Nature Communications (May 2019)

Promoting abnormal grain growth in Fe-based shape memory alloys through compositional adjustments

  • M. Vollmer,
  • T. Arold,
  • M. J. Kriegel,
  • V. Klemm,
  • S. Degener,
  • J. Freudenberger,
  • T. Niendorf

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10308-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Novel iron-based shape memory alloys could be candidates for large-scale structural applications if their grains grew large and long enough. Here, the authors add titanium to an Fe–Mn–Al–Ni shape-memory alloy to promote large grains via compositional tuning of abnormal grain growth.