Lightweight, high-modulus structural materials are highly desired in many applications like
aerospace, automobile and biomedical instruments. As the lightest metallic structural …

Microstructural design has attracted increasing interest in modern development of hard
coatings for wear-resistant applications. In plasma-assisted vapor deposited thin films, the …

In recent years, near-nano (submicron) and nanostructured materials have attracted
increasingly more attention from the materials community. Nanocrystalline materials are …

All-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) using inorganic solid electrolytes (SEs) are in the spotlight
for next-generation energy storage devices because of their potential for outstanding safety …

Gradient nano-grained (GNG) materials, inside which grain size increases gradually from
nano-scale in the surface to micro-scale in the substrate, have shown synergetic strength …

A phase mixture model in which a polycrystalline material is regarded as a mixture of a
crystalline phase and a grain-boundary phase is presented. The model aims to describe the …

Nanostructured silicon carbide has unique properties that make it useful in microelectronics,
optoelectronics, and biomedical engineering. In this paper, the fabrication methods as well …

The determination of deformation parameters of rock material is an essential part of any
design in rock mechanics. The goal of this paper is to show, that there is a relationship …

We have added force and displacement measurement capabilities in the transmission
electron microscope (TEM) for in situ quantitative tensile experimentation on nanoscale …

Effects of grain size reduction on the electrochemical corrosion behavior of nanocrystalline
Ni produced by pulse electrodeposition were characterized using potentiodynamic …