1. Preface to the 50th anniversary issue of the Journal of Materials Science

   • Mark Aindow

   Editorial 19 October 2015 Pages: 1 - 6

2. Review: Overcoming the paradox of strength and ductility in ultrafine-grained materials at low temperatures

   • Praveen Kumar
   • Megumi Kawasaki
   • Terence G. Langdon

   50th Anniversary 17 June 2015 Pages: 7 - 18

   

3. Review: achieving superplastic properties in ultrafine-grained materials at high temperatures

   • Megumi Kawasaki
   • Terence G. Langdon

   50th Anniversary 20 June 2015 Pages: 19 - 32

   

4. Nanostructured Al and Cu alloys with superior strength and electrical conductivity

   • M. Yu Murashkin
   • I. Sabirov
   • R. Z. Valiev

   50th Anniversary 03 September 2015 Pages: 33 - 49

   

5. A review of phase equilibria in Heusler alloy systems containing Fe, Co or Ni

   • Ming Yin
   • John Hasier
   • Philip Nash

   50th Anniversary 10 September 2015 Pages: 50 - 70

   

6. On the initiation, growth, and coarsening of discontinuous precipitation in Cu-10 at.%Co alloy

   • N. M. Suguihiro
   • I. G. Solórzano

   50th Anniversary 03 September 2015 Pages: 71 - 81

   

7. Compressibility of hierarchic-architectured agglomerates of hydrogen-reduced copper nanopowders

   • Dong-Hyun Ahn
   • Wooyeol Kim
   • Hyoung Seop Kim

   50th Anniversary 15 September 2015 Pages: 82 - 95

   

8. The consolidation of metals: the origin of bifilms

   • John Campbell

   50th Anniversary 15 September 2015 Pages: 96 - 106

   

9. The origins of chemomechanical effects in the low-load indentation hardness and tribology of ceramic materials

   • Steve J. Bull
   • Noushin Moharrami
   • Trevor F. Page

   50th Anniversary 15 September 2015 Pages: 107 - 125

   

10. Stabilization of the high-temperature and high-pressure cubic phase of ZnO by temperature-controlled milling

    • C. S. Tiwary
    • D. Vishnu
    • K. Chattopadhyay

    50th Anniversary 15 September 2015 Pages: 126 - 137

    

11. Allotropic phase transformation and photoluminescence of germanium nanograins processed by high-pressure torsion

    • Yoshifumi Ikoma
    • Takamitsu Toyota
    • Zenji Horita

    50th Anniversary 11 August 2015 Pages: 138 - 143

    

12. Electron microscopy observations of the spinel-forming reaction using MgO nanocubes on Al₂O₃ substrates

    • Jonathan P. Winterstein
    • M. Sezen
    • C. Barry Carter

    50th Anniversary 27 August 2015 Pages: 144 - 157

    

13. ALCHEMI studies of site occupancies in Cr-, Ni-, and Fe-substituted manganese cobaltite spinels

    • Louis V. Gambino
    • Alex B. Freeman
    • Mark Aindow

    50th Anniversary 07 August 2015 Pages: 158 - 170

    

14. In situ X-ray synchrotron tomographic imaging during the compression of hyper-elastic polymeric materials

    • Brian M. Patterson
    • Nikolaus L. Cordes
    • Nikhilesh Chawla

    50th Anniversary 08 September 2015 Pages: 171 - 187

    

15. Processing-structure–property relationships of novel fibrous filters produced by a melt-process

    • Jia Wang
    • Ravi Ayyar
    • Eric Baer

    50th Anniversary 24 September 2015 Pages: 188 - 203

    

16. Aerosol filtration using electrospun cellulose acetate fibers

    • Saptarshi Chattopadhyay
    • T. Alan Hatton
    • Gregory C. Rutledge

    50th Anniversary 31 July 2015 Pages: 204 - 217

    

17. Orientation of cellulose nanocrystals in electrospun polymer fibres

    • N. D. Wanasekara
    • R. P. O. Santos
    • S. J. Eichhorn

    50th Anniversary Open access 15 September 2015 Pages: 218 - 227

    

18. The degree of crystalline orientation as a function of draw ratio in semicrystalline polymers: a new model based on the geometry of the crystalline chain slip mechanism

    • B. Bandeira
    • E. L. V. Lewis
    • I. M. Ward

    SI: 50th Anniversary 15 July 2015 Pages: 228 - 235

    

19. Fast-curing epoxy polymers with silica nanoparticles: properties and rheo-kinetic modelling

    • A. Keller
    • K. Masania
    • C. Dransfeld

    50th Anniversary Open access 02 July 2015 Pages: 236 - 251

    

20. Viscoelastic properties and melt rheology of novel polyamide 6/fluoroelastomer nanostructured thermoplastic vulcanizates

    • Shib Shankar Banerjee
    • Anil K. Bhowmick

    50th Anniversary 26 June 2015 Pages: 252 - 261

    

21. Erosive and sliding wear of polybenzimidazole at elevated temperatures

    • S. Sharma
    • E. Padenko
    • K. Friedrich

    50th Anniversary 08 September 2015 Pages: 262 - 270

    

22. A review of hydrogel-based composites for biomedical applications: enhancement of hydrogel properties by addition of rigid inorganic fillers

    • Stefanie Utech
    • Aldo R. Boccaccini

    50th Anniversary 10 September 2015 Pages: 271 - 310

    

23. Stochastic factors controlling the failure of carbon/epoxy composites

    • H. Y. Chou
    • A. Thionnet
    • A. R. Bunsell

    50th Anniversary 08 September 2015 Pages: 311 - 333

    

