Spark plasma sintering (SPS), also known as pulsed electric current sintering (PECS) or
field-assisted sintering technique (FAST), belongs to a class of powder metallurgy …

All‐solid‐state sodium batteries (ASSSBs) are particularly attractive for large‐scale energy
storage and electric vehicles due to their exceptional safety, abundant resource availability …

This Feature Article gives an overview of microwave-assisted liquid phase routes to
inorganic nanomaterials. Whereas microwave chemistry is a well-established technique in …

A review is provided, which first considers low-temperature diffusion bonding with silver
nanomaterials as filler materials via thermal sintering for microelectronic applications, and …

This review traces the development of silver (Ag) as a die attach bonding material in the
microelectronic packaging industry from its' early days as micron-scale silver flakes to the …

Graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) are consolidated as a bulk structure by spark plasma
sintering (SPS) to study the feasibility of its structure retention at extreme processing …

Flexible wearable textiles have attracted increasing attention, due to their potential
applications in human motion detection, electric heating and humidity monitoring. However …

Due to their high corrosion resistance to basic slags, either pre-formed or in situ spinel (MgAl
2 O 4) containing refractory castables are nowadays widely used as steel ladle linings …

Microwave heating has been extensively explored in various fields of materials processing.
This technology exhibits unique characteristics including volumetric and selective heating …

This study proposes boron nitride nanotube (BNNT) reinforced hydroxyapatite (HA) as a
novel composite material for orthopedic implant applications. The spark plasma sintered …