Acta Materialia

Papers
(The median citation count of Acta Materialia is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Phase evolution in two-phase alloys during severe plastic deformation248
Sudoku-inspired high-Shannon-entropy alloys217
In situ observation of the cryophile migration of hydrogen bubbles in Al-alloys during directional melting and the impact of surface tension179
Rapid discovery of high hardness multi-principal-element alloys using a generative adversarial network model176
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Effect of leakage current on magnetoelectric effect of 0–3 multiferroic composites based on an equivalent circuit model161
Effects of Y solutes on the activation of the {11<160
Passivating oxidation behavior of Ti0.12Al0.21B0.67 coatings investigated by scanning transmission electron microscopy and chemical environment dependent density functional theory simulations159
Disordered mechanical metamaterials with programmable properties158
Hydrogen-assisted spinodal decomposition in a TiNbZrHfTa complex concentrated alloy152
Predicting and understanding vacancy-modified oxygen diffusion in dilute Ni-based alloys by first-principles calculations152
A novel two-step grain boundary diffusion process using TaF5 and Pr70Cu15Al10Ga5 for realizing high-coercivity in Nd-Fe-B-sintered magnets without use of heavy rare-earth139
Predicted aluminum monoxide phases and their structural evolution under pressure138
Insights into the surface tension and superficial density peak of molten metals from molecular dynamics133
Locally off-centered Ge atoms contribute to high thermoelectric performance of globally averaged cubic MnGeTe2 alloys133
Abnormal grain growth behavior in gradient nanostructured titanium investigated by coupled quasi-in-situ EBSD experiments and phase-field simulations129
The microstructural dependence of ionic transport in bi-continuous nanoporous metal129
The importance of fracture toughness evaluation for additively manufactured metals125
First-principles and cluster expansion study of the effect of magnetism on short-range order in Fe–Ni–Cr austenitic stainless steels119
Alloying effects on the transport properties of refractory high-entropy alloys119
On the shear strain associated with T1 precipitation in Al-Cu-Li(-Mg-Ag) alloys118
Plastic deformation delocalization at cryogenic temperatures in a nickel-based superalloy116
Tuning metastable austenite in a phase-transforming ceramic via matrix constraint115
High polarization stability induced by light-activated defect engineering in ferroelectric single crystals111
Hierarchical anisotropic material response of directed energy deposited (DED) Ti-6Al-4V alloy109
Atomistically informed mesoscale modelling of deformation behavior of bulk metallic glasses106
Stabilization and control of weakly correlated polar skyrmions in ferroelectric thin films106
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The toughening effect of twins on fracture in nanotwinned Cu during cyclic loading104
Unveiling yield strength of metallic materials using physics-enhanced machine learning under diverse experimental conditions99
Mechanisms of grain boundary α precipitation in the metastable β-titanium Ti-5Al-5Mo-5V-3Cr98
Predicting yield stress in a nano-precipitate strengthened austenitic steel by integrating multi length-scale simulations and experiments98
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Short-range order and its impacts on the BCC MoNbTaW multi-principal element alloy by the machine-learning potential94
Texture development in Cu-Ag-Fe triphase immiscible nanocomposites with superior thermal stability94
Understanding imprint formation, plastic instabilities and hardness evolutions in FCC, BCC and HCP metal surfaces93
Hydrogen penetration into the NiTi superelastic alloy investigated in-situ by synchrotron diffraction experiments93
Effects of Mg and Al doping on the desorption energetics and electronic structure of a Ti-V-Zr-Nb alloy hydride92
Phase-field investigation on the microstructural evolution of eutectic transformation and four-phase reaction in Mo-Si-Ti system91
Formation and self-organisation of nano-porosity in swift heavy ion irradiated amorphous Ge91
