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Twinning-mediated plasticity has great potential for enhancing the strength and plasticity of Mg alloys, which is limited due to the lack of twin types. Here, we report a novel multistage twinning mode, i.e. the dominant twinning mode changes from single [Formula: see text] twins to the co-existence of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] twins, in a deformed Mg-Al-Gd alloy. Introducing novel multistage twinning mode to accommodate strains appreciably along c-axes, combined with the interactions of high-density dislocations and dense twin boundaries, guarantees the high strain hardening of Mg alloys. These findings provide new insights into deformation mechanisms and mechanical properties of Mg-alloys.

Tailoring recrystallization via particle-stimulated nucleation (PSN) and pinning effects from secondary phase particles effectively weakens textures, which is still challenging for low-alloyed rare earth-free Mg alloys. Herein, the texture of a dilute cold-rolled Mg-2.2Al-0.33Ca (wt.%) alloy is found to reduce with the appearance of transverse direction (TD) texture components during static recrystallization. The texture transition is mainly attributed to the preferential growth of TD-oriented recrystallized grains, resulting from the preferential segregation of Al and Ca atoms on basal-oriented grain boundaries with low misorientation angles. The findings provide an in-depth understanding of texture modification in Mg alloys.