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J Hazard Mater
January 2025
College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China. Electronic address:
Biochar (BC) possesses diverse active sites (e.g., oxygen-containing groups OCGs, defects, and electronegative heteroatom) responsible for the catalytic reactions.
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January 2025
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011.
From molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of melt-quenching and thermal aging procedures in pure Ag, Cu, Ag-Cu binary alloys, and Cu-Zr binary alloys, we have identified two distinct amorphous phases for a metastable undercooled liquid: the homogeneous L-phase with low shear rigidity and the heterogenous G-phase with much higher shear rigidity and a heterogeneity length scale Λ. Here, we examine two-phase equilibration studies showing that the G-phase melts to form the L-phase above ~1,000 K, which then transforms to form the crystal (X) phase; however, below the melting point of the G-Phase (~990 K), the X- and G-phases do not transform into each other. We suggest the presence of a G-phase is likely responsible for embrittlement often observed in metallic glasses.
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May 2024
Department of Chemistry, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
All-inorganic lead halide perovskites (LHPs) and their use in optoelectronic devices have been widely explored because they are more thermally stable than their hybrid organic‒inorganic counterparts. However, the active perovskite phases of some inorganic LHPs are metastable at room temperature due to the critical structural tolerance factor. For example, black phase CsPbI is easily transformed back to the nonperovskite yellow phase at ambient temperature.
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January 2025
Liquid Crystals and Photonics Group, Department of Electronics and Information Systems, Ghent University, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 126, Ghent, 9052, Belgium.
In liquid crystal (LC) cells, the surface patterning directs the self-assembly of the uniaxial building blocks in the bulk, enabling the design of stimuli-response optical devices with various functionalities. The combination of different anchoring patterns at both substrates can lead to surface induced frustration, preventing a purely planar and defect-free configuration. In cells with crossed assembly of rotating anchoring patterns, elastic deformations allow to obtain a defect-free bulk configuration, but an electrical stimulus can induce disclination lines.
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January 2025
Future University Hakodate, Kamedanakano-cho 116-2, Hokkaido 041-8655, Japan.
We propose reinforcement learning to control the dynamical self-assembly of a dodecagonal quasicrystal (DDQC) from patchy particles. Patchy particles undergo anisotropic interactions with other particles and form DDQCs. However, their structures in steady states are significantly influenced by the kinetic pathways of their structural formation.
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