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Materials, Volume 11, Issue 2

February 2018 - 157 articles

Cover Story: Metal–elastomer interfacial systems—often encountered in stretchable electronics—demonstrate remarkably high interface fracture toughness values. This paper unravels the underlying dissipative mechanisms through a systematic numerical/experimental multi-scale approach. In particular, the experimental studies conclusively reveal the essential role of fibrillation mechanisms at the micro-meter scale during the metal–elastomer delamination process. Micro-scale numerical analyses on single and multiple fibrils show that the dynamic release of the stored elastic energy by multiple fibril fracture—including the interaction with the adjacent deforming bulk elastomer and its highly nonlinear behaviour—provide a mechanistic understanding of the high work-of-separation. View this paper
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Articles (157)

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,117 Views
10 Pages

TopUp SERS Substrates with Integrated Internal Standard

  • Sophie Patze,
  • Uwe Huebner,
  • Karina Weber,
  • Dana Cialla-May and
  • Juergen Popp

24 February 2018

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is known as a molecular-specific and highly sensitive method. In order to enable the routine application of SERS, powerful SERS substrates are of great importance. Within this manuscript, a TopUp SERS substr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
204 Citations
10,452 Views
11 Pages

24 February 2018

Bone defects caused by trauma or pathological events are major clinical and socioeconomic burdens. Thus, the efforts of regenerative medicine have been focused on the development of non-biodegradable materials resembling bone features. Consequently,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,972 Views
11 Pages

24 February 2018

A meso-mechanical damage model is developed to predict the tensile damage behaviors of bulk metallic glass composites (BMGCs) toughened by ductile particles. In this model, the deformation behaviors of the BMG matrix and particles are described by th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
7,035 Views
10 Pages

24 February 2018

The microstructure with homogeneously distributed grains and less prior particle boundary (PPB) precipitates is always desired for powder metallurgy superalloys after hot isostatic pressing (HIPping). In this work, we studied the effects of HIPping p...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,622 Views
12 Pages

24 February 2018

Magnesium alloys offer a favored alternative to steels and aluminum alloys due to their low density and relatively high specific strength. Their application potentials are, however, impeded by poor formability at room temperature. In the current work...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,281 Views
14 Pages

24 February 2018

Modifying bio-based degradable polymers such as polylactide (PLA) and poly(hydroxybutyrate-co-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV) with non-degradable agents will compromise the 100% degradability of their resultant composites. This work developed a facile and so...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
39 Citations
8,655 Views
7 Pages

Bottom–Up Electrodeposition of Large-Scale Nanotwinned Copper within 3D Through Silicon Via

  • Fu-Long Sun,
  • Zhi-Quan Liu,
  • Cai-Fu Li,
  • Qing-Sheng Zhu,
  • Hao Zhang and
  • Katsuaki Suganuma

23 February 2018

This paper is the first to report a large-scale directcurrent electrodeposition of columnar nanotwinned copper within through silicon via (TSV) with a high aspect ratio (~4). With this newly developed technique, void-free nanotwinned copper array cou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Citations
8,291 Views
18 Pages

23 February 2018

High-entropy alloys (HEAs) are promising structural materials due to their excellent comprehensive performances. The use of mechanically alloyed powders to deposit HEA coatings through atmospheric plasma spraying (APS) is an effective approach that c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,024 Views
12 Pages

23 February 2018

In this work, a three dimensional (3D) graphene-nitrogen doped carbon nanotubes (G-NCNTs) network was successfully fabricated on the surface of a glassy carbon (GC) electrode using the pulse potential method (PPM) in a graphene oxide-nitrogen doped c...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
44 Citations
8,168 Views
33 Pages

23 February 2018

In a recent report, the World Health Organisation (WHO) classified antibiotic resistance as one of the greatest threats to global health, food security, and development. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) remains at the core of this t...

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