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Open AccessLinear-superelastic Ti-Nb nanocomposite alloys with ultralow modulus via high-throughput phase-field design and machine learning
The optimal design of shape memory alloys (SMAs) with specific properties is crucial for the innovative application in advanced technologies. Herein, inspired by the recently proposed design concept of concent...
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Open AccessElectron engineering of metallic multiferroic polarons in epitaxial BaTiO3
The coexistence of ferroelectricity, conductivity, and magnetism in a single-phase material has attracted considerable attention due to fundamental interest and tremendous technological potential. However, the...
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Introduction
Multiphysics, which is the phenomenon where different physical properties are correlated with each other, is drawing much attention not only of scientific researchers but also of engineers. In the discussion o...
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Ferroelectric Nanostructures
Ferroelectricity is known to be sensitive to strain, and therefore, salient effects of nanostructures on ferroelectric properties can be expected. We introduce recent first-principles calculations of ferroelec...
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Multiferroic Nanostructures
Multiferroics, two or more ferroic orders such as ferroelectricity and antiferromagnetism coexist and coupled with each other, is a tremendously fascinating topic in terms of scientific interests as well as po...
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Methodology of Quantum Mechanics/Atomic Simulations
Methodology for electronic structure calculations is overviewed. We place focus on first-principles calculation method based on the density-functional theory, which is most widely used for calculations of mult...
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Strain Engineering on Nanosemiconductors
A lot of scientific investigations have been dedicated to strain engineering on semiconductors to alter and tune band gap energies and electronic structures by the application of strain. It also attracts much ...
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Magnetism in Nanostructures
As magnetism is susceptible to structures and strains as well as crystal defects, extensive investigations by means of first-principles calculations have been devoted to this matter. We review a series of stud...
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Ferroic Nanometamaterials and Composites
Metamaterials, which possess artificially designed lattice-shaped internal structures, gain remarkably increasing attention owing to their unique, controllable, and often unprecedented properties. We review a ...
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Ideal Strength in Low-Dimensional Nanostructures
The ideal strength is the theoretical strength of materials setting the limit of stress attained and is therefore an important fundamental quantity describing mechanical behavior of materials. While a substant...