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Flame retardant polymer materials: An update and the future for 3D printing developments Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 26.625) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Henri Vahabi; Fouad Laoutid; Mehrshad Mehrpouya; Mohammad Reza Saeb; Philippe Dubois
Fire safety has become a major concern due to the ubiquitous use of polymers. The development of flame retardant polymer materials has consequently experienced a huge growth in market size. New strategies and legislation have also been proposed to save lives and property. The science and economics of flame retardancy, fire regulations, and new technologies are under permanent evolution. This review
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Architected cellular materials: A review on their mechanical properties towards fatigue-tolerant design and fabrication Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 26.625) Pub Date : 2021-01-15 M. Benedetti; A. du Plessis; R.O. Ritchie; M. Dallago; S.M.J. Razavi; F. Berto
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Butterfly inspired functional materials Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 26.625) Pub Date : 2021-01-15 Zhuoyue Chen; Zhuohao Zhang; Yu Wang; Dongyu Xu; Yuanjin Zhao
As one of the most complex structures in nature, butterflies have attracted wide interest over the past few decades. Inspired by these delicate structures and the marvelous derived properties, scientists have investigated and biomimetic fabricated several designs to replicate the structure and to apply the functional features. Here, we present up-to-date researches concerning butterfly-inspired functional
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Polymer informatics: Current status and critical next steps Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 26.625) Pub Date : 2020-12-26 Lihua Chen; Ghanshyam Pilania; Rohit Batra; Tran Doan Huan; Chiho Kim; Christopher Kuenneth; Rampi Ramprasad
Artificial intelligence (AI) based approaches are beginning to impact several domains of human life, science and technology. Polymer informatics is one such domain where AI and machine learning (ML) tools are being used in the efficient development, design and discovery of polymers. Surrogate models are trained on available polymer data for instant property prediction, allowing screening of promising
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Porous ceramics: Light in weight but heavy in energy and environment technologies Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 26.625) Pub Date : 2020-11-28 Yu Chen; Nannan Wang; Oluwafunmilola Ola; Yongde Xia; Yanqiu Zhu
Benefitting from the combined properties of intrinsic ceramic materials and advanced porous configuration, lightweight porous ceramics with porosity ranging from 2.3 to 99% and pore size distribution within 3 nm - 3 mm exhibit low density, large specific surface area, high toughness, strong thermal shock resistance, good thermal insulation capability, excellent high temperature stability, and low dielectric
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Electrospun ultrafine fibers for advanced face masks Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 26.625) Pub Date : 2020-11-20 Zhenfang Zhang; Dongxiao Ji; Haijun He; Seeram Ramakrishna
The outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has triggered great global public health concern. Face masks are essential tools to reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2 from human to human. However, there are still challenges to prolong the serving life and maintain the filtering performance of the current commercial mask
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Fundamentals and application of solid-state phase transformations for advanced high strength steels containing metastable retained austenite Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 26.625) Pub Date : 2020-11-06 Zongbiao Dai; Hao Chen; Ran Ding; Qi Lu; Chi Zhang; Zhigang Yang; Sybrand van der Zwaag
Over many decades, significant efforts have been made to improve the strength-elongation product of advanced high strength steels (AHSSs) by creating tailored multi-phase microstructures. Successive solid-state phase transformations for steels with a well selected chemical composition turned out to be the key instrument in the realisation of such microstructures. In this contribution, we first provide
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Rechargeable alkaline zinc–manganese oxide batteries for grid storage: Mechanisms, challenges and developments Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 26.625) Pub Date : 2020-11-03 Matthew B. Lim; Timothy N. Lambert; Babu R. Chalamala
Rechargeable alkaline Zn–MnO2 (RAM) batteries are a promising candidate for grid-scale energy storage owing to their high theoretical energy density rivaling lithium-ion systems (∼400 Wh/L), relatively safe aqueous electrolyte, established supply chain, and projected costs below $100/kWh at scale. In practice, however, many fundamental chemical and physical processes at both electrodes make it difficult
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Non-noble-metal-based organic emitters for OLED applications Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 26.625) Pub Date : 2020-09-28 Dongcheng Chen; Wei Li; Lin Gan; Zhiheng Wang; Mengke Li; Shi-Jian Su
Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) employing purely organic functional materials indicate a low-cost manufacturing route towards the next-generation display and solid-state lighting owing to the avoidance of noble heavy metal complex phosphorescent emitters. In recent years, several mechanisms have been proposed to design high performance purely organic emitters. This new generation of purely organic
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Thermal conductivity of graphene-based polymer nanocomposites Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 26.625) Pub Date : 2020-09-22 Xingyi Huang; Chunyi Zhi; Ying Lin; Hua Bao; Guangning Wu; Pingkai Jiang; Yiu-Wing Mai
As a material possessing extremely high thermal conductivity, graphene has been considered as the ultimate filler for fabrication of highly thermally conductive polymer composites. In the past decade, graphene and its derivatives were demonstrated in many studies to be very effective in enhancing the thermal conductivity of various polymers. This paper reviews current progress in the development of
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High-Efficiency Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells: Materials, Devices and Applications Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 26.625) Pub Date : 2020-08-23 Yuqiang Liu; Yajuan Li; Yiliang Wu; Guangtao Yang; Luana Mazzarella; Paul Procel-Moya; Adele C. Tamboli; Klaus Weber; Mathieu Boccard; Olindo Isabella; Xinbo Yang; Baoquan Sun
Photovoltaic (PV) technology offers an economic and sustainable solution to the challenge of increasing energy demand in times of global warming. The world PV market is currently dominated by the homo-junction crystalline silicon (c-Si) PV technology based on high temperature diffused p-n junctions, featuring a low power conversion efficiency (PCE). Recent years have seen the successful development
