The nanostructured origin of deformation twinning

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 887-892

  Yu, Qian ^a,b   Qi, Liang ^c,d   Chen, Kai ^d   Mishra, Raja K ^e   Li, Ju ^c,d   Minor, Andrew M ^a,b  

^a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^d XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

high strength Mg; In situ TEM tensile bending compression tests; nanotwin; nucleation; TWIP

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; DEFORMATION TWIN; DEFORMATION TWINNING; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; GENERIC FEATURES; HIGH STRENGTH; IN SITU TEM TENSILE/BENDING/COMPRESSION TESTS; IN-SITU; MAGNESIUM SINGLE CRYSTALS; NANO-STRUCTURED; NANOTWINS; STRUCTURAL ALLOYS; TRANSFORMATION TOUGHENING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; TWIP;

HIGH STRENGTH ALLOYS; MAGNESIUM; MECHANICAL TESTING; NUCLEATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DEFORMATION;

MAGNESIUM; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

MAGNESIUM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84856964363     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl203937t     Document Type: Article

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