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Oxygen vacancies in strained SrTiO$_{3}$ thin films: formation enthalpy and manipulation: We report the enthalpy of oxygen vacancy formation in thin films of electron-doped SrTiO$_{3}$, under different degrees of epitaxial stress. We demonstrate that both compressive and tensile strain decrease this energy at a very ...
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Water adsorption on the P-rich GaP(100) surface: Optical spectroscopy from first principles: The contact of water with semiconductors typically changes its surface electronic structure by oxidation or corrosion processes. A detailed knowledge - or even control of - the surface structure is highly desirable, as it imp...
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Chemical and nuclear catalysis driven by localized anharmonic vibrations: In many-body nonlinear systems with sufficient anharmonicity, a special kind of lattice vibrations, namely, Localized Anharmonic Vibrations (LAV) can be excited either thermally or by external triggering, in which the amplitude of atomic oscillat...
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Particle-hole cumulant approach for inelastic losses in x-ray spectra: Inelastic losses in core level x-ray spectra arise from many-body excitations, leading to broadening and damping as well as satellite peaks in x-ray photoemission (XPS) and x-ray absorption (XAS) spectra. Here we present a practical approach for cal...
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The spontaneous exchange bias effect in La2-xCaxCoMnO6 series: Structural, electronic and magnetic properties of polycrystalline La2-xCaxCoMnO6 (0 $\leq$ x $\leq$ 0.75) compounds are investigated by x-ray diffraction and magnetometry. All the samples have an orthorhombic structure and show a slight decrease in the unit...
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Light and electric field control of ferromagnetism in magnetic quantum structures: A strong influence of illumination and electric bias on the Curie temperature and saturation value of the magnetization is demonstrated for semiconductor structures containing a modulation-doped p-type Cd0.96Mn0.04Te quantum well place...
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Spin Hall effect emerging from a chiral magnetic lattice without spin-orbit coupling: The spin Hall effect (SHE), which converts a charge current into a transverse spin current, has long been believed to be a phenomenon induced by the spin--orbit coupling. Here, we propose an alternative mechanism to realize the intr...
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Large magnetocaloric effect in the kagome ferromagnet Li$_9$Cr$_3$(P$_2$O$_7$)$_3$(PO$_4$)$_2$: Single-crystal growth, magnetic properties, and magnetocaloric effect of the $S = 3/2$ kagome ferromagnet Li$_9$Cr$_3$(P$_2$O$_7$)$_3$(PO$_4$)$_2$ (trigonal, space group: $P\bar{3}c1$) are reported. Magnetization data sugg...
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$(111)$ surface states of SnTe: The characterization and applications of topological insulators depend critically on their protected surface states, which, however, can be obscured by the presence of trivial dangling bond states. Our first principle calculations show that this is the case for the pristine $(111)$ surfa...
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Photo-induced persistent inversion of germanium in a 200-nm-deep surface region: The controlled manipulation of the charge carrier concentration in nanometer thin layers is the basis of current semiconductor technology and of fundamental importance for device applications. Here we show that it is possible to induce a...
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Effect of uniaxial stress on low-frequency dispersion of dielectric constant in high-resistivity GaSe crystals: Low-frequency dielectric spectra of high-resistivity GaSe layered crystals have been studied on the samples clamped between two insulating parallel plates at frequencies up to 100 kHz. The measurements have...
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On the Structure of ${\rm ZnI_2}$: A new structure for ${\rm ZnI_2}$ is proposed which it exists in tetragonal state. In this structure the ${\rm ZnI_2}$ molecule exists in a nonlinear array and forms the basis of the tetragonal unit cell with one basis per unit cell. The structural analysis based on the reflections li...
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Coherence properties of infrared thermal emission from heated metallic nanowires: Coherence properties of the infrared thermal radiation from individual heated nanowires are investigated as function of nanowire dimensions. Interfering the thermally induced radiation from a heated nanowire with its image in a nearby m...
