• From Zirconium Nanograins to Zirconia Nanoneedles 

      Zalnezhad, E.; Hamouda, A.M.S.; Jaworski, J.; Kim, Young Do ( Nature Publishing Group , 2016 , Article)
      Combinations of three simple techniques were utilized to gradually form zirconia nanoneedles from zirconium nanograins. First, a physical vapor deposition magnetron sputtering technique was used to deposit pure zirconium ...
    • Hierarchical honeycomb auxetic metamaterials 

      Mousanezhad, Davood; Babaee, Sahab; Ebrahimi, Hamid; Ghosh, Ranajay; Hamouda, Abdelmagid Salem; ... more authors ( Nature Publishing Group , 2015 , Article)
      Most conventional materials expand in transverse directions when they are compressed uniaxially resulting in the familiar positive Poisson’s ratio. Here we develop a new class of two dimensional (2D) metamaterials with ...