High thermoelectric performance and anisotropy studies of n-type Mg3Bi2-based single crystal91
A spall and diffraction study of nanosecond pressure release across the iron ε-α phase boundary87
Sliding wear-induced compositional lamination in a VCoNi alloy at elevated temperatures, and its implications for reduced friction and wear86
Natural and artificial ageing in aluminium alloys – the role of excess vacancies84
Mechanical properties and thermal stability of ZrCuAlx thin film metallic glasses: Experiments and first-principle calculations84
Impact of Aliovalent Alkaline-Earth metal solutes on Ceria Grain Boundaries: A density functional theory study83
High-throughput microstructure and composition characterisation of microplatelet reinforced composites using directional reflectance microscopy83
Competition of core-shell and Janus morphology in bimetallic nanoparticles: Insights from a phase-field model82
Electric-field-induced annihilation of localized gap defect states in amorphous phase-change memory materials82
On the role of the electric field in the last-stage sintering of ceramics: A phase-field modelling approach82
Effect of Li on the intrinsic and extrinsic contributions of the piezoelectric response in Lix(Na0.5K0.5)1-xNbO3 piezoelectric ceramics across the polymorphic phase boundary79
Effect of substitutional doping and disorder on the phase stability, magnetism, and half-metallicity of Heusler alloys79
Room-temperature plasticity and size-dependent mechanical responses in small-scale B1-NbC(001) single-crystals79
Diffusion-assisted growth of periodic patterns on metal surfaces78
ω-Strengthened Ti-23Nb alloy with twinning-induced plasticity developed via reverse martensitic transformation78
Engineered periodic quadrupole superstructure in ferroelectric thin films via flexoelectricity78
Kawin: An open source Kampmann–Wagner Numerical (KWN) phase precipitation and coarsening model77
A generalized 3D elastic model for nanoscale, self-assembled oxide-metal thin films with pillar-in-matrix configurations76
On the vibrational properties of transition metal doped ZnO: Surface, defect, and bandgap engineering76
High-throughput screening of half-antiperovskites with a stacked kagome lattice75
Quantitative description of the role of Cr on the ordering characteristics of a single phase Ni-16 wt.% Mo- 7wt.% Cr alloy75
Electronic effects on the radiation damage in high-entropy alloys75
Growth of faceted, monolayer-coated nanovoids in aluminium74
Self-toughening mechanism of the ZrO2 scale and the precipitation of Sn during the steam oxidation of ZIRLO™ at 1200 °C74
Anisotropic mechanical properties and deformation mechanisms of nanotwinned Ni and Ni alloys with extremely fine twin boundary spacings73
The concept of axial weak twins73
On the transition of failure control from material-intrinsic defects to defects forming during monotonically increasing and cyclic mechanical loading in WC-Co hard metal at elevated temperature72
On the origin of the Hall–Petch law: A 3D-dislocation dynamics simulation investigation71
Evolution of elastic constants of the NiTi shape memory alloy during a stress-induced martensitic transformation71
The kinetics of reentrant glass transition in metallic liquids71
Complex multi-step martensitic twinning process during plastic deformation of the superelastic Ti-20Zr-3Mo-3Sn alloy70
Effects of electric current on the plastic deformation behavior of pure copper, iron, and titanium70
J-integral analysis of the elastic strain fields of ferrite deformation twins using electron backscatter diffraction70
The evolution of local stress during deformation twinning in a Mg-Gd-Y-Zn alloy70
Revealing growth mechanisms of faceted Al2Cu intermetallic compounds via high-speed Synchrotron X-ray tomography69
Structure and residual stress distribution in TiNi substrate after fabrication of surface alloy using electron-beam treatments69
The effects of diffusional couplings on compositional trajectories and interfacial free energies during phase separation in a quaternary Ni-Al-Cr-Re model superalloy69
Role of Hydrogen in the Separation of Interfaces in S13Cr Supermartensitic Stainless Steel69
Phase transformations in an ultralight BCC Mg alloy during anisothermal ageing68
