MATERIALS SCIENCE: Pores for Strength

Nanoanalytics for materials science

With the progress in fabricating more energy efficient and sustainable devices, an increased need for advanced materials and processing techniques arises that becomes increasingly challenging and demands for new analysis techniques. In particular excellent spatial resolution together with high-sensitivity chemical information at the nanoscale are of utmost importance for future developments [1]...

Materials Science Initiative Seminar: Materials for Tomorrow

Ultra-strength materials

Recent experiments on nanostructured materials, such as nanoparticles, nanowires, nanotubes, nanopillars, thin films, and nanocrystals have revealed a host of ‘‘ultra-strength” phenomena, defined by stresses in a material component generally rising up to a significant fraction > 1 10 of its ideal strength – the highest achievable stress of a defect-free crystal at zero temperature. While conven...

Designing toughness and strength for soft materials.

Soft materials, such as hydrogels, elastomers, and plastics, are pervasive in nature and society. For example, except for teeth, nails, and bones, all other components of the human body are hydrogels, and we eat, wear, and use soft materials as foods, clothes, shoes, and car tires, just to name a few, in our daily life. Although amorphous polymer chains endow soft materials with high flexibilit...

Linköpings universitet Materials Science Computational Materials Science from ab initio

Rajeev Ahuja use state-of-the-art theoretical methods to tackle complex material science systems at a very hight level of detail.