X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy: towards reliable binding energy referencing
Publication date: Available online 30 July 2019Source: Progress in Materials ScienceAuthor(s): G. Greczynski, L. HultmanAbstractWith more than 9000 papers published annually, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) is an indispensable technique in modern surface and materials science for the determination of chemical bonding. The accuracy of chemical-state determination relies, however, on a trustworthy calibration of the binding energy (BE) scale, which is a nontrivial task due to the lack of an internal BE reference. One approach, proposed in the early days of XPS, employs the C 1s spectra of an adventitious carbon layer,...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 30, 2019 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
Modular Fabrication of Intelligent Material-Tissue Interfaces for Bioinspired and Biomimetic Devices
Publication date: Available online 17 July 2019Source: Progress in Materials ScienceAuthor(s): John R. Clegg, Angela M. Wagner, Su Ryon Shin, Shabir Hassan, Ali Khademhosseini, Nicholas A. PeppasAbstractOne of the goals of biomaterials science is to reverse engineer aspects of human and non-human physiology. Similar to the body’s regulatory mechanisms, such devices must transduce changes in the physiological environment or the presence of an external stimulus into a detectable or therapeutic response. This review is a comprehensive evaluation and critical analysis of the design and fabrication of environmentally responsi...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 18, 2019 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
3D printing of Aluminium alloys: Additive Manufacturing of Aluminium alloys using selective laser melting
Publication date: Available online 10 July 2019Source: Progress in Materials ScienceAuthor(s): Nesma T. Aboulkhair, Marco Simonelli, Luke Parry, Ian Ashcroft, Christopher Tuck, Richard HagueAbstractMetal Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes, such as selective laser melting (SLM), enable the fabrication of arbitrary 3D-structures with unprecedented degrees of freedom. Research is rapidly progressing in this field, with promising results opening up a range of possible applications across both scientific and industrial sectors. Many sectors are now benefiting from fabricating complex structures using AM technologies to achie...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 17, 2019 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
A review of biomimetic surface functionalization for bone-integrating orthopedic implants: Mechanisms, current approaches, and future directions
Publication date: Available online 12 July 2019Source: Progress in Materials ScienceAuthor(s): Callum Stewart, Behnam Akhavan, Steven G. Wise, Marcela M.M. BilekAbstractOrthopedic implants are increasing in global prevalence, with hundreds of thousands of operations performed annually. However, a significant proportion of these operations experiences failure due to poor bone integration. Many avenues of investigation have been explored to address this issue and improve the biocompatibility of orthopedic devices by modifying the biological response to the implant surface. Biomimetic functionalization of orthopedic surfaces ...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 14, 2019 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
Recent Progress in Fundamental Understanding of Halide Perovskite Semiconductors
Publication date: Available online 9 July 2019Source: Progress in Materials ScienceAuthor(s): Kai Wang, Dong Yang, Congcong Wu, Mohan Sanghadasa, Shashank PriyaAbstractThe rapid progress in the field of organic-inorganic halide perovskite (OIHP) has led to not only>24% power conversion efficiency for photovoltaics, but also provided breakthroughs in processing of materials with tailored functional behavior. This ability to design and synthesize engineered OIHP materials has opened the possibility to develop various other optoelectronic applications. In addition to that of photovoltaics, this includes photodetector, laser, ...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 11, 2019 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
PMSP Aboulkhair 3D printing of Aluminium alloys: Additive Manufacturing of Aluminium alloys using selective laser melting
Publication date: Available online 10 July 2019Source: Progress in Materials ScienceAuthor(s): Nesma T. Aboulkhair, Marco Simonelli, Luke Parry, Ian Ashcroft, Christopher Tuck, Richard HagueAbstractMetal Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes, such as selective laser melting (SLM), enable the fabrication of arbitrary 3D-structures with unprecedented degrees of freedom. Research is rapidly progressing in this field, with promising results opening up a range of possible applications across both scientific and industrial sectors. Many sectors are now benefiting from fabricating complex structures using AM technologies to achie...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 11, 2019 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
Biopolymer@Metal-Organic Framework Hybrid Materials: A Critical Survey
Publication date: Available online 9 July 2019Source: Progress in Materials ScienceAuthor(s): Samir El Hankari, Mosto Bousmina, Abdelkrim El KadibAbstractMetal organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of pervasive nanostructured materials that generate annually an incredible amount of work in different fields, spanning from separation, adsorption, sensing and catalysis to health care and nanomedicine. The combination in their framework of isoreticular ligands and metallic clusters have resulted in a library of confined organic-inorganic hybrid materials with high specific surface area, tunable multimodale porosity and a versa...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 9, 2019 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
Extraterrestrial Construction Materials
