Internal structure – Na storage mechanisms – Electrochemical performance relations in carbons
Publication date: August 2018Source: Progress in Materials Science, Volume 97Author(s): Clement Bommier, David Mitlin, Xiulei JiAbstractThis review focuses on carbon-based sodium ion battery (NIB) negative electrodes, emphasizing the internal structure – Na storage mechanisms – electrochemical performance relations. We bring a unique vantage to the ever-expanding field of NIB anode literature: To quantify the critical emphasis on the structure – properties interdependence, we provide comprehensive data comparisons of representative published studies. This is accomplished through a series of “Master Plots”, which ...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 10, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
Magnetostrictive polymer composites: Recent advances in materials, structures and properties
Publication date: August 2018Source: Progress in Materials Science, Volume 97Author(s): Rani Elhajjar, Chiu-Tai Law, Alessandro PegorettiAbstractMagnetostrictive polymer composites (MPCs) are a class of materials having the ability to simultaneously change dimensions, elastic and/or electromagnetic properties under the presence of a magnetic field. Their advantages over bulk magnetostrictive metals are high resistivity, extended frequency response, low weight, ease of formability and improved mechanical properties. In this review, advances in MPCs and their applications since the year 2000 are presented. A wide range of re...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 10, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
Polyurethane nanocomposite based gas barrier films, membranes and coatings: A review on synthesis, characterization and potential applications
Publication date: August 2018Source: Progress in Materials Science, Volume 97Author(s): Mangala Joshi, Bapan Adak, B.S. ButolaAbstractPolyurethane (PU) and its nanocomposites based gas barrier films and coatings have established a distinctive position among various technologically important materials due to their large-scale potential applications. This review aims at highlighting the gas barrier property of polyurethane nanocomposite (PUNC) based films, membranes and coatings containing platelet-shaped fillers such as clays and graphene in PU matrix. The other fillers such as CNT, POSS, metal nanoparticles and nanocellulo...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 10, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
High-performance SnSe thermoelectric materials: Progress and future challenge
Publication date: August 2018Source: Progress in Materials Science, Volume 97Author(s): Zhi-Gang Chen, Xiaolei Shi, Li-Dong Zhao, Jin ZouAbstractThermoelectric materials offer an alternative opportunity to tackle the energy crisis and environmental problems by enabling the direct solid-state energy conversion. As a promising candidate with full potentials for the next generation thermoelectrics, tin selenide (SnSe) and its associated thermoelectric materials have been attracted extensive attentions due to their ultralow thermal conductivity and high electrical transport performance (power factor). To provide a thorough ove...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 10, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
Towards the design of high-performance plant fibre composites
Publication date: August 2018Source: Progress in Materials Science, Volume 97Author(s): Alain Bourmaud, Johnny Beaugrand, Darshil U. Shah, Vincent Placet, Christophe BaleyAbstractFor the past 15 years, there has been tremendous interest and technological development concerning biocomposites. Plant fibres can be derived from a multitude of natural agro-sources, with the preferred choice as a composite reinforcement often being driven by abundance, geographical location, and historical use. While from a product designer's or engineer's point of view, all plant cell walls are 'similar', they have indeed substantial morpholo...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 10, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
Polymer/SiO2 nanocomposites: Production and applications
Publication date: August 2018Source: Progress in Materials Science, Volume 97Author(s): Shadpour Mallakpour, Mina NaghdiAbstractAt the present modern age, perhaps nanocomposites (NC)s are the most attractive materials which hold their situation in almost all of our life’s aspects. Among different kinds of the NCs, polymer based NCs are the most prominent one and have more adherents. Polymers are prepared via easily and relatively inexpensive routes, and have many favorable properties, such as light weight, ductility, and flexibility. The outstanding properties presented by the polymer/SiO2 NC (PSNC)s prompted us to focus...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 10, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
Corrosion in the molten fluoride and chloride salts and materials development for nuclear applications
Publication date: August 2018Source: Progress in Materials Science, Volume 97Author(s): Shaoqiang Guo, Jinsuo Zhang, Wei Wu, Wentao ZhouAbstractNext-generation nuclear reactor concepts and advanced techniques for reprocessing spent nuclear fuel (SNF) are drawing great attention in the nuclear field. Molten halide salts have been proposed as the fuel solvent and coolants for many molten salt reactor (MSR) concepts, and the electrolyte for the electrochemical separation of the SNF. The major concern of using molten salts is the corrosion of the structural materials imposed by these extreme environments. Materials corrosion i...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 10, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
Recent advancements in the development of bifunctional electrocatalysts for oxygen electrodes in unitized regenerative fuel cells (URFCs)
Publication date: October 2018Source: Progress in Materials Science, Volume 98Author(s): Yan-Jie Wang, Baizeng Fang, Xiaomin Wang, Anna Ignaszak, Yuyu Liu, Aijun Li, Lei Zhang, Jiujun ZhangAbstractAn ever-increasing energy demand has stimulated intense research into electrochemical technologies for both energy storage and conversion such as unitized regenerative fuel cells (URFCs). Due to its high efficiency, low cost, and low environmental impact, the URFC, which combines a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) with a polymer electrolyte water electrolyzer (PEWE), has been regarded as an important energy technolo...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 10, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
Metastable Si-B-C-N ceramics and their matrix composites developed by inorganic route based on mechanical alloying: Fabrication, microstructures, properties and their relevant basic scientific issues
Publication date: October 2018Source: Progress in Materials Science, Volume 98Author(s): Dechang Jia, Bin Liang, Zhihua Yang, Yu ZhouAbstractThe development of novel high-temperature structural and multifunctional thermal protection materials for harsh environment applications, such as high-temperature oxidation, severe thermal shock, ablation by combustion gas flow etc., is one of the urgent needs of the modern aerospace industry. Ceramic matrix composites such as Cf/(C, SiC, Si3N4), SiCf/ZrB2, SiCp/(Si3N4, HfB2) have received much attention in recent years. Coincidently, metastable silicoboron carbonitride (Si-B-C-N) cer...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 10, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
Fresnoite glass-ceramics – A review
Publication date: October 2018Source: Progress in Materials Science, Volume 98Author(s): Wolfgang Wisniewski, Katrin Thieme, Christian RüsselAbstractThe crystallization of fresnoite from glasses enables to produce a wide variety of materials including piezoelectric glass-ceramics due to the aligned growth of these crystals in the amorphous matrix. The crystal structure of fresnoite leads to interesting pyroelectric, piezoelectric and non-linear optical properties and is one of the few known non-ferroelectrics which can be easily produced as polycrystalline but polar materials. This review provides a summary of the propert...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 10, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
Fatigue and fracture behavior of bulk metallic glasses and their composites
Publication date: October 2018Source: Progress in Materials Science, Volume 98Author(s): Haoling Jia, Gongyao Wang, Shuying Chen, Yanfei Gao, Weidong Li, Peter K. LiawAbstractA fundamental understanding of the fatigue and fracture behavior of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) and their composites is of critical significance for designing new BMG systems and developing new manufacturing and processing techniques so as to broaden the scope of applications of BMGs and their composites. However, the fatigue and fracture studies on BMGs are limited so far, compared to other mechanical properties. The present work reviews the fatigue...
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 7, 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 7, 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 7, 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 5, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
