A collaboration of researchers from Purdue University and beyond is using a $3 million grant to take an up close look at flash sintering in a massive effort to broaden applications of the technique.
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Engineering LEGO-like building blocks, flexible lithium-ions are evolving batteries, and other materials stories that may be of interest for October 19, 2016.
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Researchers at the University of Michigan have devised a technique using mass-producible methods to fabricate thin films of LLZO ceramic, which could help improve the safety of lithium-ion batteries.
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Researchers at Colorado School of Mines and the University of Florida are well on their way to solving grain boundaries’ secrets—the team recently achieved unprecedented atom-by-atom visualization of the chemical composition of grain boundaries.
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Electron interplay at ultrahigh pressures, electron camera catches atomic wrinkles, and other materials stories that may be of interest for September 29, 2015.
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New research from a team of scientists at University of California, Davis and Los Alamos National Lab is providing important insight into how nanomaterials behave under irradiation, a finding that may help significantly extend the life of nuclear fuels.
Read MoreAccording to a paper just published in Philosophy Magazine, researchers at North Carolina State University, who have been playing around with how ceramic materials behave in the presence of DC…
Read MoreVolume 93 Issue 2, Pages 326 – 329 Pengxiang Qian, Hui Gu, Miaofang ChiPublished Online: Nov 23 2009 6:57PMDOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2009.03410.x ABSTRACT The minor phase accumulated at intergranular regions in ceramics…
Read MoreVolume 6 Issue 6, Pages 717 – 726 Jesper Stjernberg, Marta-Lena Antti, Lars-Olof Nordin, Magnus OdénPublished Online: Nov 5 2008 3:13PM DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7402.2008.02318.x ABSTRACT Degradation of bricks in an iron…
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