Defect-characterized phase transition kinetics

X Zhang, J Zhang, H Wang, J Rogal, HY Li… - Applied physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Phase transitions are a common phenomenon in condensed matter and act as a critical
degree of freedom that can be employed to tailor the mechanical or electronic properties of …

The emergence of valency in colloidal crystals through electron equivalents

S Wang, S Lee, JS Du, BE Partridge, HF Cheng… - Nature materials, 2022 - nature.com
Colloidal crystal engineering of complex, low-symmetry architectures is challenging when
isotropic building blocks are assembled. Here we describe an approach to generating such …

Abnormal hardening and amorphization in an FCC high entropy alloy under extreme uniaxial tension

K Jiang, Q Zhang, J Li, X Li, F Zhao, B Hou… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ever more extreme environments in advancing industrial applications motivate efforts to
design new generation of alloys with excellent mechanical properties. High entropy alloys …

Molecular dynamics simulations of fcc-to-bcc transformation in pure iron: A review

X Ou - Materials Science and Technology, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation has been used to study the martensitic transformation
in iron at the atomic scale. The paper reviews the available interatomic interaction potentials …

Selective transformations between nanoparticle superlattices via the reprogramming of DNA-mediated interactions

Y Zhang, S Pal, B Srinivasan, T Vo, S Kumar… - Nature materials, 2015 - nature.com
The rapid development of self-assembly approaches has enabled the creation of materials
with desired organization of nanoscale components. However, achieving dynamic control …

One-step model of the face-centred-cubic to body-centred-cubic martensitic transformation

C Cayron - Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations of …, 2013 - scripts.iucr.org
Aone-step'theory based on Pitsch distortion is proposed to explain the continuity between
the orientations of the Kurdjumov–Sachs (KS), Nishiyama–Wassermann (NW) and Pitsch …

[HTML][HTML] Structural transformations among austenite, ferrite and cementite in Fe–C alloys: A unified theory based on ab initio simulations

X Zhang, T Hickel, J Rogal, S Fähler, R Drautz… - Acta Materialia, 2015 - Elsevier
Structural transformations in Fe–C alloys are decisive for the mechanical properties of
steels, but their modeling remains a challenge due to the simultaneous changes in Fe lattice …

Magnetoelectric coupling at metal surfaces

L Gerhard, TK Yamada, T Balashov, AF Takács… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Magnetoelectric coupling allows the magnetic state of a material to be changed by an
applied electric field. To date, this phenomenon has mainly been observed in insulating …

Interface microstructure effects on dynamic failure behavior of layered Cu/Ta microstructures

R Kumar, J Chen, A Mishra, AM Dongare - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Structural metallic materials with interfaces of immiscible materials provide opportunities to
design and tailor the microstructures for desired mechanical behavior. Metallic …

Effect of pre-existing defects in the parent fcc phase on atomistic mechanisms during the martensitic transformation in pure Fe: A molecular dynamics study

S Karewar, J Sietsma, MJ Santofimia - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are used to study the effect of different defect
configurations and their arrangements in the parent fcc phase on atomistic mechanisms …