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Materials in 2020

Jon Evans looks back over materials science in 2020.

16 December 2020Jon Evans

Dark material offers a bright energy future

A dark form of aluminium oxide could help improve solar receivers while making them cheaper

31 March 2020

A highly stretchable carbon nanotubes/thermoplastic polyurethane fiber-shaped strain sensor with porous structure for human motion monitoring

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15 December 2018Xiaozheng Wang, Hongling Sun, Xiaoyan Yue, Yunfei Yu, Guoqiang Zheng, Kun Dai, Chuntai Liu, Changyu Shen

Effects of molecular structures of carbon-based molecules on bio-lubrication

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24 November 2017Yan Zhou, Jeremy Dahl, Robert Carlson, Hong Liang

Wrinkled, wavelength-tunable graphene-based surface topographies for directing cell alignment and morphology

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26 September 2017Zhongying Wang, Daniel Tonderys, Susan E. Leggett, Evelyn Kendall Williams Mehrdad T. Kiani, Ruben Spitz Steinberg, Yang Qiu, Ian Y. Wong , Robert H. Hurt

Fullerite-based nanocomposites with ultrahigh stiffness. Theoretical investigation

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18 May 2017Yulia A. Kvashnina, Alexander G. Kvashnin, Leonid A. Chernozatonskii, Pavel B. Sorokin

Automated, high throughput exploration of process–structure–property relationships using the MapReduce paradigm

2 September 2016Olga Wodo, Jaroslaw Zola, Balaji Sesha Sarath Pokuri, Pengfei Du, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

Nanostructured carbon for energy storage and conversion

2 September 2016Stephanie L. Candelaria, Yuyan Shao, Wei Zhou, Xiaolin Li, Jie Xiao, Ji Guang Zhang, Yong Wang, Jun Liu, Jinghong Li, Guozhong Cao

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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 and vacancy clustering in zirconium

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

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

Effects of multiple hydrogen absorption/desorption cycles on the mechanical properties of the alloy system palladium/silver (wt% = 10–25)

8 June 2016K. Wald, J. Kubik, D. Paciulli, M. Talukder, J. Nott, F. Massicotte, K. Rebeiz, S. Nesbit, A. Craft

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Materials in 2020

Dark material offers a bright energy future

A highly stretchable carbon nanotubes/thermoplastic polyurethane fiber-shaped strain sensor with porous structure for human motion monitoring

Effects of molecular structures of carbon-based molecules on bio-lubrication

Wrinkled, wavelength-tunable graphene-based surface topographies for directing cell alignment and morphology

Fullerite-based nanocomposites with ultrahigh stiffness. Theoretical investigation

Automated, high throughput exploration of process–structure–property relationships using the MapReduce paradigm

Nanostructured carbon for energy storage and conversion

Join our Author workshop with Prof. Ifor Samuel and Synthetic Metals Editors

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

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

Multiscale modeling of hydrogen enhanced homogeneous dislocation nucleation

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

Hydrogen and vacancy clustering in zirconium

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

Effects of multiple hydrogen absorption/desorption cycles on the mechanical properties of the alloy system palladium/silver (wt% = 10–25)

Dislocation/hydrogen interaction mechanisms in hydrided nanocrystalline palladium films

Mechanisms of hydrogen-enhanced localized plasticity: An atomistic study using α-Fe as a model system

Toughen and harden metallic glass through designing statistical heterogeneity

Prism stacking faults observed contiguous to a {10-12} twin in a Mg–Y alloy

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