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The most popular international test standards for Charpy testing, namely ASTM E23, ASTM A370, and ISO 148-1, prescribe significantly different tolerances for the specimen ligament length, ranging from ±0.025 mm (E23) to ±0.01 mm (A370). A study conducted
It remains challenging to curate data about the design, properties, and applications for a given class of materials across thousands of papers to identify emerging trends and efficiently train new artificial intelligence (AI) models. Here, we present a
Ling-Jie Zhou, Zhi J. Yan, Hongtao Rong, Yufei Zhao, Pu Xiao, Lok K. Lai, Zhiyuan Xi, Ke Wang, Tibendra Adhikari, Ganesh P. Tiwari, Zhong Lin, Pascal Manuel, Fabio Orlandi, Dmitry Khalyavin, Alexander Grutter, Chao-Xing Liu, Binghai Yan, Cui-Zu Chang
Altermagnets have recently emerged as a new class of magnetic materials that combine compensated magnetic order with spin-split electronic band structures. In this work, we employ molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) to grow MnTe thin films with controlled
The 2023 Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing Alliance (PAMA) Workshop convened experts from academia, industry, and government to explore the state-of-the-art and future opportunities in photopolymer-based 3D printing. The workshop was organized around
Ian Haygood, Bochao Xu, John Biesecker, Michael Schneider
We report on a cryogen-free scanned SQUID microscope operating at 4 K, with the capability of up to 40 RF (40 GHz) connections to a device under test. The system utilizes planar gradiometric SQUID loops which are fully shield except for a pair of pickup
Using a combination of band representation analysis, inelastic neutron scattering (INS), magneto-Raman spectroscopy measurements, and linear spin wave theory, we determine that the non-coplanar antiferromagnet MnTe2 hosts symmetry-protected topological
Sofia Sotiriadou, Konstantinos Antoniadis, Marc Assael, Viktor Martinek, Marcia Huber
A wide-ranging model for the viscosity surface of methane (CH4) was developed with a range of validity from the triple point-temperature to 625 K and pressures up to 1000 MPa. An extensive literature survey was undertaken and all available experimental
Kevin Coakley, Huaiyu Chen-Mayer, Bruce Ravel, Daniel Josell, Nikolai Klimov, Daniel Hussey
We reconstruct X-ray fluorescence signals produced by synchrotron X-rays. In our method, we select the complexity of a Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse by a data-driven method, and study how systematic errors affect results for simulated data.
Chenglu Tang, Jingfan Yang, Fan Zhang, Joseph Aroh, Ernest Porterfield, Barton Prorok, Xiaoyuan Lou
Twin-related grain boundary engineering (GBE) enhances the boundary-related degradation of materials, such as intergranular corrosion by incorporating a high density of twin boundaries. Conventional GBE typically requires one or multiple thermomechanical
Kathryn Butler, Erik Johnsson, Marco Fernandez, Shonali Nazare, Alexander Maranghides
Field observations show that combustible landscaping features are a common pathway leading fire spread directly to homes during wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires. NIST is studying how these features near a home burn to better understand their levels of
Kurtis M. Carsch, Henry Z. Jiang, Ryan Klein, Andrew S. Rosen, Peyton Summerhill, Jesse L. Peltier, Adrian J. Huang, Ryan A. Murphy, Matthew N. Dods, Hope A. Silva, Zikri Hasanbasri, Hyunchul Kwon, Sarah H. Karstens, Yuto Yabuuchi, Jonas Boergel, Jordan W. Taylor, Katie R. Meihaus, Karen C. Bustillo, Andrew M. Minor, Kristen A. Persson, Craig Brown, R. D. Britt, Nicholas P. Stadie, Jeffrey Long
Cooperative gas adsorption in metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) is a rare phenomenon that generally involves long-range communication between multiple binding sites. We demonstrate a MOF containing cobalt(II)–methyl sites that selectively and reversibly
Understanding structure–property relationships during polymer crystallization and melting has been limited by challenges in the simultaneous measurement of crystallinity and rheological properties. Consequently, rheological models overlook the fundamental
