(Nanowerk News) Oxidation can degrade the properties and functionality of metals. However, a research team co-led by scientists from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) recently found that severely ...

Osaka, Japan - Glasses are an enigma among solid phases. Like crystalline solids they are hard, but unlike crystals they are amorphous on the molecular scale. Because of this structural disorder, each ...

Oxidation can degrade the properties and functionality of metals. However, a research team recently found that severely oxidized metallic glass nanotubes can attain an ultrahigh recoverable elastic ...

(left) Photo of metallic-glass nanotubes fabricated on silicon and (right) a scanning electron microscopy image of the metallic-glass nanotubes. Oxidation can degrade the properties and functionality ...