The long-term success of prosthetics greatly relies on the biomechanical/medical properties
of the implanted material. Inadequate biocompatibility or poor wear resistance can lead to …

For decades, enormous investigation effort has been devoted to the fabrication of new
ceramic matrix composites with enhanced mechanical properties. One of the most explored …

Biological scaffolds with tunable electrical and mechanical properties are of great interest in
many different fields, such as regenerative medicine, biorobotics and biosensing. In this …

Ceramics suffer the curse of extreme brittleness and demand new design philosophies and
novel concepts of manufacturing to overcome such intrinsic drawbacks, in order to take …

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been considered as a new promising reinforcement for
ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) over the last decade, owing to their exceptional …

An ex situ strategy for fabrication of graphene oxide (GO)/metal oxide hybrids without
assistance of surfactant is introduced. Guided by this strategy, GO/Al2O3 hybrids are …

The thermal conductivities of carbon nanotube (CNT)–copper (Cu) composites are greatly
increased for compositions containing up to 1 vol.% CNT and remain above the value for …

The defect-type evolution and gradual increase in nanodefects in the outer walls of
multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) in a chemically oxidizing environment were …

Ingenious microstructure design and appropriate multicomponent strategies are still
challenging for advanced electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding materials with …

The interface in multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT)–metal matrix composites
significantly effects the interfacial thermal diffusion characteristics vary due to the presence …