Water migration through heterogeneous soft materials is central to many applications including oil recovery and consumer product stability of foods cosmetics. This slow water transport affects all material properties such as mechanical, optical electrical, but its understanding modelling remains challenging due complex wetting diffusion processes across the material. Here, we study experimental...

Solid modeling of objects forms an important task in design and manufacturing. Recent developments in the field of layered manufacturing have shown potential for the physical realization of heterogeneous (multi-material) objects. Thus, there is a need to represent material information as an integral part of the CAD model data. Information models for the representation of product data are being ...

Heterogeneous nucleation of a liquid droplet on a solid surface was simulated with the molecular dynamics method. Argon vapor was represented by 5,760 Lennard-Jones molecules and the solid surface was represented by one layer of 4,464 harmonic molecules with the constant temperature heat bath model using the phantom molecules. The potential parameter between a solid molecule and a vapor molecul...

Dendrite growth is one of the leading factors that cause cycling deterioration for all-solid-state batteries (ASSBs). However, using a single dominant material to form solid electrolyte has encountered several setbacks due intrinsically competing in mechanics and electrochemistry. Inspired by “brick-and-mortar” structure, strategy embedding heterogeneous blocks (HBs) within (SE) proposed mitiga...