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Structural and electronic properties of solid molecular hydrogen from many-electron theories: We study the structural and electronic properties of phase III of solid hydrogen using accurate many-electron theories and compare to state-of-the-art experimental findings. The atomic structures of phase III modelled by C2/...
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Observation of Coexisting Dirac Bands and Moiré Flat Bands in Magic-Angle Twisted Trilayer Graphene: Moir\'e superlattices that consist of two or more layers of two-dimensional materials stacked together with a small twist angle have emerged as a tunable platform to realize various correlated and topological phases, ...
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Femtosecond Demagnetization and Hot Hole Relaxation in Ferromagnetic GaMnAs: We have studied ultrafast photoinduced demagnetization in GaMnAs via two-color time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr spectroscopy. Below-bandgap midinfrared pump pulses strongly excite the valence band, while near-infrared probe pulses reveal s...
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Portable implementation of a quantum thermal bath for molecular dynamics simulations: Recently, Dammak and coworkers (H. Dammak, Y. Chalopin, M. Laroche, M. Hayoun, and J.J. Greffet. Quantumthermal bath for molecular dynamics simulation. Phys. Rev. Lett., 103:190601, 2009.) proposed that the quantum statistics of vib...
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Effect of Pressure on Electrical and optical Properties of Metal Doped TiO$_2$: A comparative study of the electrical and optical properties has been done on 3d-doped TiO$_2$. Ti$_{1-x}$M$_x$O$_2$ (M= Sc, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn) powder and its corresponding pellets, with doping concentration $x= 0.05$. The sam...
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Generalized interface models for transport phenomena: unusual scale effects in composite nanomaterials: The effective transport properties of heterogeneous nanoscale materials and structures are affected by several geometrical and physical factors. Among them the presence of imperfect interfaces plays a central role ...
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Effects of macroscopic-polarization built-in electrostatic fields in III-V nitrides multi-quantum-wells: Huge built-in electric fields have been predicted to exist in wurtzite III-V nitrides thin films and multilayers. Such fields originate from heterointerface discontinuities of the macroscopic bulk polarization of ...
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Magnetic Skyrmionic Polarons: We study a two-dimensional electron gas exchanged-coupled to a system of classical magnetic ions. For large Rashba spin-orbit coupling a single electron can become self-trapped in a skyrmion spin texture self-induced in the magnetic ions system. This new quasiparticle carries electrical an...
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Complex structures of dense lithium: electronic origin: Lithium - the lightest alkali metal - exhibits unexpected structures and electronic behaviour at high pressures. As the heavier alkalis, Li is bcc at ambient pressure and transforms first to fcc (at 7.5 GPa). The post-fcc high-pressure form Li-cI16 (at 40-60 GPa) ...
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Deciphering Cryptic Behavior in Bimetallic Transition Metal Complexes with Machine Learning: The rational tailoring of transition metal complexes is necessary to address outstanding challenges in energy utilization and storage. Heterobimetallic transition metal complexes that exhibit metal-metal bonding in stacked "d...
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Band gap engineering by Bi intercalation of graphene on Ir(111): We report on the structural and electronic properties of a single bismuth layer intercalated underneath a graphene layer grown on an Ir(111) single crystal. Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) reveals a hexagonal surface structure and a dislocation networ...
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Towards High-Performance Two-Dimensional Black Phosphorus Optoelectronic Devices: the Role of Metal Contacts: The metal contacts on 2D black phosphorus field-effect transistor and photodetectors are studied. The metal work functions can significantly impact the Schottky barrier at the metal-semiconductor contact in b...
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Phonon Dispersion Effects and the Thermal Conductivity Reduction in GaAs/AlAs Superlattices: The experimentally observed order-of-magnitude reduction in the thermal conductivity along the growth axis of (GaAs)_n/(AlAs)_n (or n x n) superlattices is investigated theoretically for (2x2), (3x3) and (6x6) structures usin...
