Publication date: Available online 27 April 2018 Source:Progress in Materials Science Author(s): Shadpour Mallakpour, Mina Naghdi At the present modern age, perhaps nanocomposites (NC)s are the most attractive materials which hold their situation in almost all of our life's aspects. Among different kinds of the NCs, polymer based NCs are the...

Publication date: Available online 26 April 2018 Source:Progress in Materials Science Author(s): Daniel Errandonea, Alka B. Garg AVO4 orthovanadates are materials of fundamental and technological importance due to the large variety of functional properties exhibited by them. These materials have potential applications such as scintillators,...

Publication date: August 2018 Source:Progress in Materials Science, Volume 97 Author(s): Fernanda Zamboni, Silvia Vieira, Rui L. Reis, J. Miguel Oliveira, Maurice N. Collins Hyaluronic acid (HA) is a glycosaminoglycan that is found in extracellular tissue in many parts of the body. It is a material of increasing importance to biomaterials...

Publication date: Available online 20 April 2018 Source:Progress in Materials Science Author(s): David A.P. Paterson, Winifred Ijomah, James F.C. Windmill The determination of the elastic constants of unidirectional carbon fibre composite via immersion based ultrasound is an established area with much literature. Existing literature reviews...

Publication date: July 2018 Source:Progress in Materials Science, Volume 96 Author(s): Tran Duy Thanh, Nguyen Dinh Chuong, Hoa Van Hien, Tolendra Kshetri, Le Huu Tuan, Nam Hoon Kim, Joong Hee Lee Recently, the research effort on two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides/graphene (2D-TMDs/Gr) hybrids has grown. These hybrids...

Publication date: Available online 24 February 2018 Source:Progress in Materials Science Author(s): Rani Elhajjar, Chiu-Tau Law, Alessandro Pegoretti Magnetostrictive polymer composites (MPCs) are a class of materials having the ability to change dimensions, elastic and electromagnetic properties under the presence of a magnetic field. Their...