title: RETRACTED: Mechanical properties and phase transition of biomedical titanium alloy strips with initial quasi-single phase state under high-energy electropulses.
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authors.affiliation: Advanced Materials Institute, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, PR China; Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials of Ministry of Education, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China. Electronic address: xiaoxinye905@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Xiaoxin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.affiliation: College of Engineering, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
authors.forename: Zion T H
authors.initials: ZT
authors.lastname: Tse
authors.affiliation: Advanced Materials Institute, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, PR China; Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials of Ministry of Education, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, PR China. Electronic address: tanggy@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Guoyi
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.affiliation: Advanced Materials Institute, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, PR China.
authors.forename: Guolin
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Song
mesh_terms: D000497:Alloys / Q000737:chemistry*; D001672:Biocompatible Materials / Q000737:chemistry*; D004560:Electricity; D008422:Materials Testing; D055595:Mechanical Phenomena; D044367:Phase Transition; D013314:Stress, Mechanical; D013696:Temperature; D014025:Titanium / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D000497:Alloys; D001672:Biocompatible Materials; C031462:titanium alloy (TiAl6V4); D014025:Titanium
keywords: Biomedical application; Electropulses; Mechanical properties; Phase transformation; Two-phase titanium alloy