The present invention relates to a nanocrystalline metallic material,
particularly to nano-twin copper material with ultrahigh strength and
high electrical conductivity and its preparation method. High-purity
polycrystalline Cu material with a microstructure of roughly equiaxed
submicron-sized grains (300-1000 nm) has been produced by pulsed
electrodeposition technique, by which high density of growth-in twins
with nano-scale twin spacing were induced in the grains. Inside each
grain, there are high densities of growth-in twin lamellae. The twin
lamellae with the same orientations are inter-parallel, and the twin
spacing ranges from several nanometers to 100 nm with a length of 100-500
nm. This Cu material invented has more excellent performance than
existing ones. The tensile yield strength and ultimate strength of the
present Cu material at room-temperature can be as high as 900 MPa and
1086 MPa, respectively, and such a high tensile strength can not be
achieved for the Cu materials with the same chemical composition prepared
by any traditional methods. Meanwhile, the present Cu sample also keeps a
good electrical conductivity, for example, the room-temperature
resistivity is (1.75.+-.0.02).times.10.sup.-8 .OMEGA.m, corresponding to
96% IACS, which is close to that of the conventional coarse-grained Cu.