Ultrastrong and stress corrosion cracking-resistant martensitic steels68
Ultrasonic-vibration-enhanced plasticity of an entropic alloy at room temperature67
Predicting path-dependent diffusion barrier spectra in vast compositional space of multi-principal element alloys via convolutional neural networks67
Dynamic behavior of grain boundaries with misorientations in the vicinity of Σ3 coherent and incoherent twin boundaries in Al bicrystals67
Evidence supporting reversible martensitic transformation under cyclic loading on Fe–Mn–Si–Al alloys using in situ neutron diffraction66
High strain and energy-storage density across a wide temperature range in fine PbHfO3 ceramics66
Enhanced fatigue endurance limit of Cu through low-angle dislocation boundary66
On the thermodynamics and its connection to structure in the Pt-Pd-Cu-Ni-P bulk metallic glass forming system66
Solute-solute interactions in dilute Nb-X-O alloys from first principles66
Identifying the effect of Ni solubility on the thermoelectric properties of HfNiSn-based half-Heuslers65
In situ synchrotron study of sintering of gas-atomized Ti-6Al-4 V powders using concomitant micro-tomography and X-ray diffraction: Effect of particle size and interstitials on densification and phase65
Cr-promoted formation of B2+L21 composite nanoprecipitates and enhanced mechanical properties in ferritic alloy65
Improving the hydrogen embrittlement resistance by straining the ferrite / cementite interfaces65
A novel GP-Li precursor and the correlated precipitation behaviors in Al-Cu-Li alloys with different Cu/Li ratio65
Solid solution softening and hardening in binary BCC alloys64
Atomistic simulations of pipe diffusion in bcc transition metals63
Predicting the influence of geometric imperfections on the mechanical response of 2D and 3D periodic trusses63
Dislocation structures in micron-sized Ni single crystals produced via tension–compression cyclic loading62
A potential mechanism for abnormal grain growth in Ni thin films on c-sapphire62
Mechanisms and elemental partitioning during simultaneous dephosphorization and reduction of Fe-O-P melts by hydrogen plasma62
Orientation dependent plasticity of the refractory multi-principal element alloy MoNbTi investigated via micropillar compression62
Predicting shear transmission across grain boundaries with an iterative stress relief model61
Ion kinetic energy- and ion flux-dependent mechanical properties and thermal stability of (Ti,Al)N thin films61
Effects of exsolution on the stability and morphology of Ni nanoparticles on BZY thin films61
Inference and uncertainty propagation of GB structure-property models: H diffusivity in [100] tilt GBs in Ni61
Interface faceting–defaceting mediated by disconnections60
Dislocation electron tomography: A technique to characterize the dislocation microstructure evolution in zirconium alloys under irradiation59
Tellurium self-diffusion in amorphous Ge2Sb2Te5 phase change materials59
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Strain phase diagram and physical properties of (110)-oriented PbTiO3 thin films by phase-field simulations59
Stishovite nucleation at low shock pressures in soda-lime glass59
A tale of two phase diagrams: Interplay of ordering and hydrogen uptake in Pd–Au–H59
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Amber Genau, 2022 Acta Materialia Mary Fortune Global Diversity Medal Recipient58
Milica Radisic, 2022 Acta Biomaterialia Silver Medal Recipient58
Effect of the Pt concentration on microstructures of Ti-Pt alloys using the first-principles phase field method58
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Structures of boundaries and corners of fully-closed hexagonal domains in HVPE-AlN film57
Ultralight and ultra-stiff nano-cardboard panels: Mechanical analysis, characterization, and design principles57
Thermodynamics and Ferroelectric Properties of Pb1-xSrxTiO3 Solid Solutions56
Giant compliance and spontaneous buckling of beams containing mobile solute atoms56
Surface reconstruction in core@shell nanoalloys: Interplay between size and strain55
Strain-tuning of transport gaps and semiconductor-to-conductor phase transition in twinned graphene55
Gibbs-Thomson effect as driving force for liquid film migration: Converting metallic into ceramic fibers through intrinsic oxidation55
