Composites news, July 2019

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Ant-sized piezoelectric robots

31 July 2019David Bradley

Minimizing the gap between nano-innovation and risk

new proactive risk governance system can keep pace with development and should lead to safer nanomaterials, products, and processes

23 July 2019Cordelia Sealy

Recipients of the 2018 Acta Student Awards

22 July 2019Christopher A. Schuh

Artificial leaf provides ideal support for adsorbing MOFs

Leaves provided the template for hierarchical porous structures of mixed-metal oxides that act as supports for metal-organic framework crystals.

18 July 2019

Making hard magnets the easy way

simple process to make hexaferrites particles with high coercivity could prove useful for magnetic storage media and microwave absorbers

10 July 2019Cordelia Sealy

Textile sandwich makes washable energy storage device

flexible capacitors made from layers of polyester coated with graphene and hexagonal boron nitride inks could form basis of washable wearable electronics

5 July 2019Cordelia Sealy

Cellulose ion trap turns heat into electricity

ion trap based on the nanofibrous structure of cellulose converts low-grade heat into useful electricity

4 July 2019Cordelia Sealy

Magnetic shape-memory material holds great promise

Magnetic shape-memory material with potential applications in biomedicine, aerospace, wearable electronics and robotics

1 July 2019Laurie Donaldson

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Current research

Introducing C phase in additively manufactured Ti-6Al-4V: A new oxygen-stabilized face-centred cubic solid solution with improved mechanical properties

Volume 61, Pages 11–21Q. Chao, X.Y. Cui, Z.B. Chen, A.J. Breen, M. Cabral, N. Haghdadi, Q.W. Huang, R.M. Niu, H.S. Chen, B. Lim, S. Primig, M. Brandt, W. Xu, S.P. Ringer, X.Z. Liao

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Washable, stretchable, and reusable core–shell metal nanowire network-based electronics on a breathable polymer nanomesh substrate

Volume 61, Pages 30–39Seonmin Lee, Hyeokjoo Choi, Jihoon Bae, Seon-Hak Lee, Yoohan Ma, Seungsun Yoo, Jae-Hyun Ha, Jung-Il Hong, Seoyeon Park, Kyoohee Woo, Ji-Hyuk Choi, Sungwon Lee

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Jun ’23

ICFC9, the ninth edition of the International Conference on Fatigue of Composites

21–23 June 2023Vicenza, Italy