Nanotwinned and hierarchical nanotwinned metals: a review of experimental, computational and theoretical efforts

Plastic Deformation through Dislocation Saturation in Ultrasmall Pt Nanocrystals and Its in Situ Atomistic Mechanisms

(2017) Lihua Wang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Dual-phase nanostructuring as a route to high-strength magnesium alloys

(2017) Ge Wu et al.   NATURE

Grain boundary stability governs hardening and softening in extremely fine nanograined metals

(2017) J. Hu et al.   SCIENCE

High dislocation density–induced large ductility in deformed and partitioned steels

(2017) B. B. He et al.   SCIENCE

A three-dimensional polyhedral unit model for grain boundary structure in fcc metals

(2017) Arash Dehghan Banadaki et al.   npj Computational Materials

Continuum understanding of twin formation near grain boundaries of FCC metals with low stacking fault energy

(2017) Jaimyun Jung et al.   npj Computational Materials

Hydrogen embrittlement of grain boundaries in nickel: an atomistic study

(2017) Shan Huang et al.   npj Computational Materials

Discovering the building blocks of atomic systems using machine learning: application to grain boundaries

(2017) Conrad W. Rosenbrock et al.   npj Computational Materials

Atomic structures of twin boundaries in hexagonal close-packed metallic crystals with particular focus on Mg

(2017) Zongrui Pei et al.   npj Computational Materials

Statistical dislocation activation from grain boundaries and its role in the plastic anisotropy of nanotwinned copper

(2016) Rui Yuan et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

The mobility of growth twins synthesized by sputtering: Tailoring the twin thickness

(2016) Leonardo Velasco et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

In situ studies on radiation tolerance of nanotwinned Cu

(2016) Y. Chen et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Prediction of mechanical properties in bimodal nanotwinned metals with a composite structure

(2016) Linli Zhu et al.   COMPOSITES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Mechanical behavior and deformation kinetics of gradient structured Cu-Al alloys with varying stacking fault energy

(2016) Zhe Yin et al.   JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS

Time-, stress-, and temperature-dependent deformation in nanostructured copper: Creep tests and simulations

(2016) Xu-Sheng Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

The direct and indirect effects of nanotwin volume fraction on the strength and ductility of coarse-grained metals

(2016) X. Guo et al.   MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING

Gradient twinned 304 stainless steels for high strength and high ductility

(2016) Aiying Chen et al.   MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING

Twinning effects on strength and plasticity of metallic materials

(2016) Jian Wang et al.   MRS BULLETIN

Strengthening and plasticity in nanotwinned metals

(2016) F. Sansoz et al.   MRS BULLETIN

Fracture, fatigue, and creep of nanotwinned metals

(2016) Xiaoyan Li et al.   MRS BULLETIN

Sequential slip transfer of mixed-character dislocations across Σ3 coherent twin boundary in FCC metals: a concurrent atomistic-continuum study

(2016) Shuozhi Xu et al.   npj Computational Materials

The formation mechanisms of growth twins in polycrystalline Al with high stacking fault energy

(2015) S. Xue et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Optimization of strength and ductility in nanotwinned ultra-fine grained Ag: Twin density and grain orientations

(2015) R.T. Ott et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Nanotwinned silver nanowires: Structure and mechanical properties

(2015) Aaron Kobler et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Emergence of grain-size effects in nanocrystalline metals from statistical activation of discrete dislocation sources

(2015) Rui Yuan et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Dynamic and atomic-scale understanding of the twin thickness effect on dislocation nucleation and propagation activities by in situ bending of Ni nanowires

(2015) Lihua Wang et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Ultrahigh plastic flow in Au nanotubes enabled by surface stress facilitated reconstruction

(2015) R. Cao et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Atomistic mechanisms of fatigue in nanotwinned metals

(2015) Xiaoling Zhou et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Fracture in a thin film of nanotwinned copper

