Cumulative anthropogenic energy demands, coupled with continual increases in carbon
dioxide emissions, have triggered a critical need for the use of non-fossil-fuel resources …

Grain boundary (GB) plasticity dominates the mechanical behaviours of nanocrystalline
materials. Under mechanical loading, GB configuration and its local deformation geometry …

The rapid progress in materials science that enables the design of materials down to the
nanoscale also demands characterization techniques able to analyze the materials down to …

The hardness, tensile ductility and fatigue lifetime of nanostructured (NC) Cu–Zr alloyed thin
films have been systematically measured at different Zr additions (0, 0.5, 2.0, 4.0, 8.0 at.%) …

This study explores the impact of deposition rate on the properties of TiO 2 thin films
produced via spray pyrolysis, focusing on their application in gas sensors. The analysis …

Practical gas sensors are indispensable for the healthy operation of cutting‐edge hydrogen‐
based systems. An optical fiber‐based hydrogen sensor incorporating a robust Fabry–Perot …

Two-dimensional nanomaterials are able to sustain ultra-large elastic strains, which in turn
hold potential to alter the many functional properties. However, to achieve such large elastic …

The formation mechanisms and grain size dependence of annealing coherent multiple-fold
twins, such as twofold and fivefold twins, were investigated in nanocrystalline Cu with zero …

The nanoscale plasticity mechanisms activated during hydriding cycles in sputtered
nanocrystalline Pd films have been investigated ex-situ using advanced transmission …

In this contribution, the effect of Au alloying on the solid state dewetting (SSD) kinetics and
texture evolution of AuNi and AuAg thin films is investigated. For that bilayers of a high …