The DOI matches its Crossref record.
A high-specific-strength and corrosion-resistant magnesium alloy
Open accessAbstract
Ultra-lightweight alloys with high strength, ductility and corrosion resistance are desirable for applications in the automotive, aerospace, defence, biomedical, sporting and electronic goods sectors. Ductility and corrosion resistance are generally inversely correlated with strength, making it difficult to optimize all three simultaneously. Here we design an ultralow density (1.4 g cm(-3)) Mg-Li-based alloy that is strong, ductile, and more corrosion resistant than Mg-based alloys reported so far. The alloy is Li-rich and a solute nanostructure within a body-centred cubic matrix is achieved by a series of extrusion, heat-treatment and rolling processes. Corrosion resistance from the environment is believed to occur by a uniform lithium carbonate film in which surface coverage is much greater than in traditional hexagonal close-packed Mg-based alloys, explaining the superior corrosion resistance of the alloy.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cited by
Fundamentals and advances in magnesium alloy corrosion
Esmaily, M., Svensson, J. E., Fajardo, S., Birbilis, N., Frankel, G. S., Virtanen, S., Arrabal, R., Thomas, S., & Johansson, L. G. (2017) · Progress in Materials Science · doi:10.1016/j.pmatsci.2017.04.011 · Cited by 2,073
Self-citationWhat is going on in magnesium alloys?
Wang, X. J., Xu, D. K., Wu, R. Z., Chen, X. B., Peng, Q. M., Jin, L., Xin, Y. C., Zhang, Z. Q., Liu, Y., Chen, X. H., et al. (2018) · Journal of Materials Science & Technology · doi:10.1016/j.jmst.2017.07.019 · Cited by 621
Advances in functionalized polymer coatings on biodegradable magnesium alloys–A review
Li, L.-Y., Cui, L.-Y., Zeng, R.-C., Li, S.-Q., Chen, X.-B., Zheng, Y., & Kannan, M. B. (2018) · Acta Biomaterialia · doi:10.1016/j.actbio.2018.08.030 · Cited by 466
Li, X., Liu, X., Wu, S., Yeung, K. W. K., Zheng, Y., & Chu, P. K. (2016) · Acta Biomaterialia · doi:10.1016/j.actbio.2016.09.005 · Cited by 428
Probing the phase transformation and dislocation evolution in dual-phase high-entropy alloys
Fang, Q., Chen, Y., Li, J., Jiang, C., Liu, B., Liu, Y., & Liaw, P. K. (2019) · International Journal of Plasticity · doi:10.1016/j.ijplas.2018.10.014 · Cited by 334
Metadata
- Authors
- Xu, W., Birbilis, N., Sha, G., Wang, Y., Daniels, J. E., Xiao, Y., & Ferry, M.
- Venue
- Nature Materials
- Published
- 2015-10-19
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 1229-1235
- ISSN
- 1476-1122 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4660
- OpenAlex
- W1811420382
- Cited by
- 778
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 14.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: A high-specific-strength and corrosion-resistant magnesium alloy. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1038/nmat4435
- The paper
- Xu, W., Birbilis, N., Sha, G., Wang, Y., Daniels, J. E., Xiao, Y., & Ferry, M. (2015). A high-specific-strength and corrosion-resistant magnesium alloy. Nature Materials. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4435
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
