This is a very timely review of body armour materials and systems since new test standards
are currently being written, or reviewed, and new, innovative products released. Of greatest …

To this day, the active components of integrated circuits consist mostly of (semi-) metals.
Concerns for raw material supply and pricing aside, the overreliance on (semi-) metals in …

Dislocation slip, deformation twinning, phase transformations, and fast fracture are energy
dissipation mechanisms that accommodate mechanical loading in materials. The …

Boron carbide is extremely hard but has been shown to undergo stress-induced
amorphization when subjected to large nonhydrostatic stresses. This localized …

This study aims to systematically investigate the influence of boron (0–3.0 wt% B) on
microstructure and abrasive wear characteristics of high chromium based multi-component …

Boron carbide (B 4 C) is a ceramic with great properties such as low density, the third
hardness after diamond and cubic BN. However, it is a limited use cause of its poor …

Metal-free catalysts have been proved to be a low-cost and environmentally friendly species
in aerobic oxidative desulfurization (ODS). In this work, exfoliated metal-free boron carbide …

Among hard materials, icosahedra-based boron-rich ceramics are only second to diamond-
based structures. This class of ceramics possesses lower density, higher thermal and …

In this study, monolithic B 4 C and B 4 C-based ceramics incorporating FeNiCoCrMo dual-
phase (FCC and BCC) high entropy alloys (HEAs) were produced by spark plasma sintering …

The well-documented formation of amorphous bands in boron carbide (B 4 C) under contact
loading has been identified in the literature as one of the possible mechanisms for its …