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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

Making solar cells using waste from lead batteries

Muddy deposits of polluting lead in old batteries can be recycled to help generate renewable energy

13 February 2020

Engineered omnidirectional antireflection ITO nanorod films with super hydrophobic surface via glancing-angle ion-assisted electron-beam evaporation deposition

11 September 2018P. Nuchuay, T. Chaikeeree, M. Horprathum, N. Mungkung, ... P. Eiamchai

Investigation of the thickness effect on material and surface texturing properties of sputtered ZnO:Al films for thin-film Si solar cell applications

28 August 2018Xia Yan, Weimin Li, Armin G.Aberle, Selvara jVenkataraj

Photovoltaic performance improvement of dye-sensitized solar cells through introducing In-doped TiO2 film at conducting glass and mesoporous TiO2 interface as an efficient compact layer

5 July 2018Xiaohua Sun, Qiaoling Zhang, Yumin Liu, Niu Huang, Panpan Sun, Tao Peng, Tianyou Peng, Xing-Zhong Zhao

Cesium-doped methylammonium lead iodide perovskite light absorber for hybrid solar cells

4 July 2018Hyosung Choi, Jaeki Jeong, Hak-Beom Kim, Seongbeom Kim, Bright Walker, Gi-Hwan Kim, Jin Young Kim

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

A ‘tile’ tale: Hierarchical self-assembly of DNA lattices

2 September 2016Arun Richard Chandrasekaran, Rebecca Zhuo

Graphene oxide: the new membrane material

2 September 2016R. K. Joshi, S. Alwarappan, M. Yoshimura, V. Sahajwalla, Y. Nishina

Flexible triboelectric generator

2 September 2016Feng Ru Fan, Zhong Qun Tian, Zhong Lin Wang

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

Graphene/metal oxide composite electrode materials for energy storage

2 September 2016Zhong Shuai Wu, Guangmin Zhou, Li Chang Yin, Wencai Ren, Feng Li, Hui Ming Cheng

Formation mechanism of channel segregation in carbon steels by inclusion flotation: X-ray microtomography characterization and multi-phase flow modeling

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29 July 2016Yan Fei Cao, Yun Chen, Dian Zhong Li

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

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

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

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

8 June 2016J. Song, W.A. Curtin

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