Nature Communications (Apr 2016)

A low-cost hierarchical nanostructured beta-titanium alloy with high strength

  • Arun Devaraj,
  • Vineet V. Joshi,
  • Ankit Srivastava,
  • Sandeep Manandhar,
  • Vladimir Moxson,
  • Volodymyr A. Duz,
  • Curt Lavender

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11176
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Lightweight materials with high strength are desirable for applications where they could reduce energy consumption. Here, the authors develop a low cost beta-titanium alloy that uses a hierarchical nanostructure of precipitates with different sizes to achieve high strength.