Multiphase field modeling of grain boundary migration mediated by emergent disconnections55
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Constrained sintering of alumina micro-ring films on stiff and compliant substrates: Constriction or dilation?55
Bistructural Pseudocontinuous Solid Solution with Hierarchical Microstructures from Ab initio Study: Application to the Mg2Sn−Mg3Sb2 System54
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Elastocaloric-like effect in strain-mediated Mn3SnC/PZT magnetoelectric hetero-composite for solid-state refrigeration54
Prediction of microstructure evolution at the atomic scale by deep generative model in combination with recurrent neural networks54
The barrier-free nanomultilayered structure via enthalpy-mediated phase separation in refractory high-entropy films53
Tensile creep of textured Ti2AlC in the 1000–1150°C temperature range53
Exploring domain continuity across BaTiO3 grain boundaries: Theory meets experiment53
Brillouin spectroscopy study of the stress-induced ferroelectric order in lead-free relaxor 0.93(Na1/2Bi1/2)TiO3-0.07BaTiO3 ceramics53
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Manipulation of phase transitions and electrical properties of Ba1-Sr TiO3 thin films through orientation engineering53
The role of intermediate S-polymorph towards high piezoelectricity in La-doped BiFeO3 epitaxial thin films52
A model for solute evolution in laser powder bed fused Al-Si alloys and its application to improve thermal conductivity52
High-contrast, reversible change of thermal conductivity in hexagonal nickel-iron sulfides52
Influence of ordering phenomena on carbon segregation in tungsten screw dislocation52
Charles H. Ward, 2023 Acta Materialia Hollomon Award recipient52
Hydrogen on screw dislocation in Fe and W: Existence of 3D-compound and exotic segregation profile52
Effects of size ratio on particle packing in binary glasses52
QH-POCC: Taming tiling entropy in thermal expansion calculations of disordered materials52
Uncovering deformation twins in intermetallic AuSn and Au5Sn52
Dislocation-mediated plasticity in the Al2Cu θ-phase52
Oxidation mechanism in a refractory multiple-principal-element alloy at high temperature52
Restructuring of emergent grain boundaries at free surfaces – An interplay between core stabilization and elastic stress generation51
Estimation of diffusion coefficients by intersecting different types of diffusion paths in a multi-principal element alloy51
Reduced interfacial stresses in laminated ceramics during flash sintering enabled by an extremely low uniaxial viscosity51
Patrick Couvreur, 2024 Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal Recipient51
Coarsening of metal/ceramics bicontinuous structures enhanced by stress-induced instability under cyclic thermal stress51
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Machine learning-assisted measurement of lithium transport using operando optical microscopy50
Stabilization of high-pressure phase of CdO by nanoparticle formation in CdxZn1-xO thin films50
Metadislocation configurations and novel phason defects in the complex metallic alloy T-Al-Mn-Pd50
Kinetics and associated microstructure for reactive phase formation50
Compromise of thermoelectric and mechanical properties in LiSbTe2 and LiBiTe2 alloyed SnTe49
Off-stoichiometric softening and polytypic transformations in the plastic deformation of the C14 Fe49
Electro-chemo-mechanical failure of solid-state electrolyte caused from intergranular or transgranular damage propagation in polycrystalline aggregates49
Revealing the impact of acceptor dopant type on the electrical conductivity of sodium bismuth titanate49
Discontinuous segregation patterning across disconnections49
Energetics and stability of screw dislocations in magnesium: A first-principles study48
Revealing in-plane grain boundary composition features through machine learning from atom probe tomography data48
Modeling precipitation kinetics for multi-phase and multi-component systems using particle size distributions via a moving grid technique48
Oxygen solutes-regulated low temperature embrittlement and high temperature toughness in vanadium48
