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Unpredictable Kirkendall void formation at the interface of circuit interconnections underlies degradation in electronics, yet there is a lack of effective approaches to curb the amount of these voids. Here we developed a strain-anneal…
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Ductile fracture has been extensively studied in metals with weak mechanical anisotropy such as copper and aluminum. The fracture of more anisotropic metals, especially those with a hexagonal crystal structure (e.g. titanium), remains far…
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Grain boundary sliding is typically associated with high temperature deformation in engineering alloys. Here, we examine grain boundary sliding at room temperature in oxygen-free high-conductivity copper under quasi-static tensile testing.…
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Understanding the grain boundary deformation dynamics is very crucial to designing materials with stable microstructures. With this quest, the deformation behavior of coherent twin boundary under cyclic shear loading has been studied in…
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A novel medium Mn steel of composition Fe-12Mn-4.8Al-2Si-0.32C-0.3V was manufactured with 1.09 GPa yield strength, 1.26 GPa tensile strength and 54% elongation. The thermomechanical process route was designed to be industrially translatable…
Science-driven design of future thermoelectric materials requires a deep understanding of the fundamental relationships between microstructure and transport properties. Grain boundaries in polycrystalline materials influence the…