What determines the stabillity of thin ceramic coatings, which are often used to increase the stability of turbines or extremely stressed tools? New experiments show: Surprisingly, these coatings do ...

Extremely thin ceramic coatings can completely change the properties of technical components. Coatings are used, for example, to increase the resistance of metals to heat or corrosion. Coating ...

Novel identified mechanisms of dynamic plastic delocalization in metal enabled by competing deformation mechanisms to significantly enhanced fatigue performance of metallic materials. Metal alloys ...

Engineers have identified a fundamental deformation mechanism that can be leveraged to greatly enhance the fatigue properties of metals, opening the door to a new strategy for designing ...