Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

Rejuvenation of plasticity via deformation graining in magnesium

  • Bo-Yu Liu,
  • Zhen Zhang,
  • Fei Liu,
  • Nan Yang,
  • Bin Li,
  • Peng Chen,
  • Yu Wang,
  • Jin-Hua Peng,
  • Ju Li,
  • En Ma,
  • Zhi-Wei Shan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28688-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Understanding deformation of Mg along the c-axis is important for wrought processing of Mg. Here the authors report deformation graining in submicron single crystal Mg where the initial single crystal evolves into ultrafine grains that rejuvenates dislocation activities, enabling large plasticity.