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Dr. Kelvin Xie's research focuses on understanding and designing materials at nano- and atomic-scales using

advanced microstructural characterizations (e.g. TEM and atom probe tomography).

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0307 Theoretical And Computational Chemistry

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In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy

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0307 Theoretical And Computational Chemistry

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University of Sydney - (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)

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University of Sydney - (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)

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University of Sydney - (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)

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Anomalous work hardening behavior of Fe40Mn40Cr10Co10 high entropy alloy single crystals deformed by twinning and slip

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Grain-subdivision-dominated microstructure evolution in shear bands at high rates

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Improving orientation mapping by enhancing the diffraction signal using Auto-CLAHE in precession electron diffraction data

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High Strength and Retained Ductility Achieved in a Nitrided Strip Cast Nb-Microalloyed Steel

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Breaking the icosahedra in boron carbide.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Substrate effects in hysteresis of microscale Ni-Mn-Sn Heusler alloy films

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Twinning pathways enabled by precipitates in AZ91

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Bioactive mesopore-glass microspheres with controllable protein-delivery properties by biomimetic surface modification.

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Significant disparity of non-basal dislocation activities in hot-rolled highly-textured Mg and Mg-3Al-1Zn alloy under tension

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Addressing amorphization and transgranular fracture of B4C through Si doping and TiB2 microparticle reinforcing

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Substrate Effects in Hysteresis of Microscale Ni-Mn-Sn Heusler Alloy Films

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Resolving the morphology of niobium carbonitride nano-precipitates in steel using atom probe tomography.

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Deformation behavior of Mg single crystals compressed along c-axis

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The effect of pre-existing defects on the strength and deformation behavior of -Fe nanopillars

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The effect of boron and aluminum additions on the microstructure of arc-melted boron carbide

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Formation of metastable wurtzite phase boron nitride by emulsion detonation synthesis

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Structure and substructure characterization of solution-treated Ni50.3Ti29.7Hf20 high-temperature shape memory alloy

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Effect of crystallite geometries on electrochemical performance of porous intercalation electrodes by multiscale operando investigation.

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Outgassing of implanted He via short circuit transport along phase and grain boundaries in vapor co-deposited Cu-W nanocomposites

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Effects of microstructure and composition on constitutive response of high temperature shape memory alloys: Micromechanical modeling using 3-D reconstructions with experimental validation

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Strategic texturation of VO 2 thin films for tuning mechanical, structural, and electronic couplings during metal-insulator transitions

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Property and microstructure of Ni50.3Ti29.7Hf20 high-temperature shape memory alloys with different aging conditions

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Activation and suppression of c plus a dislocations in a textured Mg-3Al-1Zn alloy

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The effect of niobium additions on ferrite formation in CASTRIP steel

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Interface stability of laser powder-bed-fused AlSi12 under simulated atmospheric conditions

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Microstructural Characterization of a Commercial Hot-Pressed Boron Carbide Armor Plate

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Spatial decomposition of molecular ions within 3D atom probe reconstructions.

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Tensile deformation and failure of tungsten single crystals

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Nanotwinned metal MEMS films with unprecedented strength and stability.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Shrinkage, microstructure, and mechanical properties of sintered 3D-printed silica via stereolithography

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Lattice misorientation evolution and grain refinement in Al-Si alloys under high-strain shear deformation

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Enhanced grain refinement of an Al-Mg-Si alloy by high-pressure torsion processing at 100 C

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New insights on the corrosion mechanism of a peak -aged Mg-9Al-1Zn alloy in a chloride environment

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Twin boundary migration mechanisms in quasi-statically compressed and plate-impacted Mg single crystals.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Fabrication of dense B4C-preceramic polymer derived SiC composite

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A reference-area-free strain mapping method using precession electron diffraction data

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In vitro studies of cells grown on the superconductor PrO(x)FeAs.

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Damage evolution of hot-pressed boron carbide under confined dynamic compression

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Precipitation of AlN in a commercial hot-pressed boron carbide

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Effect of Twin Schmid Factor on the Tension Twinning Activities in a Highly Textured Mg-3Al-1Zn

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Deformation mechanisms in an additively manufactured dual-phase eutectic high-entropy alloy

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On the exceptionally high ductility of Mg-2Zn-0.3Ca-0.2Ce-0.1Mn alloy

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Tailoring the mechanical properties of sputter deposited nanotwinned nickel-molybdenum-tungsten films

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Decoupling the metal-insulator transition temperature and hysteresis of VO2 using Ge alloying and oxygen vacancies.

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Molten salt synthesis of highly ordered and nanostructured hexagonal boron nitride

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Effect of Nb Microalloying and Hot Rolling on Microstructure and Properties of Ultrathin Cast Strip Steels Produced by the CASTRIPA Process

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An Overview of the Effect of Nb in Strengthening Castrip Steel

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Small amount TiB2 addition into B4C through sputter deposition and hot pressing

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Crystallographic variant mapping using precession electron diffraction data

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Overcoming challenges in the study of nitrided microalloyed steels using atom probe.

