Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Massive interstitial solid solution alloys achieve near-theoretical strength

  • Chang Liu,
  • Wenjun Lu,
  • Wenzhen Xia,
  • Chaowei Du,
  • Ziyuan Rao,
  • James P. Best,
  • Steffen Brinckmann,
  • Jian Lu,
  • Baptiste Gault,
  • Gerhard Dehm,
  • Ge Wu,
  • Zhiming Li,
  • Dierk Raabe

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28706-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Interstitials can substantially strengthen metals. Here the authors show a massive interstitial solid solution (MISS) approach enabling a model multicomponent alloy to achieve near-theoretical strength together with large deformability.