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Three-dimensional interconnected networks for thermally conductive polymer composites: Design, preparation, properties, and mechanisms Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 26.625) Pub Date : 2020-08-12 Fei Zhang; Yiyu Feng; Wei Feng
With the development of science and technology, microelectronic components have evolved to become increasingly integrated and miniaturized. As a result, thermal management, which can seriously impact the function, reliability, and lifetime of such components, has become a critical issue. Recently, the use of polymer-based thermal interface materials (TIMs) in thermal management systems has attracted
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Recent progress in group III-nitride nanostructures: From materials to applications Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 26.625) Pub Date : 2020-07-17 Fei Chen; Xiaohong Ji; Shu Ping Lau
Group-III-nitride semiconductors, including AlN, GaN, InN and their ternary, quaternary compounds, are promising electronic and optoelectronic materials for the applications in light emitting diodes, lasers, field emitters, photodetectors, artificial photosynthesis, and solar cells. Owing to their direct bandgaps ranging from near infra-red to deep ultraviolet. In recent years, the growth of group-III
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Direct observation of electric and magnetic fields of functional materials Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 26.625) Pub Date : 2020-07-08 Daisuke Shindo; Zentaro Akase
Electron holography is a useful technique to directly visualize the electromagnetic fields in and around various functional materials at the nanometer scale. The precision and resolution of this technique have been drastically improved by using various specialized instruments. From in situ experiments applying electric current and voltage and using these specialized instruments, conductivity changes
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Laser engineering of biomimetic surfaces Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 26.625) Pub Date : 2020-06-20 E. Stratakis; J. Bonse; J. Heitz; J. Siegel; G.D. Tsibidis; E. Skoulas; A. Papadopoulos; A. Mimidis; A.-C. Joel; P. Comanns; J. Krüger; C. Florian; Y. Fuentes-Edfuf; J. Solis; W. Baumgartner
The exciting properties of micro- and nano-patterned surfaces found in natural species hide a virtually endless potential of technological ideas, opening new opportunities for innovation and exploitation in materials science and engineering. Due to the diversity of biomimetic surface functionalities, inspirations from natural surfaces are interesting for a broad range of applications in engineering
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All-dielectric materials and related nanophotonic applications Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 26.625) Pub Date : 2020-06-12 Jiahao Yan; Xinyue Liu; Churong Ma; Yingcong Huang; Guowei Yang
Generally, nanophotonics is associated with plasmonic materials and structures made of noble metals such as gold or silver. However, conventional plasmonic materials have several disadvantages restricting their applications. First, plasmonic materials like gold and silver suffer from high optical loss at optical frequencies. Second, noble metals are rare and not proper for large scale fabrication.
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Dynamic crosslinked rubbers for a green future: A material perspective Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 26.625) Pub Date : 2020-06-02 Alan M. Wemyss; Chris Bowen; Cédric Plesse; Cédric Vancaeyzeele; Giao T.M. Nguyen; Frédéric Vidal; Chaoying Wan
Conventional rubber products, such as tires, seals, tubing, and damping systems are manufactured via a vulcanization process, which forms covalently crosslinked network structures and ensures mechanical robustness, thermal stability and chemical resistance. However, the covalent networks are permanent and these products cannot be reprocessed or reshaped, which makes vulcanised rubbers one of the major
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Broad-band emission in metal halide perovskites: Mechanism, materials, and applications Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 26.625) Pub Date : 2020-03-20 Guojun Zhou; Binbin Su; Jinglong Huang; Qinyuan Zhang; Zhiguo Xia
Metal halide perovskites (MHPs) are in a blossoming status where their inherent optoelectronic properties are being revisited from the perspective of both fundamental science and practical application. In an attempt to boost the manipulating photoluminescence performance of MHPs, it is timely and vital to review the relation between structural attributes and the photo-physical phenomena for their unique
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Injectable scaffolds: Preparation and application in dental and craniofacial regeneration. Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 26.625) Pub Date : 2017-06-27 Bei Chang,Neelam Ahuja,Chi Ma,Xiaohua Liu
Injectable scaffolds are appealing for tissue regeneration because they offer many advantages over pre-formed scaffolds. This article provides a comprehensive review of the injectable scaffolds currently being investigated for dental and craniofacial tissue regeneration. First, we provide an overview of injectable scaffolding materials, including natural, synthetic, and composite biomaterials. Next
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Stimulus-responsive hydrogels: Theory, modern advances, and applications. Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 26.625) Pub Date : 2016-05-03 Michael C Koetting,Jonathan T Peters,Stephanie D Steichen,Nicholas A Peppas
Over the past century, hydrogels have emerged as effective materials for an immense variety of applications. The unique network structure of hydrogels enables very high levels of hydrophilicity and biocompatibility, while at the same time exhibiting the soft physical properties associated with living tissue, making them ideal biomaterials. Stimulus-responsive hydrogels have been especially impactful
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Spatially and temporally controlled hydrogels for tissue engineering Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 26.625) Pub Date : 2017-07-25 Jeroen Leijten, Jungmok Seo, Kan Yue, Grissel Trujillo-de Santiago, Ali Tamayol, Guillermo U. Ruiz-Esparza, Su Ryon Shin, Roholah Sharifi, Iman Noshadi, Mario Moisés Álvarez, Yu Shrike Zhang, Ali Khademhosseini
Recent years have seen tremendous advances in the field of hydrogel-based biomaterials. One of the most prominent revolutions in this field has been the integration of elements or techniques that enable spatial and temporal control over hydrogels’ properties and functions. Here, we critically review the emerging progress of spatiotemporal control over biomaterial properties towards the development
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