Severe plastic deformation (SPD) is effective in producing bulk ultrafine-grained and
nanostructured materials with large densities of lattice defects. This field, also known as …

The ability to change material properties through phase engineering has long been sought,
with the goal of ad hoc tunability of the physical and chemical properties of the transformed …

The well known trade-off between hardness and toughness (resistance to fracture) makes
simultaneous improvement of both properties challenging, especially in diamond. The …

Abstract 2D materials and their heterostructures (HSs) hold great promises for a number of
future applications, owing to their unique layered structure and excellent properties, both of …

Abstract 2D materials possess wide‐tuning properties ranging from semiconducting and
metallization to superconducting, etc., which are determined by their structure, empowering …

Using compressive mechanical forces, such as pressure, to induce crystallographic phase
transitions and mesostructural changes while modulating material properties in …

Numerous experiments have documented that combination of severe plastic deformation
and high mean pressure during high-pressure torsion in rotational metallic, ceramic, or …

Photocatalysis on semiconductors using solar energy sources provides a clean technology
to produce hydrogen from water splitting. Although zirconia (ZrO2) is a semiconductor oxide …

Diamond is a prototypical ultrawide band gap semiconductor, but turns into a
superconductor with a critical temperature T c≈ 4 K near 3% boron doping [EA Ekimov et …

The challenge of developing highly thermally conductive polymeric composites to meet the
growing thermal management demands has recently attracted a lot of attention. To achieve …