The deformation behavior of materials at high temperatures determines the structural stability of mechanical structures under high-temperature service conditions. In this work, we prepare helical springs from 304 stai...
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Acoustoelastic metamaterials are widely used as composite cores in sandwich beams. However, discussions on the application of metamaterials in face sheets have been sporadic. In this work, we parametrically explore th...
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The Ni-rich LiNi1-x-yMnxCoyO2 (NMC) layered oxides have been promising materials to replace the LiCoO2 commercial cathode due to their high operation voltages, low cost, and enhanced capacity. However, structural inst...
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Energy storage materials for electric vehicles and energy storage systems must be able to supply high capacity quickly, which requires efficient Li-ion transport within the anode active material. The transport of Li i...
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Additively manufactured lattices based on triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS) have attracted significant research interest from the medical industry due to their good mechanical and biomorphic properties. However,...
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Magnetoelectronic coupling can be defined as cross-domain coupling between electronic and magnetic properties, where modulation in magnetic properties changes the electronic properties. In this Letter, explicit experi...
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Magnetoelectronic coupling can be defined as cross-domain coupling between electronic and magnetic properties, where modulation in magnetic properties changes the electronic properties. In this Letter, explicit experimental evidence of magnetoelectronic coupling is presented, which is uncovered from the oscillatory Hall effect response in Hall measurement. The strain gradient in a MgO (1.8 nm)/p-Si (∼400 nm) freestanding sample leads to transfer of electrons (∼5×1018cm−3) from valence to conduction band due to flexoelectronic charge separation in the p-Si layer. The resulting flexoelectronic polarization gives rise to the temporal magnetic moment from dynamical multiferroicity. The external magnetic field changes the net temporal magnetic moment, which causes modulations in charge carrier concentration and oscillatory Hall effect. The period of oscillatory Hall response is 1.12 T, which is attributed to the magnitude of the temporal magnetic moment. The discovery of the oscillatory Hall effect adds another member to the family of Hall effects.
The semiconductor industry is experiencing an accelerated transformation to overcome the scaling limits of the transistor and to adapt to new requirements in terms of data storage and computation, especially driven by...
Vertical digging into and out of granular media is a challenging task for autonomous systems. Granular media present considerable resistance to vertical penetration due to the high friction forces and large pressure a...
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Vertical digging into and out of granular media is a challenging task for autonomous systems. Granular media present considerable resistance to vertical penetration due to the high friction forces and large pressure at depths. In this paper, we present a soft robot that is capable of digging into and out of granular media to depths over 10× its body length. Our robot incorporates a vibration motor to locally fluidize the granular media for burrowing, and a soft pneumatic actuator to adjust the volume and hence the density of the robot, allowing it to transition from digging down to digging up. To analyze the performance of the robot, we measure its weight and density, track its location using a motion capture system, and investigate the effect of local fluidization. When the robot is buried and inflated with vibration turned off, it can increase its passive anchoring force by 5.22× (up to 35 N) relative to when the robot is deflated with vibration on. By contrast, by inflating the soft pneumatic bladder and providing vibration the robot is able to actively unburrow.
In this study, steric Zn-Ni alloy columns were fabricated via microanode-guided electroplating (MAGE), which had a very small electrode gap (90 µm) and a very high deposition rate (> 2 µm/min). These micr...
In this study, steric Zn-Ni alloy columns were fabricated via microanode-guided electroplating (MAGE), which had a very small electrode gap (90 µm) and a very high deposition rate (> 2 µm/min). These microcolumns were used to produce hydrogen by the electrocatalytic decomposition of water in alkaline aqueous solutions of 1 M KOH. The surface morphology study was acquired via the SEM, and after numerous electrocatalytic reactions, the porous structure of the Zn-Ni alloy progressively developed on the surface. The amount of zinc present in the alloy fell from 91 at. % to 52 at. %, which resulted in the column diameter of Zn-Ni increasing from 248 to 300 µm. After conducting an XRD investigation, the primary structure of the Zn-Ni alloy microcolumn was determined to be that of an intermetallic compound belonging to the Zn-Ni series. The phases shifted from Ni 3 Zn 22 to Ni 2 Zn 11 and NiZn 3 when the percentage of zinc in the alloy decreased from 91 to 52 at. %. The results of the linear sweep voltammetry showed that the Zn-Ni alloy microcolumns exhibited good hydrogen production efficiency at 13–24 at.% Ni, the lowest Tafel slope of 45 mV/dec, and only 36 mV overpotential when operating at 10 mA/cm 2 current density. Because of the enormous number of nano-networked nickel hydroxide on the surface that was investigated by TEM, the excellent efficiency with which hydrogen was produced can be attributed to the fact that this resulted in a significant increase in the amount of electrochemical surface area available.
Oxygen vacancies play a key role in many energy-related applications, and the investigation of the thermodynamic forces driving their formation across different materials can be tackled through the use of ab initio me...
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Oxygen vacancies play a key role in many energy-related applications, and the investigation of the thermodynamic forces driving their formation across different materials can be tackled through the use of ab initio methods. In this context, however, computational studies targeting finite-temperature properties such as entropy remain scarce. Wider-ranging studies are of interest to deepen the understanding of the role of the entropy of oxygen vacancy formation and its different components in processes like the ones involved in solar thermochemical hydrogen (STCH) production, and to investigate the existence of common trends and differences between materials. In this work, we use density functional theory and harmonic phonon calculations to compute the vibrational entropy of oxygen vacancy formation (ΔSvib) for 10 different metal oxide compounds. The computation is carried out by taking the difference between the vibrational entropy of a vacancy-containing and a pristine structure, while the entropic contribution from the final gaseous state of the oxygen lost from the material is accounted for separately with a gas entropy term. We first examine the temperature dependence of ΔSvib and highlight the presence of an initial peak around room temperature, followed by a steady decrease resulting from the presence of an additional O atom (the one becoming vacant) in the defect-free structure. We then inspect the atomic contributions to ΔSvib, and highlight similarities and differences between compounds. Finally, we consider other significant sources of entropy, and find ΔSvib to provide a smaller, yet non-negligible, contribution to the total entropy of vacancy formation. We also compare the temperature dependence of ΔSvib to that of the gas entropy, and show that the two largely counterbalance each other at high temperatures.
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