One of the critical issues in orthopaedic regenerative medicine is the design of bone
scaffolds and implants that replicate the biomechanical properties of the host bones. Porous …

Self-propagating high-temperature synthesis (SHS) or combustion synthesis (CS) is a
rapidly developing research area. SHS materials are being used in various fields, including …

NiTi alloys have drawn significant attentions in biomedical and aerospace fields due to their
unique shape memory effect (SME), superelasticity (SE), damping characteristics, high …

Increased use of reconstruction procedures in orthopedics, due to trauma, tumor, deformity,
degeneration and an aging population, has caused a blossom, not only in surgical …

The binary skutterudite CoSb 3 is a narrow bandgap semiconductor thermoelectric (TE)
material with a relatively flat band structure and excellent electrical performance. However …

NiTi is categorized as a shape memory alloy that found interesting applications in vast areas
of engineering from aerospace to biomedical; the latter applications are due to its …

Ti-based alloys are finding ever-increasing applications in biomaterials due to their excellent
mechanical, physical and biological performance. Nowdays, low modulus β-type Ti-based …

This work presents a comparative study on the in-situ alloying of NiTi shape memory alloys
(SMAs) by directed energy deposition (DED), selective laser melting (SLM) and selective …

Considering only about one third of the world's energy consumption is effectively utilized for
functional uses, and the remaining is dissipated as waste heat, thermoelectric (TE) …

The existing methods of synthesis of thermoelectric (TE) materials remain constrained to
multi-step processes that are time and energy intensive. Here we demonstrate that …