The double-edge effect of second-phase particles on the recrystallization behaviour and associated mechanical properties of metallic materials

K Huang, K Marthinsen, Q Zhao, RE Logé - Progress in Materials Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Most industrial alloys contain a matrix phase and dispersed second-phase particles. Several
thermomechanical processing (TMP) steps are usually needed to produce a final product …

[HTML][HTML] Computational simulation of grain boundary segregation of solute atoms in nanocrystalline metals

L Zhang, Z Zhang, X Zhang, X Huang - Journal of Materials Research and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The remarkably high strength of nanocrystalline metals is of great interest to researchers
and seems to open up many interesting design applications. However, a particularly vexing …

Electrodeposition current density induced texture and grain boundary engineering in Sn coatings for enhanced corrosion resistance

A Gupta, C Srivastava - Corrosion Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Sn coatings were electrodeposited over mild steel at different current densities (5 mA cm− 2,
20 mA cm− 2, 40 mA cm− 2, 60 mA cm− 2, and 80 mA cm− 2). Corrosion resistance was …

Quantitative analysis of grain boundary diffusion, segregation and precipitation at a sub-nanometer scale

Z Peng, T Meiners, Y Lu, CH Liebscher, A Kostka… - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Grain boundaries are intrinsic and omnipresent microstructural imperfections in
polycrystalline and nanocrystalline materials. They are short-circuit diffusion paths and …

A review of grain boundary and heterointerface characterization in polycrystalline oxides by (scanning) transmission electron microscopy

H Vahidi, K Syed, H Guo, X Wang, JL Wardini… - Crystals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Interfaces such as grain boundaries (GBs) and heterointerfaces (HIs) are known to play a
crucial role in structure-property relationships of polycrystalline materials. While several …

A physics-based model for crystal orientation dictionary indexing by directional reflectance microscopy

C Zhu, M Seita - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Directional reflectance microscopy (DRM) is a new optical technique that enables grain
orientation mapping in crystalline solids by capturing and analyzing light reflectance signals …

Five-parameter grain boundary character distribution of gold nanoparticles based on three dimensional orientation mapping in the TEM

W Zhu, G Wu, A Godfrey, S Schmidt, Q He, Z Feng… - Scripta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Three-dimensional orientation mapping in the transmission electron microscope (3D-
OMiTEM) has been used to characterize the grain structure of an ion-sputtered gold …

[HTML][HTML] On the structure of (111) twist grain boundaries in diamond: atomistic simulations with Tersoff-type interatomic potentials

C Baruffi, C Brandl - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
In nanocrystalline diamond thin films, the high grain boundary density and the associated
grain boundary properties may dominate the overall material behavior. In the present work …

Low-angle boundary engineering for improving high-cycle fatigue property of 430 ferritic stainless steel

S Kobayashi, W Yang, Y Tomobe, R Okada… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - Springer
Grain boundary engineering (GBE) based on the control of a low-angle grain boundary
(LAGB) network was investigated to improve the fatigue property in 430 ferritic stainless …

Correlating the five-parameter grain boundary character distribution and corrosion behavior of zinc-carbon nanotube composite coatings

KS Jyotheender, C Srivastava - Metallurgical and Materials Transactions …, 2021 - Springer
Grain boundary engineering (GBE) of coatings using optimum weight fractions of foreign
inclusions can improve corrosion resistance performance. This is illustrated here by …