A unified picture of different application areas for incipient metals is presented. This
unconventional material class includes several main‐group chalcogenides, such as GeTe …

When cooled or pressurized, polymer melts exhibit a tremendous reduction in molecular
mobility. If the process is performed at a constant rate, the structural relaxation time of the …

The rate at which a nonequilibrium system decreases its free energy is commonly ascribed
to molecular relaxation processes, arising from spontaneous rearrangements at the …

Fabricating artificial materials that mimic the structures and properties of tendons is of great
significance. Possessing a tensile stress of approximately 10.0 MPa and a water content of …

Phase change memory has been developed into a mature technology capable of storing
information in a fast and non-volatile way,–, with potential for neuromorphic computing …

Transparent glass ceramics (TGCs) with minimized scattering loss offer the combined
characteristics of both glasses and (transparent) ceramics. The functionalities of the …

Oxide crystal ceramics are commonly hard and brittle, when they are bent they typically
fracture. Such mechanical response limits the use of these materials in emerging fields like …

Polymer coatings of nanometric thickness are about to enter in everyday life as part of a
wide range of applications such as protective layers, stimuli-responsive membranes or as …

A great success of solid state physics comes from the characterization of crystal structures in
the reciprocal (wave vector) space. The power of structural characterization in Fourier space …

Oxide ceramics are widely used as thermal protection materials due to their excellent
structural properties and earth abundance. However, in extremely high‐temperature …