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An informatics method for inferring the hardening exponent of plasticity in polycrystalline metals from surface strain measurements

The investigation of strain hardening in metals is complex, with the outcome depending on experimental conditions, that may involve microstructural history, temperature and loading rate. Hardening is commonly ...

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Multiscale modelling of precipitation hardening: a review

Precipitation hardening, a cornerstone of alloy strengthening, finds widespread application in engineering materials. Comprehending the underlying mechanisms and formulating models bear crucial significance fo...

A model for physical dislocation transmission through grain boundaries and its implementation in a discrete dislocation dynamics tool

The mechanical behavior of most metals in engineering applications is dominated by the grain size. Physics-based models of the interaction between dislocations and the grain boundary are important to correctly...

Junction formation rates, residence times, and the rate of plastic flow in FCC metals

During plastic flow in metals, dislocations from slip systems with different glide planes collide to form junctions. After being in-residence within the dislocation network for some period of time, these junct...

Dislocation-precipitate interactions in crystals: from the BKS model to collective dislocation dynamics

The increase in the yield stress due to the presence of obstacles to dislocation motion such as precipitates is a multiscale phenomenon. The details on the nanoscale when an individual dislocation runs into a ...

Strengthening from dislocation restructuring and local climb at platelet linear complexions in Al-Cu alloys

Stress-driven segregation at dislocations can lead to structural transitions between different linear complexion states. In this work, we examine how platelet array linear complexions affect dislocation motion...

Contrasting the nature of plastic fluctuations in small-sized systems of BCC and FCC materials

Serrated plastic flow in deforming complex concentrated alloys: universal signatures of dislocation avalanches.

Under plastic flow, multi-element high/medium-entropy alloys (HEAs/MEAs) commonly exhibit complex intermittent and collective dislocation dynamics owing to inherent lattice distortion and atomic-level chemical...

Coupled dislocations and fracture dynamics at finite deformation: model derivation, and physical questions

A continuum mechanical model of coupled dislocation based plasticity and fracture at finite deformation is proposed. Motivating questions and target applications of the model are sketched.

Non-singular straight dislocations in anisotropic crystals

A non-singular dislocation theory of straight dislocations in anisotropic crystals is derived using simplified anisotropic incompatible first strain gradient elasticity theory. Based on the non-singular theory...

Designing Ti-6Al-4V microstructure for strain delocalization using neural networks

The deformation behavior of Ti-6Al-4V titanium alloy is significantly influenced by slip localized within crystallographic slip bands. Experimental observations reveal that intense slip bands in Ti-6Al-4V form...

Role of interfaces on the mechanical response of accumulative roll bonded nanometallic laminates investigated via dislocation dynamics simulations

Unraveling the effects of continuous dislocation interactions with interfaces, particularly at the nanometer length scales, is key to a broader understanding of plasticity, to material design and to material c...

Multiscale modeling of dislocations: combining peridynamics with gradient elasticity

Modeling dislocations is an inherently multiscale problem as one needs to simultaneously describe the high stress fields near the dislocation cores, which depend on atomistic length scales, and a surface bound...

Correction: Assessment of four strain energy decomposition methods for phase field fracture models using quasi-static and dynamic benchmark cases

The original article was published in Materials Theory 2022 6 :6

Periodic plane-wave electronic structure calculations on quantum computers

A procedure for defining virtual spaces, and the periodic one-electron and two-electron integrals, for plane-wave second quantized Hamiltonians has been developed, and it was validated using full configuration...

Relating plasticity to dislocation properties by data analysis: scaling vs. machine learning approaches

Plasticity modelling has long relied on phenomenological models based on ad-hoc assumption of constitutive relations, which are then fitted to limited data. Other work is based on the consideration of physical...

Correction: Constant-depth circuits for dynamic simulations of materials on quantum computers

The original article was published in Materials Theory 2022 6 :13

Numerical simulations of noisy quantum circuits for computational chemistry

The opportunities afforded by near-term quantum computers to calculate the ground-state properties of small molecules depend on the structure of the computational ansatz as well as the errors induced by device...

