New research is helping scientists better understand how microstructures change, or undergo "grain growth," at high temperatures. A team of materials scientists and applied mathematicians developed a ...

(Nanowerk News) The orientations of these infinitesimally small separations between individual “grains” of a polycrystalline material have big effects. In a material such as aluminum, these ...

Boron at trace concentrations exerts a profound influence on the phase transformations, grain-boundary chemistry and mechanical performance of steels. When added in minute quantities, boron atoms ...