Search Results - "Robert O. Ritchie"
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The conflicts between strength and toughness
Published in Nature materials (24-10-2011)“…The attainment of both strength and toughness is a vital requirement for most structural materials; unfortunately these properties are generally mutually…”
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Tunable stacking fault energies by tailoring local chemical order in CrCoNi medium-entropy alloys
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (04-09-2018)“…High-entropy alloys (HEAs) are an intriguing new class of metallic materials due to their unique mechanical behavior. Achieving a detailed understanding of…”
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Toughness and strength of nanocrystalline graphene
Published in Nature communications (28-01-2016)“…Pristine monocrystalline graphene is claimed to be the strongest material known with remarkable mechanical and electrical properties. However, graphene made…”
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Magnetically driven short-range order can explain anomalous measurements in CrCoNi
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (30-03-2021)“…The presence, nature, and impact of chemical short-range order in the multi-principal element alloy CrCoNi are all topics of current interest and debate…”
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Structural Orientation and Anisotropy in Biological Materials: Functional Designs and Mechanics
Published in Advanced functional materials (01-03-2020)“…Biological materials exhibit anisotropic characteristics because of the anisometric nature of their constituents and their preferred alignment within…”
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Making ultrastrong steel tough by grain-boundary delamination
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (19-06-2020)“…Developing ultrahigh strength steels that are ductile, fracture resistant, and cost-effective would be attractive for a variety of structural applications. We…”
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A fracture-resistant high-entropy alloy for cryogenic applications
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (05-09-2014)“…High-entropy alloys are equiatomic, multi-element systems that can crystallize as a single phase, despite containing multiple elements with different crystal…”
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Tuning element distribution, structure and properties by composition in high-entropy alloys
Published in Nature (London) (01-10-2019)“…High-entropy alloys are a class of materials that contain five or more elements in near-equiatomic proportions 1 , 2 . Their unconventional compositions and…”
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Multiscale Toughening Mechanisms in Biological Materials and Bioinspired Designs
Published in Advanced materials (Weinheim) (01-10-2019)“…Biological materials found in Nature such as nacre and bone are well recognized as light‐weight, strong, and tough structural materials. The remarkable…”
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Atomistic simulations of dislocation mobility in refractory high-entropy alloys and the effect of chemical short-range order
Published in Nature communications (11-08-2021)“…Refractory high-entropy alloys (RHEAs) are designed for high elevated-temperature strength, with both edge and screw dislocations playing an important role for…”
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Exceptional damage-tolerance of a medium-entropy alloy CrCoNi at cryogenic temperatures
Published in Nature communications (02-02-2016)“…High-entropy alloys are an intriguing new class of metallic materials that derive their properties from being multi-element systems that can crystallize as a…”
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Dislocation mechanisms and 3D twin architectures generate exceptional strength-ductility-toughness combination in CrCoNi medium-entropy alloy
Published in Nature communications (20-02-2017)“…Combinations of high strength and ductility are hard to attain in metals. Exceptions include materials exhibiting twinning-induced plasticity. To understand…”
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Real-time observations of TRIP-induced ultrahigh strain hardening in a dual-phase CrMnFeCoNi high-entropy alloy
Published in Nature communications (11-02-2020)“…Strategies involving metastable phases have been the basis of the design of numerous alloys, yet research on metastable high-entropy alloys is still in its…”
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Strong and Tough Bioinspired Additive-Manufactured Dual-Phase Mechanical Metamaterial Composites
Published in Journal of the mechanics and physics of solids (01-04-2021)“…•Bioinspired dual-phase metamaterials are designed with lattice materials as constituent phases•Stiffness, strength, toughness and specific energy absorption…”
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Nanoscale origins of the damage tolerance of the high-entropy alloy CrMnFeCoNi
Published in Nature communications (09-12-2015)“…Damage tolerance can be an elusive characteristic of structural materials requiring both high strength and ductility, properties that are often mutually…”
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Failure mechanisms of single-crystal silicon electrodes in lithium-ion batteries
Published in Nature communications (14-06-2016)“…Long-term durability is a major obstacle limiting the widespread use of lithium-ion batteries in heavy-duty applications and others demanding extended…”
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On the damage tolerance of 3-D printed Mg-Ti interpenetrating-phase composites with bioinspired architectures
Published in Nature communications (06-06-2022)“…Bioinspired architectures are effective in enhancing the mechanical properties of materials, yet are difficult to construct in metallic systems. The…”
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Processing, Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of the CrMnFeCoNi High-Entropy Alloy
Published in JOM (1989) (01-10-2015)“…Equiatomic multi-component alloys, referred to variously as high-entropy alloys, multi-component alloys, or compositionally complex alloys in the literature,…”
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Ultra-strong tungsten refractory high-entropy alloy via stepwise controllable coherent nanoprecipitations
Published in Nature communications (25-05-2023)“…High-performance refractory alloys with ultrahigh strength and ductility are in demand for a wide range of critical applications, such as plasma-facing…”
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On the Mechanistic Origins of Toughness in Bone
Published in Annual review of materials research (01-06-2010)“…One of the most intriguing protein materials found in nature is bone, a material composed of assemblies of tropocollagen molecules and tiny hydroxyapatite…”
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