Nature Communications (Sep 2022)
A nanodispersion-in-nanograins strategy for ultra-strong, ductile and stable metal nanocomposites
- Zan Li,
- Yin Zhang,
- Zhibo Zhang,
- Yi-Tao Cui,
- Qiang Guo,
- Pan Liu,
- Shenbao Jin,
- Gang Sha,
- Kunqing Ding,
- Zhiqiang Li,
- Tongxiang Fan,
- Herbert M. Urbassek,
- Qian Yu,
- Ting Zhu,
- Di Zhang,
- Y. Morris Wang
Affiliations
- Zan Li
- State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Yin Zhang
- Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Zhibo Zhang
- Institute of New Materials and Processing, Guangdong Academy of Sciences
- Yi-Tao Cui
- Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Laser and Synchrotron Research Centre (LASOR), The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo
- Qiang Guo
- State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Pan Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Shenbao Jin
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Gleiter Institute of Nanoscience, Nanjing University of Science and Technology
- Gang Sha
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Gleiter Institute of Nanoscience, Nanjing University of Science and Technology
- Kunqing Ding
- Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Zhiqiang Li
- State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Tongxiang Fan
- State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Herbert M. Urbassek
- Physics Department and Research Center OPTIMAS, University Kaiserslautern, Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße
- Qian Yu
- Center of Electron Microscopy and State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University
- Ting Zhu
- Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Di Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Y. Morris Wang
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33261-5
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 13
Abstract
High-strength nanocrystalline materials come at the expense of tensile ductility, thermal stability, and electrical conductivity. Here the authors report a nanodispersion-in-nanograins strategy where ultra-nano-carbon was used to concurrently achieve above four mutually exclusive properties.
