Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Metallic nanocrystals with low angle grain boundary for controllable plastic reversibility

  • Qi Zhu,
  • Qishan Huang,
  • Cao Guang,
  • Xianghai An,
  • Scott X. Mao,
  • Wei Yang,
  • Ze Zhang,
  • Huajian Gao,
  • Haofei Zhou,
  • Jiangwei Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16869-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Improving the reversible plastic deformability and damage tolerance of nanosized metals remains challenging. Here, the authors custom-design low angle grain boundaries in metallic bicrystals to achieve controllable plastic reversibility via fully conservative grain boundary migration.