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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 45 cited

A high-throughput structural and electrochemical study of metallic glass formation in Ni-Ti-Al

Howie Joress, Brian L. DeCost, Suchismita Sarker +7

Based on a set of machine learning predictions of glass formation in the Ni-Ti-Al system, we have undertaken a high-throughput experimental study of that system. We utilized rapid…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 13 cited

Twin Boundary Mediated Flexoelectricity in LaAlO

Christopher A. Mizzi, Binghao Guo, Laurence D. Marks

Flexoelectricity has garnered much attention owing to its ability to bring electromechanical functionality to non-piezoelectric materials and its nanoscale significance. In order t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 60 cited

Mechanical and Vibrational Characteristics of Functionally Graded Cu-Ni Nanowire: A Molecular Dynamics Study

Mahmudul Islam, Md Shajedul Hoque Thakur, Satyajit Mojumder +2

Functionally graded material (FGM) is a class of advanced materials, consisting of two (or more) different constituents, that possesses a continuously varying composition profile.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 37 cited

Phase Field Benchmark Problems for Dendritic Growth and Linear Elasticity

Andrea M. Jokisaari, Peter W. Voorhees, Jonathan E. Guyer +2

We present the second set of benchmark problems for phase field models that are being jointly developed by the Center for Hierarchical Materials Design (CHiMaD) and the National In…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 13 cited

Magnetization governed magnetoresistance anisotropy in topological semimetal CeBi

Yang-Yang Lyu, Fei Han, Zhi-Li Xiao +10

Magnetic topological semimetals, the latest member of topological quantum materials, are attracting extensive attention as they may lead to topologically-driven spintronics. Curren…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 125 cited

Analytical Models of Phonon-Point Defect Scattering

Ramya Gurunathan, Riley Hanus, Maxwell Dylla +2

Point defects exist widely in engineering materials and are known to scatter vibrational modes to reduce thermal conductivity. The Klemens description of point defect scattering is…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 28 cited

Direct Visualization of Electric Field induced Structural Dynamics in Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Akshay A. Murthy, Teodor K. Stanev, Roberto dos Reis +4

Layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer many attractive features for next-generation low-dimensional device geometries. Due to the practical and fabrication challenge…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 34 cited

Control of Ionic Mobility via Charge Size Asymmetry in Random Ionomers

Boran Ma, Trung Dac Nguyen, Monica Olvera de la Cruz

Solid polymer electrolytes are considered a promising alternative to traditional liquid electrolytes in energy storage applications because of their good mechanical properties, and…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 47 cited

Grain-boundary structure and segregation in Nb3Sn coatings on Nb for high-performance superconducting radiofrequency cavity applications

Jaeyel Lee, Zugang Mao, Kai He +7

We report on atomic-scale analyses of grain boundary (GB) structures and segregation in Nb3Sn coatings on Nb, prepared by the vapor-diffusion process, for superconducting radiofreq…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 122 cited

Cation Disorder and Lithium Insertion Mechanism of Wadsley--Roth Crystallographic Shear Phases

Can P. Koçer, Kent J. Griffith, Clare P. Grey +1

Wadsley--Roth crystallographic shear phases form a family of compounds that have attracted attention due to their excellent performance as lithium-ion battery electrodes. The compl…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 16 cited

Leveraging Electron-Phonon Interaction to Enhance Thermoelectric Power Factor in Graphene-Like Semimetals

Yi Xia, Junsoo Park, Vidvuds Ozoliņš +1

Electron-phonon interaction (EPI) is presumably detrimental for thermoelectric performance in semiconductors because it limits carrier mobility. Here we show that enhanced EPI with…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 22 cited

Orbital-flop Induced Magnetoresistance Anisotropy in Rare Earth Monopnictide CeSb

Jing Xu, Fengcheng Wu, Jin-Ke Bao +12

The charge and spin of the electrons in solids have been extensively exploited in electronic devices and in the development of spintronics. Another attribute of electrons - their o…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 30 cited

Assessing exchange-correlation functional performance in the chalcogenide lacunar spinels GaMQ (M = Mo, V, Nb, Ta; Q = S, Se)

Yiqun Wang, Danilo Puggioni, James M. Rondinelli

We perform systematic density functional theory (DFT) calculations to assess the performance of various exchange-correlation potentials in describing the chalcogenide GaM$…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 55 cited

Mode I and II Interlaminar Fracture in Laminated Composites: A Size Effect Study

Marco Salviato, Kedar Kirane, Zdeněk P. Bažant +1

This work investigates the mode I and II interlaminar fracturing behavior of laminated composites and the related size effects. Fracture tests on geometrically scaled Double Cantil…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 6 cited

Defect energetics of cubic hafnia from quantum Monte Carlo simulations

Raghuveer Chimata, Hyeondeok Shin, Anouar Benali +1

Cubic hafnia (HfO) is of great interest for a number of applications in electronics because of its high dielectric constant. However, common defects in such applications degrad…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 2 cited

An Atom-Probe Tomographic Study of the Compositional Trajectories During gamma(f.c.c.)/gamma-prime(L12) Phase-Separation in a Ni-Al-Cr-Re Superalloy

Sung-Il Baik, Zugang Mao, Qingqiang Ren +5

The compositional diffusional-trajectories for a phase separation of gamma(f.c.c.)/gamma-prime(L12) phases are studied in a quaternary Ni-10Al-8.5Cr-2Re alloy, aged at 700 deg.C fo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 131 cited

Does Flexoelectricity Drive Triboelectricity?

Christopher A. Mizzi, Alex Y. W. Lin, Laurence D. Marks

The triboelectric effect, charge transfer during sliding, is well established but the thermodynamic driver is not well understood. We hypothesize here that flexoelectric potential…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 25 cited

Electronic Structure and Phase Stability of Yb-filled CoSb Skutterudite Thermoelectrics from First Principles

Eric B. Isaacs, Chris Wolverton

Filling the large voids in the crystal structure of the skutterudite CoSb with rattler atoms provides an avenue for both increasing carrier concentration and disrupting lat…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 33 cited

Hot Carrier and Surface Recombination Dynamics in Layered InSe Crystals

Chengmei Zhong, Vinod K. Sangwan, Joohoon Kang +4

Layered indium selenide (InSe) is a van der Waals solid that has emerged as a promising material for high-performance ultrathin solar cells. The optoelectronic parameters that are…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 33 cited

Bulk Fermi surface of the type-II Weyl semimetal candidate NbIrTe

Rico Schönemann, Yu-Che Chiu, Wenkai Zheng +5

Recently, a new group of layered transition-metal tetra-chalcogenides were proposed, via first principles calculations, to correspond to a new family of Weyl type-II semimetals wit…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 5 cited

Probing single unit-cell resolved electronic structure modulations in oxide superlattices with standing-wave photoemission

W. Yang, R. U. Chandrasena, M. Gu +9

Control of structural couplings at the complex-oxide interfaces is a powerful platform for creating new ultrathin layers with electronic and magnetic properties unattainable in the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 306 cited

Symbolic Regression in Materials Science

Yiqun Wang, Nicholas Wagner, James M. Rondinelli

We showcase the potential of symbolic regression as an analytic method for use in materials research. First, we briefly describe the current state-of-the-art method, genetic progra…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 43 cited

Spontaneous non-stoichiometry and ordering of metal vacancies in degenerate insulators

Oleksandr I. Malyi, Michael T. Yeung, Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier +2

We point to a class of materials representing an exception to the Daltonian view that compounds maintain integer stoichiometry at low temperatures, because forming stoichiometry-vi…