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Twin Boundaries

Twin Boundaries is a type of planar defect in crystalline materials wherein two adjacent crystal regions exhibit mirror-symmetric atomic arrangements across a shared interface, distinguished from other grain boundaries by their specific crystallographic orientation relationship and low interfacial energy.

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Ultrahigh Strength and High Electrical Conductivity in Copper

Lei Lu, Y.F. Shen, Xianhua Chen et al. · Science · 2004 · 3.3K citations

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Large magnetic-field-induced strains in Ni2MnGa single crystals

K. Ullakko, Junjie Huang, C. Kantner et al. · Applied Physics Letters · 1996 · 2.6K citations

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Strengthening Materials by Engineering Coherent Internal Boundaries at the Nanoscale

K. Lu, Lei Lu, S. Suresh · Science · 2009 · 2.5K citations

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Revealing the Maximum Strength in Nanotwinned Copper

Lei Lu, Xiaofu Chen, Xiaoxu Huang et al. · Science · 2009 · 2.1K citations

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6% magnetic-field-induced strain by twin-boundary motion in ferromagnetic Ni–Mn–Ga

S. J. Murray, Miguel A. Marioni, Samuel M. Allen et al. · Applied Physics Letters · 2000 · 1.1K citations

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  1. EK
    Ekhard K. H. Salje

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    34 publications · 2.1K citations

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  2. JW
    Jian Wang

    University of Nebraska–Lincoln, United States

    20 publications · 2.3K citations

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    X. Zhang

    Purdue University West Lafayette, United States

    19 publications · 2.5K citations

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    Xiangdong Ding

    Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

    14 publications · 442 citations

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  5. OH
    Oleg Heczko

    FZU ‒ Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czechia

    12 publications · 1K citations

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  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    39 h-index

    269 publications

    45.8K citations

  2. Los Alamos National Laboratory

    Los Alamos, United States

    38 h-index

    143 publications

    16.7K citations

  3. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    28 h-index

    88 publications

    4.3K citations

  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    25 h-index

    82 publications

    28.4K citations

  5. Chongqing University

    Chongqing, China

    24 h-index

    134 publications

    6.8K citations

  6. Zhejiang University

    Hangzhou, China

    23 h-index

    101 publications

    8.3K citations

  7. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    23 h-index

    130 publications

    4.7K citations

  8. Xi'an Jiaotong University

    Xi'an, China

    22 h-index

    103 publications

    4.9K citations

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  1. Acta Materialia

    62 publications · 5.3K citations

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  2. Applied Physics Letters

    87 publications · 9K citations

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  3. Journal of Applied Physics

    89 publications · 4.3K citations

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  4. Nature Communications

    35 publications · 4.4K citations

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  5. Scripta Materialia

    48 publications · 3.6K citations

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