Structural materials and hybridization.

Selecting parental materials for hybridization by measuring genetic diversity

Selecting parental materials for hybridization by discriminant function

Novel Optical Device Materials – Molecular-Level Hybridization

Self-heating structural materials

Self-heating structural materials, being useful for deicing and space heating, are reviewed. They include cement–matrix and polymer–matrix composites that are rendered self-heating through enhancing their effectiveness for resistance heating. The enhancement is attained by the use of electrically conductive fibers (continuous or discontinuous) and interlayers. The interlaminar interface between...

Bioinspired structural materials.

Natural structural materials are built at ambient temperature from a fairly limited selection of components. They usually comprise hard and soft phases arranged in complex hierarchical architectures, with characteristic dimensions spanning from the nanoscale to the macroscale. The resulting materials are lightweight and often display unique combinations of strength and toughness, but have prove...