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On the nature of reactor-radiation damage and certain thermophysical properties of UO2

Dr Claudio Ronchi discusses his work on nuclear materials.

27 June 2014Claudio Ronchi

Sol–gel derived nanocrystalline TiO2 thin films: A promising candidate for self-cleaning smart window applications

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24 June 2014

Poly(carboxybetaine) nanomaterials enable long circulation and prevent polymer-specific antibody production

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23 June 2014Wei Yang, Sijun Liu, Tao Bai, Andrew J. Keefe, Lei Zhang, Jean-Rene Ella-Menye, Yuting Li, Shaoyi Jiang

Multilevel surface engineering of nanostructured TiO2 on carbon-fiber-reinforced polyetheretherketone

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22 June 2014Tao Lu, Xuanyong Liu, Shi Qian, Huiliang Cao, Yuqin Qiao, Yongfeng Mei, Paul K. Chu, Chuanxian Ding

Significant performance enhancement of ZnO photoanodes from Ni(OH)2 electrocatalyst nanosheets overcoating

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21 June 2014Yanchao Mao, Hao Yang, Junxiang Chen, Jian Chen, Yexiang Tong, Xudong Wang

Large-area metal foams with highly ordered sub-micrometer-scale pores for potential applications in energy areas

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18 June 2014Hyeji Park, Changui Ahn, Hyungyung Jo, Myounggeun Choi, Dong Seok Kim, Do Kyung Kim, Seokwoo Jeon, Heeman Choe

Predicting tensile stretchability of trimmed AA6111-T4 sheets

18 June 2014X.H. Hu, X. Sun, S.F. Golovashchenko

Mechanical properties of components fabricated with open-source 3-D printers under realistic environmental conditions

17 June 2014B.M. Tymrak, M. Kreiger, J.M. Pearce

Slip band - grain boundary interactions: local stresses and slip transfer

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10 June 2014Y. Guo, T.B. Britton, Wilkinson

Point-by-point compositional analysis for atom probe tomography

A new alternate approach to data processing for atom probe tomography.

9 June 2014Leigh T. Stephenson, Anna V. Ceguerra, Tong Li, Tanaporn Rojhirunsakool, Soumya Nag, Rajarshi Banerjee, Julie M. Cairney and Simon P. Ringer

Harvesting energy from automobile brake in contact and non-contact mode by conjunction of triboelectrication and electrostatic-induction processes

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3 June 2014Chang Bao Han, Weiming Du, Chi Zhang, Wei Tang, Limin Zhang, Zhong Lin Wang

An extended hardness limit in bulk nanoceramics

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30 May 2014James A. Wollmershauser, Boris N. Feigelson, Edward P. Gorzkowski, Chase T. Ellis, Ramasis Goswami, Syed B. Qadri, Joseph G. Tischler, Fritz J. Kub, Richard K. Everett

Opportunities for silk textiles in reinforced biocomposites: Studying through-thickness compaction behaviour

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13 May 2014Darshil U. Shah, David Porter, Fritz Vollrath

Biomaterials science, 3rd edition: An introduction to materials in medicine

9 May 2014Buddy D. Ratner, Allan S. Hoffman, Frederick J. Schoen, Jack E. Lemons

Preferential {100} etching of boron-doped diamond electrodes and diamond particles by CO 2 activation

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9 May 2014Junfeng Zhang, Takaaki Nakai, Masaharu Uno, Yoshinori Nishiki, Wataru Sugimoto

Low temperature growth of carbon nanotubes on carbon fibre to create a highly networked fuzzy fibre reinforced composite with superior electrical conductivity

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6 May 2014T.R. Pozegic, I. Hamerton, J.V. Anguita, W. Tang, P. Ballocchi, P. Jenkins, S.R.P. Silva

Superconducting nano-mechanical diamond resonators

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29 April 2014Tobias Bautze, Soumen Mandal, Oliver A. Williams, Pierre Rodière, Tristan Meunier, Christopher Bäuerle

Sliding wear-induced chemical nanolayering in Cu–Ag, and its implications for high wear resistance

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28 April 2014F. Ren, S.N. Arshad, P. Bellon, R.S. Averback, M. Pouryazdan, H. Hahn

