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 …

This paper reviews recent studies, that not only includes both experiments and modeling
components, but celebrates a close coupling between these techniques, in order to provide …

Twin-thickness-controlled plastic deformation mechanisms are well understood for
submicron-sized twin-structural polycrystalline metals. However, for twin-structural …

Silver nanowire (AgNW) networks show excellent optical, electrical, and mechanical
properties, which make them ideal candidates for transparent electrodes in flexible and …

Spreading twins throughout nano metals has been proved to effectively mediate the
mechanical behaviors in face-centered-cubic (fcc) metals. However, the experimental …

Severe plastic deformation of metals is known to lead to superior properties that cannot be
achieved by any traditional metallurgic process. Origin of the superior properties is …

The elastic strain of conventional metals is usually below∼ 1%. As the metals' sizes
decrease to approximate a few nanometers, their elastic strains can approach∼ 8%, and …

In this study, stress shot peening (SP) treatments were implemented on the austenitic and
ferritic stainless steel. The surface layer characteristics including residual stress states and …

The formation of grain boundary (GB) by non-homogeneous plastic deformation was
captured directly through transmission electron microscopy in situ compression test for body …

Penta-twinned and single crystal silver nanowires were bent in-situ for TEM structural
analysis using high spatial resolution scanning precession electron diffraction. Machine …