Prof. Tianyu Ma of FIST has made an achievement on the atomic scale understanding the periodic modulation in ferroelastic alloy Ni-Mn-Ti and published an academic paper in Acta Materialia, a high-profile journal of metallic materials.

Profound differences in tetragonality of building blocks for 6O and 4O martensites

Their work has been supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. XJTU Scientific Research Fund and XJTU Analysis and Testing Center.The first unit of the paper is FIST.

The full text of the paper can be viewed at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2023.118768.

More information about Prof. Tianyu Ma’s group can be viewed at http://gr.xjtu.edu.cn/web/matianyu/home.