwinned Cu

G Li, Y Yang, B Gou, J Zhang, J Li, Y Wang, L Cao… - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Manipulating coherent twin boundaries (CTBs) opens an avenue to design strong
nanostructured materials. However, below a critical TB spacing, these inherently defective …

Localized pulsed electrodeposition process for three-dimensional printing of nanotwinned metallic nanostructures

S Daryadel, A Behroozfar, SR Morsali, S Moreno… - Nano …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Nanotwinned-metals (nt-metals) offer superior mechanical (high ductility and strength) and
electrical (low electromigration) properties compared to their nanocrystalline (nc) …

Ultrastrong Al 0.1 CoCrFeNi high-entropy alloys at small scales: effects of stacking faults vs. nanotwins

X Feng, J Zhang, K Wu, X Liang, G Liu, J Sun - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Metastability engineering opens a new avenue to design high-entropy alloys (HEAs)
originally proposed to benefit from phase stabilization. Meanwhile, boundary engineering …

Columnar grain-driven plasticity and cracking in nanotwinned FCC metals

Q Fang, F Sansoz - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
The mechanisms of strengthening and plasticity in columnar-grained metals with
preferentially oriented nano-sized twins have been examined traditionally by considering …

Anomalous vertical twins with high (2 2 0) texture in direct current electroplating copper film

P Zhang, L Zhang, X Qu - Applied Surface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
The regulation of crystal structure and orientation during direct current (DC)
electrodeposition is one of the key factors for achieving performance control of the …

Nano-scale twinned Cu with ultrahigh strength prepared by direct current electrodeposition

S Li, Q Zhu, B Zheng, J Yuan, X Wang - Materials Science and Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
An equiaxed grained nanotwinned Cu was firstly prepared by direct current electroplating
using composite gelatin and poly-2-sulfur-2-propane sodium sulfonate additive, whose …

Three-dimensional lattice deformation of blue phase liquid crystals under electrostriction

Y Zhang, H Yoshida, F Chu, YQ Guo, Z Yang, M Ozaki… - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work, we investigate the three-dimensional lattice deformation of blue phase (BP)
liquid crystals under electrostriction. Using the in situ measurement of light diffraction signals …