Huge local elastic strains in bulk nanostructured pure zirconia materials

Bulk Behavior of Nanostructured Materials

The Impact of Bulk Nanostructured Materials in Modern Research

An analysis was conducted to evaluate the impact of the broad field of severe plastic deformation, ultrafine-grained materials and nanostructured materials on modern Materials Science. Although this research area was first introduced only two decades ago, citation data are used for major journals in Materials Science to demonstrate that the field has had a remarkable impact. Specifically, the a...

Bulk nanostructured thermoelectric materials: current research and future prospects

Thermoelectrics have long been recognized as a potentially transformative energy conversion technology due to their ability to convert heat directly into electricity. Despite this potential, thermoelectric devices are not in common use because of their low efficiency, and today they are only used in niche markets where reliability and simplicity are more important than performance. However, the...

The first bulk nanostructured metal

Nanotechnology has become an overused adjective, but there has been justified excitement in the context of structural materials. A class of iron alloys has been discovered in which a high density of strong interfaces can be created by heat-treatment alone. The packing of interfaces is so large, and the fact that there is an intrinsic work hardening mechanism in the structure, leads to remarkabl...

Heat Conduction in Nanostructured Materials Predicted by Phonon Bulk Mean Free Path Distribution

We develop a computational framework, based on the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE), with the ability to compute thermal transport in nanostructured materials of any geometry using, as the only input, the bulk cumulative thermal conductivity. The main advantage of our method is twofold. First, while the scattering times and dispersion curves are unknown for most materials, the phonon mean fre...