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    Whisker Nucleation by Slip-Assisted Grain Rotation During Thermal Cycling

    As a result of thermal cycling, polycrystalline tin films with a large in-plane grain size relative to film thickness on copper substrates show grain boundary (GB) sliding, creep, yielding, and nucleation of s...

    Congying Wang, **aorong Cai, Marisol Koslowski, John Blendell, Carol Handwerker in JOM (2024)

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    Value Recovery Pathways for Rare Earth Elements and Nd-Fe-B Magnets from End-of-Life Products

    With the advent of a clean energy economy, our society is moving away from a fuel-intensive energy system to a material-intensive system that relies heavily on critical materials such as rare earth elements (R...

    Nighat Afroz Chowdhury, Ikenna C. Nlebedim in Rare Earth Metals and Minerals Industries (2024)

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    Investigation of Thermal Properties and Thermal Reliability of Ga-based Low Melting Temperature Alloys as Thermal Interface Materials (TIMs)

    have been proposed as candidates for (TIMs) due to their high thermal conductivity (~30 W/m*K) and liquidity. However, poor wettability as well as embrittling and corroding effect of Ga on metals have limit...

    Yifan Wu, Rajath Kantharaj, Albraa Alsaati in TMS 2022 151st Annual Meeting & Exhibition… (2022)

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    The use of decision support tools to accelerate the development of circular economic business models for hard disk drives and rare-earth magnets

    A case study of hard disk drives (HDDs) and rare-earth magnets is presented to show the use of decision support tools to identify and assess the barriers and opportunities for circular business m...

    Kali Frost, Hongyue **, William Olson, Mark Schaffer in MRS Energy & Sustainability (2020)

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    Reaction pathways and optoelectronic characterization of single-phase Ag2ZnSnS4 nanoparticles

    Sputtered thin films of Ag2ZnSnS4 (AZTS) have shown promising semiconducting properties in spite of the films containing SnS2, SnSx, or ZnS as impurity phases. In this study, reaction pathways were identified to ...

    **anyi Hu, Susannah Pritchett-Montavon, Carol Handwerker in Journal of Materials Research (2019)

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    Emerging Science and Research Opportunities for Metals and Metallic Nanostructures: A Report on the NSF MMN Workshop

    In the next decade, fundamental research in metals and metallic nanostructures (MMN) has the potential to continue to transform science into innovative materials, devices, and systems. This talk summarizes the...

    Tresa Pollock, Carol Handwerker in Magnesium Technology 2015 (2016)

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    The Role of Calcium Hydroxide in the Elastic and Viscoelastic Response of Cementitious Materials: A Nanoindentation and SEM-EDS Study

    Calcium hydroxide (CH) typically comprises 20–25 % of the volume of ordinary portland cement (OPC) paste. CH is generally considered as an elastic phase that restrains the viscoelastic responses of calcium sil...

    Yiwen Bu, Christopher Saldana, Carol Handwerker in Nanotechnology in Construction (2015)

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    Sung K. Kang, Iver Anderson, Srini Chada, Jeng-Gong Duh in Journal of Electronic Materials (2009)

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    Fundamental Properties of Pb-Free Solder Alloys

    The search for a global Pb-free replacement for Sn-Pb eutectic alloy has been an evolving process as the threat of a regional lead ban became a reality in July 2006. Over the twelve years from 1994 through 200...

    Carol Handwerker, Ursula Kattner, Kil-Won Moon in Lead-Free Soldering (2007)