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Mahendra DC, Ding-Fu Shao, Vincent D.-H. Hou, Patrick Quarterman, Ali Habiboglu, Brooks Venuti, Masashi Miura, Brian Kirby, Arturas Vailionis, Chong Bi, Xiang Li, Fen Xue, Yen-Lin Huang, Yong Deng, Shy-Jay Lin, Wilman Tsai, Serena Eley, Weigang Wang, Julie A. Borchers, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal, Shan X. Wang
High spin-orbit torques (SOTs) generated by topological materials and heavy metals interfaced with a ferromagnetic layer show promise for next generation magnetic memory and logic devices. SOTs generated from the in-plane spin polarization along y-axis
Stefania Perticaroli, Jana Herzberger, Yiping Sun, Jonathan D. Nickels, Ryan Murphy, Kathleen Weigandt, Paula J. Ray
Foam stability is a critical part of product performance and consumer experience in materials as diverse as beer or detergents. Inclusion of polymer additives is a known strategy to improve foam stability, but questions persist about the amount of polymer
Techniques like nanoindentation and atomic force microscopy can estimate the local elastic moduli in a region surrounding the probe tip used. For composites with phase regions much larger than the size of the probe, these procedures can identify the phases
Shouzhong Peng, Daoqian Zhu, Weixiang Li, Hao Wu, Alexander Grutter, Dustin A. Gilbert, Jiaqi Lu, Danrong Xiong, Wenlong Cai, Padraic Shafer, Kang L. Wang, Weisheng Zhao
Electrical manipulation of exchange bias and magnetization in antiferromagnet/ferromagnet thin films has been of great interest in recent years. Here, we experimentally demonstrate current-induced switching of exchange bias in perpendicularly magnetized
Perovskite oxides, ABO 3, can host a variety of anion vacancies in the form of chains or layers, which results in various properties 1-3 and thus the manipulation of vacancy patterns is of considerable interest. Separately, lattice strain between thin-film
Ganga Purja Pun, Vesselin Yamakov, James Hickman, Edward Glaessgen, Yuri Mishin
Interatomic potentials constitute the key component of large-scale atomistic simulations of materials. The recently proposed physically-informed neural network (PINN) method combines a high- dimensional regression implemented by an artificial neural
Christopher C. White, Donald L. Hunston, Kar tean Tan
The non-linear viscoelastic properties of a model sealant were measured using stress relaxation tests conducted at different strain levels, x. Some specimens were measured with no previous strain history while others were given a preconditioning that
Brandon R. Barnett, Hayden Evans, Gregory M. Su, Henry Z.H. Jiang, Romit Chakraborty, Didier Banyeretse, Tyler J. Hartman, Madison B. Martinez, Benjamin Trump, Jacob D. Tarver, Matthew N. Dods, Walter S. Drisdell, Katherine E. Hurst, Thomas Gennett, Stephen A. FitzGerald, Craig Brown, Martin Head-Gordon, Jeffrey R. Long
Coordinatively-unsaturated metal sites within certain zeolites and metal–organic frameworks can strongly adsorb various molecules. While many classical examples involve electron-poor metal cations that interact with adsorbates largely through electrostatic
Allen Scheie, Jonas Kindervater, Shu Zhang, Hitesh Changlani, G. Sala, Georg Ehlers, Andre Heinemann, Gregory Tucker, Seyed Koohpayeh, Collin L. Broholm
We report on a recent workshop dedicated to additive manufacturing (AM) of ceramics that was held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in November 2019. This two- day all-invited meeting brought together experts from industry
Eliot Gann, Christopher McNeill, Wenchao Huang, Dinesh Kabra, Urvashi Bothra, Nakul Jain, Amelia C. Liu
The nano-morphology of bulk heterojunction blends based on poly[[4,8-bis[(2- ethylhexyl)oxy]benzo[1,2-b:4,5- b']dithiophene-2,6-diyl][3-fluoro-2-[(2-ethylhexyl)carbonyl]thieno[3,4-b]thiophenediyl]] (PTB7) blended with [6,6]- phenyl-C71-butyric acid methyl