Publication date: Available online 28 June 2019Source: Progress in Materials ScienceAuthor(s): M.Z. NaserAbstractIn recognition of the 50th anniversary of the first manned lunar landing, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), together with the European Space Agency (ESA), revealed plans to resume manned exploration missions and to establish permanent human presence in outposts (habitats) on the Moon and Mars by 2040. In order to promote feasible and sustainable space exploration, these habitats are envisioned to be built from lunar and Martian in-situ resources. Our understanding of such indigenous resou...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - June 29, 2019 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
PAN Precursor Fabrication, Applications and Thermal Stabilization Process in Carbon Fiber Production: Experimental and Mathematical Modelling
Publication date: Available online 17 June 2019Source: Progress in Materials ScienceAuthor(s): Hamid Khayyam, Reza N. Jazar, Srinivas Nunna, Gelayol Golkarnarenji, Khashayar Badii, Seyed Mousa Fakhrhoseini, Satish Kumar, Minoo NaebeAbstractPolyAcriloNitrile (PAN) is a versatile man-made polymer and has been used in a large array of products since its first mass production in mid 40’s. Among all applications of PAN the widely used application is in manufacture of precursor fibre for fabrication of carbon fibres. The process of PAN-based carbon fiber production comprises fibre spinning, thermal stabilization and carbonizat...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - June 18, 2019 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
A review of catalytic performance of metallic glasses in wastewater treatment: Recent progress and prospects
Publication date: Available online 17 June 2019Source: Progress in Materials ScienceAuthor(s): Lai-Chang Zhang, Zhe Jia, Fucong Lyu, Shun-Xing Liang, Jian LuAbstractMetallic glasses (MGs), with their unique disordered atomic packing structure and superior catalytic capabilities, have gradually begun to emerge in the field of catalysis. As a new type of promising catalyst, recent reports have demonstrated that MGs exhibit many excellent catalytic properties in wastewater treatment, such as ultrafast catalytic efficiency and reliable stability with a reduced metal leaching effect, etc. This review introduces, for the first t...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - June 18, 2019 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
Earth-Abundant Transition Metal and Metal Oxide Nanomaterials: Synthesis and Electrochemical Applications
Publication date: Available online 5 June 2019Source: Progress in Materials ScienceAuthor(s): Govindhan Maduraiveeran, Manickam Sasidharan, Wei JinAbstractEarth-abundant transition metal and metal oxide (EATM&MO) nanomaterials offer numerous positive attributes such as catalytic activity, selective enzyme-mimicking catalysis, energy harvesting and storage, green chemistry and atom economy guided by size and morphology induced intrinsic properties at the nanoscale. Noble metal nanomaterials have long been played a central role and highly efficient for various electrochemical applications but their high cost and least abunda...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - June 6, 2019 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
Production of large-area 2D materials for high-performance photodetectors by pulsed-laser deposition
Publication date: Available online 3 June 2019Source: Progress in Materials ScienceAuthor(s): J.D. Yao, Z.Q. Zheng, G.W. YangAbstractOur review provides a comprehensive overview on the latest progress in pulsed-laser deposition (PLD) of 2D layered materials (2DLMs), and its application in photoelectric detection. We begin with a retrospective overview on various 2DLMs and their development in photoelectric detection. Then we present the fundamentals of PLD and its unique advantages compared with the traditional growth methods. Subsequently, the PLD growth of 2DLMs and the influence of various parameters are discussed. Afte...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - June 4, 2019 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
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Publication date: July 2019Source: Progress in Materials Science, Volume 104Author(s): (Source: Progress in Materials Science)
Source: Progress in Materials Science - June 2, 2019 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
Flexoelectricity in Solids: Progress, Challenges, and Perspectives
Publication date: Available online 31 May 2019Source: Progress in Materials ScienceAuthor(s): Bo Wang, Yijia Gu, Shujun Zhang, Long-Qing ChenAbstractThe flexoelectricity describes the contribution of the linear couplings between the electric polarization and strain gradient and between polarization gradient and strain to the thermodynamics of a solid and represents the amount of polarization change of a solid arising from a strain gradient. Although the magnitude of the flexoelectric effect is generally small, its contribution to the overall thermodynamics of a solid may become significant or even dominant at the nanometer...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - June 2, 2019 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
Phase-field modeling of crystal nucleation in undercooled liquids – A review
Publication date: Available online 30 May 2019Source: Progress in Materials ScienceAuthor(s): László Gránásy, Gyula I. Tóth, James A. Warren, Frigyes Podmaniczky, György Tegze, László Rátkai, Tamás PusztaiAbstractWe review how phase-field models contributed to the understanding of various aspects of crystal nucleation including homogeneous and heterogeneous processes, and their role in microstructure evolution. We recall results obtained both by the conventional phase-field approaches that rely on spatially averaged (coarse grained) order parameters in capturing freezing, and by the recently developed phase-field...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - June 1, 2019 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
