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Fig. 12. Microstructures after hot-rolling of the samples: a and c for 3S-LT54 while (b and d for I-Homo treatments;(a and b are OM images, and c and d are
SEM images).
Declaration of Competing Interest
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial
interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence
the work reported in this paper.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support of the
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
under the Grant No. CRDPJ 514651-17 and Rio Tinto Aluminum
through the Research Chair in the Metallurgy of Aluminum Trans­
formation at University of Quebec at Chicoutimi.
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