journal article·2025-07

Extraordinary hardening-by-annealing in bulk ultrafine grained magnesium with ultra-low yttrium addition

Ruixiao Zheng, Maowen Liu, Junping Du, Hongbo Xie, Wu Gong, Yangyang Cheng, Shigenobu Ogata, Nobuhiro Tsuji

Acta Materialia· Volume 293
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