Materials Science and Metallurgy
Papers of the Month
August, 2019 Superionic materials are simultaneously liquids and solids. In a compound the different components might melt independently, at different temperatures. In a collaboration between University of Cambridge and Nanjing...
22 June 2026
Papers of the Month
July, 2019 When a crystal is composed of parts that are oriented with respect to one another according to some symmetry rule, the crystal is said to be twinned. For...
22 June 2026
Papers of the Month
July, 2019 There is currently great interest in using materials that display pressure-driven thermal changes (barocaloric effects) for the purposes of refrigeration and air-conditioning, in order to replace the existing...
22 June 2026
Papers of the Month
June, 2019 The ceramic perovskite PMN-PT is a relaxor ferroelectric, whose piezoelectric properties are widely used in commercial actuators (PMN-PT = 0.68Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3–0.32PbTiO3). In standard operation, the strain varies continuously with...
22 June 2026
Papers of the Month
May, 2019 Magnetic skyrmions resemble magnetic vortices and arise because of the competing interactions that occur in certain magnetic materials. They were discovered in 2009 and this has prompted an...
22 June 2026
Papers of the Month
May, 2019 FETs using 2D semiconductors as the channel material offer excellent gate electrostatics, which allows mitigation of short channel effects. However, in short channel devices, the transport through the...
22 June 2026
Awards and Prizes
02 May 2019 Megan McGregor, PhD student in the Rolls-Royce UTC, won the national final of the IoM3 Young Persons’ Lecture competition last night at an event held at the Armourers’ Hall,...
22 June 2026
Papers of the Month
April, 2019 Materials confined in a pore with typical dimension of 1-to-2 nm can behave quite differently from their bulk form. Such nano-confinement effect has drawn the attention of researchers...
22 June 2026
Papers of the Month
April, 2019 Perovskites and gallium nitride (GaN) are two important materials for research into devices like LEDs. GaN is already the basis for the commercial white LED industry. Perovskites have...
22 June 2026
Awards and Prizes
26 April 2019 Professor Judith Driscoll has been awarded a Chair in Emerging Technologies by the Royal Academy of Engineering. The Academy has made awards totalling over £20 million in research...
22 June 2026