Recent advances in high-entropy ceramics: Design principles, structural characteristics, and emerging properties
June 2025
High-entropy ceramics (HECs) have attracted growing research attention since 2015, when the pioneering work on entropy-stabilized oxides was first reported. Derived from the definition of high-entropy...
Sensing-actuating performance of flexible piezoelectric composites by component optimization
June 2025
Flexible piezoelectric composite (FPC) materials with strong designability are increasingly utilized in vibration control and structural health monitoring. The sensing and actuating performances of...
Publisher's Note
June 2025
Key materials for extreme high-temperature environments: Ultra-high-temperature ceramics and their composites
March 2025
With the advancement of hypersonic vehicles, extreme high temperature environments have imposed increasingly stringent requirements on the performance of thermal protection systems. Consequently, the...
Typical structures and thermal expansion coefficients of ABO4-type (A=Ga, In, Cr; B=Nb, Ta) oxides as EBC candidates
March 2025
It is of great significance to search oxide thermal/environmental barrier coatings (T/EBCs) with high working temperatures and thermal expansion coefficients (TECs) matching to different substrates....
Progress in the degradation of thermal and environmental barrier coating materials caused by calcium-magnesium-aluminum-silicate deposit
March 2025
Thermal and environmental barrier coatings play a crucial role in protecting high-temperature structural components in gas turbine engines. As turbine inlet temperatures continue to rise, corrosion...