Molten salts attract resurgent attention because of their unique physiochemical properties, making them promising media for next generation concentrating solar power systems and molten salt reactors, but many fundamental questions remain unanswered.
New computational architectures based on topological materials have been proposed that could be faster with simultaneously lower energy consumption.
The concept of “frustration” in spin systems is widely used to stabilize new states in thin films or crystals. Frustration indicates that spins have conflicting tendencies and a compromise spin state emerges from this competition.
Kagome lattice (the name of kagome came from Japanese woven baskets) consists of interconnected triangles.
Precise control of charge transfer between catalyst nanoparticles and supports presents a unique opportunity to enhance the stability, activity, and selectivity of heterogeneous catalysts.
Additively manufactured (AM) metal alloys by laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) involve large temperature gradients and rapid cooling that enable microstructural refinement to the nanoscale for achieving high strength.
Researchers associated with the ExaAM project, a part of the Exascale Computing Project, developed ExaCA, a cellular automata (CA)-based model for grain-scale alloy solidification capable of simulation on both CPU and GPU architectures.
Machine learning is rapidly becoming an integral part of experimental physical discovery via automated and high-throughput synthesis, and active experiments in scattering and electron/probe microscopy.
Two-terminal memory elements, or memelements, capable of co-locating signal processing and memory via history-dependent reconfigurability at the nanoscale are vital for next-generation computing materials striving to match the brain’s efficiency
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt everyday life, with constantly emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants threatening effectiveness of current vaccines. Small-molecule antivirals can provide an important therapeutic treatment option.