Current trends, challenges, and perspectives of anti-fogging technology: Surface and material design, fabrication strategies, and beyond
Publication date: Available online 7 September 2018Source: Progress in Materials ScienceAuthor(s): Iván Rodríguez Durán, Gaétan LarocheAbstractTransparent materials such as glasses and some polymers play an essential role in our daily life. Indeed, it is well known that their application in mirrors, windows, automobile windshields, and eyewear make our day-to-day activities more comfortable. These examples aside, many more can also be found in several spheres of human activity, including such sectors as diverse and distinct as the medical, photovoltaic and food industry fields. Unfortunately, due to the unavoidable con...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - September 8, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
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Publication date: October 2018Source: Progress in Materials Science, Volume 98Author(s): (Source: Progress in Materials Science)
Source: Progress in Materials Science - September 7, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
Hybrid spintronic materials: Growth, structure and properties
This article reviews recent progress of the research on a selection of hybrid spintronic systems including those based on ferromagnetic metal (FM) and alloys, half-metallic materials, and two-dimensional (2D) materials. FM and alloys have spontaneous magnetization and usually high Curie temperature (Tc), half-metallic materials possess high spin polarization near the Fermi level (EF), and the 2D materials have unique band structures such as the Fermi Dirac cone and valley degree of freedom of the charge carriers. Enormous progress has been achieved in terms of synthesising the epitaxial hybrid spintronic materials and reve...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - August 26, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
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Publication date: August 2018Source: Progress in Materials Science, Volume 97Author(s): (Source: Progress in Materials Science)
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 20, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
Nanomaterials as photothermal therapeutic agents
Publication date: Available online 11 July 2018Source: Progress in Materials ScienceAuthor(s): Junqi Chen, Chengyun Ning, Zhengnan Zhou, Peng Yu, Ye Zhu, Guoxin Tan, Chuanbin MaoAbstractCuring cancer has been one of the greatest conundrums in the modern medical field. To reduce side-effects associated with the traditional cancer therapy such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy, photothermal therapy (PTT) has been recognized as one of the most promising treatments for cancer over recent years. PTT relies on ablation agents such as nanomaterials with a photothermal effect, for converting light into heat. In this way, elevated t...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 12, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
Titanium Dioxide Nanostructures for Photoelectrochemical Applications
Publication date: Available online 10 July 2018Source: Progress in Materials ScienceAuthor(s): Shaohua Shen, Jie Chen, Meng Wang, Xia Sheng, Xiangyan Chen, Xinjian Feng, Samuel S. MaoAbstractThis review comprehensively summarized the progresses in the design and modification of titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanostructures as photoelectrode materials for photoelectrochemstry (PEC) applications, mainly in solar-fuel conversion. Various kinds of TiO2 nanostructures including the nanoparticulate, one-dimenstional (nanowires, nanorods, nanotubes), two-dimensional (nanobelt, nanoribbon, nanosheet), three-dimensional (meso/nanoporous, ...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 11, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
Elastic constant determination of unidirectional composite via ultrasonic bulk wave through transmission measurements: A review
Publication date: Available online 20 April 2018Source: Progress in Materials ScienceAuthor(s): David A.P. Paterson, Winifred Ijomah, James F.C. WindmillAbstractThe determination of the elastic constants of unidirectional carbon fibre composite via immersion based ultrasound is an established area with much literature. Existing literature reviews in this area discuss the extant literature but do not offer a deep review of the seminal publications during this period, but instead focus on reporting the contributions of the published literature. Thus, a gap in knowledge exists for a comprehensive literature review charting th...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 10, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
Grain-Boundary Kinetics: A Unified Approach
Publication date: Available online 8 June 2018Source: Progress in Materials ScienceAuthor(s): Jian Han, Spencer L. Thomas, David J. SrolovitzAbstractGrain boundaries (GBs) are central defects for describing polycrystalline materials, and playing major role in a wide-range of physical properties of polycrystals. Control over GB kinetics provides effective means to tailor polycrystal properties through material processing. While many approaches describe different GB kinetic phenomena, this review provides a unifying concept for a wide range of GB kinetic behavior. Our approach rests on a disconnection description of GB kinet...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 10, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
Recent Development in Lead-Free Perovskite Piezoelectric Bulk Materials