The effect of microstructure and film composition on the mechanical properties of linear antenna CVD diamond thin films48
Ideal superelasticity in Ni-based Heusler alloys48
The evolution of abnormally coarse grain structures in beta-annealed Ti-6Al%-4V% rolled plates, observed by in-situ investigation48
Disparity in recrystallization of α- & γ-fibers and its impact on Cube texture formation in non-oriented electrical steel47
Optimizing the hydrogen embrittlement resistance by tuning the structures of Cu-rich nanoprecipitates in high strength martensite stainless steels47
On the trigonal structure of the ζ-hydride in zirconium: A microstructural characterization approach by electron diffraction and energy-loss spectroscopy47
Precipitate dissolution during deformation induced twin thickening in a CoNi-base superalloy subject to creep47
Effect of external stress on hydride reorientation in zirconium47
Atomic simulation study of the factors affecting nucleation in deformation-induced martensitic transformation in grains and at grain boundaries in pure iron47
Intra-grain orientation distributions in deformed aluminium: Synchrotron X-ray diffraction experiment and crystal-plasticity finite-element simulation47
Atomistic simulations reveal strength reductions due to short-range order in alloys47
Insights into primary carbides and nanoparticles in an additively manufactured high-alloy steel46
A full-field approach for precipitation in metallic alloys. Comparison with a mean-field model46
Revealing the structural role of MgO in aluminosilicate glasses46
Energetically favorable dislocation/nanobubble bypass mechanism in irradiation conditions46
A Model correlating fluidity to alloy variables in hypoeutectic alloys46
Stochastic approach for determining properties of randomly structured materials: Effects of network connectivity46
A data science approach for analysis and reconstruction of spinodal-like composition fields in irradiated FeCrAl alloys46
Convective effects on columnar dendritic solidification – A multiscale dendritic needle network study46
Enhanced oxidation resistance of (Mo95W5)85Ta10(TiZr)5 refractory multi-principal element alloy up to 1300°C46
Ternary diagrams of phase, stability, and optical properties of cesium lead mixed-halide perovskites46
Can we predict mixed grain boundaries from their tilt and twist components?46
Stability and stoichiometry of L12 Al3(Sc,Zr) dispersoids in Al-(Si)-Sc-Zr alloys46
A new healing strategy for metals: Programmed damage and repair46
Evolution of martensitic microstructures in nanocrystalline NiTi wires deformed in tension45
Dislocation formation in the heteroepitaxial growth of PbSe/PbTe systems45
Carbon effect on thermo-kinetics of Co-Cr-Fe-Mn-Ni high entropy alloys: A computational study validated by interdiffusion experiments45
Identifying the true structure and origin of the water-quench induced hydride phase in Zr-2.5Nb alloy45
Modeling the statistical distribution of fatigue crack formation lifetime in large volumes of polycrystalline microstructures45
In situ probing of interfacial roughness and transient phases during ceramic cold sintering process45
Strong piezoelectric properties and electric-field-driven changes in domain structures in a PbZr0.87Ti0.13O3 single crystal45
Ab initio study of the effect of interstitial alloying on the intrinsic stacking fault energy of paramagnetic γ-Fe and austenitic stainless steel45
Hard-sphere model of the B2 → B19’ phase transformation, and its application to predict the B19’ structure in NiTi alloys and the B19 structures in other binary alloys45
Influence of oscillatory shear on nucleation in metallic glasses: A molecular dynamics study44
Unsupervised machine learning study on structural signature of glass transition in metallic glass-forming liquids44
Li-doping effects on the native defects and luminescence of Zn44
Shear-band blunting governs superior mechanical properties of shape memory metallic glass composites44
Emergence of Invar effect with excellent mechanical property by electronic structure modulation in LaFe11.6-xCoxSi1.4 magnetocaloric materials44
The role of nitrogen in the oxidation behaviour of a Ti6242S alloy: a nanoscale investigation by atom probe tomography44
The overlooked mechanism of chalcopyrite passivation44
