When a material is loaded under stress, the accumulating elastic energy eventually sets off dissipative processes, such as plastic deformation. These processes are generally mediated by dislocation ...

Out of the many boron nitride (BN) structural forms, cubic-BN (c-BN) nanodots (NDs) offer the potential for a variety of new opportunities across a plethora of applications. Until now, experimental ...

Even with the weight of worlds on its shoulders, diamond resolutely refuses to buckle under the pressure. Thanks to the highest-pressure X-ray diffraction experiments ever reported, researchers have ...

Fig. 1 shows crystal structure of cubic garnet-type Li7La3Zr2O12 (LLZO, left) and temperature dependence of ionic conductivity for Ba- and Ta-substituted LLZO with different compositions.

Engineering ceramics such as zirconia (ZrO 2), alumina (Al 2 O 3), silicon nitride (Si 3 N 4), silicon carbide (SiC) etc. have been used more frequently in engineering applications as engineers and ...