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Graphene-containing flowable electrodes for capacitive energy storage
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Nanocrystals of lanthanide oxybromides (LnOBrs) with low-phonon energy and high chemical stability are of particular interest for lighting and bioimaging applications. Here, for the first time, we...
View ArticleGlass formation and crystallisation in rapidly solidified zirconium alloys
Zirconium-based alloys offer an unique opportunity for studying various aspects of metallic glass, namely glass forming ability, crystallisation modes and kinetics, diffusion mechanisms and formation...
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A new era for liquid crystal research Applications of liquid crystals in soft...
Fig. 1. Cartoon of a nematic phase built from rod-shaped building blocks, drawn with a vertical director n.Log in to your free Materials Today account to download the full article. Liquid crystals...
View ArticleOn spinodal decomposition
Log in to your free Materials Today account to download the full article. The stability of a solid solution to all infinitesimal composition fluctuations is considered, taking surface tension and...
View ArticleTheory of crystal growth and interface motion in crystalline materials
Log in to your free Materials Today account to download the full article. The theory of crystal growth for diffuse and for non-singular surfaces is re-examined. It is found that if a critical driving...
View ArticleOverview no. 41: The interactions of composition and stress in crystalline...
Log in to your free Materials Today account to download the full article. The thermodynamics of stressed crystals that can change phase and composition is examined with particular attention to...
View ArticleInfluence of trap connectivity on H diffusion: Vacancy trapping
A model is given for the effective diffusion of interstitial solutes in the presence of traps. It goes beyond Oriani's by taking into account, in a simple way, the connectivity between interstitial...
View ArticleDislocation/hydrogen interaction mechanisms in hydrided nanocrystalline...
The nanoscale plasticity mechanisms activated during hydriding cycles in sputtered nanocrystalline Pd films have been investigated ex-situ using advanced transmission electron microscopy techniques....
View ArticleEffects of multiple hydrogen absorption/desorption cycles on the mechanical...
Changes to the strength, hardness and ductility of a series of well-annealed palladium–silver alloys have been investigated as a function of the number of isothermal hydrogen absorption/desorption...
View ArticleHydrogen diffusion in ultrafine-grained palladium: Roles of dislocations and...
Diffusion behavior of hydrogen in ultrafine-grained palladium (Pd) is investigated by electrochemical permeation tests. The ultrafine-grained structure is produced by severe plastic deformation through...
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Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer Across Nanometer Vacuum Gaps
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View ArticleA ‘tile’ tale: Hierarchical self-assembly of DNA lattices
Log in to your free Materials Today account to download the full article. DNA has been used as a material for the construction of complex nanostructures. Branched DNA molecules can be glued together by...
View ArticleFullerite-based nanocomposites with ultrahigh stiffness. Theoretical...
Sign up or log in to your free Materials Today account to download the full article. We present our results of design of a new model of fullerite-based material with ultrahigh mechanical stiffness...
View ArticleAnalytical algorithm for Equivalent Crystal Theory
Sign up or log in to your free Materials Today account to download the full article. Equivalent crystal theory (ECT) is a semi-empirical technique used for the calculation of defect energetics in...
View ArticleWebinar Q&A: MXenes: a new family of two-dimensional materials
Watch the following webinar, now available on-demand: Engineered hydrogels for regenerative medicine applications 24 November 2014 | 4.00pm GMT, 5.00pm CET, 11.00am EST | Ali Khademhosseini With an...
View ArticleWebinar Q&A: Past, present and future - the evolution of x-ray analysis
With over 1000 registrants and 2500 viewings, our webinar with Edax on the Past, present and future - the evolution of x-ray analysis was another highly popular event. Due to its popularity, we are...
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Hydrogen yields from water on the surface of plutonium dioxide
The long term storage of separated plutonium dioxide (PuO2) in sealed canisters requires an understanding of the processes occurring within the cans. This includes potential mechanisms that lead to can...
View ArticleEvaluation of aluminosilicate glass sintering during differential scanning...
The aim of this work is to investigate a difference in heat flow observed in the differential scanning calorimetry curves when aluminosilicate glasses are analyzed. Glasses with nominal composition...
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Materials in 2020
Download the full 32 page featureBY ANY MEASURE, 2020 has been a funny old year. But amid all the disruption and difficulties caused by the covid-19 pandemic, materials science has kept on going –...
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