Cadmium cyanide exhibits the strongest persistent isotropic negative thermal expansion (NTE) effect of all known materials [1,2]. Structural studies of the material are complicated by a combination of extreme x-ray sensitivity [2], the prohibitively large neutron absorption cross-section of natural-abundance cadmium, and the presence of cyanide orientational disorder [3], which is temperature...
Compared with crystalline counterparts, metallic glasses (MGs) have some superior properties, such as high yield strength, hardness, large elastic limit, high fracture toughness and corrosion resistance, and hence are considered as promising engineering materials. Fe- and Co-based amorphous alloys have been the subject of considerable research interest and activities for the last decades due...
Toward the realization of a low-carbon society through the effective use of renewable energy, lithium-ion rechargeable batteries (LIBs) are being applied not only to portable devices but also to electric vehicles. This situation makes it to be an urgent business to develop new electrode materials with higher safety as well as higher discharge capacity than commercially available LIBs...
