This month’s Advanced Engineering Materials covers and top papers!

This month’s Advanced Engineering Materials covers and top papers!
To increase the structural efficiency of composite aircraft requires further optimization of aeronautical structures to maximally exploit the material performance.
This Special Section of Advanced Engineering Materials presents reviews and original research on topics related to the texture and microstructure of engineering materials.
The ability to fabricate a multilayer functional ceramic with tailored pore structure using the preceramic-paper technology in conjunction with calendaring, lamination and sintering is demonstrated.
Strain-sensitive ‘smart’ materials that can monitor their own strain and internal damage state.
This month’s Advanced Engineering Materials covers and top papers!
3D metallic glass nano-lattices are fabricated which are composed of hollow beams of sputtered metallic glass and which are 20 times lighter than their bulk-level counterparts.
A sensor foil made from polymers withstands bending to a radius of 11 mm, and elongation by 1.4% without losing functionality.
It is shown that polymer such as Teflon can be distributed around each grain of ZnO, and this, in turn, allows for use to form a composite material with an electrical conduction that is blocked at low fields and conducts at high field through the quantum mechanical process known as “tunneling”.
Ni-based superalloys, hitherto utilized exclusively for high temperature applications, e.g. as turbine blades in aero engines, are used to prepare heat-resistant membranes.