3 papers
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025
Interfacial Energy Gradients Drive Coalescence of Supported Nanoparticles
Cheng-Yu Chen, Duncan Burns, Peter W. Voorhees +1
Understanding and controlling nanoparticle coalescence is crucial for applications ranging from catalysis to nanodevice fabrication, yet the behavior of nanoparticles on dynamicall…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024
Deformation assisted precipitation in binary alloys: A competition of time-scales
Alex Mamaev, Duncan Burns, Nikolas Provatas
We consider the process of precipitation in binary alloys in the presence of mechanical deformation. It is commonly observed that mechanical deformation prior to or during precipit…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024
Generalizing the structural phase field crystal approach for modeling solid-liquid-vapor phase transformations in pure materials
Daniel L. Coelho, Duncan Burns, Emily Wilson +1
In a recent class of phase field crystal (PFC) models, the density order parameter is coupled to powers of its mean field. This effectively introduces a phenomenology of higher-ord…