Atomic mechanism for historic materials transformation
Friday, May 2, 2014 - 07:31
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) —SLAC-led researchers have made the first direct measurements of a small and extremely rapid atomic rearrangement, associated with a class called martensitic transformations, that dramatically changes the properties of many important materials, such as doubling the hardness of steel and causing shape-memory alloys to revert to a previous shape.