Near β and metastable β-titanium alloys are difficult to process due to narrow processing window. Lower processing temperature causes difficulty in recrystallization of these alloys especially in the two phase conditions, ...

Ferroelectrics are important class of functional materials that finds application in transducers, actuators, memory devices, electro-optics and position sensing devices. Until recently, the high performance piezoelectrics ...

Coatings have been traditionally used for protection against corrosion. Therefore, substantial efforts have been focused on engineering the microstructure and morphology of coatings to enhance their corrosion resistance ...

Ferroelectric and piezoelectric polycrystalline ceramics exhibiting large electromechanical response are sought after in electronic devices such as actuators, transducers in sonar, sensors, accelerators, aerospace, ...

The growing incidences of orthopedic problems globally have created a huge demand for strong bioactive materials for bone tissue engineering. Over the years, studies have shown chemical, physical, and mechanical properties ...

Water is fundamental to human life, sustaining ecosystems, supporting livelihoods, and underpinning human well-being. Despite its importance, water scarcity is a growing global issue due to population growth, economic ...

Eutectic alloys find a wide application in industrial cast alloys, solder alloys, and in the emerging field of functional materials. Apart from technological applications, multiphase eutectic alloys have also received keen ...

Materials for engineering components operating at high temperatures during their service like rockets, aero-turbines, automobile engines, nuclear power plants, steam power plants and micro-electronics are often designed ...

Shape memory alloys are the promising candidate materials for sensing and actuator-based applications. Amongst a variety of shape memory alloys, NiMnGa based magnetic shape memory alloys are technologically most important ...

Twinning Induced Plasticity (TWIP) and Transformation Induced Plasticity (TRIP) steels possess excellent combination of high strength and high ductility. Deformation twinning and strain induced martensitic phase transformation ...