Scientific Achievement: Established new family of magnetically tunable, cleavable kagome metals by combining chemical substitution, electron filling, and magnetic properties to develop new intermetallic phases.
Scientific Achievement: Phase-field modeling and mesoscale imaging reveal that surface wettability and temperature control whether water condenses as isolated droplets or uniform films on magnesium oxide (MgO), directly determining the
Scientific Achievement: Using polycrystalline beryllium as a test case, researchers demonstrated that dynamic electron correlations can be probed directly with inelastic x-ray scattering.
Scientific Achievement: Discovered unique ferromagnetic crystals with strong anisotropy by combining the magnetism of chromium with the strong spin-orbit coupling of gold.
Scientific Achievement: Weakly solvating electrolytes revealed that reduced Li⁺ solvent coordination promotes stable anion-derived interphases, improving Li deposition and electrochemical stability.
Scientific Achievement: Laser pumping combined with inelastic neutron scattering reveals long-living nonequilibrium magnons in a 2D Heisenberg antiferromagnet that break detailed balance in the structure factor and form steady states un
Scientific Achievement: Molecular beam epitaxy and first principles calculations demonstrate that substrate termination can be used to control the crystal phase and functional properties.
Researchers at ORNL developed a method to convert a commonly discarded hydrocarbon polymer into gasoline- and diesel-like fuels.
Scientific Achievement: Accurate many-body calculations predict a disorder transition in MnBi₂Te₄ involving Bi(Mn) antisites well below its synthesis temperature.