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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
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
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,
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
We present an empirical equation of state in terms of the Helmholtz energy for trans-1,2-dichloroethene [R-1130(E)]. The range of validity is from the triple-point temperature to 525 K with pressures up to 30 MPa. It may be used to calculate all
Since 1989, the NIST Charpy Machine Verification Program in Boulder, Colorado has been indirectly verifying Charpy machines around the world according to ASTM E23, Standard Test Methods for Notched Bar Impact Testing of Metallic Materials, and ISO 148-2
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
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
Cristiano Malica, Kostya Novoselov, Kamal Choudhary
This perspective addresses the topic of harnessing the tools of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for boosting innovation in functional materials design and engineering as well as discovering new materials for targeted applications in biomedicine, composites
Yu-Hsin Kuo, Dylan J. Matthews, Shinichiro N. Muramoto, TaeYoung Song, Chengyang Zhang, Xianduo Zhao, Md S. Rahman, Sanghyun Kang, Andres S. Aguirre, Seung M. Lee, Daewon Ha, Sourav Dutta, Theodore Moise, Jayakanth Ravichandran, Shimeng Yu, Alexander Grutter, Suman Datta, Tania Roy, Asif I. Khan
Hydrogen-based annealing processes like forming gas annealing (FGA), widely used in back-end-ofline (BEOL) fabrication, can severely impact the threshold voltage (VTH) and subthreshold swing (SS) stability of amorphous oxide semiconductor (AOS) transistors
Ashlee Aiello, Stefan Mitterhofer, Jan Obrzut, Karissa Jensen, Patryk Wasik, Chiara Barretta, Gernot Oreski, Stephanie Watson, Li Piin Sung, Xiaohong Gu
Accelerated aging was used to assess environmental degradation in emerging co-extruded polypropylene (PP)-based backsheets under three different environmental conditions (65 °C/20 % relative humidity (RH), 75 °C/20 % RH, and 75 °C/50 % RH). Although
Daniel Wines, Akram Ibrahim, Nishwanth Gudibandla, Tehseen Adel, Frank Abel, Sharadh Jois, Kayahan Saritas, Jaron Krogel, Li Yin, Tom Berlijn, Aubrey Hanbicki, Gregory Stephen, Adam Friedman, Sergiy Krylyuk, Albert Davydov, Brian Donovan, Michelle Jamer, Angela Hight Walker, Kamal Choudhary, Francesca Tavazza, Can Ataca
Two-dimensional (2D) 1T-VSe2 has prompted significant interest due to the discrepancies regarding alleged ferromagnetism (FM) at room temperature, charge density wave (CDW) states and the interplay between the two. We employed a combined Diffusion Monte
Sara Rostampour, Song-Syun Jhang, Jung Kai Hsu, Rachel Cook, Yuejin Li, chunlei fan, Li Piin Sung
Microplastics pose a significant environmental threat, and understanding their sources and generation mechanisms is crucial for mitigation efforts. This study investigates the effects of ultraviolet intensity, temperature, and relative humidity on the
Hubert King, Ryan Murphy, Avery Baumann, Andrew Allen, Huong Giang Nguyen, Lisa DeBeer-Schmitt, Jan Ilavsky
The conversion of gaseous CO2 into a solid constitution through mineralization is an active area of carbon capture, and alkaline earth metal hydroxides (M(OH)2, M = Ca2+, Mg2+) are frontrunners in this area. As model systems, nanolime samples are excellent
Sina Ghadi, Xiaobo Chen, Nicholas Tomasello, Nicholas Derimow, Srikanth Rangarajan, Guangwen Zhou, Scott Schiffres
Assessment of metal powders in powder bed additive manufacturing is crucial, as the quality of the powders significantly impacts the final printed parts. This study introduces a novel technique to characterize metal powders by analyzing changes in their
Rajesh Das, He Li, Hayden Evans, Zeyu Deng, Dan Zhao, Anthony K. Cheetham
Carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS) have emerged as pivotal mitigation strategies in addressing climate change induced by greenhouse gas emissions. In this pursuit, our objective is to enhance the efficacy of adsorptive CO2 capture by
Crystal structure determination from powder diffraction patterns is a complex challenge in materials science, often requiring extensive expertise and computational resources. This study introduces DiffractGPT, a generative pre-trained transformer model
John Pettibone, Eric S. Windsor, Tae Joon Cho, Thomas Forbes, Ying Tung Kuo, Justin Gorham, Li Piin Sung, Song-Syun Jhang
Determining unknown secondary micro and nanoplastic (MNP) composition remains a persistent analytical challenge for field collected samples. The availability of material standards should accelerate method development for improved identification. Here
Andrew Naclerio, Peifu Cheng, Saban Hus, John Diulus, Marti Checa, Ivan Vlassiouk, William Fissel, Liam Collins, Matthew Coupin, Jamie Warner, Andrei Kolmakov, An-Ping Li, Piran Ravichandran Kidambi
Nanopores embedded within monolayer hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) offer possibilities of creating atomically thin ceramic membranes with unique combinations of high permeance (atomic thinness), high selectivity (via molecular sieving), increased thermal
Jie Qiu, xunxiang hu, Congyi Li, Wendy Garcia, tan shi, Sha Xue, Jamie Weaver, Huaiyu Chen-Mayer, Brian Wirth
Tungsten (W) is the leading plasma-facing candidate material for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor and next-generation fusion reactors. The impact of synergistic helium ( He ), irradiation-induced microstructural changes, and the
A new wide-ranging correlation for the thermal conductivity of nitrogen, based on the most recent ab initio dilute gas theoretical calculations, a simplified crossover critical enhancement contribution, and critically evaluated experimental data, is
Logan Lang, Eduardo Hernandez, Kamal Choudhary, Aldo Romero
Traditional data storage formats and databases often introduce complexities and inefficiencies that hinder rapid iteration and adaptability. To address these challenges, we introduce ParquetDB, a Python-based database framework that leverages the Parquet
Amine impregnated sorbents have been extensively studied for use in direct air capture (DAC) of CO2. In a dry environment, CO2 capture follows a carbamate formation mechanism, where capture capacity and amine efficiency are controlled by thickness of the
Qingyu Pan, Fan Zhang, Deepak Vikraman Pillai, Zilong Zhang, Yufeng Zheng, Lang Yuan, Monica Kapoor, John Carsley, Xiaoyuan Lou
In the present work, we studied the grain refinement by adding in situ reactants, pure titanium (Ti) or a combination of Ti and boron (B), and investigated the governing mechanism in Al-Mn-Fe-Si 3104 alloy made by laser direct energy deposition (DED)
Sarbajit Banerjee, Y. S. Meng, Andrew M. Minor, Minghao Zhang, Nestor J. Zaluzec, Maria K. Chan, Gerald Seidler, David W. McComb, Joshua Agar, Partha P. Mukherjee, Brent Melot, Karena Chapman, Beth S. Guiton, Robert F. Klie, Ian D. McCue, Paul M. Voyles, Ian Robertson, Ling Li, Miaofang Chi, Joel F. Destino, Arun Devaraj, Emmanuelle Marquis, Carlo U. Segre, Huinan H. Liu, Judith C. Yang, Kasra Momeni, Amit Misra, Niaz Abdolrahim, Julia E. Medvedeva, Wenjun Cai, Alp Sehirlioglu, Melike Dizbay-Onat, Apurva Mehta, Lori Graham-Brady, Benji Maryuama, Krishna Rajan, Jamie H. Warner, Mitra L. Taheri, Sergei V. Kalinin, B. Reeja-Jayan, Udo D. Schwarz, Sindee L. Simon, Craig Brown
In alignment with the Materials Genome Initiative and as the product of a workshop sponsored by the US National Science Foundation, we define a vision for materials laboratories of the future in alloys, amorphous materials, and composite materials; chart a