journal article·2025-12

Stabilizing nanocrystals via interface co-segregation and clustering

Y.J. Wang, Y. Yuan, W.H. Ji, Y. Wu, H. Wang, X.J. Liu, S.H. Jiang, X.B. Zhang, H.H. Wu, Y.J. Zhang, X.Y. Yuan, H.H. Zhu, T.G. Langdon, Y. Huang, L. Gu, Q.H. Zhang, X.D. Xu, B. Gault, D. Raabe, Z.P. Lu

Acta Materialia· Volume 301
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