High tensile ductility in a nanostructured metal

Nature

Volumn 419, Issue 6910, 2002, Pages 912-915

  Wang, Yinmin ^a   Chen, Mingwei ^a   Zhou, Fenghua ^a   Ma, En ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOYING; COPPER; DEFORMATION; DUCTILITY; EXTRAPOLATION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MICROSTRUCTURE; TENSILE PROPERTIES; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMOMECHANICAL TREATMENT;

MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

COPPER; LIQUID NITROGEN; METAL;

COPPER; DUCTILITY;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; MATERIALS; MECHANICS; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; TEMPERATURE; TENSILE STRENGTH; THEORY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0037206788     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01133     Document Type: Article

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