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Examining Generalizability of AI Models for Catalysis

June 7, 2025
Author(s)
Kamal Choudhary, Shih Han Wang, Hongliang Xin, Luke Achenie
In this work, we investigate the generalizability of problem-specific machine-learning models for catalysis across different datasets and adsorbates, and examine the potential of unified models as pre-screening tools for density functional theory

Dual-Field Multicollector LG-SIMS Analysis of Mixed U-Pu Reference Particles

June 6, 2025
Author(s)
Evan Groopman, Todd Williamson, Kyle Samperton, Spencer M. Scott, Bryan Foley, Michael Bronikowski, George King, Matthew Wellons
In this study, we demonstrate a new dual-field multicollector protocol for magnetic sector large-geometry secondary ion mass spectrometry that enables concurrent analysis of U and Pu isotopes. We apply this analysis protocol to recently produced mixed U-Pu

Out-of-plane electrochemical transport in all-thin-film hetero-epitaxial solid oxide fuel cell structures

June 6, 2025
Author(s)
Huairuo Zhang, Albert Davydov, Yangang Liang, Xiaohang Zhang, Yaoyu Ren, Seunghun Lee, H.M. Jaim, Eric Marksz, Takeuchi Ichiro, Haiyan Tan, Leonid Bendersky, Chris Kucharczyk, Ruiyun Huang, Sossina Haile
We have fabricated all-thin-film solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) heterostructures and investigated the transport properties of Sm0.2Ce0.8O2-δ (SDC20) in an out-of-plane measurement geometry. The SOFC heterostructures, consisting of a bottom SrRuO3 (SRO) or

Manipulating Hydrocarbon Chain-Melting Transitions in Dialkylammonium Halide Barocaloric Materials through Desymmetrization

May 30, 2025
Author(s)
Faith E. Chen, Jason D. Braun, Jinyoung Seo, Hailey J. Hurd, Malia B. Wenny, Shao-Liang Zheng, Jason J. Calvin, Craig Brown, Jarad Mason
Layered materials containing hydrocarbon bilayers capable of transitioning between an ordered and partially disordered state can exhibit large temperature and entropy changes-termed barocaloric effects-in response to a change in hydrostatic pressure. These

Magnetic Uniformity and Limits on Room-Temperature Magnetization in Strained RuO2/TiO2 Films

May 29, 2025
Author(s)
Xuezhao Wu, Alexander Grutter, Ruizi Liu, Purnima P. Balakrishnan, Christy J. Kinane, Andrew J. Caruana, Yiyang Zhang, Xiaolin Ren, Yifan Jiang, Rolf Lortz, Shiming Lei, Qiming Shao
Altermagnets attract much attention due to their unique spin-splitting energy band and potential applications in spintronics. Ruthenium oxide (RuO2) has been reported as a metallic altermagnet, exhibiting long-range spin-splitting torque without

Controlling Impact Mitigation via Stimuli-Responsive Bouligand Nanostructures

May 16, 2025
Author(s)
Sujin Lee, Katherine Evans, Jeremiah Woodcock, Jan Obrzut, Liping Huang, Christopher Soles, Edwin Chan
Critical to their survival, natural organisms have developed exoskeletons that can withstand and inflict damage over their lifetime. The Bouligand structure of the exoskeleton plays a key role in toughness and damage resistance under external impacts

Supporting Production Consistency for Cement

May 12, 2025
Author(s)
Aron Newman, Cody Strack
Concrete is the second most used substance in the world after water. Concrete manufacturers produce 14 billion cubic meters annually, with a market size of $440 billion. The concrete industry is developing new technologies to decrease its carbon footprint

On the chemomechanics of bubble growth in hydrogen attack of plain carbon steels

May 2, 2025
Author(s)
May Martin, Kshitij Vijayvargia, T Nguyen, Mohsen Dadfarnia, Aleksandar Staykov, Petros Sofronis, Masanobu Kubota, John Pugh
High temperature hydrogen attack (HTHA) is a form of degradation of carbon steels exposed to high temperature and high-pressure hydrogen whereby internal hydrogen reacting with carbides forms methane gas bubbles with an associated loss in strength and

Atomic layer deposition of Al2O3 to Ti-6Al-4V feedstock improves oxidation resistance and tensile strength in additively manufactured parts

April 30, 2025
Author(s)
Nicholas Derimow, Joseph Gauspohl, Alec Saville, Jake Benzing, Elisabeth Mansfield, Christopher Gump, Nikolas Hrabe
With the ever-increasing research and development into additive manufacturing (AM) via laser powder bed fusion (PBF-L) of Ti-6Al-4V alloy, there has been numerous efforts to introduce different coatings onto the metal powder feedstock in order to achieve

Microstructure effects on the fracture surface resistance of base metal in line pipe steels in high pressure H2 gas

