Transient interfacial melting promotes bonding in cold spray additive manufacturing of dissimilar metals

Cold spray is a solid state deposition technique, but in mismatched metallic systems, the interface can tell a very different story!In our latest work, we show that for highly dissimilar…

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Additive manufacturing of graphene-reinforced copper matrix composites produced via cold spray

What happens when 2D materials meet cold spray additive manufacturing? One of the biggest challenges in advanced materials engineering is translating the exceptional properties of 2D materials such as graphene into…

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Strain-Activated Mechanical Metamaterial with Programmable Dual-Phase Stiffness and Enhanced Energy Absorption

Two stiffness phases, activated by strain, within a single architected material. We are pleased to share our work, “Strain-Activated Mechanical Metamaterial with Programmable Dual-Phase Stiffness and Enhanced Energy Absorption.” The proposed…

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