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17 June 2016

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

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

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

Multiscale modeling of hydrogen enhanced homogeneous dislocation nucleation

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

Hydrogen and vacancy clustering in zirconium

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

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

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

Influence of trap connectivity on H diffusion: Vacancy trapping

8 June 2016Yu Wang, D. Connétable, D. Tanguy

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

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

New phosphor discovery by the single particle diagnosis approach

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2 June 2016Takashi Takeda, Naoto Hirosaki, Shiro Funahashi, Rong-Jun Xie

Revealing graphene oxide toxicity mechanisms: A reactive molecular dynamics study

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2 June 2016M. Golkaram, Adri C.T. van Duin

Combinatorial electrochemistry – Processing and characterization for materials discovery

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2 June 2016Paul J. McGinn

Multimodal imaging of harmonophores and application of high content imaging for early cancer detection

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2 June 2016Anuraag Boddupalli, Kaitlin M. Bratlie

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

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

Identification of peptide adsorbates for strong nanoparticle–nanoparticle binding by lattice protein simulations

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2 June 2016Daniel M. Packwood, Kazuto Akagia, Mitsuo Umetsub

Starting the pathway of Materials Discovery

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2 June 2016Krishna Rajan

Reinforced Geopolymer Composites: A critical review

31 May 2016Joseph Davidovits

Co-existence of homogeneous flow and localized plastic deformation in tension of amorphous Ni–P films on ductile substrate

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25 April 2016X.L. Lu, Y. Li, L. Lu

Competition between shear band nucleation and propagation across rate-dependent flow transitions in a model metallic glass

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25 April 2016Matthew B. Harris, Lars S. Watts, Eric R. Homer

Mapping of residual strains around a shear band in bulk metallic glass by nanobeam X-ray diffraction

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25 April 2016Hamed Shakur Shahabi, Sergio Scudino, Ivan Kaban, Mihai Stoica, Benjamin Escher, Siegfried Menzel, Gavin B.M. Vaughan, Uta Kühn, Jürgen Eckert.

Shear band relaxation in a deformed bulk metallic glass

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25 April 2016I. Binkowski, G.P. Shrivastav, J. Horbach, S.V. Divinski, G. Wilde

Toughen and harden metallic glass through designing statistical heterogeneity

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25 April 2016

On the critical thickness for non-localized to localized plastic flow transition in metallic glasses: A molecular dynamics study

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25 April 2016C. Zhong, H. Zhang, Q.P. Cao, X.D. Wang, D.X. Zhang, U. Ramamurty, J.Z. Jiang

Design and elaboration of organic molecules for high field-effect-mobility semiconductors

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22 April 2016Kazuo Takimiya, Masahiro Nakano, Hiroyoshi Sugino, Itaru Osaka

World Biomaterial conference “meet the editor” session

27 March 2016

Nano-biosensors to detect beta-amyloid for Alzheimer's disease management

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22 March 2016Ajeet Kaushik, Rahul Dev Jayant, Sneham Tiwari, Arti Vashist, Madhavan Nair

Multi-residue method for the determination of pesticides and pesticide metabolites in honeybees by liquid and gas chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry—Honeybee poisoning incidents

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22 March 2016Tomasz Kiljanek, Alicja Niewiadowska, Stanisław Semeniuk, Marta Gaweł, Milena Borzęcka, Andrzej Posyniak

Towards effective small scale microbial fuel cells for energy generation from urine

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22 March 2016Jon Chouler, b, George A. Padgett, Petra J. Cameron, Kathrin Preuss, Maria-Magdalena Titirici, Ioannis Ieropoulos, Mirella Di Lorenzo

A linear theory of thermochemical equilibrium

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18 March 2016F Larché, J.W Cahn

The kinetics of cellular segregation reactions

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18 March 2016John W. Cahn

The molecular mechanism of solidification

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18 March 2016John W Cahn, W.B Hillig, G.W Sears

On spinodal decomposition in cubic crystals

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18 March 2016John W. Cahn

Coupling grain boundary motion to shear deformation

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18 March 2016John W. Cahn, Yuri Mishin, Akira Suzuki

Overview no. 41: The interactions of composition and stress in crystalline solids

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18 March 2016F.C. Larché, J.W. Cahn

Theory of crystal growth and interface motion in crystalline materials

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18 March 2016John W. Cahn

A microscopic theory for antiphase boundary motion and its application to antiphase domain coarsening

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18 March 2016Samuel M. Allen, John W. Cahn

The impurity-drag effect in grain boundary motion

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18 March 2016John W. Cahn

On spinodal decomposition

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18 March 2016John W. Cahn

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

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1 March 2016Dalong Zhang, Baolong Zheng, Yizhang Zhou, Subhash Mahajan, Enrique J. Lavernia

Interfibrillar shear stress is the loading mechanism of collagen fibrils in tendon

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1 March 2016Spencer E. Szczesny, Dawn M. Elliott

Curcumin-releasing mechanically compliant implants prevent neurodegeneration and blood-brain barrier instability at the implant-tissue interface

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1 March 2016Kelsey A. Potter, Mehdi Jorfi, Kyle T. Householder, E. Johan Foster, Christoph Weder, Jeffrey R. Capadona

Intra-variant substructure in Ni–Mn–Ga martensite: Conjugation boundaries

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1 March 2016B. Muntifering, R.C. Pond, L. Kovarik, N.D. Browning, P. Müllner

Thermal cycling behavior of an aged FeNiCoAlTa single-crystal shape memory alloy

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1 March 2016P. Krooß, M.J. Holzweissig, T. Niendorf, C. Somsen, M. Schaper, Y.I. Chumlyakov, H.J. Maier

Ordered array of ω particles in β-Ti matrix studied by small-angle X-ray scattering

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1 March 2016J. Šmilauerováa P. Harcuba, J. Stráský, J. Stráská, M. Janeček, J. Pospíšil, R. Kužel, T. Brunátová, V. Holý, J. Ilavský

Cyclic degradation mechanisms in aged FeNiCoAlTa shape memory single crystals

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1 March 2016P. Krooß, C. Somsen, T. Niendorf, M. Schaper, I. Karaman, Y. Chumlyakov, G. Eggeler, H.J. Maier

Mineralized gelatin methacrylate based matrices induce osteogenic differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells

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1 March 2016Heemin Kang, Yu-Ru V. Shih, Yongsung Hwang, Cai Wen, Vikram Rao, Timothy Seo, Shyni Varghese

The effect of detergents on the basement membrane complex of a biologic scaffold material

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1 March 2016D.M. Faulk, C.A. Carruthers, H.J. Warner, C.R. Kramer, J.E. Reing, L. Zhang, A. D’Amore, S.F. Badylak

Full icosahedra dominate local order in Cu64Zr34 metallic glass and supercooled liquid

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1 March 2016Jun Ding, Yong-Qiang Cheng, Evan Ma

Evolution of plasticity, strain-rate sensitivity and the underlying deformation mechanism in Zn–22% Al during high-pressure torsion

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1 March 2016In-Chul Choi, Yong-Jae Kim, Byungmin Ahn, Megumi Kawasaki, Terence G. Langdon, Jae-il Jang

Thermal cycling of stress-induced martensite for high-performance shape memory effect

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1 March 2016Riccardo Casati, Maurizio Vedani, Ausonio Tuissi

Oxygen electrocatalysis in chemical energy conversion and storage technologies

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29 January 2016Jaeyoung Lee, Beomgyun Jeong, Joey D. Ocon

A new era for liquid crystal research Applications of liquid crystals in soft matter nano-, bio- and microtechnology

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29 January 2016Jan P.F. Lagerwall, Giusy Scalia

Structural, morphological, compositional, and optical properties of single step electrodeposited Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) thin films for solar cell application

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29 January 2016Seul Gi Lee, Jongmin Kim, Huyn Suk Woo, Yongcheol Jo, A.I. Inamdar, S.M. Pawar, Hyung Sang Kim, Woong Jung, Hyun Sik Im

Planar Fully-Depleted-Silicon-On-Insulator technologies: Toward the 28 nm node and beyond

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28 January 2016B. Doris, B. DeSalvo, K. Cheng, P. Morin, M. Vinet

Ultra-thin body & buried oxide SOI substrate development and qualification for Fully Depleted SOI device with back bias capability

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28 January 2016Walter Schwarzenbach, Bich-Yen Nguyen, Frederic Allibert, Christophe Girard, Christophe Maleville

A review of electrical characterization techniques for ultrathin FDSOI materials and devices

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28 January 2016Sorin Cristoloveanu, Maryline Bawedin, Irina Ionica

Needle-free buccal anesthesia using iontophoresis and amino amide salts combined in a mucoadhesive formulation

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21 January 2016

Method for determination of levoglucosan in snow and ice at trace concentration levels using ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled with triple quadrupole mass spectrometry

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21 January 2016Chao You, Lili Song, Baiqing Xu, Shaopeng Gao

Geopolymers based on natural and synthetic metakaolin - A critical review

A critical review to the follow the feature article 'Environmental implications of Geopolymers'.

17 January 2016Joseph Davidovits

ScCO2 assisted preparation of supported metal NPs. Application to catalyst design.

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12 January 2016Oana Pascu, Bastien Cacciuttolo, Samuel Marre, Mathieu Pucheault, Cyril Aymoniera

Kaolinite and smectite dissolution rate in high molar KOH solutions at 35° and 80°C

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11 January 2016Andreas Bauer, Gilles Berger

Characterization of chemosynthetic Al2O3–2SiO2 geopolymers

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11 January 2016Xue-min Cui, Le-ping Liu, Guang-jian Zheng, Rui-ping Wang, Jian-ping Lu

Alkali-activation reactivity of chemosynthetic Al2O3–2SiO2 powders and their 27Al and 29Si magic-angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance spectra

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11 January 2016Guangjian Zheng, Xuemin Cui, Dong Huang, Jinying Pang, Guowei Mo, Shujuan Yu, Zhangfa Tong

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