Inspired by the gradient structures of biological materials, researchers have explored
compositional and structural gradients for about 40 years as an approach to enhance the …

Materials subjected to high dose irradiation by energetic particles often experience severe
damage in the form of drastic increase of defect density, and significant degradation of their …

Nanostructured materials contain an extremely high density of interfaces. The properties of
these materials when exposed to extreme conditions of radiation dose, stress, deformation …

This article reviews recent basic research on two classes of twins: growth twins and
deformation twins. We focus primarily on studies that aim to understand, via experiments …

The mechanical behavior of nanolaminates is dominated by interfaces that act as sources,
barriers, and preferred sites for storage and dynamic recovery of glide dislocations. In this …

Abstracts Manipulation of the atomic-scale structure of two-dimensional (2D) interfaces have
been shown to provide nanocomposites with enhanced strength, deformability, and …

The newly-surged high-entropy alloys (HEAs), in particular the refractory HEAs, manifest
excellent properties for practice applications. In this work, we systematically investigated the …

The recent studies on nanotwinned (NT) and hierarchical nanotwinned (HNT) face-centered
cubic (FCC) metals are presented in this review. The HNT structures have been supposed …

We performed molecular dynamics simulation of nanoindentation on Cu/Ni nanotwinned
multilayer films using a spherical indenter, aimed to investigate the effects of hetero-twin …

Main regularities of the formation of microstructure and properties of multilayer
nanostructured CrN/MoN films with periodically changing architecture of layers were …