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Viscosity and transport in a model fragile metallic glass

This paper uses the term 'microplasticity' in the context of metallic glass physics, describing how thermally activated atomic movements drive deformation in amorphous metals at the microscale. This is a materials physics paper unrelated to environmental microplastic pollution.

2021 Physical Review Materials 13 citations
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Beyond Serrated Flow in Bulk Metallic Glasses: What Comes Next?

This is a materials science article on serrated flow and plastic deformation in bulk metallic glasses, exploring unusual mechanical behavior in these amorphous metals. It is not related to microplastics or environmental science.

2020 Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A 17 citations
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Elasto-plastic behavior of amorphous materials: a brief review

This materials science review discusses how disordered (amorphous) materials like metallic and silicate glasses deform plastically at the atomic scale, focusing on localized shear band formation. The term 'plasticity' here refers to material deformation behavior, not environmental plastic particles.

2021 Comptes Rendus Physique 19 citations
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Stress breaks universal aging behavior in a metallic glass

Researchers discovered that applying mechanical stress to metallic glass — an amorphous, non-crystalline metal — disrupts the material's predictable aging behavior by triggering localized microscale plastic deformation events (called microplastic events) that cause irregular, unpredictable changes in the material's internal structure. This finding challenges a long-standing universal model used to predict how metallic glasses behave under stress over time.

2019 Nature Communications 48 citations
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Atomistic mechanisms of cyclic hardening in metallic glass

This materials science paper investigated atomic-level mechanisms by which metallic glass strengthens under cyclic mechanical loading, using computer simulations to study how structural changes accumulate. This is a condensed matter physics study with no relevance to environmental microplastics.

2012 Applied Physics Letters 65 citations
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Scaling in the Local Strain-Rate Field during Jerky Flow in an Al-3%Mg Alloy

This physics paper investigates microscale deformation patterns and scale invariance in aluminum alloy plasticity. It is a materials science study with no relevance to environmental microplastics or human health.

2020 Metals 19 citations
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Transformation Kinetics, Microplasticity and Aging of Martensite in FE-31 Ni.

This materials science study examines microplastic behavior in iron-nickel martensite alloys, finding that stress-induced phase transformation produces unusually large microplastic strains. The term 'microplasticity' refers to small-scale plastic deformation in metals and is not related to environmental plastic pollution.

1966 122 citations
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Влияние структурного состояния на упругие и микропластические свойства алюминиевого сплава AД1

This Russian-language study examined how different processing methods affecting the crystal grain structure of aluminum alloy AD1 influence its elastic and 'microplastic' deformation properties. 'Microplastic' here refers to microscopic metal deformation — this is a materials engineering study unrelated to plastic particle pollution.

2023 Физика твердого тела
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Rate-Controlling Microplastic Processes during Plastic Flow in FCC Metals: Origin of the Variation of Strain Rate Sensitivity in Aluminum from 78 to 300 K

This materials science study examines the temperature dependence of deformation mechanisms in aluminum, specifically how strain rate sensitivity changes from cryogenic to room temperature — not related to microplastics or environmental health.

2022 Crystals 6 citations
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Metallic glasses: Elastically stiff yet flowing at any stress

Researchers demonstrated that metallic glass, an amorphous solid with high yield stress, lacks a true microscopic elastic limit. Using coherent X-ray scattering, they found that even extremely small stresses accelerate atomic-scale transport within the material. The findings reveal fundamental differences in how amorphous and crystalline solids respond to mechanical stress at the atomic level.

2024 Materials Today 14 citations
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Hot Deformation Behavior and Processing Maps of a New Ti-6Al-2Nb-2Zr-0.4B Titanium Alloy

This materials science study characterized the high-temperature deformation behavior of a new titanium alloy used in aerospace and industrial applications. It has no direct relevance to microplastic or environmental health research.

2021 Materials 14 citations
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Rejuvenation engineering in metallic glasses by complementary stress and structure modulation

Researchers used X-ray diffraction to study how stress and structural rejuvenation affect the mechanical properties of metallic glasses at a microscale. While focused on materials science, understanding plastic deformation in amorphous metals contributes to developing more durable engineered materials.

2023 Research Square (Research Square) 1 citations
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Structural changes in a metallic glass under cyclic indentation

Researchers used computer simulations to study how a metallic glass material — a disordered metal alloy — changes at the atomic level when repeatedly pressed with an indenter, finding that the material initially relaxes structurally but then gradually rebuilds its original structure, explaining the known phenomenon of metals getting harder with repeated deformation cycles.

2023 Applied Physics A
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Role of Grain Boundary Sliding in Texture Evolution for Nanoplasticity

This materials science paper presents a crystal plasticity model for how grain boundary sliding affects texture evolution in nanocrystalline metals under large deformation. It is a technical metallurgy study with no connection to microplastics or environmental health.

2017 Advanced Engineering Materials 25 citations
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A bcc refractory high-entropy alloy: the ideal case of smooth plastic flow

This materials science paper characterizes smooth plastic flow in a body-centered cubic refractory high-entropy alloy, examining dislocation dynamics and deformation mechanisms; it is not directly related to microplastic environmental research.

2025 Materials Research Letters 2 citations
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Analysis of contributions of plastic deformation and intergranular corrosion to corrosion-fatigue failure of Al-Mg alloys

This is not a microplastics research paper; it is a metallurgy study examining how plastic deformation and intergranular corrosion contribute to corrosion-fatigue failure in aluminium-magnesium alloys.

2026 ArXiv.org
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Strain localization in the Alloy 718 Ni-based superalloy: From room temperature to 650 °C

This study investigates how a nickel-based superalloy deforms at different temperatures using high-resolution imaging techniques. The paper is not related to microplastics or human health. It focuses on the mechanical behavior of metal alloys used in engineering applications, examining how strain localizes in the material's internal structure at temperatures up to 650 degrees Celsius.

2024 Acta Materialia 71 citations
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Variety of scaling behaviors in nanocrystalline plasticity

This is a materials science study examining the variety of scaling behaviors observed in nanocrystalline plasticity, exploring how grain size affects deformation mechanisms in metals. It is not related to environmental microplastics.

2020 Physical review. E 21 citations
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Research Progress of Aluminum Alloy Welding/Plastic Deformation Composite Forming Technology in Achieving High-Strength Joints

Not relevant to microplastics — this paper covers aluminum alloy welding and plastic deformation manufacturing techniques, not plastic pollution.

2023 Materials 9 citations
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Correlation versus randomization of jerky flow in an AlMgScZr alloy using acoustic emission

This physics study analyzed the spatiotemporal patterns of jerky plastic deformation in an aluminum alloy, finding complex correlated and random behaviors in dislocation dynamics. It is a materials science paper unrelated to environmental microplastics.

2018 Physical review. E 37 citations
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Nontrivial scaling exponents of dislocation avalanches in microplasticity

This physics study analyzed the statistical patterns of small-scale deformation events (dislocation avalanches) in metals to test theoretical models of material plasticity. The research is in materials physics and is not related to environmental microplastics.

2018 Physical Review Materials 41 citations
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From Micro‐ to Macroplasticity

This materials science perspective discusses the transition from microplastic deformation (below the yield stress) to macroplastic deformation in nanocrystalline metals, noting that the traditional 0.2% yield stress definition does not accurately capture when bulk plastic flow begins. This is a materials physics study on metal deformation behavior with no relevance to environmental microplastics.

2006 Advanced Materials 95 citations