Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Shear band-driven precipitate dispersion for ultrastrong ductile medium-entropy alloys

  • Tae Jin Jang,
  • Won Seok Choi,
  • Dae Woong Kim,
  • Gwanghyo Choi,
  • Hosun Jun,
  • Alberto Ferrari,
  • Fritz Körmann,
  • Pyuck-Pa Choi,
  • Seok Su Sohn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25031-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Precipitation hardening, used as an effective strengthening strategy in various alloy systems, has been usually achieved by coherent precipitates. Here, the authors develop ultrastrong ductile alloys employing structurally dissimilar semicoherent precipitates by shear band-driven precipitation.