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Influence of Hard/Soft Layer Ordering on Magnetization Reversal of Bimagnetic Nanoparticles: Implications for Biomedical/Theranostic Applications

June 14, 2023
Author(s)
Corisa Kons, Kathryn L. Krycka, Joshua Robles, Nikolaos Ntallis, Manuel Pereiro, Manh-Huong Phan, Hariharan Srikanth, Julie A. Borchers, Dario A. Arena
We investigate the spatial distribution of spin orientation in magnetic nanoparticles consisting of hard and soft magnetic layers. The nanoparticles are synthesized in a core / shell spherical morphology where the magnetically hard, high anisotropy layer

Assessment of a Parachor Model for the Surface Tension of Binary Mixtures

June 7, 2023
Author(s)
Alexandra Metallinou Log, Vladimir Diky, Marcia L. Huber
We constructed an experimental database for the surface tension of binary mixtures containing a wide variety of fluids, from the chemical classes (water, alcohols, amines, ketones, linear and branched alkanes, naphthenes, aromatics, refrigerants, and

Anisotropy Factors in Small-Angle Scattering for Dilute Rigid-Rod Suspensions

June 1, 2023
Author(s)
Jack Rooks, Peter H. Gilbert, Lionel Porcar, Yun Liu, Paul Butler
Alignment of anisotropic particles along specific orientations influences the mechanical and rheological properties of a material. Small-angle scattering techniques are widely used to probe this alignment through analysis of anisotropic two-dimensional sca

Exclusive Recognition of CO2 from Hydrocarbons by Aluminum Formate with Hydrogen-Confined Pore Cavities

May 31, 2023
Author(s)
Zhaoqiang Zhang, Zeyu Deng, Hayden Evans, Dinesh Mullangi, Chengjun Kang, Shing B. Peh, Yuxiang Wang, Craig Brown, John Wang, Pieremanuele Canepa, Anthony K. Cheetham, Dan Zhao
Exclusive capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) from hydrocarbons via adsorptive separation is an important technology in the petrochemical industry, especially for acetylene (C2H2) production. However, the physicochemical similarities between CO2 and C2H2

Negligible Magnetic Losses at Low Temperatures in Liquid Phase Epitaxy Grown Y3Fe5O12 Films

May 31, 2023
Author(s)
A. Will-Cole, James L. Hart, Valeria Lauter, Alexander Grutter, Carsten Dubs, Morris Lindner, Timmy Reimann, Nichole R. Valdez, Charles J. Pearce, Todd C. Monson, Judy J. Cha, Don Heiman, Nian X. Sun
Yttrium iron garnet (Y3Fe5O12, YIG) has a unique combination of low magnetic damping, high spin wave conductivity, and insulating properties that make it a highly attractive material for a variety of applications in the fields of magnetics and spintronics

Determining Steel Weld Qualification and Performance for Hydrogen Pipelines: Phase I Report

May 23, 2023
Author(s)
Matthew Connolly, May Ling Martin, Zack Buck, Newell Moser, Enrico Lucon, Damian Lauria, Peter Bradley, Andrew Slifka, Robert Amaro
This report details the results of Phase I of the DOT/PHMSA sponsored work on "Determining Steel Weld Qualification and Performance for Hydrogen Pipelines". In this work, the goals of Phase I were 1) to perform a literature review of steel weld

Phosphate-Functionalized MOF-808 for High Performance Li-S Batteries

May 8, 2023
Author(s)
Bingqian Liu, Avery Baumann, Megan Butala, V. Sara Thoi
Lithium–sulfur batteries are promising candidates for next-generation energy storage devices due to their outstanding theoretical energy density. However, they suffer from low sulfur utilization and poor cyclability, greatly limiting their practical

Noncryogenic Air Separation using Aluminum Formate Al(HCOO) 3 (ALF)

