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How We Develop: Developmental Systems and the Emergence of Complex Behaviors
Forget the “nature vs nurture” debate, learn the developmental systems perspective in this special collection, which aims to help scientists, parents, teachers, and policy makers understand child development.
Borrowing Ideas from Nature: Sustainable Packaging Materials Inspired by Plant Cuticles
Plant cuticle-inspired composites as sustainable alternative to traditional plastics for packaging applications.
µ-Scale Classifying
The new design of an air classifier allows a fineness range from 200 μm to 2 μm.
Deformation-Induced Supersaturation During High-Pressure Torsion
Bulk nanostructured materials have been the subject of extensive research over the past couple of decades due to their extraordinary mechanical and functional properties.
Nano- and Micro-Mechanical Properties of Ultrafine-Grained Materials
This review summarizes the available experimental results showing enhancements in strength and ductility in a range of UFG metals after several different SPD processing procedures.
Highlights of the MRS Fall Meeting 2016, Boston
Society is at a crossroads with many topics such as sustainability, energy, medicine, and healthcare. Material science offers many solutions to these problems.
A Nanoindentation Approach for the Extraction of Flow Curves
This study aims to provide evidence that a multiple sharp tip approach can be used to extract the stress/strain behavior of metals independent of their microstructure.
NanoSPD7 in Sydney 2017
The International NanoSPD Steering Committee and the Local Organising Committee invite you to attend NanoSPD7 to be held in Sydney on 2–7 July 2017.
Exfoliation of Graphene in Volatile Solvents Using Aromatic Surfactants
A multidisciplinary group led by Andrea Liscio at CNR, Bolgna, Italy, has reported that adding aromatic surfactants promotes the exfoliation of few-layers graphene nanosheets in low-boiling organic solvents.
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