Amorphous materials are metastable solids with only short-range order at the atomic scale,
which results from local intermolecular chemical bonding. The lack of long-range order …

The trade-off of strength and ductility of metals has long plagued materials scientists. To
resolve this issue, great efforts have been devoted over the past decades to developing a …

非晶态物质是复杂的多体相互作用体系, 其基本特征是原子和电子结构复杂, 微观结构长程无序,
体系在能量上处在亚稳态, 具有复杂的多重弛豫行为, 其物理, 化学和力学性质 …

Many established, but also potential future applications of NiTi-based shape memory alloys
(SMA) in biomedical devices and solid-state refrigeration require long fatigue life with 107 …

Strain-hardening (the increase of flow stress with plastic strain) is the most important
phenomenon in the mechanical behaviour of engineering alloys because it ensures that …

It is not easy to fabricate materials that exhibit their theoretical 'ideal'strength. Most methods
of producing stronger materials are based on controlling defects to impede the motion of …

We review recent research into elastic and plastic deformation of metallic glasses, with an
emphasis on making connections between developments in theory and simulation (largely …

Shear-banding is a ubiquitous plastic-deformation mode in materials. In metallic glasses,
shear bands are particularly important as they play the decisive role in controlling plasticity …

Diamonds have substantial hardness and durability, but attempting to deform diamonds
usually results in brittle fracture. We demonstrate ultralarge, fully reversible elastic …

The ability of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to image a structure ranging from
millimetres to Ångströms has made it an indispensable component of the toolkit of modern …