Ultrastrong low-carbon nanosteel produced by heterostructure and interstitial mediated warm rolling
Open Access
- 1 September 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science Advances
- Vol. 6 (39), eaba8169
- https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba8169
Abstract
Ultrastrong materials can notably help with improving the energy efficiency of transportation vehicles by reducing their weight. Grain refinement by severe plastic deformation is, so far, the most effective approach to produce bulk strong nanostructured metals, but its scaling up for industrial production has been a challenge. Here, we report an ultrastrong (2.15 GPa) low-carbon nanosteel processed by heterostructure and interstitial mediated warm rolling. The nanosteel consists of thin (similar to 17.8 nm) lamellae, which was enabled by two unreported mechanisms: (i) improving deformation compatibility of dual-phase heterostructure by adjusting warm rolling temperature and (ii) segregating carbon atoms to lamellar boundaries to stabilize the nanolamellae. Defying our intuition, warm rolling produced finer lamellae than cold rolling, which demonstrates the potential and importance of tuning deformation compatibility of interstitial containing heterostructure for nanocrystallization. This previously unreported approach is applicable to most low-carbon, low-alloy steels for producing ultrahigh strength materials in industrial scale.Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (51601094)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (51601003)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1710124)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (11672195)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (11972350)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB22040503)
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (2017YFA0204403)
- NSFC Basic Science Center Program for "Multiscale Problems in Nonlinear Mechanics" (11988102)
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (30917011106)
- National Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20180492)
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