Exceptional Resilience of Small-Scale Au30Cu25Zn45 under Cyclic Stress-Induced Phase Transformation

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• 作者：Xiaoyue Ni ; Julia R. Greer ; Kaushik Bhattacharya ; Richard D. James ; Xian Chen
• 刊名：Nano Letters
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 14, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：16
• 期：12
• 页码：7621-7625
• 全文大小：337K
• ISSN：1530-6992

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Shape memory alloys that produce and recover from large deformation driven by martensitic transformation are widely exploited in biomedical devices and microactuators. Generally their actuation work degrades significantly within first a few cycles and is reduced at smaller dimensions. Further, alloys exhibiting unprecedented reversibility have relatively small superelastic strain, 0.7%. These raise the questions of whether high reversibility is necessarily accompanied by small work and strain and whether high work and strain is necessarily diminished at small scale. Here we conclusively demonstrate that these are not true by showing that Au₃₀Cu₂₅Zn₄₅ pillars exhibit 12 MJ m^–3 work and 3.5% superelastic strain even after 100 000 phase transformation cycles. Our findings confirm that the lattice compatibility dominates the mechanical behavior of phase-changing materials at nano to micron scales and points a way for smart microactuators design having the mutual benefits of high actuation work and long lifetime.