Eutectoid growth of nanoscale amorphous Fe-Si nitride upon nitriding44
Can Y2O3-MgO eutectics be new promising structural and optical ceramics?43
Inhibiting stress corrosion cracking by removing corrosion products from the Mg-Zn-Zr alloy pre-exposed to corrosion solutions43
Construction of self-supported TiO2 nanotube arrays with hybrid point defect engineering: A bifunctional anode for Li+/Na+ storage43
Unveiling relaxation and crystal nucleation interplay in supercooled germanium liquid43
Strategic lattice manipulation in transition metal nitrides for improved solubility43
Segregation competition and complexion coexistence within a polycrystalline grain boundary network43
Microstructure-sensitive crystal plasticity and phase-field modeling of deformation and fracture in polycrystalline ice43
Enhanced mechanical hardness of mixed-phase BiFeO3 films through quenching42
A multi-scale modeling framework for solidification cracking during welding42
Mixed atomic-scale electronic configuration as a strategy to avoid cocatalyst utilization in photocatalysis by high-entropy oxides42
Achieving low thermal conductivity and high quality factor in sextuple-doped TiS242
Room-temperature deformation of single crystals of transition-metal disilicides (TMSi2) with the C11b (TM = Mo) and C40 (TM = V, Cr, Nb and Ta) structures investigated by micropillar compression42
Precipitation kinetics in metallic alloys: Experiments and modeling42
On identifying dynamic length scales in crystal plasticity42
Enhancing resistance to hydrogen embrittlement in high-strength hot-press-forming steel sheets through Al-Si-Zn coating optimization42
Architected materials informatics: Construction and application to cellular-structured heat sink optimization42
Suppressing embrittlement and enhancing thermal resistance of bulk superlattice alloys by controllable grain-boundary segregation42
Structural origin of strongly diffused ferroelectric phase transition in Ba(Ti, Zr)O3-based ceramics42
Deformation-adaptive N,P-doped porous carbon nanofibers as a protective interlayer for stable Li metal anodes42
Densely packed glass structure caused by seven-coordinated Zr in high elastic modulus Al2O3–SiO2–ZrO2 glasses42
A novel approach to coating for improving the comprehensive high-temperature service performance of TiAl alloys42
Functional recycling of grain boundary diffusion processed Nd-Fe-B sintered magnets42
Electric current-induced solid-state crack healing and life extension42
Bubble formation in helium-implanted nanostructured ferritic alloys at elevated temperatures42
Shearing and rotation of β″ and βʹ precipitates in an Al-Mg-Si alloy under tensile deformation: In-situ and ex-situ studies42
Synthesis, microstructure, and mechanical properties of novel high entropy carbonitrides41
Phase and defect evolution in uranium-nitrogen-oxygen system under irradiation41
Electrochemical grand potential-based phase-field simulation of electric field-assisted sintering41
Stationary dislocation motion at stresses significantly below the Peierls stress: Example of shuffle screw and 41
Temperature-dependent cavity swelling in dual-ion irradiated Fe and Fe-Cr ferritic alloys41
Evaluating the grain-scale deformation behavior of a single-phase FCC high entropy alloy using synchrotron high energy diffraction microscopy41
Thermal-solutal-fluid flow of channel segregation during directional solidification of single-crystal nickel-based superalloys41
Reducing hot tearing by grain boundary segregation engineering in additive manufacturing: example of an AlxCoCrFeNi high-entropy alloy41
Deformation twinning during high temperature compression tests of the Ni-base superalloy ATI 718Plus®41
Microstructure and evolution of gradient dislocation cells in multi-principal element alloy subjected to cyclic torsion40
Investigations on the interface-dominated deformation mechanisms of two-dimensional MAX-phase Ti3Al(Cu)C2 nanoflakes reinforced copper matrix composites40
Single-phase duodenary high-entropy fluorite/pyrochlore oxides with an order-disorder transition40
Grain boundary in NbCo(Pt)Sn half-Heusler compounds: Segregation and solute drag on grain boundary migration40
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