Arun K. Nair

TL;DR: The results suggest that the mineral crystals within this network bears up to four times the stress of the collagen fibrils, whereas the collagen is predominantly responsible for the material’s deformation response.

TL;DR: It is found that the presence of hydroxyapatite significantly enhances the tensile modulus and strength compared with a tropocollagen molecule alone, and the collagen-hydroxyapatites interface can be modeled with an elastic network model which provides a good estimate of the surface energy and other mechanical features.

TL;DR: The results suggest that designs combining metal with single graphene layers provide the best thermal properties, and that both cases show a strong performance dependence on the number of graphene layers between metal phases.

TL;DR: Molecular dynamics simulations confirm that as the PVA content in the composite increases, the stiffness and energy to failure of the composite also increases up to an optimal point, beyond which mechanical performance in tension decreases.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the indentation response of Ni thin films of thicknesses in the nanoscale using molecular dynamics simulations with embedded atom method (EAM) interatomic potentials.