The AZoM.com "Materials Thought Leaders" series is a selection of articles that cover the key technology areas where materials are making an impact and where they will make an increasing impact. All the articles are written by experts who have been invited as recognised leaders in their fields to provide a "state of the art" contribution.
Professor Scott Bunch talks AZoM about the properties of graphene that make it a useful material in molecular sieving and what applications this may have in the future.
By G.P. Thomas
19 Oct 2012
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.
By G.P. Thomas
16 Oct 2012
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.
By Professor Jim Low
4 Sep 2012
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).
By Professor Wei Min Huang
25 May 2012
In this interview, 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.
By Dr. Johannes Carolus Jansen
4 Apr 2012
In this interview, Dr Thomas Lippert tell AZoM 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.
By T. Lippert and C.W. Schneider
14 Mar 2012
In this interview, Prof. Yoon-Bo Shim of South Korea's Pusan National University discusses how conductive polymers have seen great advancement during the last two decades.
By Prof. Yoon-Bo Shim
4 Mar 2012
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.
By Prof Jung Ho Je
12 Feb 2012
Nature’s porous materials, bone, coral and cork, are synonymous with strong and lightweight structures.
By Dr Andrew Kennedy
1 Feb 2012
In this interview, Dr. Carmen Alvarez-Lorenzo discusses three research lines that are being currently carried out in the R&D Pharma Group of the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
By Dr. Carmen Alvarez-Lorenzo
14 Dec 2011