Advanced Microstructure Analysis Lab
Research Work
Atomic configuration of an eta precipitate.
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Al-Zn-Mg-Cu aluminium alloys
Multi-types of precipitates can be created in the advanced high-strength 7xxx series (Al-Zn-Mg-Cu) aluminium alloys, subjected to ageing treatments. Employed high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM) and Cs-corrected high angle annular dark-field scanning transmission electron microscopy (Cs-corrected HAADF STEM), it can elucidate the microstructure evolutions of precipitates and further to correlated their mechanical properties.
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Al-Cu-Mg-(Li) aluminium alloys
Cs-corrected HAADF-STEM was employed to investigate the microstructure evolutions of nanometer-sizes precipitates such as T1, theta' and S phases; and the corresponding three GP zones, respectively, in the Al-Cu-Mg-Li aluminium alloy. Two nucleation mechanisms of GP zones were characterized as the separated nucleation, and the sympathetic nucleation. The more detailed information...
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High-Entropy alloys
After cold-rolling and annealing, an FeCoNiCr high-entropy alloy had a bimodal-grained structure with two peak size distributions, as well as micro-scaled and nanometer-scaled annealing twins. After a Hopkinson bar compression deformation at strain rates of 7000 s-1 at 25 °C. The ultra-fine annealing-nanotwin of 5.2 nm thickness was revealed to be further partitioned by two variants of deformation-nanotwins of 0.6 nm thickness. The hierarchical structures, composed of micrometer, nanometer and sub-nanometer twins, are herewith reported.
