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Chemical-scissor-mediated structural editing of layered transition metal carbides
Haoming Ding, Youbing Li, Mian Li +12
Intercalation of non-van der Waals (vdW) layered materials can produce new 2D and 3D materials with unique properties, but it is difficult to achieve. Here, we describe a structura…
Review of Transition-Metal Diboride Thin Films
Martin Magnuson, Lars Hultman, Hans Högberg
We review the thin film growth, chemistry, and physical properties of Group 4-6 transition-metal diboride (TMB2) thin films with AlB2-type crystal structure (Strukturbericht design…
Elucidating Pathfinding Elements from the Kubi Gold Mine in Ghana
Gabriel K. Nzulu, Babak Bakhit, Hans Högberg +2
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) are applied to investigate the properties of fine-grained concentrate on artisanal small-scale…
Near-Room-Temperature Ferromagnetic Behavior of Single-Atom-Thick 2D Iron in Nanolaminated Ternary MAX Phases
Youbing Li, Jinghua Liang, Haoming Ding +13
Two dimensional (2D) ferromagnetic materials have attracted much attention in the fields of condensed matter physics and materials science, but their synthesis is still a challenge…
Halogenated MXenes with Electrochemically Active Terminals for High Performance Zinc Ion Batteries
Mian Li, XinLiang Li, Guifang Qin +12
The class of two-dimensional metal carbides and nitrides known as MXenes offer a distinct manner of property tailoring for a wide range of applications. The ability to tune the sur…
Interface Bonding of Zr1-xAlxN Nanocomposites Investigated by X-ray Spectroscopies and First Principles Calculations
Martin Magnuson, Weine Olovsson, Naureen Ghafoor +2
The electronic structure, chemical bonding and interface component in ZrN-AlN nanocomposites formed by phase separation during thin film deposition of metastable Zr1-xAlxN (x=0.0,…
Adaptive hard and tough mechanical response in single-crystal B1 VNx ceramics via control of anion vacancies
A. B. Mei, H. Kindlund, E. Broitman +4
High hardness and toughness are generally considered mutually exclusive properties for single-crystal ceramics. Combining experiments and ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) atomis…
Mechanical properties of VMoNO as a function of oxygen concentration: toward development of hard and tough refractory oxynitrides
Daniel Edström, Davide G. Sangiovanni, Ludvig Landälv +5
Improved toughness is a central goal in the development of wear-resistant refractory ceramic coatings. Extensive theoretical and experimental research has revealed that NaCl struct…
Influence of Si doping and O2-flow on arc deposited (Al,Cr)2O3 coatings
Ludvig Landälv, Emmanuelle Göthelid, Jens Jensen +6
(Al,Cr)2O3 coatings with Al/(Al+Cr) = 0.5 or Al = 70 at.%, doped with 0, 5 or 10 at.% Si, were deposited on hard metal and Si(100) substrates to elucidate the influence of Si on th…
A general Lewis acidic etching route for preparing MXenes with enhanced electrochemical performance in non-aqueous electrolyte
Youbing Li, Hui Shao, Zifeng Lin +14
Two-dimensional carbides and nitrides of transition metals, known as MXenes, are a fast-growing family of 2D materials that draw attention as energy storage materials. So far, MXen…
Reactive magnetron sputtering of tungsten target in krypton/trimethylboron atmosphere
Martin Magnuson, Lina Tengdelius, Fredrik Eriksson +5
W-B-C films were deposited on Si(100) substrates held at elevated temperature by reactive sputtering from a W target in Kr/trimethylboron (TMB) plasmas. Quantitative analysis by X-…
Multielemental single-atom-thick A layers in nanolaminated V2(Sn, A)C (A=Fe, Co, Ni, Mn) for tailoring magnetic properties
Youbing Li, Jun Lu, Mian Li +11
Tailoring of individual single-atom-thick layers in nanolaminated materials offers atomic-level control over material properties. Nonetheless, multielement alloying in individual a…
