Materials properties characterization in the most extreme environments

DK Schreiber, R Schwaiger, M Heilmaier… - MRS Bulletin, 2022 - Springer
There is an ever-increasing need for material systems to operate in the most extreme
environments encountered in space exploration, energy production, and propulsion …

Thermochemistry and phase stability of the polymorphs of yttrium tantalate, YTaO4

M Lepple, SV Ushakov, K Lilova, CA Macauley… - Journal of the European …, 2021 - Elsevier
Thermodynamic parameters of the three fergusonite-related polymorphs M', M and T of
YTaO 4 and their phase stabilities were investigated experimentally. The debate on the …

Energetics of reactions between ceramic coating materials and their binary oxide components with silicate melts

G Costa, BJ Harder, NP Bansal… - Journal of the …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This paper summarizes our previous and current studies of using high‐temperature
calorimetry to investigate the energetics of reactions of ceramic coating materials (eg, yttrium …

Melting temperature prediction via first principles and deep learning

QJ Hong - Computational Materials Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Melting is a high temperature process that requires extensive sampling of configuration
space, thus making melting temperature prediction computationally very expensive and …

Measurements of density of liquid oxides with an aero-acoustic levitator

SV Ushakov, J Niessen, DG Quirinale, R Prieler… - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Densities of liquid oxide melts with melting temperatures above 2000° C are required to
establish mixing models in the liquid state for thermodynamic modeling and advanced …

Integrating computational and experimental thermodynamics of refractory materials at high temperature

QJ Hong, A van de Walle, SV Ushakov, A Navrotsky - Calphad, 2022 - Elsevier
We develop new computational and experimental methods to determine materials
properties at high temperature, such as melting temperature, heat of fusion, heat capacity …

Thermal Expansion and Enthalpies of Phase Transformation and Fusion of Er2O3 and Tm2O3 from Experiment and Computation

SV Ushakov, QJ Hong, A Pavlik III… - Chemistry of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Erbium and thulium sesquioxides are the only lanthanide oxides that exhibit premelting
cubic-hexagonal (C–H) phase transformation. The enthalpies of phase transitions and …

Self-Organized Nanocomposite Structure Controlled by Elemental Site Occupancy to Improve Vortex Pinning in YBa2Cu3O7 Superconducting Films

T Horide, Y Yoshida, R Kita, M Gondo… - ACS Applied …, 2022 - ACS Publications
To fabricate high performance YBa2Cu3O7 superconducting films and tapes, the critical
current density (J c) should be enhanced and the nanocomposite structure should be very …

A melting temperature database and a neural network model for melting temperature prediction

QJ Hong - arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.10748, 2021 - arxiv.org
I build a melting temperature database that contains approximately 10,000 materials. Based
on the database, I build a machine learning model that predicts melting temperature in …

Phase transformations in oxides above 2000 C: experimental technique development

SV Ushakov, PS Maram, D Kapush… - … in Applied Ceramics, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The oxidation of boride and carbide-based ultra-high-temperature ceramics is the primary
limiting factor for their use as aerodynamic surfaces. Understanding the behaviour of the …