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Strain Glass and Novel Properties

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Strain glass, a conjugate state to martensite, is emerging as an important concept in our understanding of martensitic materials. It resolves many puzzling phenomena, and potentially provides a mechanism for novel properties that are absent in conventional martensitic alloys. This article reviews the progress of strain glass research from its fundamental characterization to the interesting properties to which it leads. We first give a brief introduction of the origin and evidence of strain glass, showing nano-domains as the microscopic basis for understanding its properties. Then we demonstrate that the strain glass state can exhibit many unexpected properties such as a shape-memory effect, superelasticity with a narrow hysteresis over a wide temperature range, high damping and low modulus over a wide temperature, Invar and Elinvar effects, elastocaloric effects, and low-field-triggered large magnetostriction. Lastly, some remaining challenges and opportunities, as well as some ongoing works about the strain glass are discussed.

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51701150, 51431007, 51621063, and 51831006), Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (IRT_17R85), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2017M610637), and 111 Project 2.0 (BP2018008).

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    Chang Liu, Yuanchao Ji & Xiaobing Ren

  2. Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0047, Japan

    Xiaobing Ren

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Liu, C., Ji, Y. & Ren, X. Strain Glass and Novel Properties. Shap. Mem. Superelasticity 5, 299–312 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40830-019-00252-3

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