2026

      • ShengXiong Tang, Soya Nishimoto, Koji Hagihara, Michiaki Yamasaki
        High Fracture Toughness Mg-Y-Al Alloys with Bimodal Microstructure Incorporating LPSO Nanoplate Precipitation
        MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS 67 (5) (2026) 723-733
        https://doi.org/10.2320/matertrans.MT-L2025017
      • Kosho Horiguchi, Soya Nishimoto, Stefanus Harjo, Wu Gong, Koji Hagihara, Toko Tokunaga, Michiaki Yamasaki
        In Situ Neutron Diffraction Study of the Microstructure and Deformation Behavior in Mg97Y2Zn1 Alloys with Multimodal Microstructure
        TMS 2026 155th Annual Meeting & Exhibition Supplemental Proceedings (2026) 1380-1388
        https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-13828-6_116
      • Koji Hagihara, Mika Sugita, Michiaki Yamasaki, Toko Tokunaga, Tsuyoshi Mayama, Soya Nishimoto
        Unique orientation dependence of mechanical properties of Mg/LPSO extruded alloys
        Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 1061 (2026) 187197
        https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2026.187197
    • Han Chen, Kakeru Kubota, Daisuke Egusa, Yuto Ito, Michiaki Yamasaki, Eiji Abe
      Improved strength-ductility with bimodal microstructure composed of kink-strengthening grains in a layer-structured Mg-Al-Y alloy
      Scripta Materialia, 276 (2026) 117198
      https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2026.117198
    • Koji Hagihara, Toko Tokunaga, Michiaki Yamasaki, Mika Sugita
      Anisotropic Mechanical Property-Induced Ductilization (AMID) – A New Mechanism to Simultaneously Improve the Strength and Ductility of Multiphase Alloys
      Materials Science Forum, 1175 (2026) 13-18
      https://doi.org/10.4028/p-b0cjRZ
    • ShengXiong Tang, Nayu Yoshida, Tsuyoshi Mayama, Koji Hagihara, Soya NishimotoMichiaki Yamasaki
      Simultaneous improvement of strength and ductility in bimodally grained Mg-Y-Al alloys via anisotropic mechanical property-induced ductilization mechanism assisted by LPSO nanoplate precipitation
      Journal of Alloys and Compounds, (2026) 186188
      https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2026.186188
    The author with red underline is a faculty of the Magnesium Research Center at Kumamoto University.