The most efficient way to tune microstructures and mechanical properties of metallic alloys
lies in designing and using athermal phase transformations. Examples are shape memory …

Gradient nanostructured (GNS) metallic materials are commonly achieved by gradient
severe plastic deformation with a gradient of nano-to micro-sized structural units from the …

This work reports the existence of the strain glass state in Ni-rich Ni-Ti-Zr shape memory
alloys induced by the precursor stages of the H-phase precipitation, typical of this alloy …

By nanostrain-domain engineering of shape memory alloys (SMAs) via impurity doping, we
show a new mechanism that leads to superelasticity with slim hysteresis across a wide …

Metastable β titanium alloys with the incorporation of multiple β-stabilizing elements could
exhibit unique mechanical and functional properties. In the present study, a Ti-Nb-O …

The present article serves as a concise review of strain glass and its broader concept–ferroic
glass. Strain glass is a frozen disordered strain state composed of nano‐sized strain …

Short-range strain-ordered strain glass (STG) appears when the kinetic limitation (local
stress field produced by random defects) is strong enough to suppress thermodynamic …

Behaviors of displacive phase-transforming materials above the temperature of
transformation, where abnormal thermal, elastic, magnetic properties are often observed …

High-performance superelastic materials with a combination of high superelastic stress,
large elastic recovery strain, and stable elastic modulus over a wide temperature range are …

Strain glass, a conjugate state to martensite, is emerging as an important concept in our
understanding of martensitic materials. It resolves many puzzling phenomena, and …