Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Designing a magnesium alloy with high strength and high formability

  • T. T. T. Trang,
  • J. H. Zhang,
  • J. H. Kim,
  • A. Zargaran,
  • J. H. Hwang,
  • B.-C. Suh,
  • N. J. Kim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04981-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Despite being the lightest structural alloys, obtaining magnesium alloys with both high strength and high formability remains a challenge. Here, the authors use precipitation and elemental segregation to design a magnesium alloy with high strength and high formability.