Iodine monochloride as a powerful enhancer of electrical conductivity of carbon nanotube wires

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28 April 2014Dawid Janas, Artur P. Herman, Slawomir Boncel, Krzysztof K.K. Koziol

Metallic glass–steel composite with improved compressive plasticity

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28 April 2014H. Shakur Shahabi, S. Scudino, U. Kühn, J. Eckert

Plasma-induced photoresponse in few-layer graphene

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28 April 2014Kaliannan Thiyagarajan, Antony Ananth, Balasubramaniam Saravanakumar, Young Sun Mok, Sang-Jae Kim

Stabilization of immiscible polymer blends using structure directing metal organic frameworks (MOFs)

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28 April 2014Nimanka P. Panapitiya, Sumudu N. Wijenayake, Yu Huang, David Bushdiecker, Do Nguyen, Chalita Ratanawanate, Grace J. Kalaw, Christopher J. Gilpin, Inga H. Musselman, Kenneth J. Balkus Jr., John P. Ferraris

A broadband and omnidirectional light-harvesting scheme employing nanospheres on Si solar cells

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24 April 2014Guan-Jhong Lin, Hsin-Ping Wang, Der-Hsien Liena, Po-Han Fu, Hung-Chih Chang, Cheng-Han Ho, Chin-An Lin, Kun-Yu Lai, Jr-Hau He

Freestanding functionalized carbon nanotube-based electrode for solid-state asymmetric supercapacitors

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22 April 2014Xu Xiao, Tianqi Li, Zehua Peng, Huanyu Jin, Qize Zhong, Qiyi Hu, Bin Yao, Qiuping Luo, Chuanfang Zhang, Li Gong, Jian Chen, Yury Gogotsi, Jun Zhou

SEM image of a flower-like ZnO material

The winning cover image of Volume 9, Issue 1 on Nano Today.

16 April 2014Cláudia Gomes Silva

Sponsored byBruker

Unified description of transportation of polymer chains with different topologies through a small cylindrical pore

The winner is announced of the 8th Feng Xinde Polymer Prize.

10 April 2014Chi Wu and Lianwei Li

Materials experience: Fundamentals of materials and design

Leading academicians and experts have come together to offer their expertise on a number of topics common to materials and product design.

8 April 2014Elvin Karana, Owain Pedgley, and Valentina Rognoli

An introduction to nuclear waste immobilisation, 2nd edition

The fully revised second edition of this book examines the gamut of nuclear waste issues.

7 April 2014M.I. Ojovan and W.E. Lee

Natural fiber composites: Materials, processes and properties

This book introduces and explores the structure, properties, processing, and applications of natural fibre reinforcements.

6 April 2014Alma Hodzic and Robert Shanks

Advances in filament yarn spinning of textiles and polymers

This book reviews the different types of spinning techniques for synthetic polymer-based fibers, and issues such as their effect on fiber properties.

5 April 2014Dong Zhang

Treatise on process metallurgy, volume 3: Industrial processes

This series provides the fundamentals of the manufacturing of metallic materials, from raw materials into finished parts or products.

4 April 2014Seshadri Seetharaman

Study on the subsurface damage depth in machined silicon wafers by the laser-ultrasonic method

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28 March 2014A.A. Karabutov , N.B. Podymova

A tunable silk–alginate hydrogel scaffold for stem cell culture and transplantation

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25 March 2014Keren Ziv, Harald Nuhn, Yael Ben-Haim, Laura S. Sasportas, Paul J. Kempen, Thomas P. Niedringhaus, Michael Hrynyk, Robert Sinclair, Annelise E. Barron, Sanjiv S. Gambhir

Mesoporous TiO2 nanocrystals produced by a fast hydrolytic process as high-rate long-lasting Li-ion battery anodes

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25 March 2014F. Di Lupo, A. Tuel, V. Mendez, C. Francia, G. Meligrana, S. Bodoardo, C. Gerbaldi

On chemical order and interfacial segregation in γ (AlAg2) precipitates

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6 March 2014Julian M. Rosalie, Christian Dwyer, Laure Bourgeois

Book review: An introduction to nuclear waste immobilisation

Review of An Introduction to Nuclear Waste Immobilisation by Stephane Gin.