Synthesis of MAX Phases Nb2CuC and Ti2(Al0.1Cu0.9)N by A-site Replacement Reaction in Molten Salts
Haoming Ding, Youbing Li, Jun Lu +12
New MAX phases Ti2(AlxCu1-x)N and Nb2CuC were synthesized by A-site replacement by reacting Ti2AlN and Nb2AlC, respectively, with CuCl2 or CuI molten salt. X-ray diffraction, scann…
Phase composition and transformations in magnetron-sputtered (Al,V)2O3 coatings
L. Landälv, C-F. Carlström, J. Lu +7
Coatings of (Al1-xVx)2O3, with x ranging from 0 to 1, were deposited by pulsed DC reactive sputter deposition on Si(100) at a temperature of 550 °C. XRD showed three different crys…
Compositional dependence of epitaxial Tin+1SiCn MAX-phase thin films grown from a Ti3SiC2 compound target
Martin Magnusona, Lina Tengdelius, Grzegorz Greczynski +7
We investigate sputtering of a Ti3SiC2 compound target at temperatures ranging from RT (no applied external heating) to 970 oC as well as the influence of the sputtering power at 8…
Tin+1Cn MXene with fully saturated and thermally stable Cl terminations
J. Lu, I. Persson, H. Lind +12
MXenes are a rapidly growing family of 2D materials that exhibit a highly versatile structure and composition, allowing for significant tuning of the material properties. These pro…
Element Replacement Approach by Reaction with Lewis Acidic Molten Salts to Synthesize Nanolaminated MAX Phases and MXenes
Mian Li, Jun Lu, Kan Luo +12
Nanolaminated materials are important because of their exceptional properties and wide range of applications. Here, we demonstrate a general approach to synthesize a series of Zn-b…
Electronic Structure of Beta-Ta Films from X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and First-principles Calculations
Martin Magnuson, Grzegorz Greczynski, Fredrik Eriksson +2
The electronic structure and chemical bonding of Beta-Ta synthesized as a thin 001-oriented film (space group P421m) is investigated by 4f core level and valence band X-ray photoel…
Chemical Bonding in Epitaxial ZrB2 Studied by X-ray Spectroscopy
Martin Magnuson, Lina Tengdelius, Grzegorz Greczynski +2
The chemical bonding in an epitaxial ZrB2 film is investigated by Zr K-edge (1s) X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) and extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) s…
Bonding Structures of ZrHx Thin Films by X-ray Spectroscopy
Martin Magnuson, Fredrik Eriksson, Lars Hultman +1
The variation in local atomic structure and chemical bonding of ZrHx (x=0.15, 0.30, 1.16) magnetron sputtered thin films are investigated by Zr K-edge (1s) X-ray absorption near-ed…
Electronic Properties and Bonding in ZrHx Thin Films Investigated by Valence-Band X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
Martin Magnuson, Susann Schmidt, Lars Hultman +1
The electronic structure and chemical bonding in reactively magnetron sputtered ZrHx (x=0.15, 0.30, 1.16) thin films with oxygen content as low as 0.2 at% are investigated by 4d va…
Effects of surface vibrations on interlayer mass-transport: ab initio molecular dynamics investigation of Ti adatom descent pathways and rates from TiN/TiN(001) islands
D. G. Sangiovanni, A. B. Mei, D. Edström +4
We carry out density-functional ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations of Ti adatom (Tiad) migration on, and descent from, TiN <100>-faceted epitaxial islands on TiN(001)…
Multi-Grid Detector for Neutron Spectroscopy: Results Obtained on Time-of-Flight Spectrometer CNCS
M. Anastasopoulos, R. Bebb, K. Berry +23
The Multi-Grid detector technology has evolved from the proof-of-principle and characterisation stages. Here we report on the performance of the Multi-Grid detector, the MG.CNCS pr…
First Measurements with New High-Resolution Gadolinium-GEM Neutron Detectors
Dorothea Pfeiffer, Filippo Resnati, Jens Birch +12
European Spallation Source instruments like the macromolecular diffractometer, NMX, require an excellent neutron detection efficiency, high-rate capabilities, time resolution, and…