(Nanowerk Spotlight) Electronic devices that monitor vital signs often fail when stretched or twisted, limiting their use in medical monitoring. Rigid circuit boards crack, flexible materials degrade, ...
Nanjing University of Science and Technology in collaboration with Liaoning Academy of Materials, Hohai University and City University of Hong Kong revealed a significant strengthening mechanism ...
Chemists have studied an elusive property in cathode materials, called a valence gradient, to understand its effect on battery performance. The findings demonstrated that the valence gradient can ...
The classification of heterogeneous/gradient materials and the corresponding laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) methods are introduced. According to the mode of interface composition transition (discrete ...
New research shows that metals can be made dramatically stronger by varying the spacing between nanoscale boundaries in the metal's atomic lattice. Researchers from Brown University and the Institute ...
Functionally gradient materials (FGMs) are an innovative class of materials composed of two or more constituent phases with a continuously variable directional composition. This unique structure ...
How additive manufacturing advanced the development of functionally graded materials. Why compositionally graded materials present a greater challenge to materials engineers. How computational ...