Yanxue Hong, Ryan Stein, Michael Stewart, Neil M. Zimmerman, Joshua M. Pomeroy
Aluminum oxide (AlOx)-based single-electron transistors (SETs) fabricated in ultra-high vacuum (UHV) chambers using in situ plasma oxidation show excellent stabilities over more than a week, enabling applications as tunnel barriers, capacitor dielectrics
Cherno Jaye, Daniel Fischer, Jonathan Ogle, Nabajit Lahiri, Christopher Tassone, Janis Louie, Luisa Whittaker-Brooks
Two-dimensional coordination polymers (2D CPs) are of significant interest due to their intriguing structural, optical, and electrical properties which can be tuned through the selective coordination of different metals and organic linkers. Although, 2D
Wei-Shan Chiang, Jin-hong Chen, David Jacobi, Taner N. Yildirim
The thermogenic transformation of kerogen into hydrocarbons accompanies the development of a pore network within the kerogen that serves as gas storage locations both in pore space and surface area for adsorbed gas within the source rock. Therefore, the
Fei Wang, Hayden Evans, Kwangnam Kim, Liang Yin, Yiliang Li, Ping-Chun Tsai, Jue Liu, Saul H. Lapidus, Craig Brown, Donald J. Siegel, Yet-Ming Chiang
Li 2OHCl is an exemplar of the anti-perovskite family of ionic conductors, for which high ionic conductivities have been reported, but in which the atomic-level mechanism of ion migration is unclear. The stable phase is highly defective, having 1/3 of the
Zheliang Wang, Jingkai Guo, Jonathan Seppala, Thao D. Nguyen
Amorphous polymers exhibit a viscoplastic strain hardening behavior at large strain. To describe this hardening behavior, we have developed an effective temperature model for the nonequlibrium behavior of amorphous polymers that incorporate the effects of
Kyong-Il Jo, Yonghoon Oh, Tae-Ho Kim, Joona Bang, Guangcui Yuan, Sushil K. Satija, Bong J. Sung, Jaseung Koo
The morphological structure and dynamics of confined polymers adjacent to the polymer–polymer interface have a profound effect on determining the overall physical properties of polymer blends. We measured the diffusion dynamics of polymethylmethacrylate
Yi D. Yuan, Jinqiao Dong, Jie Liu, Daohui Zhao, Hui Wu, Wei Zhou, Hui X. Gan, Yen W. Tong, Jianwen Jiang, Dan Zhao
Nature has protein channels (e.g., aquaporins) that preferentially transport water molecules while rejecting even the smallest hydrated ions. Aspirations to create robust synthetic counterparts have led to the development of a few one-dimensional (1D)
Daniel Josell, Thomas Moffat, Z Shi, K Jefimovs, L Romano, J. Vila-Comamala
The application of superconformal Bi-catalyzed Au electrodeposition for void-free filling of recessed trenches in X-ray gratings used in phase contrast imaging is detailed. Filling of trenches with aspect ratio (height divided by its width) up to 55 is
Anthony J. Krzysko, Elias Nakouzi, Xin Zhang, Trent R. Graham, Kevin M. Rosso, Gregory K. Schenter, Jan Ilavsky, Ivan Kuzmenko, Matthew G. Frith, Cornelius F. Ivory, Sue B. Clark, Javen S. Weston, Kathleen Weigandt, James J. De Yoreo, Jaehun Chun, Lawrence M. Anovitz
Predicting the stability of suspensions composed of anisotropic particles is difficult due to the complexity and interplay of hydrodynamic and colloidal forces. For example, it is not well understood how non-spherical particle shapes affect suspension
Fractography is a powerful but underutilized tool for the analysis of fractured glasses and ceramics, for fractures in the laboratory and for component failures in service. Fractography can identify the cause of failure and can even provide quantitative
Qiang Gu, Weifang Liu, Winnie Wong-Ng, Xingxing Wu, Yao Jiang, Chao Wang, Shuang Ma, Shouyu Wang
Layered perovskite Ca2.91Na0.09Ti2-xRhxO7 (x=0.00, 0.02, 0.04, 0.06) were synthesized by a conventional solid-state reaction. The two strongest peaks of XRD shift to the lower 2θ region with an increase of Rh content, demonstrating changing of lattice