(2015) Zhi Zeng et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Brittle versus ductile behaviour of nanotwinned copper: A molecular dynamics study

(2015) Linqing Pei et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Quantifying the influence of twin boundaries on the deformation of nanocrystalline copper using atomistic simulations

(2015) Garritt J. Tucker et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLASTICITY

Effects of Schmid factor and slip nucleation on deformation mechanism in columnar-grained nanotwinned Ag and Cu

(2015) Valery Borovikov et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Analysis of the twin spacing and grain size effects on mechanical properties in hierarchically nanotwinned face-centered cubic metals based on a mechanism-based plasticity model

(2015) Linli Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

A self-consistent plasticity theory for modeling the thermo-mechanical properties of irradiated FCC metallic polycrystals

(2015) Xiazi Xiao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

A nanotwinned surface layer generated by high strain-rate deformation in a TRIP steel

(2015) P. Xie et al.   MATERIALS & DESIGN

Simulation of ballistic performance of coarse-grained metals strengthened by nanotwinned regions

(2015) G Yang et al.   MODELLING AND SIMULATION IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

Effect of stacking fault energy on mechanism of plastic deformation in nanotwinned FCC metals

(2015) Valery Borovikov et al.   MODELLING AND SIMULATION IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

In Situ Study of Defect Migration Kinetics and Self-Healing of Twin Boundaries in Heavy Ion Irradiated Nanotwinned Metals

(2015) J. Li et al.   NANO LETTERS

Torsional Detwinning Domino in Nanotwinned One-Dimensional Nanostructures

(2015) Haofei Zhou et al.   NANO LETTERS

Atomistic simulation study on twin orientation and spacing distribution effects on nanotwinned Cu films

(2015) Ligang Sun et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE

Grain boundary formation by remnant dislocations from the de-twinning of thin nano-twins

(2015) Y. Cao et al.   SCRIPTA MATERIALIA

In situ atomic scale mechanical microscopy discovering the atomistic mechanisms of plasticity in nano-single crystals and grain rotation in polycrystalline metals

(2015) Xiaodong Han et al.   ULTRAMICROSCOPY

Strain-controlled cyclic stability and properties of Cu with highly oriented nanoscale twins

(2014) Q.S. Pan et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Analysis of size-dependent slip transfer and inter-twin flow stress in a nanotwinned fcc metal

(2014) Pei Gu et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

The effect of nanotwins on the corrosion behavior of copper

(2014) Y. Zhao et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

High-Strength and High-Ductility Nanostructured and Amorphous Metallic Materials

(2014) Hongning Kou et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Growth Twins and Deformation Twins in Metals

(2014) Irene J. Beyerlein et al.   Annual Review of Materials Research

Three dimensional predictions of grain scale plasticity and grain boundaries using crystal plasticity finite element models

(2014) Marko Knezevic et al.   COMPUTER METHODS IN APPLIED MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING

Surface Stress Effects on the Yield Strength in Nanotwinned Polycrystal Face-Centered-Cubic Metallic Nanowires

(2014) Linli Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

Twin boundary spacing effects on shock response and spall behaviors of hierarchically nanotwinned fcc metals

(2014) Fuping Yuan et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Stability of ideal fcc twin boundaries

(2014) T.W. Wright et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Mechanism-based crystal plasticity modeling of twin boundary migration in nanotwinned face-centered-cubic metals

(2014) Hamidreza Mirkhani et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Deformation and failure mechanisms of nanotwinned copper films with a pre-existing crack

(2014) L.G. Sun et al.   MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING

Computer simulation of strength and ductility of nanotwin-strengthened coarse-grained metals

(2014) X Guo et al.   MODELLING AND SIMULATION IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

A Jogged Dislocation Governed Strengthening Mechanism in Nanotwinned Metals

(2014) Haofei Zhou et al.   NANO LETTERS

Nanotwinned diamond with unprecedented hardness and stability

(2014) Quan Huang et al.   NATURE

Two softening stages in nanotwinned Cu

(2014) Ligang Sun et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE

Extraordinary strain hardening by gradient structure

(2014) X. Wu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Making strong nanomaterials ductile with gradients

