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The adhesion of dielectric thin films has presented a major obstacle for interconnect integration and dependability. Issues such as film adhesion failures, reduced dielectric film mechanical integrity ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. A computational phantom Force Balance, Maximum Entropy Homogenization Procedure is ...

Materials innovation is one of the key drivers of major technological breakthroughs. The discovery of lithium cobalt oxide in the 1980s laid the groundwork for today’s lithium-ion battery technology.

This article presents the results of a study of the properties of epoxy adhesives in an adhesive joint. The study analysed changes in Young's modulus values as a function of the rigidity of the ...

Simulating and predicting wave propagation in porous media saturated with two fluids is an important issue in geophysical exploration studies. In this work, wave propagation in porous media with ...

Coal gangue, which is the solid waste produced during the coal processing, causes serious environmental problems. Lightweight concrete by making use of the coal-gangue ceramsite as the aggregate has ...

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The cell wall is a thin polymeric layer encasing the membrane of bacterial, fungal, and vegetal cells, which supports viability and defines cell shape and the mode of growth and division. The material ...

Central to the theory of phase transitions is the fact that the free energy can be written in a scale-invariant form that captures scaling exponent relations. Our work shows that, for the jamming ...