Discovery of electrochemically induced grain boundary transitions

Electric fields and currents can alter microstructures of materials in unexpected ways. Here the authors report how electrochemical reduction can cause a grain boundary disorder-to-order transition and show the electric field effects on microstructural stability and evolution.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jiuyuan Nie, Chongze Hu, Qizhang Yan, Jian Luo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22669-0