The last decade has seen the development of green materials, which intends to reduce the
human impact on the environment. Green polymers are obviously tendency subset of this …

Although indentation experiments have long been used to measure the hardness and
Young's modulus, the utility of this technique in analyzing the complete elastic–plastic …

This review summarises the key topics in the field of self-cleaning coatings, concentrating on
the materials that have been used in commercial applications and recent research that aims …

Indentation is a remarkably flexible mechanical test due to its relative experimental
simplicity. Coupled with advances in instrument development, ease of implementation has …

Although instrumented nanoindentation testing has been used to characterize the
mechanical properties of materials since the 1970s, the vast majority of the research …

This paper presents a critical review of the current work of experiment, theory of micro-
nanomechanics, and numerical analysis on characterizing mechanical properties of …

More than 60% of India's population relies on agriculture as their primary source of income,
making it the nation's most important economic sector. Rice husk (often abbreviated as RH) …

An atomic force microscopy (AFM) based technique is demonstrated for measuring the
elastic modulus of individual nanowires/nanotubes aligned on a solid substrate without …

In recent years, many theoretical and experimental studies have been carried out to develop
one of the most interesting aspects of the science and nanotechnology which is called …

Advanced composites, such as those used in aerospace applications, employ a high volume
fraction of aligned stiff fibers embedded in high-performance polymers. Unlike advanced …