(2014) K. Lu   SCIENCE

Synergistic effects of Cu and Ni on nanoscale precipitation and mechanical properties of high-strength steels

(2013) Z.B. Jiao et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Extreme grain refinement by severe plastic deformation: A wealth of challenging science

(2013) Y. Estrin et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Basic criteria for formation of growth twins in high stacking fault energy metals

(2013) K. Y. Yu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Size effects of primary/secondary twins on the atomistic deformation mechanisms in hierarchically nanotwinned metals

(2013) Fuping Yuan et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Thermal stability of twins and strengthening mechanisms in differently oriented epitaxial nanotwinned Ag films

(2013) Daniel Bufford et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH

Grain size effect on deformation twinning and detwinning

(2013) Y. T. Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE

Microstructure and strength of pure Cu with large grains processed by equal channel angular pressing

(2013) C.F. Zhu et al.   MATERIALS & DESIGN

De-twinning via secondary twinning in face-centered cubic alloys

(2013) Y. Cao et al.   MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING

Ultrahard nanotwinned cubic boron nitride

(2013) Yongjun Tian et al.   NATURE

Defective twin boundaries in nanotwinned metals

(2013) Y. Morris Wang et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Atomistic scale fracture behaviours in hierarchically nanotwinned metals

(2013) Fuping Yuan et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE

Formation Mechanisms of High-density Growth Twins in Aluminum with High Stacking-Fault Energy

(2013) D. Bufford et al.   Materials Research Letters

The effect of dislocation density on the interactions between dislocations and twin boundaries in nanocrystalline materials

(2012) S. Ni et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

A statistical model for predicting the mechanical properties of nanostructured metals with bimodal grain size distribution

(2012) Linli Zhu et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

High strength-ductility of thin nanocrystalline palladium films with nanoscale twins: On-chip testing and grain aggregate model

(2012) M.-S. Colla et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Fatigue cracking at twin boundaries: Effects of crystallographic orientation and stacking fault energy

(2012) Z.J. Zhang et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Indentation of nanotwinned fcc metals: Implications for nanotwin stability

(2012) Jiddu Bezares et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Fatigue behavior of columnar-grained Cu with preferentially oriented nanoscale twins

(2012) Q.S. Pan et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Plastic anisotropy and associated deformation mechanisms in nanotwinned metals

(2012) Zesheng You et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

High-Strain-Rate Deformation: Mechanical Behavior and Deformation Substructures Induced

(2012) George T. (Rusty) Gray   Annual Review of Materials Research

Structural and electrical properties of epitaxial Bi2Se3 thin films grown by hybrid physical-chemical vapor deposition

(2012) Joseph E. Brom et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Nanotwins and stacking faults in high-strength epitaxial Ag/Al multilayer films

(2012) D. Bufford et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

On the role of hierarchical twins for achieving maximum yield strength in nanotwinned metals

(2012) Linli Zhu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Thermal stability of highly nanotwinned copper: The role of grain boundaries and texture

(2012) Yifu Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH

Quantitative Evidence of Crossover toward Partial Dislocation Mediated Plasticity in Copper Single Crystalline Nanowires

(2012) Yonghai Yue et al.   NANO LETTERS

Deformation mechanisms in nanotwinned metal nanopillars

(2012) Dongchan Jang et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Structure and stability of Σ3 grain boundaries in face centered cubic metals

(2012) J. Wang et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE

The interactions of self-interstitials with twin boundaries

(2012) M.I. Mendelev et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE

Critique of mechanisms of formation of deformation, annealing and growth twins: Face-centered cubic metals and alloys

(2012) S. Mahajan   SCRIPTA MATERIALIA

Deformation mechanisms, length scales and optimizing the mechanical properties of nanotwinned metals

