1. A National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) research team has identified the mechanism by which microscopic fatigue cracks grow in metals, solving a half-century-old mystery. The team found ...

Fatigue crack growth and closure mechanisms are fundamental to understanding the durability of engineering structures subjected to cyclic loading. Over decades of research, scientists have ...

A major breakthrough in battery science reveals why promising single-crystal lithium-ion batteries haven’t lived up to ...

Recently, a research team led by Prof. NI Yong and Prof. HE Linghui from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) uncovered the propagation and toughening mechanism of tortuous crack ...

A new study shows that promising single-crystal battery materials degrade for reasons scientists hadn’t fully recognized before. Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory and the UChicago Pritzker Sch ...

Lithium batteries sit at the heart of electric cars, smartphones, grid storage and even military hardware, yet the way they ...

An age-old urban legend that claims cracking one’s knuckles will lead to arthritis may be old in every middle school child’s repertoire, but a look at the scientific literature finds that there is ...

How often have we been told not to crack our knuckles? The belief that cracking knuckles leads to arthritis is deeply embedded in popular culture. This notion has been perpetuated through generations, ...

Cracking is a natural, expected, and accepted behavior of concrete. However, cracks may affect the appearance, function, durability, service life, or more seriously, the structural integrity of the ...