24. Effects of thermal residual stress on interfacial properties of polyphenylene sulphide/carbon fibre (PPS/CF) composite by microbond test

    • Xiaojun Wang
    • Dongxia Xu
    • Eric Li

    50th Anniversary 15 July 2015 Pages: 334 - 343

    

25. Interfacial and internal stress transfer in carbon nanotube based nanocomposites

    • Robert J. Young
    • Libo Deng
    • Ian A. Kinloch

    50th Anniversary 18 August 2015 Pages: 344 - 352

    

26. Effect of interfacial area on densification and microstructural evolution in silicon carbide–boron carbide particulate composites

    • Tom Williams
    • Julie Yeomans
    • Chris Hampson

    50th Anniversary Open access 15 September 2015 Pages: 353 - 361

    

27. The performance of austenitic and duplex stainless steels in cracked concrete exposed to concentrated chloride brine

    • C. B. Van Niejenhuis
    • S. Walbridge
    • C. M. Hansson

    50th Anniversary 15 September 2015 Pages: 362 - 374

    

28. Aluminum hydroxide multilayer assembly capable of extinguishing flame on polyurethane foam

    • Merid Haile
    • Sandra Fomete
    • Jaime C. Grunlan

    50th Anniversary 23 July 2015 Pages: 375 - 381

    

29. Review: grain boundary faceting–roughening phenomena

    • B. B. Straumal
    • O. A. Kogtenkova
    • B. Baretzky

    50th Anniversary 19 August 2015 Pages: 382 - 404

    

30. Factors affecting the dissociation width of dissociated dislocations in FCC metals and alloys

    • Hiroyasu Saka

    50th Anniversary 29 August 2015 Pages: 405 - 424

    

31. The role of reactivity in wetting by liquid metals: a review

    • N. Eustathopoulos
    • R. Voytovych

    50th Anniversary 09 September 2015 Pages: 425 - 437

    

32. Grain boundary segregation in Al–Mn electrodeposits prepared from ionic liquid

    • Ting-Yun Huang
    • Christopher J. Marvel
    • Christopher A. Schuh

    50th Anniversary 08 August 2015 Pages: 438 - 448

    

33. Quantitative correlation of interfacial contamination and antiphase domain boundary density in GaAs on Si(100)

    • C. S. C. Barrett
    • A. G. Lind
    • K. S. Jones

    50th Anniversary 13 August 2015 Pages: 449 - 456

    

34. Stress-assisted removal of conjugation boundaries in non-modulated Ni–Mn–Ga by coordinated secondary twinning

    • B. Muntifering
    • L. Kovarik
    • P. Müllner

    50th Anniversary 17 July 2015 Pages: 457 - 466

    

35. The mechanism of grain boundary motion in SrTiO₃

    • Hadas Sternlicht
    • Wolfgang Rheinheimer
    • Wayne D. Kaplan

    50th Anniversary 05 May 2015 Pages: 467 - 475

    

36. Hardening in non-stoichiometric (1 − x)Bi_0.5Na_0.5TiO₃–xBaTiO₃ lead-free piezoelectric ceramics

    • Sasiporn Prasertpalichat
    • David P. Cann

    50th Anniversary 01 September 2015 Pages: 476 - 486

    

37. Low-voltage ferroelectric–paraelectric superlattices as gate materials for field-effect transistors

    • I. B. Misirlioglu
    • C. Sen
    • S. P. Alpay

    50th Anniversary 05 August 2015 Pages: 487 - 498

    

38. Are ferroelectric multilayers capacitors in series?

    • F.-C. Sun
    • M. T. Kesim
    • S. P. Alpay

    50th Anniversary 29 July 2015 Pages: 499 - 505

    

39. Charge injection barriers at metal/polyethylene interfaces

    • Lihua Chen
    • Tran Doan Huan
    • Rampi Ramprasad

    50th Anniversary 02 September 2015 Pages: 506 - 512

    

40. Magnetic nanoparticles: material engineering and emerging applications in lithography and biomedicine

    • Yuping Bao
    • Tianlong Wen
    • Kannan M. Krishnan

    50th Anniversary 01 September 2015 Pages: 513 - 553

    

41. A review of exfoliated graphite

    • D. D. L. Chung

    50th Anniversary 26 July 2015 Pages: 554 - 568

    

42. Electrochemical interaction between graphite and molten salts to produce nanotubes, nanoparticles, graphene and nanodiamonds

    • Ali Reza Kamali
    • Derek Fray

    50th Anniversary 15 September 2015 Pages: 569 - 576

    

43. Growth mechanism of one dimensional tin nanostructures by electrodeposition

    • Craig D. Owen
    • M. Grant Norton

    50th Anniversary 08 August 2015 Pages: 577 - 588

    

44. TEM in situ lithiation of tin nanoneedles for battery applications

    • Matthew T. Janish
    • David T. Mackay
    • M. Grant Norton

    50th Anniversary 12 August 2015 Pages: 589 - 602

    

45. Pd-based nanoflowers catalysts: controlling size, composition, and structures for the 4-nitrophenol reduction and BTX oxidation reactions

    • Anderson G. M. da Silva
    • Thenner S. Rodrigues
    • Pedro H. C. Camargo

    50th Anniversary 07 August 2015 Pages: 603 - 614

    

46. Metallic muscles and beyond: nanofoams at work

    • Eric Detsi
    • Sarah H. Tolbert
    • Jeff Th. M. De Hosson

    50th Anniversary Open access 14 August 2015 Pages: 615 - 634