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Effects of Weathering and Formulation on the Properties of Vinyl Siding

September 23, 2024
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Ronald Lankone, Mauro Zammarano, Song Jhang, Ickchan Kim, David Goodwin, Gianluca Sarti, Stefano Gardi, Camillo Cardelli, Lipiin Sung
Vinyl siding has become a popular choice for residential exteriors across the United States. In its insulated form, this siding includes a shell, capstock, and substrate, that encase a foamed material, serving as an efficient insulating material. While it

Synthesis, Structure and Ion Conduction of Potassium Carbazolides for Potassium Ionic Solid-State Electrolytes

September 20, 2024
Author(s)
Jiaquan Guo, Yang Yu, Khai Chen Tan, Qijun Pei, Zhao Li, Yuting Wang, Alexis Munyentwali, Hui Wu, Teng He, Ping Chen
Potassium ion batteries gradually aroused worldwide interest due to the limited lithium resource. However, the lack of electrolytes with high ionic conductivity and interfacial stability is the major obstacle for the development of all solid-state

Effect of Cosolvents on the Phase Separation of Polyelectrolyte Complexes

September 13, 2024
Author(s)
Yuanchi Ma, Robert Ivancic, Jan Obrzut, Debra Audus, Vivek Prabhu
Evidence is shown that cosolvent mixtures control the coacervation of mixtures of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes. Binary and ternary solvent mixtures lead to non-monotonic solubility as a function of measured average dielectric constants of the

Complex Precipitation Behavior in a Co-free High Entropy Alloy during Aging

September 11, 2024
Author(s)
Matthew Luebbe, Fan Zhang, Jonathan Poplawsky, Jiaqi Duan, Haiming Wen
High entropy alloys (HEAs) demonstrate high strength, thermal stability, and irradiation resistance, making them desirable for applications in nuclear reactors and other harsh environments. Many existing HEAs contain cobalt (Co), which makes them

Additive Construction in Practice - Realities of Acceptance Criteria

September 4, 2024
Author(s)
Megan Kreiger, Eric Kreiger, Stephan Mansour, Sean Monkman, Mohammad Aghajani Delavar, Petros Sideris, Casey Roberts, Mathew Friedell, Shawn Platt, Scott Jones
Additive Construction has increased dramatically within the United States in the last few years. Efforts to develop acceptance criteria have increased since 2020 and are being developed through integration of research efforts and early engagement with

Assessing girth weld quality of pipeline steels and their susceptibility to hydrogen embrittlement

August 28, 2024
Author(s)
Zack Buck, Newell Moser, Nicholas Derimow, May Ling Martin, Damian Lauria, Enrico Lucon, Douglas Stalheim, Peter Bradley, Matthew Connolly
Hydrogen has long been considered a viable carbon-free option for ever-increasing societal desires to transform our energy infrastructure towards more renewable and alternative technologies. However, the effects of hydrogen-assisted damage mechanisms that

Continuum of Spin Excitations in the Exactly Solvable Triangular-Lattice Spin Liquid CeMgAl11O19

August 28, 2024
Author(s)
Bin Gao, Tong Chen, Chunxaio Liu, Mason Klemm, Shu Zhang, Zhen Ma, Xianghan Xu, CHOONGJAE WON, Dongzhe Dai, Gregory McCandless, Maiko Kofu, Naoki Murai, Stephen Moxim, Jason Ryan, Xiaozhou Huang, Xiaoping Wang, Julia Chan, Shiyan Li, Sang-Wook Cheong, Oleg Tchernyshyov, Leon Balents, Pengcheng Dai
In magnetically ordered insulators, elementary quasiparticles manifest as spin waves - collective motions of localized magnetic moments that propagate through the lattice - observed via inelastic neutron scattering. In effective spin- 1/2 systems where

Mechanical Metallurgy on Columbia Gas X100 Experimental Pipe

August 28, 2024
Author(s)
Dash Weeks, Ryan White, Jake Benzing, Enrico Lucon, Nicholas Derimow, Ashley Kroon, Robert Smith
This study evaluates the material properties of an X100 pipeline steel extracted from an experimental transmission pipeline section placed into service in the 1960s. The purpose is to compare these properties with current X100 steel standards

