Grain boundaries are interfaces that separate different crystallographic regions, known as grains, within a polycrystalline material. In nanomaterials, grain boundaries play a crucial role in ...

An international research team led by Hao Chen of Tsinghua University has bolstered steel’s physical properties by using its chemical boundaries. Chemical boundaries are interfaces where a material ...

A recent NSR paper measures mechanical properties of solids as a function of both crystalline grain size and grain-boundary thickness The world of solid materials is not composed solely of perfectly ...

HOUSTON – (June 6, 2022) – Rice University engineers who mimic atom-scale processes to make them big enough to see have modeled how shear influences grain boundaries in polycrystalline materials. That ...