Coupled Cluster Downfolding Theory: towards universal many-body algorithms for dimensionality reduction of composite quantum systems in chemistry and materials science

The recently introduced coupled cluster (CC) downfolding techniques for reducing the dimensionality of quantum many-body problems recast the CC formalism in the form of the renormalization procedure allowing, ...

Characterization of dislocation ensembles: measures and complexity

Portevin–le chatelier effect: modeling the deformation bands and stress-strain curves.

In the Portevin–Le Chatelier (PLC) effect sample plastic deformation takes place via localized bands. We present a model to account for band dynamics and the variability the bands exhibit. The approach is tune...

Phase field assisted analysis of a solidification based metal refinement process

Ultra pure metals have various applications, e. g. as electrical conductors. Crystallization from the melt, e. g. via zone melting, using the segregation of impurities at the solidification front is the basic ...

Constant-depth circuits for dynamic simulations of materials on quantum computers

Dynamic simulation of materials is a promising application for near-term quantum computers. Current algorithms for Hamiltonian simulation, however, produce circuits that grow in depth with increasing simulatio...

The Correction to this article has been published in Materials Theory 2022 6 :19

Phase field simulations of FCC to BCC phase transformation in (Al)CrFeNi medium entropy alloys

Microstructure simulations for quaternary alloys are still a challenge, although it is of high importance for alloy development. This work presents a Phase field (PF) approach capable of resolving phase transf...

Prospects of quantum computing for molecular sciences

Molecular science is governed by the dynamics of electrons and atomic nuclei, and by their interactions with electromagnetic fields. A faithful physicochemical understanding of these processes is crucial for t...

Theoretical basis for phase field modeling of polycrystalline grain growth using a spherical-Gaussian-based 5-D computational approach

Using a previously developed phase field modeling method, where interface energies are described by spherical gaussians that allow the modeling of complex anisotropies, a new phase field model was developed to...

Making sense of dislocation correlations

Since crystal plasticity is the result of moving and interacting dislocations, it seems self-evident that continuum plasticity should in principle be derivable as a statistical continuum theory of dislocations...

Phase-field simulations of fission gas bubble growth and interconnection in U-(Pu)-Zr nuclear fuel

The growth and interconnection of fission gas bubbles in the hotter central regions of U-(Pu)-Zr nuclear fuel has been simulated with a phase-field model. The Cahn-Hilliard equation was used to represent the t...

Modeling mesoscale fission gas behavior in UO 2 by directly coupling the phase field method to spatially resolved cluster dynamics

Fission gas release within uranium dioxide nuclear fuel occurs as gas atoms diffuse through grains and arrive at grain boundary (GB) bubbles; these GB bubbles grow and interconnect with grain edge bubbles; and...

Assessment of four strain energy decomposition methods for phase field fracture models using quasi-static and dynamic benchmark cases

Strain energy decomposition methods in phase field fracture models separate strain energy that contributes to fracture from that which does not. However, various decomposition methods have been proposed in the...

The Correction to this article has been published in Journal of Materials Science: Materials Theory 2024 8 :1

Machine learning-assisted high-throughput exploration of interface energy space in multi-phase-field model with CALPHAD potential

Computational methods are increasingly being incorporated into the exploitation of microstructure–property relationships for microstructure-sensitive design of materials. In the present work, we propose non-in...

Pinning of dislocations in disordered alloys: effects of dislocation orientation

The current interest in compositionally complex alloys including so called high entropy alloys has caused renewed interest in the general problem of solute hardening. It has been suggested that this problem ca...

Parallel-GPU-accelerated adaptive mesh refinement for three-dimensional phase-field simulation of dendritic growth during solidification of binary alloy

In the phase-field simulation of dendrite growth during the solidification of an alloy, the computational cost becomes extremely high when the diffusion length is significantly larger than the curvature radius...

VQE method: a short survey and recent developments

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is a method that uses a hybrid quantum-classical computational approach to find eigenvalues of a Hamiltonian. VQE has been proposed as an alternative to fully quantum ...

Sweep-tracing algorithm: in silico slip crystallography and tension-compression asymmetry in BCC metals

Direct Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations are being increasingly employed to model dislocation-mediated crystal plasticity with atomic resolution. Thanks to the dislocation extraction algorithm (DXA), disloca...

Quantum cluster algorithm for data classification

We present a quantum algorithm for data classification based on the nearest-neighbor learning algorithm. The classification algorithm is divided into two steps: Firstly, data in the same class is divided into ...

Surface stress calculations for nanoparticles and cavities in aluminum, silicon, and iron: influence of pressure and validity of the Young-Laplace equation

This study is dedicated to the determination of the surface energy and stress of nanoparticles and cavities in presence of pressure, and to the evaluation of the accuracy of the Young-Laplace equation for thes...

From mechanism-based to data-driven approaches in materials science

A time-honored approach in theoretical materials science revolves around the search for basic mechanisms that should incorporate key feature of the phenomenon under investigation. Recent years have witnessed a...

Cell structure formation in a two-dimensional density-based dislocation dynamics model

Cellular patterns formed by self-organization of dislocations are a most conspicuous feature of dislocation microstructure evolution during plastic deformation. To elucidate the physical mechanisms underlying ...

Slip-free multiplication and complexity of dislocation networks in FCC metals

During plastic deformation of crystalline solids, intricate networks of dislocation lines form and evolve. To capture dislocation density evolution, prominent theories of crystal plasticity assume that 1) mult...

On the three-dimensional spatial correlations of curved dislocation systems

Coarse-grained descriptions of dislocation motion in crystalline metals inherently represent a loss of information regarding dislocation-dislocation interactions. In the present work, we consider a coarse-grai...

Length scales and scale-free dynamics of dislocations in dense solid solutions

The fundamental interactions between an edge dislocation and a random solid solution are studied by analyzing dislocation line roughness profiles obtained from molecular dynamics simulations of Fe 0.70 Ni 0.11 Cr 0.19

Probing the transition from dislocation jamming to pinning by machine learning

Collective motion of dislocations is governed by the obstacles they encounter. In pure crystals, dislocations form complex structures as they become jammed by their anisotropic shear stress fields. On the othe...

Symmetry breaking during defect self-organization under irradiation

One of the most intriguing phenomena under radiation is the self-organization of defects, such as the void superlattices, which have been observed in a list of bcc and fcc metals and alloys when the irradiatio...

A Filon-like integration strategy for calculating exact exchange in periodic boundary conditions: a plane-wave DFT implementation

An efficient and accurate approach for calculating exact exchange and other two-electron integrals has been developed for periodic electronic structure methods. Traditional approaches used for integrating over...

Mechanics of moving defects in growing sheets: 3-d, small deformation theory

Growth and other dynamical processes in soft materials can create novel types of mesoscopic defects including discontinuities for the second and higher derivatives of the deformation, and terminating defects f...

Theoretical framework for predicting solute concentrations and solute-induced stresses in finite volumes with arbitrary elastic fields

A theoretical model for computing the interstitial solute concentration and the interstitial solute-induced stress field in a three-dimensional finite medium with any arbitrary elastic fields was developed. Th...

Brittle to quasi-brittle transition and crack initiation precursors in crystals with structural Inhomogeneities

Crack initiation emerges due to a combination of elasticity, plasticity, and disorder, and it displays strong dependence on the material’s microstructural details. The characterization of the structural uncert...

Overdamped langevin dynamics simulations of grain boundary motion

Macroscopic properties of structural materials are strongly dependent on their microstructure. However, the modeling of their evolution is a complex task because of the mechanisms involved such as plasticity, ...

The Green tensor of Mindlin’s anisotropic first strain gradient elasticity

We derive the Green tensor of Mindlin’s anisotropic first strain gradient elasticity. The Green tensor is valid for arbitrary anisotropic materials, with up to 21 elastic constants and 171 gradient elastic con...

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Students Accelerate Data-Driven Climate Research through Climate+

More than 30 students participated on eight project teams in summer 2024.

This summer, students in Duke University’s Climate+ program used data science techniques to research climate challenges and potential solutions. They studied topics like saltwater intrusion, energy materials, rainfall predictions and links between climate and health.

Summer 2025 Proposals Due November 4

Duke faculty are invited to submit proposals for Climate+ projects to take place in summer 2025.  

Call for Proposals    

Climate+ offers students opportunities to take part in small research teams as a part of Duke’s 10-week Data+ summer experience. Teams of two to four undergraduate students work with a graduate student project manager and faculty leads to collect, analyze and/or visualize data to contribute to climate research. Students, who are pursuing degrees across a range of disciplines, learn to apply data science techniques like machine learning and geospatial data analysis as they undertake projects.

For summer 2024, Climate+ teams included:

• Environmental and Climate Exposures and Social Determinants of Health
• Data- and Machine Learning–Driven Analysis of Atomic Dynamics in Energy Materials
• Detecting Saltwater Intrusion in Rivers Using Remote Sensing
• Monitoring Spartina alterniflora Using Self-supervised Learning
• Duke Forest Reptile and Amphibian Data
• Energy Transition During Energy Crisis: Cape Town's Experience
• Improving Future Rainfall Predictions in the Southeastern US
• Making Climate Hazard Risk Data Useful for North Carolina Communities

Findings from this summer’s teams are already informing climate solutions. One group organized and analyzed reptile and amphibian observations in Duke Forest, providing insights that are helping forest managers monitor and protect species.

Another Climate+ team worked closely with the town of Creswell, NC , and the North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resilience to measure flood risks, developing different damage scenarios to help the town and its residents prepare for flooding impacts.

“When the students went to do on-the-ground data collection in Creswell, they got to know town leaders and some of the people who are facing flood risks,” said Robert Calderbank, director of the Rhodes Information Initiative at Duke. “People in the community were eager to partner with students around this challenge, which becomes more urgent with every heavy rain event.”

Enthusiastic about the progress of the partnership, Creswell community leaders will soon be meeting with Duke and NCORR to discuss next steps. A Bass Connections team will build on the partnership’s efforts during the 2024-2025 school year.

Since the summer 2022 launch of Climate+, more than 90 students have contributed to 21 interdisciplinary project teams spanning ecology, biology, engineering, environmental science and more.

Like all students in the broader Data+ program, Climate+ students have opportunities to learn from visiting data science professionals across numerous industries and from other student teams’ experiences and insights.

In addition, Climate+ students participate in a series of unique workshops to enhance their climate literacy, data science and interdisciplinary communication skills. Guest speakers at this year’s workshops covered topics like machine learning, data visualization, climate change science, sustainable agriculture and climate hazard risks and decision-making.

"Climate+ provides students interested in data science with opportunities to learn how these tools can help us address the causes and consequences of climate change. Over the summer, students can make meaningful progress toward climate solutions,” said Kyle Bradbury, director of the Energy Data Analytics Lab at the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability.

Climate+ is offered by the Nicholas Institute in partnership with the Rhodes Information Initiative at Duke. The program is aligned with the Duke Climate Commitment , a university-wide initiative that unites Duke’s education, research, operations and public service missions to address climate challenges. Funding for Climate+ comes from The Duke Endowment and the Rhodes Information Initiative.

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Collection  16 April 2018

Top 100 in Materials Science

Explore our most highly accessed materials science articles in 2017. Featuring authors from around the World, these papers highlight valuable research within materials science from an international community.

Engineering Biodegradable and Biocompatible Bio-ionic Liquid Conjugated Hydrogels with Tunable Conductivity and Mechanical Properties

• Iman Noshadi
• Brian W. Walker
• Nasim Annabi

Large area few-layer graphene with scalable preparation from waste biomass for high-performance supercapacitor

• Taniya Purkait
• Guneet Singh
• Ramendra Sundar Dey

Full deflection profile calculation and Young’s modulus optimisation for engineered high performance materials

• A. D. Pullen

Role of oxygen functional groups in reduced graphene oxide for lubrication

• Bhavana Gupta
• Niranjan Kumar
• Iris Visoly-Fisher

Hysteresis-free perovskite solar cells made of potassium-doped organometal halide perovskite

• Takeru Bessho
• Hiroshi Segawa

Transparent, abrasion-insensitive superhydrophobic coatings for real-world applications

• Dorothea Helmer
• Nico Keller
• Bastian E. Rapp

Investigation of the degradation of pitch-based carbon fibers properties upon insufficient or excess thermal treatment

• Tae Hwan Lim
• Sang Young Yeo

Real-time monitoring of laser powder bed fusion process using high-speed X-ray imaging and diffraction

• Kamel Fezzaa

Near room temperature chemical vapor deposition of graphene with diluted methane and molten gallium catalyst

• Jun-ichi Fujita
• Takaki Hiyama
• Woei Wu Pai

3D Printing Bioinspired Ceramic Composites

• Ezra Feilden
• Claudio Ferraro
• Eduardo Saiz

3D Printed Silicones with Shape Memory

• Amanda S. Wu
• Ward Small IV
• Thomas S. Wilson

Efficient steam generation by inexpensive narrow gap evaporation device for solar applications

• Matteo Morciano
• Matteo Fasano
• Pietro Asinari

Determination of unique power conversion efficiency of solar cell showing hysteresis in the I-V curve under various light intensities

• Ludmila Cojocaru
• Satoshi Uchida

Highly sensitive, self-powered and wearable electronic skin based on pressure-sensitive nanofiber woven fabric sensor

• Shizhong Cui

In situ repair of bone and cartilage defects using 3D scanning and 3D printing

Enhanced mechanical, thermal, and electric properties of graphene aerogels via supercritical ethanol drying and high-temperature thermal reduction

• Yehong Cheng
• Shanbao Zhou

Development of the Improving Process for the 3D Printed Structure

• Kensuke Takagishi
• Shinjiro Umezu

Aligned hierarchical Ag/ZnO nano-heterostructure arrays via electrohydrodynamic nanowire template for enhanced gas-sensing properties

• Zhouping Yin
• Xiaomei Wang
• YongAn Huang

Surface engineering of perovskite films for efficient solar cells

• Jin-Feng Wang
• Ying-Huai Qiang

Metal vapor micro-jet controls material redistribution in laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing

• Alexander M. Rubenchik
• Manyalibo J. Matthews

Quantitative Characterization of Structural and Mechanical Properties of Boron Nitride Nanotubes in High Temperature Environments

• Xiaoming Chen
• Christopher M. Dmuchowski
• Changhong Ke

Schottky solar cell using few-layered transition metal dichalcogenides toward large-scale fabrication of semitransparent and flexible power generator

• Toshiki Akama
• Wakana Okita
• Toshiaki Kato

A robust, highly stretchable supramolecular polymer conductive hydrogel with self-healability and thermo-processability

• Wenguang Liu

High-Capacitance Hybrid Supercapacitor Based on Multi-Colored Fluorescent Carbon-Dots

• Melis Ozge Alas

Environmentally friendly synthesis of CeO 2 nanoparticles for the catalytic oxidation of benzyl alcohol to benzaldehyde and selective detection of nitrite

• P. Tamizhdurai
• Subramanian Sakthinathan
• P. Sangeetha

Metal-free supercapacitor with aqueous electrolyte and low-cost carbon materials

• Nicklas Blomquist
• Thomas Wells

Designing artificial 2D crystals with site and size controlled quantum dots

• Jiahao Kang
• Kaustav Banerjee

Silicon Derived from Glass Bottles as Anode Materials for Lithium Ion Full Cell Batteries

• Changling Li
• Cengiz S. Ozkan

Easily Regenerated Readily Deployable Absorbent for Heavy Metal Removal from Contaminated Water

• Perry N. Alagappan
• Jessica Heimann
• Andrew R. Barron

Electrical properties of graphene-metal contacts

• Teresa Cusati
• Gianluca Fiori
• Giuseppe Iannaccone

3D-Printing of Meso-structurally Ordered Carbon Fiber/Polymer Composites with Unprecedented Orthotropic Physical Properties

• James P. Lewicki
• Jennifer N. Rodriguez
• Michael J. King

Effective mechanical properties of multilayer nano-heterostructures

• T. Mukhopadhyay
• M. Asle Zaeem

Improved Flexible Transparent Conductive Electrodes based on Silver Nanowire Networks by a Simple Sunlight Illumination Approach

• Pengfei Kou

Advanced Sulfur-Silicon Full Cell Architecture for Lithium Ion Batteries

• Jeffrey Bell

Chemical and Bandgap Engineering in Monolayer Hexagonal Boron Nitride

• Zhengzong Sun

Direct Ink Write (DIW) 3D Printed Cellulose Nanocrystal Aerogel Structures

• Vincent Chi-Fung Li
• Conner K. Dunn
• H. Jerry Qi

Distinguishing crystallization stages and their influence on quantum efficiency during perovskite solar cell formation in real-time

• Lukas Wagner
• Laura E. Mundt
• Stefan W. Glunz

Wearable woven supercapacitor fabrics with high energy density and load-bearing capability

• Caiwei Shen

Plasmonic nanohole array for enhancing the SERS signal of a single layer of graphene in water

• Amirreza Mahigir
• Te-Wei Chang
• Georgios Veronis

Programmable Deployment of Tensegrity Structures by Stimulus-Responsive Polymers

• Jiangtao Wu

Semi-transparent Perovskite Solar Cells Developed by Considering Human Luminosity Function

• Gyu Min Kim
• Tetsu Tatsuma

Towards lead-free perovskite photovoltaics and optoelectronics by ab-initio simulations

• Md Roknuzzaman
• Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov
• Tuquabo Tesfamichael

High sulfur-containing carbon polysulfide polymer as a novel cathode material for lithium-sulfur battery

• Yiyong Zhang
• Yueying Peng
• Jinbao Zhao

Enhancing the Mechanical Toughness of Epoxy-Resin Composites Using Natural Silk Reinforcements

• Robert O. Ritchie

Highly Efficient Non-Enzymatic Glucose Sensor Based on CuO Modified Vertically-Grown ZnO Nanorods on Electrode

• Rafiq Ahmad
• Nirmalya Tripathy
• Yoon-Bong Hahn

Determination and controlling of grain structure of metals after laser incidence: Theoretical approach

• Amir Reza Ansari Dezfoli
• Weng-Sing Hwang
• Tsung-Wen Tsai

High-performance MnO 2 -deposited graphene/activated carbon film electrodes for flexible solid-state supercapacitor

• Mengying Jia

Co 3 O 4 nanoparticles anchored on nitrogen-doped reduced graphene oxide as a multifunctional catalyst for H 2 O 2 reduction, oxygen reduction and evolution reaction

• Tingting Zhang
• Chuansheng He

Microstructural evolution during sintering of copper particles studied by laboratory diffraction contrast tomography (LabDCT)

• S. A. McDonald
• P. J. Withers

Towards conductive textiles: coating polymeric fibres with graphene

• Ana I. S. Neves
• Daniela P. Rodrigues
• Monica F. Craciun

Luminescent manganese-doped CsPbCl 3 perovskite quantum dots

• Chun Che Lin
• Kun Yuan Xu
• Andries Meijerink

Catastrophic failure of nacre under pure shear stresses of torsion

• Saleh Alghamdi
• Mandar Dewoolkar

Atomistic Representation of Anomalies in the Failure Behaviour of Nanocrystalline Silicene

• Tawfiqur Rakib
• Sourav Saha
• Md Mahbubul Islam

Three-dimensional Graphene with MoS 2 Nanohybrid as Potential Energy Storage/Transfer Device

• Kulvinder Singh
• Sushil Kumar
• Kaushik Ghosh

Highly Efficient Colored Perovskite Solar Cells Integrated with Ultrathin Subwavelength Plasmonic Nanoresonators

• Kyu-Tae Lee
• Ji-Yun Jang
• Hui Joon Park

Towards large-scale in free-standing graphene and N-graphene sheets

• E. Tatarova
• B. Gonçalves

Germanium-doped Metallic Ohmic Contacts in Black Phosphorus Field-Effect Transistors with Ultra-low Contact Resistance

• Hsun-Ming Chang
• Adam Charnas
• Chao-Hsin Wu

Nickel Cobalt Sulfide core/shell structure on 3D Graphene for supercapacitor application

• Lemu Girma Beka

Graphene Quantum Dot Solid Sheets: Strong blue-light-emitting & photocurrent-producing band-gap-opened nanostructures

• Ganapathi Bharathi
• Devaraj Nataraj
• Dibyendu Bhattacharyya

Graphene-copper composite with micro-layered grains and ultrahigh strength

• Lidong Wang
• Weidong Fei

Performance of Solid-state Hybrid Energy-storage Device using Reduced Graphene-oxide Anchored Sol-gel Derived Ni/NiO Nanocomposite

• Himadri Tanaya Das
• Kamaraj Mahendraprabhu
• Perumal Elumalai

Graphitizing Non-graphitizable Carbons by Stress-induced Routes

• Maziar Ghazinejad
• Sunshine Holmberg

Flexible Fe 3 O 4 @Carbon Nanofibers Hierarchically Assembled with MnO 2 Particles for High-Performance Supercapacitor Electrodes

• Nousheen Iqbal
• Xianfeng Wang

Toward new gas-analytical multisensor chips based on titanium oxide nanotube array

• Fedor Fedorov
• Michail Vasilkov
• Victor Sysoev

Investigation of Thermally Induced Degradation in CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 Perovskite Solar Cells using In-situ Synchrotron Radiation Analysis

• Nam-Koo Kim
• Young Hwan Min
• Donghwan Kim

Ion bombardment induced buried lateral growth: the key mechanism for the synthesis of single crystal diamond wafers

• Matthias Schreck
• Stefan Gsell
• Martin Fischer

The High Temperature Tensile and Creep Behaviors of High Entropy Superalloy

• Te-Kang Tsao
• An-Chou Yeh
• Sheng-Rui Jian

High-throughput Identification and Characterization of Two-dimensional Materials using Density functional theory

• Kamal Choudhary
• Irina Kalish
• Francesca Tavazza

Brush-paintable and highly stretchable Ag nanowire and PEDOT:PSS hybrid electrodes

• Sang-Mok Lee

High-Mobility and High-Optical Quality Atomically Thin WS 2

• Francesco Reale
• Pawel Palczynski
• Cecilia Mattevi

A novel hierarchical porous nitrogen-doped carbon derived from bamboo shoot for high performance supercapacitor

• Xiufang Chen
• Junyi Zhang

Electrical performance of lightweight CNT-Cu composite wires impacted by surface and internal Cu spatial distribution

• Rajyashree Sundaram
• Takeo Yamada
• Atsuko Sekiguchi

Spray-cast multilayer perovskite solar cells with an active-area of 1.5 cm 2

• James E. Bishop
• David K. Mohamad
• David G. Lidzey

Determining the Quality Factor of Dielectric Ceramic Mixtures with Dielectric Constants in the Microwave Frequency Range

• Yingxiang Li

Quantum Light in Curved Low Dimensional Hexagonal Boron Nitride Systems

• Nathan Chejanovsky
• Youngwook Kim
• Jörg Wrachtrup

Enhanced thermal conductivity of epoxy composites filled with silicon carbide nanowires

• Dianyu Shen
• Zhaolin Zhan

Accurate and efficient band gap predictions of metal halide perovskites using the DFT-1/2 method: GW accuracy with DFT expense

• Shu Xia Tao
• Peter A. Bobbert

White Light-Emitting Diodes Based on Individual Polymerized Carbon Nanodots

• Zhengmao Yin
• Xiangang Xu

Thermal Conductance of the 2D MoS 2 / h -BN and graphene/ h -BN Interfaces

• Zhun-Yong Ong
• Kedar Hippalgaonkar

Instability in CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 perovskite solar cells due to elemental migration and chemical composition changes

• Zubair Ahmad
• Mansoor Ani Najeeb
• M. K. Nazeeruddin

Understanding contact gating in Schottky barrier transistors from 2D channels

• Abhijith Prakash
• Hesameddin Ilatikhameneh
• Joerg Appenzeller

Multi-frequency sound production and mixing in graphene

• M. S. Heath
• D. W. Horsell

The structural and magnetic properties of dual phase cobalt ferrite

• Shyam K. Gore
• Santosh S. Jadhav
• Kwang Ho Kim

Flexible PVDF membranes with exceptional robust superwetting surface for continuous separation of oil/water emulsions

Fluorescence brightness and photostability of individual copper (I) oxide nanocubes

• Nafisa Zohora
• Ahmad Esmaielzadeh Kandjani
• Brant C. Gibson

Van der Waals MoS 2 /VO 2 heterostructure junction with tunable rectifier behavior and efficient photoresponse

• Nicoló Oliva
• Emanuele Andrea Casu
• Adrian Mihai Ionescu

3D free-standing nitrogen-doped reduced graphene oxide aerogel as anode material for sodium ion batteries with enhanced sodium storage

Cross-Talk Immunity of PEDOT:PSS Pressure Sensing Arrays with Gold Nanoparticle Incorporation

• Rajat Subhra Karmakar
• Jer-Chyi Wang

The Influence of Porosity on Fatigue Crack Initiation in Additively Manufactured Titanium Components

• S. Tammas-Williams
• P. B. Prangnell

An extremely simple macroscale electronic skin realized by deep machine learning

• Kee-Sun Sohn
• Jiyong Chung

Electrochemical performance and interfacial properties of Li-metal in lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide based electrolytes

• Reza Younesi
• Fanny Bardé

Influence of synthesis parameters on CCVD growth of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes over aluminum substrate

• Egon Kecsenovity
• Klara Hernadi

Large-scale synthesis of uniform hexagonal boron nitride films by plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition

• Tae Keun Kim
• Sung-Yool Choi

Operando Multi-modal Synchrotron Investigation for Structural and Chemical Evolution of Cupric Sulfide (CuS) Additive in Li-S battery

• Chonghang Zhao

The agglomeration, coalescence and sliding of nanoparticles, leading to the rapid sintering of zirconia nanoceramics

• Andraž Kocjan
• Manca Logar
• Zhijian Shen

Indium selenide: an insight into electronic band structure and surface excitations

• A. Politano
• A. Cupolillo

Fabrication of Subnanometer-Precision Nanopores in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

• S. Matt Gilbert
• Gabriel Dunn

Stretchable conductive elastomer for wireless wearable communication applications

• Jingtian Xi
• Matthew M. F. Yuen

Aligning cellulose nanofibril dispersions for tougher fibers

• Pezhman Mohammadi
• Matti S. Toivonen
• Markus B. Linder

Carbon nanowalls as a platform for biological SERS studies

• Pavel Dyakonov
• Kirill Mironovich
• Stanislav Evlashin

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