The AZoM.com "Materials Thought Leaders" series is a selection of articles that cover the key technology areas where materials are making an impact and where they will make an increasing impact. All the articles are written by experts who have been invited as recognised leaders in their fields to provide a "state of the art" contribution.
In this interview, Professor Iain Gibson, Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) at SIRAKOSS, talks to AZoM about the development of their MaxSi™ Graft technology.
James Smith is a Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Virginia and also the founder of PureMadi. In this interview he talks about the unique properties of their ceramic filters and why water filtration so important for the health of many countries.
By G.P. Thomas
27 Aug 2013
A Thought-leader Interview with Professor Nicole Grobert and Adrian T Murdock from the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford.
In this interview, AZoM talks to Professor Paul Chu, director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston, about his work on high-temperature ceramic superconductors.
By G.P. Thomas
12 Jan 2013
Professor Scott Bunch talks AZoM about the properties of graphene that make it a useful material in molecular sieving and what applications this may have in the future.
By G.P. Thomas
19 Oct 2012
Diatoms are single-celled algae that possess a rigid, transparent shell made of silica that is patterned at the nanoscale. This diatom shell looks strikingly similar to a photonic crystal. Prof. Greg Rorrer talks about the potential uses of diatoms.
By G.P. Thomas
16 Oct 2012
MAX phases exhibit a unique combination of characteristics of both ceramics and metals with unusual mechanical, electrical and thermal properties making them suitable for numerous applications.
By Professor Jim Low
4 Sep 2012
After being severely and quasi-plastically distorted, shape memory materials (SMMs) are able to recover their original shape when a right stimulus is applied. This phenomenon is known as the shape memory effect (SME).
By Professor Wei Min Huang
25 May 2012
In this interview, Dr. Johannes Carolus (John) Jansen, discusses membrane technology as a potential solution to problems related to energy efficiency and the environmentally friendly use of our limited resources.
By Dr. Johannes Carolus Jansen
4 Apr 2012
In this interview, Dr Thomas Lippert tell AZoM about Pulsed laser deposition (PLD), a growth technique in which the photon, characterized by pulse duration, laser wavelength and fluence, interacts with a bulk material.
By T. Lippert and C.W. Schneider
14 Mar 2012