[HTML][HTML] Making sustainable aluminum by recycling scrap: The science of “dirty” alloys

D Raabe, D Ponge, PJ Uggowitzer, M Roscher… - Progress in materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
There are several facets of aluminum when it comes to sustainability. While it helps to save
fuel due to its low density, producing it from ores is very energy-intensive. Recycling it shifts …

Computational thermodynamics and its applications

ZK Liu - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Thermodynamics is a science concerning the state of a system, whether it is stable,
metastable or unstable, when interacting with the surroundings. In this overview …

Minimizing buried interfacial defects for efficient inverted perovskite solar cells

S Zhang, F Ye, X Wang, R Chen, H Zhang, L Zhan… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Controlling the perovskite morphology and defects at the buried perovskite-substrate
interface is challenging for inverted perovskite solar cells. In this work, we report an …

Phase transformations in an ultralight BCC Mg alloy during anisothermal ageing

T Xin, S Tang, F Ji, L Cui, B He, X Lin, X Tian, H Hou… - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Mg-Li-Al alloys with a body-centred cubic (BCC) structure can exhibit exceptional
specific strengths in combination with excellent ductility and corrosion resistance. In general …

Misoriented high-entropy iridium ruthenium oxide for acidic water splitting

C Hu, K Yue, J Han, X Liu, L Liu, Q Liu, Q Kong… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Designing an efficient catalyst for acidic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is of critical
importance in manipulating proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer (PEMWE) for …

Cation disorder engineering yields AgBiS2 nanocrystals with enhanced optical absorption for efficient ultrathin solar cells

Y Wang, SR Kavanagh, I Burgués-Ceballos, A Walsh… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Strong optical absorption by a semiconductor is a highly desirable property for many
optoelectronic and photovoltaic applications. The optimal thickness of a semiconductor …

High-Entropy 2D Carbide MXenes: TiVNbMoC3 and TiVCrMoC3

SK Nemani, B Zhang, BC Wyatt, ZD Hood, S Manna… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal carbides and nitrides, known as MXenes, are a fast-
growing family of 2D materials. MXenes 2D flakes have n+ 1 (n= 1–4) atomic layers of …

Solving oxygen embrittlement of refractory high-entropy alloy via grain boundary engineering

Z Wang, H Wu, Y Wu, H Huang, X Zhu, Y Zhang, H Zhu… - Materials Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Refractory high-entropy alloys (RHEAs), particularly NbMoTaW RHEAs, exhibit outstanding
softening resistance and thermal stability at ultra-high temperatures, but suffer from room …

Lattice distortion in a strong and ductile refractory high-entropy alloy

C Lee, G Song, MC Gao, R Feng, P Chen, J Brechtl… - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
The maximization of the mixing entropy with the optimal range of enthalpy in high-entropy
alloys (HEAs) can promote the formation of a stable single solid-solution phase with the …

[HTML][HTML] Metalloid substitution elevates simultaneously the strength and ductility of face-centered-cubic high-entropy alloys

D Wei, L Wang, Y Zhang, W Gong, T Tsuru, I Lobzenko… - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Recently-developed high-entropy alloys (HEAs) containing multiple principal metallic
elements have extended the compositional space of solid solutions and the range of their …