Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Twinning-assisted dynamic adjustment of grain boundary mobility

  • Qishan Huang,
  • Qi Zhu,
  • Yingbin Chen,
  • Mingyu Gong,
  • Jixue Li,
  • Ze Zhang,
  • Wei Yang,
  • Jian Wang,
  • Haofei Zhou,
  • Jiangwei Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27002-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Grain boundary can change its structure upon deformation. Here, the authors show that during this process, grain boundary mobility can be tuned dynamically via a self-stimulated twinning process.