As one of the important materials,nanocrystalline Au(n-Au)has gained numerous interests in recent decades owing to its unique properties and promising applications.However,most of the current n-Au thin films are suppo...As one of the important materials,nanocrystalline Au(n-Au)has gained numerous interests in recent decades owing to its unique properties and promising applications.However,most of the current n-Au thin films are supported on substrates,limiting the study on their mechanical properties and applications.Therefore,it is urgently desired to develop a new strategy to prepare nAu materials with superior mechanical strength and hardness.Here,a hard n-Au material with an average grain size of~40 nm is prepared by cold-forging of the unique Au nanoribbons(NRBs)with unconventional 4H phase under high pressure.Systematic characterizations reveal the phase transformation from 4H to face-centered cubic(fcc)phase during the cold compression.Impressively,the compressive yield strength and Vickers hardness(HV)of the prepared n-Au material reach~140.2 MPa and~1.0 GPa,which are 4.2 and 2.2 times of the microcrystalline Au foil,respectively.This work demonstrates that the combination of high-pressure cold-forging and the in-situ 4H-to-fcc phase transformation can effectively inhibit the grain growth in the obtained n-Au materials,leading to the formation of novel hard n-Au materials.Our strategy opens up a new avenue for the preparation of nanocrystalline metals with superior mechanical property.展开更多
Twin boundary(TB)is a special and fundamental internal interface that plays a key role in altering the mechanical and physical properties of materials.However,the atomistic deformation mechanism of TB re-mains under d...Twin boundary(TB)is a special and fundamental internal interface that plays a key role in altering the mechanical and physical properties of materials.However,the atomistic deformation mechanism of TB re-mains under debate,of which the most concerned aspect is how TB would affect the mechanical strength and plasticity of a material.Herein,we introduce our new discovery that the pseudoelastic strain of a TB can recover with decomposition and escape of pile-up dislocations,demonstrated by imposing a sponta-neous pseudoelastic deformation with recoverable plastic bending strain up to 5.1%on a TB.We found that the steps on the curved TB gradually annihilated during the migration of the TB,which was in-duced by the slip of decomposition dislocations on the TB.The TB not only provides local strain harden-ing through interaction with dislocations during the loading stage but also acts as a channel for the fast movement of decomposition dislocations during the recovery stage.Beside,the TB can maintain excellent pseudoelasticity under a multicycle bending test,which may play an important role in improving the fa-tigue resistance of materials.These findings could open up a new avenue for optimizing the mechanical properties of materials by manipulating their twin boundaries at the nanoscale.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.52090020,51722209,and 51525205)the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2018YFA0305900)+3 种基金Z.S.Z.acknowledges the NSF for Distinguished Young Scholars of Hebei Province of China(No.E2018203349)M.D.M.acknowledges the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2021M691051)Z.X.F.and H.Z.thank the support from ITC via Hong Kong Branch of National Precious Metals Material Engineering Research Center(NPMM),the Start-Up Grants(Nos.9380100,9610480,and 7200651)grants(Nos.9610478,1886921,7020013,and 7005512)from City University of Hong Kong.
文摘As one of the important materials,nanocrystalline Au(n-Au)has gained numerous interests in recent decades owing to its unique properties and promising applications.However,most of the current n-Au thin films are supported on substrates,limiting the study on their mechanical properties and applications.Therefore,it is urgently desired to develop a new strategy to prepare nAu materials with superior mechanical strength and hardness.Here,a hard n-Au material with an average grain size of~40 nm is prepared by cold-forging of the unique Au nanoribbons(NRBs)with unconventional 4H phase under high pressure.Systematic characterizations reveal the phase transformation from 4H to face-centered cubic(fcc)phase during the cold compression.Impressively,the compressive yield strength and Vickers hardness(HV)of the prepared n-Au material reach~140.2 MPa and~1.0 GPa,which are 4.2 and 2.2 times of the microcrystalline Au foil,respectively.This work demonstrates that the combination of high-pressure cold-forging and the in-situ 4H-to-fcc phase transformation can effectively inhibit the grain growth in the obtained n-Au materials,leading to the formation of novel hard n-Au materials.Our strategy opens up a new avenue for the preparation of nanocrystalline metals with superior mechanical property.
基金Y.Y.is supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51922017 and 51972009).
文摘Twin boundary(TB)is a special and fundamental internal interface that plays a key role in altering the mechanical and physical properties of materials.However,the atomistic deformation mechanism of TB re-mains under debate,of which the most concerned aspect is how TB would affect the mechanical strength and plasticity of a material.Herein,we introduce our new discovery that the pseudoelastic strain of a TB can recover with decomposition and escape of pile-up dislocations,demonstrated by imposing a sponta-neous pseudoelastic deformation with recoverable plastic bending strain up to 5.1%on a TB.We found that the steps on the curved TB gradually annihilated during the migration of the TB,which was in-duced by the slip of decomposition dislocations on the TB.The TB not only provides local strain harden-ing through interaction with dislocations during the loading stage but also acts as a channel for the fast movement of decomposition dislocations during the recovery stage.Beside,the TB can maintain excellent pseudoelasticity under a multicycle bending test,which may play an important role in improving the fa-tigue resistance of materials.These findings could open up a new avenue for optimizing the mechanical properties of materials by manipulating their twin boundaries at the nanoscale.