The mechanical strength and toughness of engineering materials are often mutually exclusive, posing challenges for material design and selection. To address this, a research team from The Hong Kong ...

Knowing the force required to progressively separate two bonded, flexible adherends gives engineers an understanding of the direct measure of the adhesive bond strength in a bonded joint. Therefore, ...

Lithium-ion batteries are a kind of rechargeable battery that is charged or discharged through desorption or insertion of lithium ions (Li +) from or into the active material structure. In recent ...