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- Grain boundary engineering (GBE) has limitations in achieving fine microstructures due to the low thermal stability of crystallographic boundaries, while chemical boundary engineering (CBE) can create advanced metallic materials with ultrafine microstructures that enhance mechanical properties.
- Using a cost-effective Ti-2.8Cr-4.5Zr-5.2Al alloy, researchers developed a high density of chemical boundaries, resulting in strong hierarchical nano-martensites approximately 20 nm thick.
- The combination of nano-martensitic interface strengthening leads to significant yield strength, while the design enables large ductility through complex strain hardening mechanisms, making this approach promising for creating strong and flexible structural materials.
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Due to the low thermal stability of crystallographic boundaries, the grain boundary engineering (GBE) manifests some limits to the fineness and types of microstructures achievable, while unique chemical boundary engineering (CBE) enables us to create a metallic material with an ultrafine hierarchically heterogeneous microstructure for enhancing the mechanical properties of materials. Here, using a low cost metastable Ti-2.8Cr-4.5Zr-5.2Al (wt.%) alloy as a model material, we create a high density of chemical boundaries (CBs) through the significant diffusion mismatch between Cr and Al alloying elements to architecture hierarchical nano-martensites with an average thickness of ~20 nm. For this metastable titanium alloy, the significantly enhanced yield strength originates from dense nano-martensitic interface strengthening, meanwhile the large ductility is attributed to the multi-stage strain hardening of hierarchical 3D α'/β lamellae assisted by equiaxed primary α (α) nodules. The hierarchical nano-martensite engineering strategy confers our alloy a desired combination of strength and ductility, which can potentially be applied to many transformable alloys, and reveal a new target in microstructural design for ultrastrong-yet-ductile structural materials.
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