(2011) Z.X. Wu et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

A unified mechanistic model for size-dependent deformation in nanocrystalline and nanotwinned metals

(2011) Pei Gu et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Detwinning, damage and crack initiation during cyclic loading of Cu samples containing aligned nanotwins

(2011) C.J. Shute et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Fracture toughness and fatigue crack growth characteristics of nanotwinned copper

(2011) A. Singh et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Mechanical properties of highly textured Cu/Ni multilayers

(2011) Y. Liu et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Deformation, structural changes and damage evolution in nanotwinned copper under repeated frictional contact sliding

(2011) A. Singh et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

The influence of strain rate on the microstructure transition of 304 stainless steel

(2011) A.Y. Chen et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Crystal plasticity of nanotwinned microstructures: A discrete twin approach for copper

(2011) Hamidreza Mirkhani et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Microstructural and crystallographic characteristics of interpenetrating and non-interpenetrating multiply twinned nanostructure in a Ni–Mn–Ga ferromagnetic shape memory alloy

(2011) D.Y. Cong et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Effect of stacking fault energy on mechanical behavior of bulk nanocrystalline Cu and Cu alloys

(2011) Khaled Youssef et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Tensile behavior of columnar grained Cu with preferentially oriented nanoscale twins

(2011) Z.S. You et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Modeling grain size dependent optimal twin spacing for achieving ultimate high strength and related high ductility in nanotwinned metals

(2011) Linli Zhu et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Ultrahigh Strain Hardening in Thin Palladium Films with Nanoscale Twins

(2011) Hosni Idrissi et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Modelling the plastic deformation of nanostructured metals with bimodal grain size distribution

(2011) Linli Zhu et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLASTICITY

The influence of ∑3 twin boundaries on the formation of radiation-induced defect clusters in nanotwinned Cu

(2011) Michael J. Demkowicz et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH

Effect of grain size on the competition between twinning and detwinning in nanocrystalline metals

(2011) S. Ni et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Scaling of maximum strength with grain size in nanotwinned fcc metals

(2011) Yujie Wei   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Magnetic Nanostructures by Adaptive Twinning in Strained Epitaxial Films

(2011) Sandra Kauffmann-Weiss et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Deformation twinning in nanocrystalline materials

(2011) Y.T. Zhu et al.   PROGRESS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE

Revealing Extraordinary Intrinsic Tensile Plasticity in Gradient Nano-Grained Copper

(2011) T. H. Fang et al.   SCIENCE

Optimization of the strain rate to achieve exceptional mechanical properties of 304 stainless steel using high speed ultrasonic surface mechanical attrition treatment

(2010) H.L. Chan et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Deformation of hierarchically twinned martensite

(2010) P. Müllner et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Detwinning mechanisms for growth twins in face-centered cubic metals

(2010) J. Wang et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

High strength, epitaxial nanotwinned Ag films

(2010) D. Bufford et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Strategies for Improving Tensile Ductility of Bulk Nanostructured Materials

(2010) Yonghao Zhao et al.   ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATERIALS

Heterotwin formation during growth of nanolayered Al-TiN composites

(2010) Dhriti Bhattacharyya et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

The origin of the ultrahigh strength and good ductility in nanotwinned copper

(2010) Guoyong Wang et al.   MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING

Characterization of plastically graded nanostructured material: Part II. The experimental validation in surface nanostructured material

(2010) H.H. Ruan et al.   MECHANICS OF MATERIALS

Dislocation nucleation governed softening and maximum strength in nano-twinned metals

(2010) Xiaoyan Li et al.   NATURE

Structural and optical properties of high quality zinc-blende/wurtzite GaAs nanowire heterostructures

(2010) D. Spirkoska et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Nanostructural hierarchy increases the strength of aluminium alloys

(2010) Peter V. Liddicoat et al.   Nature Communications

Microstructural evolution and mechanical properties of Cu–Al alloys subjected to equal channel angular pressing

