Deformation twinning is an important plastic carrier competing with the ordinary dislocation
slip in a broad class of crystalline solids, which critically controls the mechanical properties …

Defect engineering is an emerging technology for tailoring nanomaterials' characteristics
and catalytic performance in various applications. Recently, defect‐engineered …

Multi–principal element alloys (MPEAs) containing three or more components in high
concentrations render a tunable chemical short-range order (SRO). Leveraging large-scale …

The three-dimensional hierarchical twin network has been proved to be the source of the
excellent strength-ductility combination in the CoCrNi medium entropy alloy. Revealing the …

Abstract High-cycle fatigue (R= 0.1, room temperature) induced microstructural evolution in
a laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) additively manufactured quaternary CoCrFeNi high …

Nano-scale eutectics, such as rapid solidified Al–Si, exhibit enhanced yield strength and
strain hardening but plasticity is limited by cracking of the hard phase (Si). Mechanisms that …

Twin boundary (TB) engineering provides exciting opportunities to tune the performance
levels of metal‐based electrocatalysts. However, the controllable construction of TB greatly …

Body-centred cubic (BCC) metals possess unstable intrinsic stacking fault and high
resistance for deformation twinning, which often induce complex twinning dynamics that …

In the present work, the Cu-1.35 Ni-1Co-0.55 Si alloy with multiple twins and ultra-low
interfacial mismatch precipitates was obtained by liquid nitrogen dynamic plastic …

High entropy alloys (HEAs) have received widespread attention as structural and functional
materials owing to their large atomic lattice distortion and vast compositional space …