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An extremely high yield stress of approximately 430 MPa was obtained in a single crystal of an Mg-Li-Zn alloy with a body-centered cubic (bcc) structure, accompanied by the inhomogeneous distribution of Zn in bcc-matrix phase. This significantly exceeds the yield stress of approximately 50 MPa for binary Mg-Li single crystals. This significant strengthening was similar to that measured in the Al-added alloy, but a stronger orientation dependence of the yield stress was observed in the Zn-added alloy. However, this extremely high strength gradually decreased when the alloy was left at room temperature. This suggests that the microstructure formed by spinodal decomposition has low thermal stability.
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