Thanks to a new strategy in the development of materials related to steel, high strength and ductility are no longer mutually exclusive. For the steel industry, there may be a way out of the dilemma ...

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In the world of metals, it has long been considered common knowledge that achieving both strength and ductility (the ability to stretch without breaking) at the same time is nearly impossible. When a ...

However, many application scenarios require material performance that is not limited to room temperature; performance in low-temperature environments is particularly critical. Especially in cold ...

Creating ductile ceramics is a challenging task. Plasticity in ceramics is scarcely observed and normally needs unique conditions like extreme temperatures to be plausible. Erkka J. Frankberg is an ...

A kind of high-performance molybdenum alloy, nanoscale ZrC dispersion strengthened Mo alloy with high strength and excellent ductility, was fabricated recently by a collaborated research team from ...

A team of scientists from Ames National Laboratory and Texas A&M University developed a new way to predict metal ductility. This quantum-mechanics-based approach fills a need for an inexpensive, ...

Ductility, i.e., uniform strain achievable in uniaxial tension, diminishes for materials with very high yield strength. Even for the CrCoNi medium-entropy alloy (MEA), which has a simple face-centered ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Something as simple as an electric field could soon make wartime missiles or drinking mugs easier to produce and more resilient for fracture. Items such as drinking mugs, ...

While single atomic layers with large lateral dimensions, such as graphene-based sheets, have attracted significant attention for their high strengths and elastic moduli 1, their potential as a ...