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 5, 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 5, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
Fatigue and Fracture Behavior of Bulk Metallic Glasses and Their Composites
Publication date: Available online 2 July 2018Source: Progress in Materials ScienceAuthor(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 fa...
Source: Progress in Materials Science - July 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2018 Category: Materials Science Source Type: research