Publication date: Available online 30 June 2018Source: Progress in Materials ScienceAuthor(s): Ting Zheng, Jiagang Wu, Dingquan Xiao, Jianguo ZhuAbstractThe elimination of lead in piezoelectric applications remains challenging. Since the advances in the piezoelectricity were found in the perovskite family in 2000, studies into lead-free piezoelectric materials have grown exponentially in the fields of condensed matter physics and materials science. In this Review, we highlighted the compelling physical properties of lead-free piezoelectric perovskite materials and summarized their state-of-the-art progress, with an emphasi...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 10, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
On the morphology and structure formation of carbon fibers from polymer precursor systems
Publication date: Available online 6 July 2018Source: Progress in Materials ScienceAuthor(s): Muhannad Al Aiti, Dieter Jehnichen, Dieter Fischer, Harald Brünig, Gert HeinrichAbstractThis review paper summarizes and critically discusses the morphology and structure formation of carbon fibers (CFs) from polymer precursor systems. Throughout this review, we focus on the key mutual interactions between the polymeric precursor systems, their physically determined processability into filaments, the thermally initiated crystal conversion mechanisms, as well as the morphological and physical properties of the resulting CFs and gr...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 10, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
On the coupling between martensitic transformation and plasticity in NiTi: Experiments and continuum based modelling
Publication date: Available online 7 July 2018Source: Progress in Materials ScienceAuthor(s): P. Šittner, P. Sedlák, H. Seiner, P. Sedmák, J. Pilch, R. Delville, L. Heller, L. KadeřávekAbstractRecent macroscopic experimental and theoretical evidence on the stress-strain-temperature behavior of NiTi beyond the strain recoverability limits (large strain, high stress, high temperature), where reversible martensitic transformation tends to proceed together with irreversible plastic deformation processes, is reviewed. Model predictions on the transformation – plasticity coupling are laid out based on the mathematical the...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 10, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
Interdiffusion along grain boundaries – Diffusion Induced Grain Boundary Migration, low temperature homogenization and reactions in nanostructured thin films
Publication date: Available online 7 July 2018Source: Progress in Materials ScienceAuthor(s): D.L. Beke, Yu. Kaganovskii, G.L. KatonaAbstractInterdiffusion along grain boundaries can lead to shift of grain boundaries in form of Grain Boundary Diffusion Induced Grain Boundary Migration, DIGM, in systems forming wide range solid solutions, and to the Grain Boundary Diffusion Induced Solid State Reactions, in systems containing intermetallic phases. If, during above processes, the grain size of the sample is smaller than the double of the migration distance complete homogenization can also be reached (cold homogenization). At...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 10, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
Transparent glass-ceramics functionalized by dispersed crystals
Publication date: August 2018Source: Progress in Materials Science, Volume 97Author(s): Xiaofeng Liu, Jiajia Zhou, Shifeng Zhou, Yuanzheng Yue, Jianrong QiuAbstractTransparent glass ceramics (TGCs) with minimized scattering loss offer the combined characteristics of both glasses and (transparent) ceramics. The functionalities of the dispered crystals make TGCs a new generation of tailorable optical materials with a wide range of applications from optics to photonics. Most of conventional glass ceramics (GCs), e.g., silicate glass ceramics, contain crystals involving both network formers and modifiers, and they are known fo...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 10, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
The potential of hyaluronic acid in immunoprotection and immunomodulation: Chemistry, processing and function
Publication date: August 2018Source: Progress in Materials Science, Volume 97Author(s): Fernanda Zamboni, Silvia Vieira, Rui L. Reis, J. Miguel Oliveira, Maurice N. CollinsAbstractHyaluronic acid (HA) is a glycosaminoglycan that is found in extracellular tissue in many parts of the body. It is a material of increasing importance to biomaterials science and is finding applications in diverse areas ranging from tissue culture scaffolds to cosmetic materials. This paper reviews the recent research on the role of HA as a immunoprotective and immunomodulatory biomaterial and the importance of HA in combating immune related dise...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 10, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
Recent progress on the characterization of the high-pressure behaviour of AVO4 orthovanadates
Publication date: August 2018Source: Progress in Materials Science, Volume 97Author(s): Daniel Errandonea, Alka B. GargAbstractAVO4 orthovanadates are materials of fundamental and technological importance due to the large variety of functional properties exhibited by them. These materials have potential applications such as scintillators, thermophosphors, photocatalysts, and cathodoluminescence materials among others. They are also used as laser-host crystals. Studies at high pressures and temperatures are helpful for understanding the physical properties of the solid state, in particular, the phase behaviour of AVO4 mater...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 10, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
