Engineered blend structure with tailor-made distribution of nanoparticles is the prime requisite to obtain materials with extraordinary functional properties.
It is also significant to the design of transmission-based microstructural architectures for creating new materials with extraordinary mechanical properties.
Equal-channel angular pressing (ECAP) is an established method to produce ultra-fine-grained (UFG) materials with extraordinary mechanical properties.
Silks are a diverse family of natural materials with extraordinary mechanical properties such as high tensile strength and extensibility, as well as reported biological compatibility.
Inspired by recent progresses in developing gradient structured materials with extraordinary properties, here we report a class of stainless steels with gradient phase structures achieving a superb combination of strength (1753 MPa) and tensile ductility (>25%) at the cryogenic temperature of 77 K.
Poly(2,2′- m-phenylene -5,5′-bisbenzimidazole 2,2′- m-phenylene -5,5′-bisbenzimidazole 2,2′- m-phenylene -5,5′-bisbenzimidazole 2,2′- m-phenylene -5,5′-bisbenzimidazole 2,2′- m-phenylene -5,5′-bisbenzimidazoleonstrated repeatedly in fuel cells, water electrolysers and as anion conducting component in fuel cell catalyst layers.
Development of new materials with extraordinary and outstanding performance leads to the improvement of engineering devices.
Up to now, many efforts have been spent to produce smart materials with extraordinary properties usable in broad range of technological applications.
Various categories of novel materials with extraordinary porosity have been discovered, including silicas (Suhendi et al. 2013), zeolites (Wakihara et al. 2010), metal organic frameworks (Li et al. 2014), zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (Cai et al. 2014) and carbon materials (Sevilla and Fuertes 2011).
