Knowledge and foundational understanding of phenomena associated with the behavior of
materials at the nanoscale is one of the key scientific challenges toward a sustainable …

Titanium (Ti) and its alloys are attractive for a wide variety of structural and functional
applications owing to excellent specific strength, toughness and stiffness, and corrosion …

The initiation and propagation of short cracks are critical to the detailed understanding of the
failure mechanisms of engineering materials and structures. Therefore, for a safety critical …

Electrochemical conversion of CO2 offers a sustainable route for producing fuels and
chemicals. Pd-based catalysts are effective for converting CO2 into formate at low …

Crystal facets, vertices and edges govern the energy landscape of metal surfaces and thus
the chemical interactions on the surface,. The facile absorption and desorption of hydrogen …

The phase transition of Co3O4 into CoO is demonstrated by the impact of shock waves, and
the mechanism is studied and reported. The required quantity of Co3O4 nanoparticle (NPs) …

Hydrogen sensors are a prerequisite for the implementation of a hydrogen economy due to
the high flammability of hydrogen–air mixtures. They are to comply with the increasingly …

Driven phase separation in ion intercalation materials is known to result in different non-
equilibrium phase morphologies, such as intercalation waves and shrinking-core structures …

Dislocations play a vital role in the mechanical behavior of crystalline materials during
deformation. To capture dislocation phenomena across all relevant scales, a multiscale …

At the nanoscale, elastic strain and crystal defects largely influence the properties and
functionalities of materials. The ability to predict the structural evolution of catalytic …