A Thought-leader Interview with Professor Nicole Grobert and Adrian T Murdock from the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford.
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In this Thought Leader interview with AZoM's Gary Thomas, Professor Paul Chu, director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston, talks about his work on high-temperature ceramic superconductors.
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Professor Scott Bunch talks to Gary Thomas about the properties of graphene that make it a useful material in molecular sieving and what applications this may have in the future.
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Diatoms are single-celled algae that possess a rigid, transparent shell made of silica that is patterned at the nanoscale. This diatom shell looks strikingly similar to a photonic crystal. Prof. Greg Rorrer talks about the potential uses of diatoms.
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MAX phases exhibit a unique combination of characteristics of both ceramics and metals with unusual mechanical, electrical and thermal properties making them suitable for numerous applications. However, the high-temperature stability has generated much controversy among researchers.
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After being severely and quasi-plastically distorted, shape memory materials (SMMs) are able to recover their original shape when a right stimulus is applied. This phenomenon is known as the shape memory effect (SME).
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This 'Thought Leader article by Dr. Johannes Carolus (John) Jansen, discusses membrane technology as a potential solution to problems related to energy efficiency and the environmentally friendly use of our limited resources.
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This 'Thought Leader' article by Dr Thomas Lippert tell us about Pulsed laser deposition (PLD), a growth technique in which the photon, characterized by pulse duration, laser wavelength and fluence, interacts with a bulk material.
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This "Thought Leader" contribution by Prof. Yoon-Bo Shim of South Korea's Pusan National University discusses how conductive polymers have seen great advancement during the last two decades.
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Phase contrast imaging (PCI) based on using synchrotron X-rays is an ideal method to visualize internal microstructure of various materials, in particular, of semiconductor materials. PCI spatial resolution has been greatly improved by the advent of modern synchrotron radiation (SR) sources...
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