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Open AccessEvaluating Bending Strength of Plasma Sprayed Al2O3 Coatings
The bending strength of plasma sprayed Al2O3 coatings was evaluated using three-point bending tests. The measured strength data sets were statistically analyzed by employing Weibull distribution. It was found tha...
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Antibacterial Property and Biocompatibility of Plasma Sprayed Hydroxyapatite/Silver Composite Coatings
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Carrier Lifetime Measurements in Long-Wave Infrared InAs/GaSb Superlattices Under Low Excitation Conditions
Minority carrier lifetime in long-wave infrared (LWIR) type II InAs/GaSb superlattices was studied using the optical modulation response (OMR) technique in wide ranges of excitation and temperature. The measur...
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Electroreduction of Iron(III) Oxide Pellets to Iron in Alkaline Media: A Typical Shrinking-Core Reaction Process
Low temperature electrochemical reduction of iron(III) oxide to iron in a strongly alkaline solution has been systematically investigated in this article. The facile electrochemical process was carried out in ...
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Development of Bulk InAsSb Alloys and Barrier Heterostructures for Long-Wave Infrared Detectors
Bulk unrelaxed InAsSb alloys with Sb compositions up to 65% were grown on compositionally graded GaInSb and AlInSb buffers on GaSb substrates by molecular beam epitaxy. The minimum energy gap for these materia...
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Nitrogen Do** Position-Dependent Rectification of Spin-Polarized Current and Realization of Multifunction in Zigzag Graphene Nanoribbons with Asymmetric Edge Hydrogenation
The magnetic and spin transport properties of asymmetric edge-hydrogenated zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) selectively doped with nitrogen atoms were investigated using spin-polarized density functional th...
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Open AccessIn situ production of titanium dioxide nanoparticles in molten salt phase for thermal energy storage and heat-transfer fluid applications
In this study, TiO2 nanoparticles (average particle size 16 nm) were successfully produced in molten salt phase and were showed to significantly enhance the specific heat capacity of a binary eutectic mixture of ...
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Open AccessPredicting defect behavior in B2 intermetallics by merging ab initio modeling and machine learning
We present a combination of machine learning and high throughput calculations to predict the points defects behavior in binary intermetallic (A–B) compounds, using as an example systems with the cubic B2 cryst...
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Open AccessComputational modeling sheds light on structural evolution in metallic glasses and supercooled liquids
This article presents an overview of three challenging issues that are currently being debated in the community researching on the evolution of amorphous structures in metallic glasses and their parent superco...
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Open AccessMicrostructure evolution in grey cast iron during directional solidification
The solidification characteristics and microstructure evolution in grey cast iron were investigated through Jmat-Pro simulations and quenching performed during directional solidification. The phase transition ...
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Open AccessConstruction of ground-state preserving sparse lattice models for predictive materials simulations
First-principles based cluster expansion models are the dominant approach in ab initio thermodynamics of crystalline mixtures enabling the prediction of phase diagrams and novel ground states. However, despite re...
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Enhanced Luminescence of La3+-Doped Gadolinium Oxysulfide with Tunable Crystalline Size
The concentration of La3+ in (La x Gd1−x )2O2S:Tb phosphors prepared by the sulfide fusion method from coprecipitated oxalate precursors has been tuned, a...
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Open AccessSpatial correlation of elastic heterogeneity tunes the deformation behavior of metallic glasses
Metallic glasses (MGs) possess remarkably high strength but often display only minimal tensile ductility due to the formation of catastrophic shear bands. Purposely enhancing the inherent heterogeneity to prom...
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Open AccessDevelo** an interatomic potential for martensitic phase transformations in zirconium by machine learning
Atomic simulations provide an effective means to understand the underlying physics of structural phase transformations. However, this remains a challenge for certain allotropic metals due to the failure of cla...
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Open Access3D Cf/SiBCN composites prepared by an improved polymer infiltration and pyrolysis
Using liquid poly(methylvinyl)borosilazanes (PMVBSZ) as precursor, carbon fiber reinforced SiBCN matrix composites (Cf/SiBCN) were fabricated by a modified polymer infiltration and pyrolysis (PIP) process. With d...
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Correction to: Facile synthesis of porous Mn2O3/TiO2 microspheres as anode materials for lithium-ion batteries with enhanced electrochemical performance
The original version of this article is one of the original research paper published along with the Special Issue “Special Issue for Advances in Functional Semiconducting Materials (AFSM)” in Volume 29 Issue 1...
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Open AccessControlling polar-toroidal multi-order states in twisted ferroelectric nanowires
The toroidal order of electric dipoles in ferroelectric materials has attracted attention in the past decade due to fascinating properties and great potential for enabling novel memory devices, and functional ...
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Open AccessPreparation and arc erosion properties of Ag/Ti2SnC composites under electric arc discharging
New Ag/Ti2SnC (Ag/TSC) composites with uniform microstructure were prepared by powder metallurgy. The superior wettability between Ag and Ti2SnC was confirmed with a contact angle of 14°. Arc erosion properties o...
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Open AccessYAGG:Ce transparent ceramics with high luminous efficiency for solid-state lighting application
A series of Y2.985Al5–xGaxO12:0.015Ce (YAGG:Ce, x = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) transparent ceramics were prepared via a solid-state reaction method. Two-step sintering technique was proved to be an effective approach to p...