May 3, 2023
Author(s)
Dinesh Mullangi, Hayden Evans, Taner N. Yildirim, Yuxiang Wang, Zeyu Deng, Zhaoqiang Zhang, Thuc Mai, Fengxia Wei, John Wang, Angela R. Hight Walker, Craig Brown, Dan Zhao, Pieremanuele Canepa, Anthony K. Cheetham
Separating oxygen from air to create oxygen-enriched gas streams is a process that is significant in both industrial and medical fields. However, the prominent technologies for creating oxygen-enriched gas streams are both energy and infrastructure

AI for Materials

April 25, 2023
Author(s)
Debra Audus, Kamal Choudhary, Brian DeCost, A. Gilad Kusne, Francesca Tavazza, James A. Warren
The application of artificial intelligence (AI) methods to materials re- search and development (MR&D) is poised to radically reshape how materials are discovered, designed, and deployed into manufactured products. Materials underpin modern life, and

Forward and Inverse design of high $T_C$ superconductors with DFT and deep learning

April 21, 2023
Author(s)
Daniel Wines, Kevin Garrity, Tian Xie, Kamal Choudhary
We developed a multi-step workflow for the discovery of next-generation conventional superconductors. 1) We started with a Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer (BCS) inspired pre-screening of 55000 materials in the JARVIS-DFT database resulting in 1736 materials with

Superconformal Film Growth: From Smoothing Surfaces to Interconnect Technology

April 20, 2023
Author(s)
Thomas P. Moffat, Trevor Braun, David Raciti, Daniel Josell
CONSPECTUS: State-of-the-art manufacturing of electronics involves the electrodeposition of Cu to form 3-D circuitry of arbitrary complexity. This ranges from nanometers wide interconnects between individual transistors to increasingly large multilevel

Correlating the Diffusion of Water in Model Polyamides with Controlled Crosslink Densities to the Performance in Reverse Osmosis Membranes for Desalination

April 18, 2023
Author(s)
Velencia Witherspoon, Kanae Ito, Chad R. Snyder, Madhusudan (Madhu) Tyagi, Tyler Martin, Peter Beaucage, Ryan Nieuwendaal, Richard Vallery, David Gidley, Jeffrey Wilbur, Dean Welsh, Christopher Stafford, Christopher Soles
To elucidate robust design cues for improving the active polyamide (PA) filtration layers in reverse osmosis (RO) membrane for desalination, we systematically reduce the cross-link density of a PA network based on m-phenylene diamine by substituting a

Modification of Nafion's Nanostructure for the Water Management of PEM Fuel Cells

April 15, 2023
Author(s)
Yuanchao Li, Natalie Schwab, Robert M. Briber, Joseph A. Dura, Trung Van Nguyen
A PEM fuel cell with the Nafion® ionomer phase of the cathode catalyst layer (CL) that was exposed to dry gas during the annealing process showed improved performance over the whole current density range and 220% peak power increase with humidified air at

A high-strength precipitation hardened cobalt-free high-entropy alloy

April 12, 2023
Author(s)
Matthew Luebbe, Jiaqi Duan, Fan Zhang, Jonathan Poplawsky, Hans Pommeranke, Maalavan Arivu, Andrew Hoffman, Haiming Wen
Recent studies on precipitation-hardened high-entropy alloys (HEAs) demonstrate their high strength and thermal stability, making them promising materials for high-temperature structural applications such as nuclear reactors. However, many existing HEAs

Multivariate Flexible Framework with High Usable Hydrogen Capacity in a Reduced Pressure Swing Process

April 12, 2023
Author(s)
Arijit Halder, Ryan Klein, Sarah Shulda, Gavin McCarver, Philip Parilla, Hiroyasu Furukawa, Craig Brown, C. Michael McGuirk
Step-shaped adsorption¬–desorption of gaseous payloads by a flexible metal–organic framework can facilitate the delivery of large usable capaci-ties with significantly reduced energetic penalties. This is desirable for the storage, transport, and delivery
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