Mechanochemical degradation processes such as the fracture of cathode particles play a
major role in limiting the service life of advanced lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). In order to help …

This review summarizes recent advances in the area of tribology based on the outcome of a
Lorentz Center workshop surveying various physical, chemical and mechanical phenomena …

Abstract Bulk equiatomic (Hf-Ta-Zr-Ti) C and (Hf-Ta-Zr-Nb) C high entropy Ultra-High
Temperature Ceramic (UHTC) carbide compositions were fabricated by ball milling and …

Abstract The Brinell, Vickers, Meyer, Rockwell, Shore, IHRD, Knoop, Buchholz, and
nanoindentation methods used to measure the indentation hardness of materials at different …

This article reviews recent literature on polymer nanocomposites using advanced
indentation techniques to evaluate the surface mechanical properties down to the nanoscale …

Indentation, owing to its ability to induce permanent deformation in a controlled manner
even in highly brittle materials that are otherwise not amenable to critical mechanical testing …

To understand the underlying strengthening mechanisms, thermal activation processes are
investigated from stress-strain measurements with varying temperatures and strain rates for …

An ensemble machine‐learning method is demonstrated to be capable of finding superhard
materials by directly predicting the load‐dependent Vickers hardness based only on the …

Owing to the partial dislocation assisted twinning and/or displacive transformation upon
stress loading, metastable high-entropy alloys (HEAs) and their interstitial variants have …

Increasing demand for energy and reduction of carbon dioxide emissions has revived
interest in nuclear energy. Designing materials for radiation environments necessitates a …