Nanotwin-assisted grain growth in nanocrystalline gold films under cyclic loading

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	Nanotwin-assisted grain growth in nanocrystalline gold films under cyclic loading
	X. M. Luo; X. F. Zhu; G. P. Zhang
	2014
发表期刊	Nature Communications
ISSN	2041-1723
卷号	5
摘要	Under mechanical loading, nanocrystalline metals show unique behaviour, among the most common of which are high strength, mechanically induced grain growth and twin formation. However, mechanically induced grain growth is seldom correlated with twins. Here we report a clear relationship between grain growth and nanoscale twins in 20-nm-thick gold films with a grain size of similar to 19nm under cyclic loading based on atomic-scale observations and analyses. We find that the formation of nanotwins is an effective way to assist grain coarsening, following a fundamental process that the mutual formation of nanotwins in two neighbouring grains changes the local grain orientation and dissociates the grain boundary into new segments, which become more mobile. The proposed mechanism of nanotwin-assisted grain growth may have important implications for understanding the interface-mediated mechanisms of cyclic plastic deformation and for the interface engineering design of nanostructured metals with both high strength and good fatigue resistance.
部门归属	[luo, xue-mei ; zhu, xiao-fei ; zhang, guang-ping] chinese acad sci, inst met res, shenyang natl lab mat sci, shenyang 110016, peoples r china. ; zhang, gp (reprint author), chinese acad sci, inst met res, shenyang natl lab mat sci, 72wenhua rd, shenyang 110016, peoples r china. ; gpzhang@imr.ac.cn
关键词	Molecular-dynamics Simulation Thin Copper-films Boundary Migration Fatigue Behavior Insitu Observations Room-temperature Length-scale Deformation Al Dislocation
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语种	英语
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.imr.ac.cn/handle/321006/72491
专题	中国科学院金属研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	X. M. Luo,X. F. Zhu,G. P. Zhang. Nanotwin-assisted grain growth in nanocrystalline gold films under cyclic loading[J]. Nature Communications,2014,5.
APA	X. M. Luo,X. F. Zhu,&G. P. Zhang.(2014).Nanotwin-assisted grain growth in nanocrystalline gold films under cyclic loading.Nature Communications,5.
MLA	X. M. Luo,et al."Nanotwin-assisted grain growth in nanocrystalline gold films under cyclic loading".Nature Communications 5(2014).