The accumulative roll bonding (ARB) as a severe plastic deformation (SPD) procedure aimed at enhancing the mechanical properties of metals and alloys. In the present study, a new slab method is proposed for estimating the forming stress field for cold extrusion of metals cross the alumina interlayer powder particles by accumulative roll bonding process. Plastic deformation behavior of the metal...

Noble metal alloys are important in large-scale catalytic processes. Alloying facilitates fine-tuning of catalytic properties via synergistic interactions between metals. It also allows for dilution of scarce and expensive metals using comparatively earth-abundant metals. RhAg and RhAu are classically considered to be immiscible metals. We show here that stable RhM (M = Ag, Au) nanoparticles wi...

Imbalances between metal supply and demand, real or anticipated, have inspired the concept of metal criticality. We here characterize the criticality of 62 metals and metalloids in a 3D "criticality space" consisting of supply risk, environmental implications, and vulnerability to supply restriction. Contributing factors that lead to extreme values include high geopolitical concentration of pri...

High-temperature surface tension and viscosities for five bulk metallic glass-forming alloys with widely different glass-forming abilities are measured. The measurements are carried out in a high-vacuum electrostatic levitator using the drop oscillation technique. The surface tension follows proportional mathematical addition of pure components’ surface tension except when some of the constitue...

Metals of hybrid nano-/microstructures are of broad technological and fundamental interests. Manipulation of shape and composition on the nanoscale, however, is challenging, especially for multicomponent alloys such as metallic glasses. Although top-down approaches have demonstrated nanomoulding, they are limited to very few alloy systems. Here we report a facile method to synthesize metallic g...

The possibility of alloying can not be avoided at the interface between molten brazing filler metal and base metal in brazing, so the wettability of brazing filler metal can not be easily explained theoretically. We used the original apparatus for wettability test and investigated the relation between the wettability of brazing filler metals of Ag-P-Cu and Ag-Cu-Zn-Cd systems on copper and the ...

Plastic flow evolution was investigated for various metals and alloys, which differed in chemical bond and crystal lattice type (BCC/FCC/HCP), structural state (single-crystal/polycrystalline) and deformation mechanisms (dislocation glide/twinning). On the base of conclusive evidence it is attempted to explain the phenomenon of plastic flow localization by invoking a fundamental principle of qu...