April 29, 2025
Author(s)
Andrew LeBoeuf, Santigopal Samanta, Joseph Ronevich, Christopher San Marchi, Zachary Buck, Matthew Connolly, Lawrence Cho, Kip Findley
Cost-effective transportation of gaseous hydrogen requires the use of long-distance low-carbon steel pipeline networks. Employing higher strength (X65-X70) grades can allow for economic viability by enabling operation at higher pressures. While higher

Microstructural Features and Metastable Phase Formation in a High-Strength Aluminum Alloy Fabricated Using Additive Manufacturing

April 25, 2025
Author(s)
Andrew Iams, Jordan Weaver, Brandon Lane, Lucille Giannuzzi, Feng Yi, Darby LaPlant, John Martin, Fan Zhang
Additive manufacturing (AM) has captured recent attention for its potential to fabricate high-strength aluminum alloy components. A detailed understanding of the microstructure under the as-fabricated conditions is required to harness its potential. We

Interlaboratory Assessment of Candidate Reference Materials for Lentiviral Vector Copy Number and Integration Site Measurements

April 21, 2025
Author(s)
Hua-Jun He, Zhiyong He, Steven Lund, Barbara Paugh, Jennifer McDaniel, Justin Zook, Sierra Miller, Samantha Maragh, Simona Patange, Mahir Mohiuddin, Alessandro Tona, John Elliott, Kenneth Cole, Sheng Lin-Gibson
Reference materials are essential for accurately measuring integrated lentiviral vector (LV) copy number (VCN) and integration sites for the safety and efficacy of lentivirus-based gene therapy. We conducted an interlaboratory study on NIST candidate

Bridging the Impact Response of Polymers from the Nanoscale to the Macroscale

April 18, 2025
Author(s)
Kyle Callahan, Katherine Evans, Santanu Kundu, Edwin Chan
Impact from a fast-moving object is a common event, but it can vary greatly in terms of scale, speed, and energy depending on the specific case. Recent research has suggested that scaling analysis can be used to relate the impact performance of materials

Alkali metal pyridinolate/piperidinolate pairs: A new type of materials for efficient reversible hydrogen storage

April 1, 2025
Author(s)
Alexis Munyentwali, Yang Yu, Xingchi Zhou, Wei Zhou, Qijun Pei, Khai Chen Tan, Anan Wu, Hui Wu, Teng He, Ping Chen
Chemical hydrogen storage in organic materials is a promising method thanks to its high storage density, reversibility, and safety. However, the dehydrogenation process of organic materials requires high temperatures due to their unfavorable thermodynamic

Insight into the Spin Reorientation Phase Transition in the Magnetocaloric NdNi Compound

April 1, 2025
Author(s)
Yawei Gao, Xinqi Zheng, Hui Wu, Juping Xu, He Huang, Dingsong Wang, Hao Liu, Shanshan Zhen, Yang Pan, Lei Xi, Guyue Wang, Zixiao Zhang, Guangrui Zhang, Anxu Ma, Zhe Chen, Dan Liu, Zhaojun Mo, Jiawang Xu, Wen Yin, Shouguo Wang, Baogen Shen
Exploring and comprehending magnetocaloric materials with spin reorientation (SR) phase transition is of vital importance for practical applications of magnetocaloric effect (MCE). Herein, this study presents a systematic study on the magnetic properties,

MaRDA FAIR Materials Microscopy and LIMS Data Working Groups' Community Recommendations

April 1, 2025
Author(s)
Joshua Taillon, Edward Barnard, Laura Bartolo, Maria K. Y. Chan, Eric Stach, Mitra Taheri, Lynda Brinson, Peter Voorhees
The management, processing, and sharing of research data and experimental context produced on modern scientific instrumentation presents a myriad of challenges to nearly all within the materials research community. To help address these issues, MaRDA

Solvent Structure Controlled SeedGel Formation Investigated using Miscible Binary Solvents

March 21, 2025
Author(s)
Yuyin Xi, Ruipeng Li, William Heller, Wei-Ren Chen, Kunlun Hung, Aurora Zemborain, Yun Liu
Recently, a solvent segregation driven gel (SeedGel) has been demonstrated to be a tunable and versatile way to stabilize bicontinuous structures in a binary solvent. Here, the structure properties of the SeedGel prepared with two miscible solvents, 3

Molecules to Masterpieces: Bridging Materials Science and the Arts

March 19, 2025
Author(s)
Ferdinand Kohle, Hiroaki Sai, William Tait, Peter Beaucage, Ethan Susca, R. Thedford, Ulrich Wiesner
Art and materials innovation have always been intertwined, dating back to the earliest human creations. In modern times, however, the increasing specialization of materials science often restricts artists' access to cutting-edge materials. Here, the
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