Graphite and other lamellar materials are used as dry lubricants for macroscale metallic
sliding components and high-pressure contacts. It has been shown experimentally that …

Metals with nanocrystalline grains have ultrahigh strengths approaching two gigapascals.
However, such extreme grain-boundary strengthening results in the loss of almost all tensile …

Freestanding nanowires have ultrahigh elastic strain limits (4 to 7%) and yield strengths, but
exploiting their intrinsic mechanical properties in bulk composites has proven to be difficult. …

Recent studies of complex concentrated alloys suggest unusual dislocation core structure
and motion, thanks to a collective concentration/structural inhomogeneity. Less is known …

A key challenge in guiding experiments toward materials with desired properties is to
effectively navigate the vast search space comprising the chemistry and structure of allowed …

We report the existence of strain glass in Ti 50 Ni 50− x Fe x , beyond a critical Fe doping
level x>x c (5<x c <6). The strain glass state is confirmed by the appearance of a frequency-…

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) based on high throughput SNP genotyping
technologies open a broad avenue for exploring genes associated with milk production traits in …

Ferroelectrics are usually inflexible oxides that undergo brittle deformation. We synthesized
freestanding single-crystalline ferroelectric barium titanate (BaTiO 3 ) membranes with a …

The piezoelectric properties of lead zirconate titanate [Pb(Zr,Ti)O 3 or PZT] ceramics could
be enhanced by fabricating textured ceramics that would align the crystal grains along …

Background With the availability of high density whole-genome single nucleotide polymorphism
chips, genomic selection has become a promising method to estimate genetic merit with …