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Fundamental Equation of State for Fluid Tetrahydrofuran

October 9, 2023
Author(s)
Felix Fiedler, Joel Karog, Eric W. Lemmon, Monika Thol
An empirical equation of state in terms of the Helmholtz energy for tetrahydro- furan is presented. In the validity range from the triple-point temperature up to 550 K and pressures up to 600 MPa, the equation of state enables the calculation of all

Dark Field X-ray Microscopy Below Liquid-Helium Temperature: The Case of NaMnO2

October 1, 2023
Author(s)
Jayden Plumb, Ishwor Poudyal, Rebecca Dally, Samantha Daly, Stephen Wilson, Zahir Islam
Dark field X-ray microscopy (DFXM) is an experimental technique employed to investigate material properties by probing their 'mesoscale,' or microscale structures, in a bulk-sensitive manner using hard X-rays at synchrotron radiation sources. However

Hydrogen Storage with Aluminum Formate, ALF: Experimental, Computational, and Technoeconomic Studies

September 28, 2023
Author(s)
Hayden Evans, Taner N. Yildirim, Peng Peng, Yongqiang Cheng, Zeyu Deng, Qiang Zhang, Dinesh Mullangi, Dan Zhao, Pieremanuele Canepa, Hanna M. Breunig, Anthony K. Cheetham, Craig Brown
Long-duration storage of hydrogen is necessary for coupling renewable H2 with stationary fuel cell power applications. In this work, aluminum formate (ALF), which adopts the ReO3-type structure, is shown to have remarkable H2 storage performance at non

High Sulfur Loading and Capacity Retention in Bilayer Garnet Sulfurized-Polyacrylonitrile/Lithium-Metal Batteries with Gel Polymer Electrolytes

September 24, 2023
Author(s)
Changmin Shi, Saya Takeuchi, George Alexander, Tanner Hamann, Jonathan O'Neill, Joseph A. Dura, Eric Wachsman
Abstract The cubic‐garnet (Li 7La 3Zr 2O 12, LLZO) lithium–sulfur battery shows great promise in the pursuit of achieving high energy densities. The sulfur used in the cathodes is abundant, inexpensive, and possesses high specific capacity. In addition

Liquid Piston Based on Molecular Springs for Energy Storage Applications

September 15, 2023
Author(s)
Mehdi Hashemi-Tilehnoee, Nikolay Tsirin, Victor Stoudenets, Yuriy Bushuev, Miroslaw Chorazewski, Mian Li, Dan Li, Juscelino Leao, Markus Bleuel, Pawel Zajdel, Elena Palomo Del Barrio, Yaroslav Grosu
Liquid piston is a method for pressure transmission used in a wide range of technologies. Currently, liquid piston is a passive element solely used to apply pressure to a working body. In this work, the concept of liquid piston based on molecular springs –

Constraints on Proximity-Induced Ferromagnetism in a Dirac Semimetal (Cd3As2)/Ferromagnetic Semiconductor (Ga1-xMnxSb) Heterostructure

September 11, 2023
Author(s)
Arpita Mitra, Run Xiao, Wilson Yanez, Yongxi Ou, Juan Chamorro, Tyrel M. McQueen, Alexander Grutter, Julie A. Borchers, Michael R. Fitzsimmons, Timothy Charlton, Nitin Samarth
Breaking time-reversal symmetry in a Dirac semimetal Cd3As2 through doping with magnetic ions or by the magnetic proximity effect is expected to cause a transition to other topological phases (such as a Weyl semimetal). To this end, we investigate the

Evaluation of 3D Curvature and Lead Stress of Transvenous Right Ventricular Leads: The Human Use Conditions Study (HUCS)

September 9, 2023
Author(s)
Jonathan Piccini, Tim Quinn, Lucas Koepke, James Dawson, Nicki Mara, Jason Santelli, Diane Muff, Jordan Savela, Alex Felber, Michael Friedrich, Jens Rump, Felix Tschentscher, Jake Benzing, Charles Swerdlow
Transvenous leads of cardiac implanted electronic device (CIED) systems are meant to last the life of the patient, but they are at risk for conductor fatigue fracture from applied alternating stress. This stress depends on lead design and use conditions

In Situ Lignin Adhesion for High-Performance Bamboo Composites

September 7, 2023
Author(s)
Taotao Meng, Yu Ding, Yu Liu, Lin Xu, Yimin Mao, Julia Gelfond, Shuke Li, Zhihan Li, Paul Salipante, Hoon Kim, J. Zhu, Xuejun Pan, Liangbing Hu
Bamboo composite is an attractive candidate for structural materials in applications such as construction, the automotive industry, and logistics. However, its development has been hindered due to the use of harmful petroleum-derived synthetic adhesives or

Quantifying Pairwise Similarity for Complex Polymers

September 6, 2023
Author(s)
Jiale Shi, Nathan Rebello, Dylan Walsh, Michael Deagen, Bruno Salomao Leao, Debra Audus, Bradley Olsen
Defining the similarity between chemical entities is an essential task in polymer informatics, enabling ranking, clustering, and classification. Despite its importance, pairwise chemical similarity for polymers remains an open problem. Here, a similarity

