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X-Ray Tomography for Lithium Ion Battery Research: A Practical Guide
10.1146/annurev-matsci-070616-123957 2017-07-03 X-ray tomography has emerged as a powerful technique for studying lithium ion batteries, allowing nondestructive and often quantitative imaging of these complex systems, which contain solid components with length scales spanning orders of magnitude and which ... |
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Visualization of Atomic-Scale Motions in Materials via Femtosecond X-Ray Scattering Techniques
10.1146/annurev-matsci-070616-124152 2017-07-03 We review current progress with respect to ultrafast, atomic-scale resolution X-ray scattering studies of materials. In the last decade, advances in sources and techniques have opened up new possibilities for probing the dynamics of how materials change in si... |
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Transparent Perovskite Barium Stannate with High Electron Mobility and Thermal Stability
10.1146/annurev-matsci-070616-124109 2017-07-03 Transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) and transparent oxide semiconductors (TOSs) have become necessary materials for a variety of applications in the information and energy technologies, ranging from transparent electrodes to active electronics components. Pe... |
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Synthetic Two-Dimensional Polymers
10.1146/annurev-matsci-070616-124040 2017-07-03 Synthetic two-dimensional polymers (2DPs) are an emerging subclass of 2D materials that are accessible by mild and rational synthesis procedures. Because of their structure, which is reminiscent of a molecular fisherman's net, 2DPs strongly differ from conven... |
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Structural and Functional Fibers
10.1146/annurev-matsci-120116-114326 2017-07-03 Historically, fibers are known to be relatively passive materials and are used primarily in textiles. Today, however, fibers with a range of functionalities such as electrical and thermal conductivity, superparamagnetic properties, temperature regulation, ene... |
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Silicate Deposit Degradation of Engineered Coatings in Gas Turbines: Progress Toward Models and Materials Solutions
10.1146/annurev-matsci-010917-105000 2017-07-03 Modern gas turbines rely on ceramic coatings to protect structural components along the hot gas path. These coatings are susceptible to accelerated degradation caused by silicate deposits formed when ingested environmental debris (dust, sand, ash) adheres to ... |
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Physical Dynamics of Ice Crystal Growth
10.1146/annurev-matsci-070616-124135 2017-07-03 We examine ice crystallization from liquid water and from water vapor, focusing on the underlying physical processes that determine growth rates and structure formation. Ice crystal growth is largely controlled by a combination of molecular attachment kinetic... |
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Heusler 4.0: Tunable Materials
10.1146/annurev-matsci-070616-123928 2017-07-03 Heusler compounds are a large family of binary, ternary, and quaternary compounds that exhibit a wide range of properties of both fundamental and potential technological interest. The extensive tunability of the Heusler compounds through chemical substitution... |
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Deformation of Crystals: Connections with Statistical Physics
10.1146/annurev-matsci-070115-032036 2017-07-03 We give a bird's-eye view of the plastic deformation of crystals aimed at the statistical physics community, as well as a broad introduction to the statistical theories of forced rigid systems aimed at the plasticity community. Memory effects in magnets, spin... |
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Atomistic Simulations of Activated Processes in Materials
10.1146/annurev-matsci-071312-121616 2017-07-03 Activated processes in materials are important for many of the properties that make them function. Batteries and catalysts are examples for which understanding how the component materials function on a timescale of milliseconds to seconds is critical to makin... |