Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are heavily employed in the field of soft robotics because they exhibit the such ...

Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC) is a new cement-based composite material with ultra-high mechanical properties, which has superior tensile toughness far beyond ordinary concrete (NC) due to the ...

The fracture behavior of silicon has received substantial attention over the last few years in relation to its anisotropic behavior, and also for a very local mechanism called atomic lattice trapping ...