Powder materials are used in all corners of materials science, from additive manufacturing to
energy storage. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) has developed to meet morphological …

Titanium‐coated polypropylene (Ti‐PP) mesh was introduced in 2002 as a surgical mesh for
the treatment of hernias and shortly after for pelvic floor surgery, with the aim of improving …

Understanding the effects that sterilization methods have on the surface of a biomaterial is a
prerequisite for clinical deployment. Sterilization causes alterations in a material's surface …

It is well known that carbon present in scanning electron microscopes (SEM), Focused ion
beam (FIB) systems and FIB-SEMs, causes imaging artefacts and influences the quality of …

Polypropylene (PP) surgical mesh, used successfully for the surgical repair of abdominal
hernias, is associated with serious clinical complications when used in the pelvic floor for …

Chemical imaging (CI) is the spatial identification of molecular chemical composition and is
critical to characterising the (in-) homogeneity of functional material surfaces. Nanoscale CI …

A novel capability built upon secondary electron (SE) spectroscopy provides an enhanced
cross‐linking characterization toolset for polymeric biomaterials, with cross‐linking density …

The distributions of methylene and ether bridges have been shown to impact the mechanical
properties of phenolic resin. This work demonstrates the ability of the novel SEM based …

Palladium films hold signicance due to their remarkable affinity for hydrogen diffusion,
rendering them valauble for the seperation and purification of hydrogen in membrane …

Early works considered basal planes of highly ordered pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) as
hydrophobic, relatively inert materials with low electrocatalytic activity due to nonpolar sp2 …