porous materials

To infinitesimal and beyond – an electron structure explanation of supercapacitance

By Eileen De Guire / June 24, 2011

Computational modeling of carbon supercapacitors with the effects of surface curvature included. Credit: Jingsong Huang, ORNL A fair number of recent posts have been about nanostructured porous materials (PCCMs, diamond…

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Tunable mechanical properties in nanoscale porous gold

By Eileen De Guire / June 13, 2011

SEM of nanoporous gold structure. Credit: Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers. Several recent, unrelated posts have been about materials with nanoscale porosity (diamond aerogels, chalcogenide PCMM). Here is another…

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Transformed aerogels: From amorphous carbon to nanocrystalline diamond

By Eileen De Guire / June 1, 2011

Laser-heated diamond anvil cell allows very large hydrostatic pressure to be applied to amorphous carbon aerogels. Cavity dimensions are approximately 100–170 μm wide by 35 μm thick. Credit: LLNL. While…

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Energy-Absorbing TRIP-Steel/Mg-PSZ Composite Honeycomb Structures Based on Ceramic Extrusion at Room Temperature

By / January 28, 2010

Volume 6 Issue 6, Pages 727 – 735 Christos G. Aneziris, Wolfgang Schärfl, Horst Biermann, Ullrich MartinPublished Online: Nov 5 2008 3:13PM DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7402.2008.02321.x ABSTRACT Porous materials have received extensive…

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