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Competing Fracture Modes in Brittle Materials Subject to Concentrated Cyclic Loading in Liquid Environments: Bilayer Structures

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Yu Zhang, Sanjit Bhowmick, Brian R. Lawn

A preceding study of the competition between fracture modes in monolithic brittle materials in cyclic loading with curved indenters in liquid environments is...

Impact Energy Dependence of SF₅⁺ Ion Beam Damage of Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) Studied by Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

M S. Wagner, J Greg Gillen

Recent advances in instrumentation for Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) have focused on the application of polyatomic primary ions for enhancing molecular...

Effect of Adhesion Hysteresis and Roughness Upon Solid-Liquid and Solid-Solid Friction

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Michael Nosonovsky

Mechanisms of energy dissipation during solid-solid and solid-liquid friction are discussed. A conservative van der Waals adhesion force, when combined with...

Gravitational Effects on Mercuric Iodide Crystal Growth

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

B W. Steiner, L van den Berg, U Laor

Gravity can affect the physical vapor growth of mercuric iodide in two distinct ways. First, gravity will induce convection during growth, which strongly mixes...

Report of VAMAS TWA 23 - Thermal Properties of Thin Films: A Round Robin to Measure the Thermal Conductivity of Silcon Dioxide Films on Silicon

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

A Feldman

A round-robin to measure the thermal conductivity (k) of SIQ^2^ thin films has taken place under the Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards...

Spontaneous Ejecta From [Beta]-Eucryptite Composites

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Ivar E. Reimanis, C Seick, K Fitzpatrick, Lin-Sien H. Lum, S Landin

Polycrystalline ceramic composites, comprised of primarily b-eucryptite (LiAlSiO4) and lithium aluminate (LiAl5O8) crystals, with a near-zero coefficient of...

Coupling Between Octahedral Tilting and Ferroelectric Order in Tetragonal Tungsten Bronze-Structured Dielectrics

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Igor Levin, M Stennett, D I. Woodward, A R. West, I Reaney

Strong coupling between local polar displacements and a commensurate octahedral tilting is proposed to explain the onset of classic ferroelectric behavior in...

Instability of Adhesion Force Between Rough Surfaces

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Michael Nosonovsky, Seung H. Yang, Huan Zhang

Adhesion force has a significant effect upon the contact of rough surfaces with nanoscale asperities. The dominant component of the adhesion force is the...

Interfacial Dewetting in Silicon Nitride Containing Aligned Grains

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

B Hockey, D S. Park, H D. Kim, S W. Lee

It is generally believed that liquid phase sintering of silicon nitride invariably results in a continuous intergranular phase such that individual grains are...

Experimental Determination of Chemical Hydridization in Rutile TiO₂ Using Site-Specific X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Joseph Woicik, E J. Nelson, L Kronik, M Jain, J R. Chelikowsky, D Heskett, L E. Berman, G S. Herman

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) has emerged as a premier method by which to study the chemical bonding in solids. Owing to the conservation of energy...

Phase Equilibria Diagrams - Volume XIII: Oxides

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Robert S. Roth

This volume is the thirteenth of the topically-oriented series of phase diagram compilations and the eighth to appear since the National Institute of Standards...

Experts Evaluate Pulsed Laser Deposition Technology

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

John W. Hastie, D W. Bonnell, D Chrissey

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD) and The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL, Washington, DC) jointly hosted a workshop...

How Standards Help Bring New Materials to the Market

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Stephen W. Freiman, George D. Quinn

This paper attempts to describe the importance of standards in helping to bring new materials to the market place. Using ceramic materials as an example, the...

Crystal Structures, Modeling, and Dielectric Property Relationships of 2:1 Ordered Ba3MM 2O9 (M = Mg, Ni, Zn; M = Nb, Ta) Perovskites

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

M W. Lufaso

The preparation, modeled and refined crystal structures, and structure-dielectric property relationships of five Ba3MM 2O9 (M = Mg, Ni, Zn; M = Nb, Ta)...

Phase Equilibria Diagrams 2003 Cumulative Index (Volumes I-XIII, Annuals '91-'93, High Tc Superconductors I-II, Electronic Ceramics I)

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

C L. Cedeno, Mary A. Harne

The authors and chemical systems indexed in the 2003 Cumulative Index refer the user to all phase diagrams published in the Phase Equilibria Diagrams series up...

Rapid Detection of Thin-Film Interfacial Reactions by MEMS-DSC

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Lawrence P. Cook, Richard E. Cavicchi, Yanbao Zhang, Mark D. Vaudin, Christopher B. Montgomery, William F. Egelhoff Jr., Martin L. Green, Leslie Allen

A MEMS-based differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) has been used to characterize the Ni/Si interfacial reaction in thin films at ramp rates of 940 C/s and...

Controlled Synthesis of Single-Crystalline InN Nanorods

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Igor Levin, Albert Davydov, O M. Kryliouk, Hyun Jong Park, YongSun Won, T J. Anderson, J P. Kim, J A. Freitas

Single-crystalline InN nanorods were successfully grown on c-Al203, GaN, and Si substrates by non catalytic, template-free hydride metal-organic vapor phase...

Numerical Simulations of the Growth and Deflection of a Stress-Corrosion Crack on the Interface Between Two Brittle Solids

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Z Tang, A F. Bower, Tze J. Chuang

A front-tracking finite element method is used to compute the evolution of a crack-like defect that propagates along a bi-material interface by stress driven...

Model for Adhesion-Based Energy Dissipation During Friction

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Michael Nosonovsky, Stephen M. Hsu

Adhesion plays a significant role in Nanoscale interfacial friction for basically non-adhesive surfaces (no chemical bonding). The adhesion forces are composed...

Effect of Wear Track Diameter on Tribological Behavior

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

S Jahanmir

Wear tests were conducted using a pin-on-disk tribometer to evaluate the effect of disk track diameter on the tribological behavior. High purity alumina balls...

Angular-Momentum Resolved Partial Density of States of Rutile TiO₂: Theory and Experiment

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Joseph Woicik, E J. Nelson, L Kronik, M Jain, J R. Chelikowsky, D Heskett, L E. Berman, G S. Herman

Using the method of site-specific valence x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (SSVKPS), we have experimentally determined the Ti and O partial density of occupied...

Tribology of Non-Adhesive Surfaces: Superhydrophobicity and Wetting Regime Transitions

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Michael Nosonovsky, Bharat Bhushan

Non-adhesive and water-repellent surfaces are required for many tribological applications. Wetting of patterned superhydrophobic Si surfaces is studied as a...

Size, Load, and Velocity Effect on State-and-Rate Friction at Micro/Nanoscale

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Michael Nosonovsky

A model for size-, load-, and velocity-dependence of friction at micro/nanoscale is proposed. During multiple-asperity contact, friction force is equal to the...

Subsolidus Phase Equiibria of the 2223 (Bi:Sr:Ca:Cu) Phase at 840 C to 850 C in Air

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Winnie Wong-Ng, Lawrence P. Cook, F Jiang, L Swartzendruber, P Sastry

The subsolidus phase equilibria involving the Bi-2223(Bi 2Sr 1.9Ca 2.1Cu 3O 10+x) phase in the Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O system (BSCCO) were investigated at 840-850The...

Estimation of Tensile Creep Parameters from Flexural and Compressive Creep of a Silicon Carbide and of a Silicon Carbide Whisker-Reinforced Alumina

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Ralph Krause

Secondary creep in tension was characterized by power-law functions of stress that were evaluated from load-point displacement on four-point flexure specimens...

ICSD Accessibility in Support of Materials Research and Design

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Vicky L. Karen, A J. Belsky

The materials community in both science and industry use crystallographic data models on a daily basis to visualize, explain, and predict the behavior of...

Glass forming liquids and polymers: what we learn from statistical physics

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

S C. Glotzer, Y Gebremichael, N Lacevic, T B. Schroder, Francis W. Starr

We describe the application of statistical mechanical framework, originally developed to describe critical phenonema, to the problem of dynamic criticality...

Nanotribology: the Link to Macrotribology

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Stephen M. Hsu

The study of adhesion, friction, and lubrication at the nanoscale is driven by the needs in niicrosystems, MEMS, and small scale devices. Reliabilitydurability...

Raman Stress Evaluation: Hydrostatic vs. Biaxial Calibration

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

L M. Braun, Grady S. White

Comparisons of two technical approaches for stress measurement based on the peak shifts associated with micro-Raman spectra are described. Stress values were...

The 1999 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

Winnie Wong-Ng

The 1999 Material Research Society Fall Meeting took place in Boston Copley Plaza from November 26 to December 3. This was the first time that MRS has used the...

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