Reactivity of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) in cement blends

J Skibsted, R Snellings - Cement and Concrete Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) are key components of sustainable, low
carbon cements. To maximize their use in blended cements, the impact of SCMs on cement …

Accident tolerant fuel cladding development: Promise, status, and challenges

KA Terrani - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2018 - Elsevier
The motivation for transitioning away from zirconium-based fuel cladding in light water
reactors to significantly more oxidation-resistant materials, thereby enhancing safety …

Harnessing the GPS data explosion for interdisciplinary science

G Blewitt, W Hammond, C Kreemer - Eos, 2018 - escholarship.org
Steamboat Geyser in Yellowstone National Park's Norris Geyser Basin began a prolific
sequence of eruptions in March 2018 after 34 y of sporadic activity. We analyze a wide …

Recent developments of nanodiamond quantum sensors for biological applications

Y Wu, T Weil - Advanced Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Measuring certain quantities at the nanoscale is often limited to strict conditions such as low
temperature or vacuum. However, the recently developed nanodiamond (ND) quantum …

Alkali–silica reaction: Current understanding of the reaction mechanisms and the knowledge gaps

F Rajabipour, E Giannini, C Dunant, JH Ideker… - Cement and Concrete …, 2015 - Elsevier
Alkali–silica reaction (ASR) is a major concrete durability problem, resulting in significant
maintenance and reconstruction costs to concrete infrastructures all over the world. Despite …

Ongoing hydrothermal activities within Enceladus

HW Hsu, F Postberg, Y Sekine, T Shibuya, S Kempf… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Detection of sodium-salt-rich ice grains emitted from the plume of the Saturnian moon
Enceladus suggests that the grains formed as frozen droplets from a liquid water reservoir …

Dissolvable metals for transient electronics

L Yin, H Cheng, S Mao, R Haasch, Y Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Reactive dissolution and its effects on electrical conduction, morphological change and
chemical transformation in thin films of Mg, AZ31B Mg alloy, Zn, Fe, W, and Mo in de‐ionized …

Forty years of durability assessment of nuclear waste glass by standard methods

CL Thorpe, JJ Neeway, CI Pearce, RJ Hand… - npj Materials …, 2021 - nature.com
Standard methods to assess the durability of vitrified radioactive waste were first developed
in the 1980's and, over the last 40 years, have evolved to yield a range of responses …

Monolayer MoS2 Synaptic Transistors for High-Temperature Neuromorphic Applications

B Wang, X Wang, E Wang, C Li, R Peng, Y Wu… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
As essential units in an artificial neural network (ANN), artificial synapses have to adapt to
various environments. In particular, the development of synaptic transistors that can work …

Ultrathin, transferred layers of thermally grown silicon dioxide as biofluid barriers for biointegrated flexible electronic systems

H Fang, J Zhao, KJ Yu, E Song… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Materials that can serve as long-lived barriers to biofluids are essential to the development
of any type of chronic electronic implant. Devices such as cardiac pacemakers and cochlear …