Dilara Meli, Quentin Thomas, Guillaume Freychet, Lucas Flagg, Iain McCulloch, David Beljonne, Lee Richter, Jonathan Rivnay
Despite the technological appeal of organic mixed ionic/electronic conductors (OMIECs) for a range of applications, a deep understanding of the fundamentals of mixed charge transport in these materials, especially regarding the ionic component, is lacking
Guinier analysis has been extensively used in academic and industrial research settings since the 1940s to obtain the model-independent size of a polymer, protein, or colloid in solution from small-angle scattering data. Using the Guinier model, the radius
Bas van Ravensteijn, Patrick Corona, Anukta Data, Kexin Dai, Raghida Bou Zerdan, Kathleen Weigandt, Ryan Murphy, Craig Hawker, Matthew Helgeson
There has been significant recent interest in engineering polymer topology to control rheology and mechanical stability in dilute solutions for applications involving extreme shear rate flows. However, methods to experimentally probe properties at relevant
We present a Bayesian inference framework for reconstructing anisotropic two-dimensional small-angle scattering (2D SAS) patterns from sparse, noisy, or partially missing data. The method combines a symmetry-aware angular basis with radial Gaussian process
Stian Romberg, Sarah Lehrman, Jonathan Seppala, Anthony Kotula
The chemical gel point that occurs in the resin matrix of thermoset composites is crucial to the design of manufacturing process parameters. However, the formation of a physical network of filler material can affect the viscoelastic response of the
Guangcui N. Yuan, Sushil Satija, Thomas Murray, Jack Douglas
Although the mixing of miscible liquids is generally thought to be relatively well-described by classical Fickian diffusion models, it is well-known that the physics of glass-formation can greatly alter the dissolution dynamics of polymer materials brought
Accurate values of the specific refractive index increment (∂n/∂c) are essential to the accurate determination of molar mass averages, distributions, and related macromolecular parameters by, among others, size-based separations with online static light
Huaiyu Chen-Mayer, Shannon Hoogerheide, Aiysha Ashfaq, Jacob LaManna, Scott Jones, Mohamad Al-Sheikhly, Richard A. Livingston
Chloride in concrete is known to promote corrosion of the interior metal enforcement which leads to structural degradation. Chloride content monitoring is an important task for maintaining infrastructure integrity. The current industrial practice of
Trevyn Larson, Akash Dixit, Raymond Simmonds, Florent Lecocq, Jinsu Oh, Lin Zhou, Anthony McFadden
Quantum coherence in superconducting circuits has increased steadily over the last decades because of a growing understanding of the various loss mechanisms. Recently, tantalum (Ta) emerged as a promising material to address microscopic sources of loss fou
Nicholas Derimow, Jake Benzing, Alec Saville, Cassidy Allen, Jordan Weaver, Nikolas Hrabe, Timothy Quinn, Timothy Weeks, Newell Moser, Chad Beamer, Christin Aumayr, Tilman Seifert, Michael Hirtler
This work is a compilation and summary of the quasi-static mechanical properties of a novel cobalt-free maraging steel, M789, that underwent a series of various heat treatments which included solution annealing, intercritical annealing, and aging
Mellissa Grunlan, LaShanda Korely, Qinghuang Lin, Christopher Soles, Rigorberto Advincula, Arthi Jayaraman, Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez, Elsa Reichmanis, Jodie Lutkenhaus, Rodney Priestly, Bridgitte Voit, Thomas Epps
In 2024, the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) marked celebrated its centennial. This historic occasion was marked at the 2024 Spring ACS Meeting in New Orleans with a Centennial Symposium
We have investigated the possibility of extracting low- and high-energy reference Charpy specimens, to be certified for the indirect verification of impact machines in accordance with ASTM E23, from round bars of 4340 steel with larger diameters than the