(2009) S. Qu et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Overview of constitutive laws, kinematics, homogenization and multiscale methods in crystal plasticity finite-element modeling: Theory, experiments, applications

(2009) F. Roters et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Atomic-scale in situ observation of lattice dislocations passing through twin boundaries

(2009) Y. B. Wang et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Significant enhancement of the strength-to-resistivity ratio by nanotwins in epitaxial Cu films

(2009) O. Anderoglu et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Failure by simultaneous grain growth, strain localization, and interface debonding in metal films on polymer substrates

(2009) Nanshu Lu et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH

Effect of stacking fault energy on strength and ductility of nanostructured alloys: An evaluation with minimum solution hardening

(2009) Pei-Ling Sun et al.   MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING

Fabrication and Microstructure Control of Nanoscale Mechanical Testing Specimens via Electron Beam Lithography and Electroplating

(2009) Michael J. Burek et al.   NANO LETTERS

Triple-twin domains in Mg doped GaN wurtzite nanowires: structural and electronic properties of this zinc-blende-like stacking

(2009) Jordi Arbiol et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Molecular dynamics studies of the interaction ofa/6 ⟨112⟩ Shockley dislocations with stacking fault tetrahedra in copper. Part I: Intersection of SFT by an isolated Shockley

(2009) M. Niewczas et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE

Strengthening Materials by Engineering Coherent Internal Boundaries at the Nanoscale

(2009) K. Lu et al.   SCIENCE

Revealing the Maximum Strength in Nanotwinned Copper

(2009) L. Lu et al.   SCIENCE

Nanoscale structural refinement via deformation twinning in face-centered cubic metals

(2009) N.R. Tao et al.   SCRIPTA MATERIALIA

Mechanical properties and rolling behaviors of nano-grained copper with embedded nano-twin bundles

(2008) Y. Zhang et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Influence of stacking-fault energy on microstructural characteristics of ultrafine-grain copper and copper–zinc alloys

(2008) Levente Balogh et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Three-dimensional model of strength and ductility of polycrystalline copper containing nanoscale twins

(2008) A. Jérusalem et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Interactions between non-screw lattice dislocations and coherent twin boundaries in face-centered cubic metals

(2008) Z.-H. Jin et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Copper Nanowires with a Five-Twinned Structure Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition

(2008) Changwook Kim et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Dynamical dislocation emission processes from twin boundaries

(2008) Y. B. Wang et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Epitaxial nanotwinned Cu films with high strength and high conductivity

(2008) O. Anderoglu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Thermal stability of sputtered Cu films with nanoscale growth twins

(2008) O. Anderoglu et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Twinning superlattices in indium phosphide nanowires

(2008) Rienk E. Algra et al.   NATURE

Controlled polytypic and twin-plane superlattices in iii–v nanowires

(2008) P. Caroff et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Inverse Grain-Size Effect on Twinning in Nanocrystalline Ni

(2008) X. L. Wu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Make nanostructured metal exceptionally tough by introducing non-localized fracture behaviors

(2008) A CHEN et al.   SCRIPTA MATERIALIA

Strengthening and toughening by interface-mediated slip transfer reaction in nanotwinned copper

(2008) Y ZHENG et al.   SCRIPTA MATERIALIA

Influence of stacking fault energy on deformation mechanism and dislocation storage capacity in ultrafine-grained materials

(2008) Z.W. Wang et al.   SCRIPTA MATERIALIA

Effect of stacking-fault energy on deformation twin thickness in Cu–Al alloys

(2008) Y. Zhang et al.   SCRIPTA MATERIALIA

Microstructural evolution and nanostructure formation in copper during dynamic plastic deformation at cryogenic temperatures

(2007) Y.S. Li et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Evolution of defect structures during cold rolling of ultrafine-grained Cu and Cu–Zn alloys: Influence of stacking fault energy

(2007) Y.H. Zhao et al.   MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING A-STRUCTURAL MATERIALS PROPERTIES MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROCESSING