There is an ever-increasing need for material systems to operate in the most extreme
environments encountered in space exploration, energy production, and propulsion …

Basic Research Needs for Materials under Extreme Environments Page 1 Page 2 On the cover:
The cover illustration depicts a diamond-anvil cell that can exert pressures of hundreds of …

Materials for extreme environments can help to protect people, structures and the planet.
Extreme temperatures in aeroplane engines, hypervelocity micrometeoroid impacts on …

The high precision offered by small-scale mechanical testing has allowed the relationships
between mechanical behavior and specific microstructural features to be determined to an …

Designing structural materials for tailored response at extreme conditions is a grand
challenge in materials research. Such materials can be made using either “top-down” or …

Materials development is slow and expensive, taking decades from inception to fielding. For
materials research at extremes, the situation is even more demanding, as the desired …

Materials for the next generation of electric power infrastructure will be subject to harsh
service environments featuring extreme levels of stress, temperature, irradiation, and …

Hypersonic vehicles must withstand extreme conditions during flights that exceed five times
the speed of sound. These systems have the potential to facilitate rapid access to space …

This special issue of Engineering comprises seven papers, contributed by experts from
China, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The topics cover the synthesis and …

This unified guide brings together the underlying principles, and predictable material
responses, that connect metals, polymers, brittle solids and energetic materials as they …