Broadband Electromagnetic Properties of Engineered Flexible Absorber Materials

August 23, 2023
Author(s)
Luckshitha Suriyasena Liyanage, Connor Smith, Jacob Pawlik, Sarah Evans, Angela Stelson, Chris Long, Nate Orloff, David Arnold, Jim Booth
Flexible and stretchable materials have attracted significant interest for applications in wearable electronics and bioengineering fields. Recent developments also incorporate embedded microwave circuits, components, and systems with engineered flexible

National Institute of Standards and Technology Environmental Scan 2023: Societal and Technology Landscape to Inform Science and Technology Research

August 23, 2023
Author(s)
Ashley Russell, Kerrianne Buchanan, David Griffith, Heather Evans, Dimitrios Meritis, Lisa Ng, Anna Sberegaeva, Michelle Stephens
The 2023 National Institute of Standards and Technology Environmental Scan provides an analysis of key external factors that could impact NIST and the fulfillment of its mission in coming years. The analyses were conducted through three separate lenses

Effects of mechanical deformation on dislocation density and phase partitioning in 4130 steel

August 22, 2023
Author(s)
Zachary Buck, Matthew Connolly, May Martin, Damian Lauria, Jason Killgore, Peter Bradley, Yan Chen, Ke An, Andrew Slifka
Interrupted tensile tests were performed on an AISI 4130 pressure vessel steel and investigated by neutron diffraction and scanning microscopy techniques. Analysis of the neutron diffraction patterns reveal a partitioning of ferrite and martensite phases

Skyrmion-Excited Spin-Wave Fractal Networks

August 18, 2023
Author(s)
Nan Tang, W. L. N. C. Liyanage, Sergio A. Montoya, Sheena Patel, Lizabeth J. Quigley, Alexander Grutter, Michael R. Fitzsimmons, Sunil Sinha, Julie A. Borchers, Eric E. Fullerton, Lisa Debeer-Schmitt, Dustin A. Gilbert
Magnetic skyrmions exhibit unique, technologically relevant pseudo-particle behaviors which arise from their topological protection, including well-defined, three-dimensional breathing and gyration modes which occur at microwave frequencies. During dynamic

Fabrication of Specimens for Atom Probe Tomography using a Combined Gallium and Neon Focused Ion Beam Milling Approach

August 16, 2023
Author(s)
Frances Allen, Paul Blanchard, David Pappas, Russell Lake, Deying Xia, John Notte, Ruopeng Zhang, Andrew Minor, Norman A. Sanford
We demonstrate a new focused ion beam sample preparation method for atom probe tomography. The key aspect of the new method is that we use a neon ion beam for the final tip shaping after conventional annulus milling using gallium ions. This dual-ion

Measuring the permittivity tensor of anisotropic DyScO3 to 110 GHz

August 14, 2023
Author(s)
Florian Bergmann, Meagan Papac, Nick Jungwirth, Bryan Bosworth, Tomasz Karpisz, Anna Osella, Lucas Enright, Eric Marksz, Angela Stelson, Chris Long, Nate Orloff
DyScO3 (DSO) is an attractive substrate on which to grow epitaxial thin films with extraordinary materials physics. However, its highly anisotropic permittivity makes some measurements exceedingly difficult: For instance, its permittivity tensor has not

AutoEIS: automated Bayesian model selection and analysis for electrochemical impedance spectroscopy

August 9, 2023
Author(s)
Runze Zhang, Robert Black, Debashish Sur, Parisa Karimi, Kangming Li, Brian DeCost, John Scully, Jason Hattrick-Simpers
Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) is a powerful tool for electrochemical analysis; however, its data can be challenging to interpret. Here, we introduce a new open-source tool named AutoEIS that assists EIS analysis by automatically proposing

14 Examples of How LLMs Can Transform Materials Science and Chemistry: A Reflection on a Large Language Model Hackathon

August 8, 2023
Author(s)
Kevin Maik Jablonka, Alexander Al-Feghali, Shruti Badhwar, Joshua Bocarsly, Stefan Bringuier, Kamal Choudhary, Defne Circi, Samantha Cox, Matthew Evans, Nicolas Gastellu, Jerome Genzling, Maria Victoria Gil, Ankur Gupta, Wibe de Jong, Tao Liu, Sauradeep Majumdar, Garrett Merz, Nicolas Moitessier, Lynda Brinson, Beatriz Mourino, Brenden Pelkie, Mayk Caldas Ramos, Bojana Rankovic, Jacob Sanders, Ben Blaiszik, Andrew White, Ian Foster, Ghezal Ahmad Jan Zia
Chemistry and materials science are complex. Recently, there have been great successes in addressing this complexity using data-driven or computational techniques. Yet, the necessity of input structured in very specific forms and the fact that there is an
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