6 March 2014Stephane Gin, Senior Scientist at CEA

Encapsulation of inorganic nanoparticles into block copolymer micellar aggregates: Strategies and precise localization of nanoparticles

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26 February 2014Jianying Wang, Weikun Li, Jintao Zhu

Raman spectroscopy and band structure of Pd-hybridized multilayer graphene

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25 February 2014Micah Eastman, Daniel Hedinger, Wen Qian, Walter Hudson, Bin Jiang, Jun Jiao

NIR-light-induced surface-enhanced Raman scattering for detection and photothermal/photodynamic therapy of cancer cells using methylene blue-embedded gold nanorod@SiO2 nanocomposites

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25 February 2014Sun-Hwa Seo, Bo-Mi Kim, Ara Joe, Hyo-Won Han, Xiaoyuan Chen, Zhen Cheng, Eue-Soon Jang

Ready-to-use injectable calcium phosphate bone cement paste as drug carrier

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24 February 2014E. Vorndran, M. Geffers, A. Ewald, M. Lemm, B. Nies, U. Gbureck

Ordered phases of ethylene adsorbed on charged fullerenes and their aggregates

This paper presents a combined experimental and theoretical study of ethylene adsorbed on free C60 and its aggregates.

24 February 2014Samuel Zöttl, Alexander Kaiser, Matthias Daxner, Marcelo Goulart, Andreas Mauracher, Michael Probst, Frank Hagelberg, Stephan Denifl, Paul Scheier, Olof Echt

Piezotronics and piezo-phototronics – From single nanodevices to array of devices and then to integrated functional system

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7 February 2014Wenzhuo Wu, Caofeng Pan, Yan Zhang, Xiaonan Wen, Zhong Lin Wang

Innovative solutions please, as long as they have been proved elsewhere: the case of a polished lime-pozzolan concrete floor

Is a lack of innovation the result of the collective effect of individual project endeavours frustrated by technological, economic or social circumstances?

6 February 2014E.R. Grist, K.A. Paine, A. Heath, J. Norman, H. Pinder

Archaeometallurgical characterization of the earliest European metal helmets

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3 February 2014Marianne Mödlinger, Paolo Piccardo, Zsolt Kasztovszky, Imre Kovács, Zoltán Szőkefalvi-Nagy, György Káli, Veronika Szilágyi

Characterization of a Messer – The late-Medieval single-edged sword of Central Europe

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3 February 2014Peter Fajfar, Jožef Medved, Grega Klančnik, Tomaž Lazar, Marijan Nečemer, Primož Mrvar

United States Capitol dome: Characterization of cast and wrought materials

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3 February 2014C.N. McCowan, T.A. Siewert, J.D. McColskey, K. Hildebrand, D.L. Olson

Polymeric supramolecular assemblies based on multivalent ionic interactions for biomedical applications

Oppositely charged polyelectrolytes can be used to form various types of self-assembled structures directed by multivalent ionic interactions.

22 January 2014Hongsik Yoon, Emma J. Dell, Jessica L. Freyer, Luis M. Campos, Woo-Dong Jang

Synthetic regulatory RNAs as tools for engineering biological systems: Design and applications

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21 January 2014Sang Woo Seo, Gyoo Yeol Jung

Understanding and exploiting feedback in synthetic biology

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21 January 2014Taliman Afroz, Chase L. Beisel

Characterization of a quorum sensing device for synthetic biology design: Experimental and modeling validation

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21 January 2014Nazanin Saeidi, Mohamed Arshath, Matthew Wook Chang, Chueh Loo Poh

Challenges and opportunities in synthetic biology for chemical engineers

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21 January 2014Yunzi Luo, Jung-Kul Lee, Huimin Zhao

Investigating site occupancy via atom probe microscopy

An Atom Probe Tomography video reconstruction of an Al-Mg-Li alloy.

20 January 2014Baptiste Gault

Nanocrystalline materials: their synthesis-structure-property relationships and applications

Download Chapter 1 of this book providing updated information on the synthesis, properties, and applications of nanocrystalline materials.

3 January 2014Sie-Chin Tjong

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