Ultrafast shape change and joining of small-volume materials using nanoscale electrical discharge

1 Center for Advancing Materials Performance from the Nanoscale (CAMP-Nano) & Hysitron Applied Research Center in China (HARCC), State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China 2 State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China 3 Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA 4 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA 5 SJS Limited, 101 Xihuan Road, Jingzhou, Hubei 434024, China