Surface Roughening News Today

In an article published in the Chemistry of Materials, researchers proposed a novel technique for expanding the application of the ion beam approaches for fabricating and processing nanostructures and functional materials.

With the increasing demand for light weight design in industries such as aerospace and automotive, sheet metallic materials with high strength and low density have been intensively manufactured and widely applied. However, plastic deformation induced surface roughening is an undesirable and a practically unavoidable phenomenon for sheet metallic materials and becomes the subject of great attention in recent years. The evolution of surface roughening plays important roles in the strain limit of t...