Bin Li

TL;DR: It is found that submicrometer-size magnesium samples exhibit high plasticity that is far greater than for their bulk counterparts, which should allow development of high-ductility magnesium and other metal alloys.

TL;DR: Using molecular dynamics simulations, a new mechanism for the most commonly observed deformation twinning in Mg and other hexagonal close-packed metals is uncovered, which involves no definable dislocations at the twin boundary, and the twin orientational relationship can be established by local atomic shuffling.

TL;DR: In this article, the deformation of a submicron-sized single-crystal magnesium compressed normal to its prismatic plane with transmission electron microscopy was studied. And the boundary between the parent lattice and the "twin" lattice is composed predominantly of semicoherent basal/prismatic interfaces instead of the twinning plane.

TL;DR: In this article, single-crystal magnesium micropillars are fabricated using focused ion beam (FIB) milling, and they are loaded in compression along the [0, 0,0,1] c-axis.

TL;DR: By monitoring the deformation of submicron-sized single-crystal magnesium compressed normal to its prismatic plane with transmission electron microscopy, the reorientation of the parent lattice to a ‘twin’ lattice is monitored, producing an orientational relationship akin to that of the conventional twinning, but without a crystallographic mirror plane and giving plastic strain that is not simple shear.