Submission Deadline—October 1, 2018
www.mrs.org/plasticity-fracture-nanoscales
Focus Issue Guest Editors:
- Arief S. Budiman, Singapore University of Technology & Design (SUTD), Singapore
- Nan Li, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
- Jessica A. Krogstad, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Nobumichi Tamura, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Newswise — Plasticity and fracture of materials at the nanoscales can deviate significantly from the same phenomena in bulk properties, which may have important implications if the materials are to be used in real-world engineering systems. Nanoscale materials and composites have been known to have important effects related to size, but today many other emerging materials – due to or enabled by novel manufacturing routes – combine nanoscale effects with 3D microarchitecturing to approach extreme limits of materials properties.
All fundamental studies on mechanical properties of nanoscale/extreme materials and nanocomposites including ex situ and in situ SEM/TEM, synchrotron X-ray experiments, as well as modeling and simulations on relevant length scales will be addressed. Nanomaterials/nanocomposites of interest include metals, ceramics, polymers, amorphous materials and their derivatives containing carbon-based materials.
This JMR Focus Issue will provide readers up-to-date information on the impact of these recent experimentation capabilities – the ability to observe directly how plasticity and fracture events interact with microstructures at the nanoscale – and how it could affect and enable novel and extreme materials and nanocomposite design.
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