Archive of featured papers of the month, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy

Polymer blends reduce stent embrittlement

January, 2020

R. N. Oosterbeek, K-A. Kwon, P. Duffy, S. McMahon, X. C. Zhang, S. M. Best, and R. E. Cameron, “Tuning structural relaxations, mechanical properties, and degradation timescale of PLLA during hydrolytic degradation by blending with PLCL-PEG”, Polymer Degradation and Stability 170, 109015 (2019)

Nodal superconducting exchange coupling

December, 2019

A Di Bernardo, S Komori, G Livanas, G Divitini, P Gentile, M Cuoco, JWA Robinson, “Nodal superconducting exchange coupling”, Nature Materials 18, 1194–1200 (2019).

Survival of the coolest

November, 2019

B. Nair, T. Usui, S. Crossley, S. Kurdi, G. G. Guzmán-Verri, X. Moya, S. Hirose and N. D. Mathur, “Large electrocaloric effects in oxide multilayer capacitors over a wide temperature range”, Nature 575, 468 (2019)

Electrocaloric cycles bite back

October, 2019

S. Crossley, B. Nair, R. W. Whatmore, X. Moya and N. D. Mathur, “Electrocaloric cooling cycles in lead scandium tantalate with true regeneration via field variation”, PRX 9, 041002 (2019)

Atom-by-atom measurements record fundamental mixing processes in glass

October, 2019

S. M. Collins, K. E. MacArthur, L. Longley, R. Tobey, M. Benning, C.-B. Schönlieb, T. D. Bennett, and P. A. Midgley, "Phase diagrams of liquid-phase mixing in multi-component metal-organic framework glasses constructed by quantitative nano-tomography", APL Materials 7, 091111 (2019)

Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy

Papers of the month - archive

Polymer blends reduce stent embrittlement

Nodal superconducting exchange coupling

Survival of the coolest

Electrocaloric cycles bite back

Atom-by-atom measurements record fundamental mixing processes in glass

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