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 …

Strengthening of magnesium (Mg) is known to occur through dislocation accumulation, grain
refinement, deformation twinning, and texture control or dislocation pinning by solute atoms …

Metallic glasses are known for their mechanical properties but lack plasticity. This could be
prevented by combining them with other materials or by inducing a second phase to form a …

As the existence of interfacial electric field, the surface charges of triboelectric
nanogenerators (TENGs) would diffuse into air or tribo-material interior, resulting in the …

Crystalline-amorphous composite have the potential to achieve high strength and high
ductility through manipulation of their microstructures. Here, we fabricate a TiZr-based alloy …

Functional stability of superelasticity is crucial for practical applications of shape memory
alloys. It is degraded by a Lüders-like deformation with elevated local stress concentration …

The paper reports a unique and rare phenomenon observed in a NiTi-Nb nanowire in-situ
composite system. The phenomenon is the amorphization of the B2 NiTi matrix caused by …

The effect of grain size on temperature-dependent elastic modulus (TDEM) of polycrystalline
NiTi over a temperature span of 200° C was investigated by dynamic thermomechanical …

Capturing a shear band in a metallic glass during its propagation experimentally is very
challenging. Shear bands are very narrow but extend rapidly over macroscopic distances …

Although metallic nanostructures have been attracting tremendous research interest in
nanoscience and nanotechnologies, it is known that environmental attacks, such as surface …