Owing to their unique mechanical and functional properties, both amorphous and
nanocrystalline alloys have attracted extensive research interest over the past decades …

An account is given of the research that has been carried out on mechanical alloying/milling
(MA/MM) during the past 25 years. Mechanical alloying, a high energy ball milling process …

We report the creation of a nanoscale electrochemical device inside a transmission electron
microscope—consisting of a single tin dioxide (SnO2) nanowire anode, an ionic liquid …

The parameters of many-body potentials for fcc and hcp transition metals, based on the
second-moment approximation of a tight-binding Hamiltonian, have been systematically …

It is demonstrated that stability criteria derived using elastic stiffness coefficients which
govern stress-strain relations at finite deformation give quantitative predictions of crystal …

Bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) generally fail in a brittle manner under uniaxial, quasistatic
loading at room temperature. The lack of plastic strain is a consequence of shear softening …

We review the results of recent molecular-dynamics simulations of the structure and
deformation behavior of nanocrystalline materials, ie, polycrystalline materials with a grain …

The atomic-scale details during melting of a surface-free Lennard-Jones crystal were
monitored using molecular dynamics simulations. Melting occurs when the superheated …

Amorphous phases* of materials are characterized by the lack of translational or
orientational long range order. Although one might expect that the excess entropy due to …

DESPITE the strong interest in melting over the past 100 years, a general theory for the
crystal–liquid transition has not been established1. Lattice-instability models, which are …