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Persistence of crystal orientations across sub-micron-scale "super-grains" in self-organized Cu-W nanocomposites

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Exploring the origins of the indentation size effect at submicron scales.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Formation of printing defects and their effects on mechanical properties of additively manufactured metal alloys

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Damage relief of ion-irradiated Inconel alloy 718 via annealing

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A facile method to in situ formation of hydroxyapatite single crystal architecture for enhanced osteoblast adhesion

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The Effect of Microstructure Morphology on Indentation Response of Ta/Ti Nanocomposite Thin Films

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Experimental observations of amorphization in multiple generations of boron carbide

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Microstructural characterization of boron-rich boron carbide

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Locating Si atoms in Si-doped boron carbide: A route to understand amorphization mitigation mechanism

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Enhancing Mechanical Properties of Molybdenum with Equal Channel Angular Extrusion Processing

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A reference-area-free strain mapping method using precession electron diffraction data.

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Experimental observations of the mechanisms associated with the high hardening and low strain to failure of magnesium

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Evolution of dislocation substructures in metals via high-strain-rate nanoindentation.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Quantitative multi-image analysis in metals research.

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Tuning the deformation mechanisms of boron carbide via silicon doping.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Nitriding of a Nb-microalloyed Thin Strip Cast Steel at 525C

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Formation of Magnesium Dendrites during Electrodeposition

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Pyramidal I slip in c-axis compressed Mg single crystals

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The effect of clustering on the mobility of dislocations during aging in Nb-microalloyed strip cast steels: In situ heating TEM observations

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Applications of analytical electron microscopy to guide the design of boron carbide

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Comparative study of helium bubbles in a Ti-Ta alloy and a Ti/Ta nanocomposite

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Effect of temperature on the transition in deformation modes in Mg single crystals

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Microstructural and mechanical property characterization of Argillaceous, Kerogen-rich, and Bituminous shale rocks

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Strong yet ductile nanolamellar high-entropy alloys by additive manufacturing.

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Nanocrystalline -Ti alloy with high hardness, low Young's modulus and excellent in vitro biocompatibility for biomedical applications.

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Investigation of twin growth mechanisms in precipitate hardened AZ91

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Strengthening from Nb-rich clusters in a Nb-microalloyed steel

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Mapping mechanisms and growth regimes of magnesium electrodeposition at high current densities

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New Ground-State Crystal Structure of Elemental Boron.

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Microstructural evolution of pure magnesium under high strain rate loading

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Insight into the deformation mechanisms of -Fe at the nanoscale

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Large areal capacity and dendrite-free anodes with long lifetime enabled by distributed lithium plating with mossy manganese oxides

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High Moisture Barrier with Synergistic Combination of SiOx and Polyelectrolyte Nanolayers

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Non-dissociated dislocations in an AZ31 alloy revealed by transmission electron microscopy

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Cluster strengthening of Nb-microalloyed ultra-thin cast strip steels produced by the CASTRIP process

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The effect of Si on the microstructure and mechanical properties of spark plasma sintered boron carbide

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Effect of local twin Schmid factor on the tension twinning activities in a highly textured Mg-3Al-1Zn alloy under different strain paths

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Densification and characterization of rapid carbothermal synthesized boron carbide

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Activating dislocation me diate d plasticity in boron carbide through Al-doping

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In situ TEM observations and molecular dynamics simulations of deformation defect activities in Mg via nanoindentation

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Effects of dynamic recrystallization and strain-induced dynamic precipitation on the corrosion behavior of partially recrystallized Mg-9Al-1Zn alloys

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The mechanical behaviour of TiN and multi-layered coating of TiN/Ti on Ti6Al4V substrate during nano-indentation

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Observations of explosion phase boron nitride formed by emulsion detonation synthesis

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On the Improved Ductility of Mg-2Zn-0.3ca-0.2Ce-0.1Mn Alloy

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In vitro study of the effect of cyclic strains on the dermal fibroblast (GM3384) morphology--mapping of cell responses to strain field.

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Effect of synthesis conditions of BCNO on the formation and structural ordering of boron nitride at high temperatures

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Understanding the interaction of extension twinning and basal-plate precipitates in Mg-9Al using precession electron diffraction

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Atomic-Level Understanding of "Asymmetric Twins" in Boron Carbide.

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Effect of Alumina on the Structure and Mechanical Properties of Spark Plasma Sintered Boron Carbide

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Understanding of Lithium Insertion into 3D Porous Carbon Scaffolds with Hybridized Lithiophobic and Lithiophilic Surfaces by In-Operando Study.

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A novel route to superhard nanocrystalline cubic boron nitride: Emulsion detonation and high-pressure high-temperature transformation-assisted consolidation

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Investigating the compressive strength and strain localization of nanotwinned nickel alloys

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Understanding the interplay of precipitates and dislocations on the reversible martensitic transformation in cyclically actuated NiTiHf shape memory alloys

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Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Improving radiation response of solid-state interfaces via control of curvature

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United States Department of Energy - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Materials and Manufacturing Processes for the Army of the Future

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United States Army - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)