aisi 304l austenitic stainless steel with different grain sizes of 0.5 -12 μm was obtained through the martensiticprocess. corrosion behavior of different samples was investigated in a 0.5m hcl solution using open circuitpotential, potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy tests. also, the correlationbetween the grain size and pitting corrosion resistance was asses...

Size-affected dislocation-mediated plasticity is important in a wide range of materials and technologies. Here we develop a generalized size-dependent dislocation-based model that predicts strength as a function of crystal/grain size and the dislocation density. Three-dimensional (3D) discrete dislocation dynamics (DDD) simulations reveal the existence of a well-defined relationship between str...

The phase stability of nanocrystallites with metastable crystal structures under ambient conditions is usually attributed to their small grain size. It remains a challenging problem to maintain such phase integrity of these nanomaterials when their crystallite sizes become larger. Here we report an experimental-modelling approach to study the roles of nitrogen dopants in the formation and stabi...

The plastic deformation behavior was investigated by using nanoindentation in a magneto-sputtered nanocrystalline (nc) Cu film with an average grain size of 14 nm. The determined critical shear stress to initiate plasticity in the nc-Cu sample (about 8.3 GPa) is identical to that for nucleation of lattice dislocations in an annealed coarse-grained Cu (8.5 GPa), and both values are close to the ...

The effect of nanoparticle structure on gas sensing performance is investigated. Size-selected nanostructured SnO2 agglomerate particles for gas sensors were made by scalable flame spray pyrolysis. These particles were polydisperse up to 12 m in diameter and consisted of primary particles of 10 nm in grain and crystal size as measured by transmission electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction, and ...