Browsing by Department "Materials Science and Engineering"
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(2020-04-22)The fact that hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) has remarkable thermal transport property, mechanical property and chemical stability provides endless possibilities in nanoscale thermal device designing. In this study, we ...
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(2022-06-06)Nuclear fuels power all the commercial carbon-free energy plants and contribute to the fight against climate change. A comprehensive understanding of the fracture behavior of nuclear fuels during normal and transient ...
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(2022-04-13)Direct Energy Deposition (DED) is a metal additive manufacturing (AM) technique with the ability to fabricate compositional gradients through in-situ alloying. To fabricate functional gradients, it is necessary to understand ...
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(2014-05-07)Nanomaterials are expected to overcome the challenges imposed from bulk materials in the design of electronic devices. With the help of nanotechnology smaller, lighter, and more energy efficient materials can be used in ...
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(2021-09-13)Magnesium (Mg) and its alloys are promising lightweight and high specific strength structural materials, especially for transportation and aerospace applications. However, pure Mg and many Mg alloys exhibit low room-temperature ...
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(2022-02-07)There is an increasing demand for compact and lightweight actuators in aerospace and automotive industries. Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are energy-dense active materials with the potential to replace current actuators through ...
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(2017-10-09)Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are promising candidates for solid state actuators since they have the highest energy density among all active materials. However, before SMA solid state actuators can be used in practical ...
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(2019-07-29)Since the addition of Hf or Zr provides a cost-effective alternative to NiTi alloyed with Pd, Pt and Au, due to the high cost of the latter, NiTiHf and NiTiZr alloys have recently attracted considerable attention [1]. In ...
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(2023-01-16)The production of eco-friendly materials, in particular, sugar-based polymers, has gained extensive attention because of the great abundance of natural carbohydrates and polysaccharide resources with low cost, high degrees ...
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(2019-07-24)Highly luminescent UV-curable nanocomposites with parallel alignment of colloidal nanorods possessing dipolar emission are desired for applications in luminescent solar concentrators. Here, we show that full alignment of ...
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(2020-04-24)Alumina-forming materials, such as FeCrAl-based alloys, Ni, Co or Fe based superalloys, have been long studied because of their excellent oxidation resistance and promising applications at high temperatures. Recently, ...
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(2022-04-19)Additive manufacturing (AM) is a disruptive technology leveraging innovations of the past and present to enable the design and fabrication of the new standard for components across industries. However, the successful ...
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(2022-07-10)Polymer materials can be an effective resource for thermal management applications. Polymers are generally thermal insulators in their bulk form (amorphous or partially crystalline), but they can have a large range of ...
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(2023-03-21)Glass surface damage is a major issue for glass makers, suppliers, and end users. The cracking behavior that governs glass surface damage is not yet completely understood. In many cases, fracture results from a sharp contact ...
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(2021-12-09)The overarching goal of this work is to investigate the processing, structure and properties of compositionally-graded Co-Cr-ΔMo bulk structures fabricated via Directed Energy Deposition (DED) additive manufacturing. ...
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(2016-04-08)Several of the most catastrophic process safety incidents, such as Bhopal and most recently Texas West Fertilizer explosion, were initiated by runaway reactions. Consequences of such incidents include, fatalities, environmental ...
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(2017-12-12)The impact of radiation-induced effects on the properties of alloys fabricated using additive manufacturing (AM) was evaluated through the implementation of ion beam irradiation testing followed by electron backscatter ...
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(2019-07-22)We report on highly functional, electrospun fibers of hydrogen-bonding polymers which exhibit composition-dependent mechanical properties and sustained antioxidant activity. The fibers were electrospun from dimethylformamide ...
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(2017-12-12)Corrosion control of buried assets usually involves a redundant shield: a coating system as a physical barrier, and a cathodic protection system as an ad hoc defense. Characterization and localization of defects in the ...
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(2017-12-04)Palladium hydrogen system has unique catalytic activities and up to 1:1 hydrogen adsorption capability. It is studied in the context of hydrogen embrittlement, which is a subset of stress corrosion cracking, with classical ...