Harnessing mechanical instabilities at the nanoscale to achieve ultra-low stiffness metals
Abstract
Alloy and microstructure optimization have led to impressive improvements in the strength of engineering metals, while the range of Young’s moduli achievable has remained essentially unchanged. This is because stiffness is insensitive to microstructure and bounded by individual components in composites. Here we design ultra-low stiffness in fully dense, nanostructured metals via the stabilization of a mechanically unstable, negative stiffness state of a martensitic alloy by its coherent integration with a compatible, stable second component. Explicit large-scale molecular dynamics simulations of the metamaterials with state of the art potentials confirm the expected ultra-low stiffness while maintaining full strength. We find moduli as low as 2 GPa, a value typical of soft materials and over one order of magnitude lower than either constituent, defying long-standing composite bounds. Furthermore, such properties are attractive for flexible electronics and implantable devices. Our concept is generally applicable and could significantly enhance materials science design space.
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- Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
- Imperial College, London (United Kingdom)
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- Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
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- 1499683
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-07ER46399
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- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nature Communications
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 8; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
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- Nature Publishing Group
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- United States
- Language:
- English
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- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
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Reeve, Samuel Temple, Belessiotis-Richards, Alexis, and Strachan, Alejandro. Harnessing mechanical instabilities at the nanoscale to achieve ultra-low stiffness metals. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01260-6.
Reeve, Samuel Temple, Belessiotis-Richards, Alexis, & Strachan, Alejandro. Harnessing mechanical instabilities at the nanoscale to achieve ultra-low stiffness metals. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01260-6
Reeve, Samuel Temple, Belessiotis-Richards, Alexis, and Strachan, Alejandro. Thu .
"Harnessing mechanical instabilities at the nanoscale to achieve ultra-low stiffness metals". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01260-6. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1499683.
@article{osti_1499683,
title = {Harnessing mechanical instabilities at the nanoscale to achieve ultra-low stiffness metals},
author = {Reeve, Samuel Temple and Belessiotis-Richards, Alexis and Strachan, Alejandro},
abstractNote = {Alloy and microstructure optimization have led to impressive improvements in the strength of engineering metals, while the range of Young’s moduli achievable has remained essentially unchanged. This is because stiffness is insensitive to microstructure and bounded by individual components in composites. Here we design ultra-low stiffness in fully dense, nanostructured metals via the stabilization of a mechanically unstable, negative stiffness state of a martensitic alloy by its coherent integration with a compatible, stable second component. Explicit large-scale molecular dynamics simulations of the metamaterials with state of the art potentials confirm the expected ultra-low stiffness while maintaining full strength. We find moduli as low as 2 GPa, a value typical of soft materials and over one order of magnitude lower than either constituent, defying long-standing composite bounds. Furthermore, such properties are attractive for flexible electronics and implantable devices. Our concept is generally applicable and could significantly enhance materials science design space.},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-017-01260-6},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 8,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Oct 26 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Thu Oct 26 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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Fig. 1 : Free energy landscape engineering in NiAl. Free energy as a function of in-plane lattice parameter from MD simulations of bulk Ni63Al37 and NiAl, interpolated with rule of mixtures. The combination of 65 at% Ni63Al37 (thick red) and 35 at% NiAl (thick blue) is highlighted in black tomore »
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