Scientists found that the collective nanoparticle dynamics in polymer nanocomposites could be up to three orders of magnitude slower than the self-diffusion limit of isolated nanoparticles.
Researchers showed that dual-function intermetallic nanoprecipitates simultaneously enhanced strength and ductility of medium-entropy alloys via synergistic spatial confinement effects on two distinct deformation mechanisms: precipitation
Fractional-excitation-phonon coupling in α-RuCl3 is observed, validating phonons as a sensitive probe of hidden fractional and non-local excitations, experimentally confirming the theoretically predicted coupling and providing the key information
The mechanisms of van der Waals (vdW) epitaxial growth of monolayer two-dimensional (2D) crystals from amorphous precursors were revealed by in situ pulsed laser heating within a TEM and first-principles calculations.
Researchers discovered that Li infiltration in solid oxide electrolytes for all-solid-state batteries is associated with local electronic structure at grain boundaries (GBs) rather than exclusively at Li-electrolyte interfaces as in Li-ion batt
Scientists demonstrated switching between topological and magnetic ground states by controlling the concentration of magnetic defects in a crystal.
Demonstrated that structural order parameters and local concentration-driven phase transitions can be described on atomic level from scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) data.
Precision synthesis approach discovered that epitaxial strain can deliberately position transition metals at a certain crystallographic position in a composite ferroelectric.
Researchers decrypted the formation of passivation layers for the promising bis-(fluorosulfonyl)-imide (FSI-) based ionic liquid electrolyte on carbon electrodes at high cell voltages.
Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are used to find the structure and electronic band gap of 2D GeSe, determining that the gap and its nature are highly tunable by strain.