Optically-induced quantum transitions in direct-probed mesoscopic 2H-NbSe2 for prototypical bolometers

August 26, 2024
Author(s)
Kishan Jayanand, Gustavo Saenz, Sergiy Krylyuk, Albert Davydov, Goran Karapetrov, Zhonghe Liu, Weidong Zhou, Anupama Kaul
Superconducting transition-edge sensors (TES) have emerged as fascinating devices to detect broadband electromagnetic radiation with low thermal noise. Extensive investigation into novel TES device architectures using conventional elemental or compound

Model for the Viscosity and Thermal Conductivity of Tetrahydrofuran

August 17, 2024
Author(s)
Sofia Sotiriadou, Eleftheria Ntonti, Marc Assael, Konstantinos Antoniadis, Marcia L. Huber
We present a hybrid predictive-correlative engineering model for the calculation of the viscosity and thermal conductivity of tetrahydrofuran (THF) in the fluid phase. It incorporates critically evaluated experimental data where available, and predictive

Driving U.S. Innovation in Materials and Manufacturing using AI and Autonomous Labs

August 14, 2024
Author(s)
Howie Joress, Zachary Trautt, Austin McDannald, Brian DeCost, A. Gilad Kusne, Francesca Tavazza
With the goal of advancing US competitiveness and excellence in the materials and manufacturing industries, we present our vision for the National Center for Autonomous Materials Science. The objective of this center is to enable and promote the use of

Construction of Highly Porous and Robust Hydrogen-Bonded Organic Framework for High-Capacity Clean Energy Gas Storage

August 1, 2024
Author(s)
Jia-Xin Wang, Xu Zhang, Changhao Jiang, Teng-Fei Zhang, Jiyan Pei, Wei Zhou, Taner N. Yildirim, Banglin Chen, Guodong Qian, Bin Li
Development of highly porous and robust hydrogen bonded organic frameworks (HOFs) for high-pressure methane and hydrogen storage remains a grand challenge due to the fragile nature of hydrogen bonds. Herein, we report a strategy of constructing the double

Effects of hydrogen on the evolution of 4130 steel microstructure as a result of tensile loading

July 12, 2024
Author(s)
Zack Buck, May Ling Martin, Damian Lauria, Jason Killgore, Peter Bradley, Yan Chen, Ke An, Matthew Connolly
Neutron diffraction and Scanning Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy (SKPFM) were used to study the evolution of lattice strain, dislocation density, and phase partitioning of a ferrite/martensite pressure vessel steel (AISI 4130) that resulted from tensile

Entanglement kinetics in polymer melts are chemically specific

July 3, 2024
Author(s)
Benjamin Dolata
We investigate the universality of entanglement kinetics in polymer melts. We compare predictions of a recently developed constitutive equation for disentanglement to molecular dynamics simulations of both united-atom polyethylene and Kremer-Grest models

Single-Phase L10-Ordered High Entropy Thin Films with High Magnetic Anisotropy

June 28, 2024
Author(s)
Willie Beeson, Dinesh Bista, Huairuo Zhang, Sergiy Krylyuk, Albert Davydov, Gen Yin, Kai Liu
The vast high entropy alloy (HEA) composition space is promising for discovery of new material phases with unique properties. We explore the potential to achieve high magnetic anisotropy materials in single-phase HEA thin films. Thin films of FeCoNiMnCu

New Method to Probe the Surface Properties of Polymer Thin Films by Two-Dimensional (2D) Inverse Gas Chromatography (iGC)

June 25, 2024
Author(s)
Whirang Cho, Lucas Flagg, Christopher Stafford, Jeremiah Woodcock, Daniel Burnett, Anett Kondor, Douglas Fox, John Hoffmann
Polymer-based functional surface coatings are extensively used in advanced technologies, including optics, energy, and environmental applications. Surface thermodynamic properties profoundly impact the molecular interactions that control interfacial
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