Refractory high-entropy alloys (RHEAs), particularly NbMoTaW RHEAs, exhibit outstanding
softening resistance and thermal stability at ultra-high temperatures, but suffer from room …

Metallic additive manufacturing (AM) techniques have substantially liberated the
architectural design philosophy of macro/mesoscale functional structures from ease of …

Deformation twinning is an important plastic carrier competing with the ordinary dislocation
slip in a broad class of crystalline solids, which critically controls the mechanical properties …

The deformation of all materials can be separated into elastic and plastic parts. Measuring
the purely plastic component is complex but crucial to fully characterize, understand, and …

Despite being strong with many outstanding physical properties, tungsten is inherently brittle
at room temperature, restricting its structural and functional applications at small scales …

The experimental determination of critical stresses for yielding and plastic flow is of upmost
importance for the understanding of the atomic-scale mechanical behaviors of nanoscale …

Twin boundaries (TBs) are assumed to be obstacles to dislocation motion and increase the
strength of metals. Here, we report the abnormal phenomenon that TBs reduce the strength …

We report a systematic computational analysis of the mechanical behavior of plasma-facing
component (PFC) tungsten focusing on the impact of void and helium (He) bubble defects …

Deformation twinning in body-centered cubic (BCC) metals occurs by shearing the crystal
along {112} planes parallel to< 111> directions. One of these directions (twinning shear) …

Phase transformation is rare in pure body-centered cubic (BCC) metals due to the
associated high energy barrier. Here, omega (ω) phase transformation in single-crystal …