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Materials in 2020

Jon Evans looks back over materials science in 2020.

16 December 2020Jon Evans

Cellulose promises a low-carbon future for composites

Materials scientist, Steve Eichhorn believes cellulose could hold the key to a sustainable, low-carbon future

18 December 2018

Vapor sensing using a bio-inspired porous silicon photonic crystal

1 August 2018Jonathan Rasson, Olivier Poncelet, Sébastien R. Mouchet, Olivier Deparis, Laurent A. Francis

Parametric ergodicity to measure roughness from a single sample

26 July 2018Fredy Zypman

Solution Combustion Synthesis of ZrO2:Tb3+ Nanophosphors Viable for WLEDs

5 July 2018S. Ponkumar, K. Janaki, D. Prakashbabu, H.B. Ramalingam, K. Munirathnam, R. Hari Krishna

Structural hierarchy and surface morphology of highly drawn ultra high molecular weight polyethylene fibers studied by atomic force microscopy and wide angle X-ray diffraction

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28 July 2017Preston B. McDaniel, Joseph M. Deitzel, John W. Gillespie Jr.

Curing dependent spatial heterogeneity of mechanical response in epoxy resins revealed by atomic force microscopy

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7 July 2017Amir Bahrami, Xavier Morelle, Lê Duy Hông Minh, Thomas Pardoen, Christian Bailly, Bernard Nysten

A tunable delivery platform to provide local chemotherapy for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

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3 July 2017Laura Indolfi, Matteo Ligorio, David T. Ting, Kristina Xega, Abraham R. Tzafriri, Francesca Bersani, Nicola Aceto, Vishal Thapar, Bryan C. Fuchs, Vikram Deshpande, Aaron B. Baker, Cristina R. Ferrone, Daniel A. Haber, Robert Langer, Jeffrey W. Clark, Elazer R. Edelman

Metallurgy of high-silicon steel parts produced using Selective Laser Melting

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29 November 2016Michele Garibaldi, Ian Ashcroft, Marco Simonelli, Richard Hague

One-pot synthesis of graphene-molybdenum oxide hybrids and their application to supercapacitor electrodes

2 September 2016Rossella Giardi, Samuele Porro, Teya Topuria, Leslie Thompson, Candido Fabrizio Pirri, Ho Cheol Kim

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17 June 2016

Multi-scale and spatially resolved hydrogen mapping in a Ni–Nb model alloy reveals the role of the δ phase in hydrogen embrittlement of alloy 718

8 June 2016Z. Tarzimoghadam, M. Rohwerder, S.V. Merzlikin, A. Bashir, L. Yedra, S. Eswara, D. Ponge, D. Raabe

Hydrogen assisted crack initiation and propagation in a nickel-based superalloy

8 June 2016Zhenbo Zhang, Gideon Obasi, Roberto Morana, Michael Preuss

Multiscale modeling of hydrogen enhanced homogeneous dislocation nucleation

8 June 2016G.P.M. Leyson, Blazej Grabowski, Jörg Neugebauer

Hydrogen diffusion in ultrafine-grained palladium: Roles of dislocations and grain boundaries

8 June 2016Hideaki Iwaoka, Makoto Arita, Zenji Horit

Hydrogen diffusivities as a measure of relative dislocation densities in palladium and increase of the density by plastic deformation in the presence of dissolved hydrogen

8 June 2016Martin Deutges, Hans Peter Barth, Yuzeng Chen, Christine Borchers, Reiner Kirchheim

Hydrogen and vacancy clustering in zirconium

8 June 2016Céline Varvenne, Olivier Mackain, Laurent Proville, Emmanuel Clouet

Dislocation/hydrogen interaction mechanisms in hydrided nanocrystalline palladium films

8 June 2016Behnam Amin-Ahmadi, Damien Connétable, Marc Fivel, Döme Tanguy, Renaud Delmelle, Stuart Turner, Loic Malet, Stephane Godet, Thomas Pardoen, Joris Proost, Dominique Schryvers, Hosni Idrissi