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Bayesian calibration of interatomic potentials for binary alloys: Developing reliable interatomic potential models with quantified predictive accuracy is crucial for atomistic simulations. Commonly used potentials, such as those constructed through the embedded atom method (EAM), are derived from semi-empirical conside...
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A regression-based feature selection study of the Curie temperature of transition-metal rare-earth compounds: prediction and understanding: The Curie temperature ($T_C$) of binary alloy compounds consisting of 3$d$ transition-metal and 4$f$ rare-earth elements is analyzed by a machine learning technique. We first dem...
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Atomic defects and dopants in ternary Z-phase transition-metal nitrides CrMN with M=V, Nb, Ta investigated with density functional theory: A density functional theory study of atomic defects and dopants in ternary Z-phase transition-metal nitrides CrMN with M=V, Nb, or Ta is presented. Various defect formation energi...
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Electrical transport and percolation in magnetoresistive manganite / insulating oxide composites: case of La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 / Mn3O4: We report the results of electrical resistivity measurements carried out on well-sintered La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 / Mn3O4 composite samples with almost constant composition of the magnetoresistive ...
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Instability of the rhodium magnetic moment as origin of the metamagnetic phase transition in alpha-FeRh: Based on ab initio total energy calculations we show that two magnetic states of rhodium atoms together with competing ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic exchange interactions are responsible for a temperature in...
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Incipient triple point for adsorbed xenon monolayers: Pt(111) versus graphite substrates: Simulation evidence of an incipient triple point is reported for xenon submonolayers adsorbed on the (111) surface of platinum. This is in stark contrast to the "normal" triple point found in simulations and experiments for xeno...
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Magnetization dynamics and damping due to electron-phonon scattering in a ferrimagnetic exchange model: We present a microscopic calculation of magnetization damping for a magnetic "toy model." The magnetic system consists of itinerant carriers coupled antiferromagnetically to a dispersionless band of localized spins...
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Theoretical estimates for flat voids coalescence by internal necking: Coalescence of voids by internal necking is in most cases the last microscopic event related to ductile fracture and corresponds to a localized plastic flow between adjacent voids. Macroscopic load associated to the onset of coalescence is classicall...
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Coherent generation of symmetry-forbidden phonons by light-induced electron-phonon interactions in magnetite: Symmetry breaking across phase transitions often causes changes in selection rules and emergence of optical modes which can be detected via spectroscopic techniques or generated coherently in pump-probe exper...
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Thermoelectric properties of semiconducting materials with parabolic and pudding-mold band structures: We theoretically investigate the thermoelectric properties of semiconducting (gapped) materials by varying the degrees of polynomials in their energy dispersion relations, in which either the valence or conduction e...
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Spin transport in a magnetic insulator with zero effective damping: Applications based on spin currents strongly profit from the control and reduction of their effective damping and their transport properties. We here experimentally observe magnon mediated transport of spin (angular) momentum through a 13.4 nm thin ytt...
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Gate-Voltage Tunability of Plasmons in Single and Multi-layer Graphene Structures: Analytical Description and Concepts for Terahertz Devices: The strong light-matter interaction in graphene over a broad frequency range has opened up a plethora of photonics applications of graphene. The goal of this paper is to presen...
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DFT Studies of 2D Materials Inspired by Lie Algebras: Inspired by the root systems of Lie algebras of rank 2, we propose a mathematical method to engineer new 2D materials with double periodic structures tessellating the plane. Concretely, we investigate two geometries relaying on squares and hexagons exhibiting D4 D4 ...
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Reconciling the ionic and covalent pictures in rare-earth nickelates: The properties of AMO3 perovskite oxides, where M is a 3d transition metal, depend strongly on the level of covalency between the metal d and oxygen p orbitals. With their complex spin orders and metal-insulator transition, rare-earth nickelates verg...
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A systematic study of magnetodynamic properties at finite temperatures in doped permalloy from first principles calculations: By means of first principles calculations, we have systematically investigated how the magnetodynamic properties Gilbert damping, magnetization and exchange stiffness are affected when permall...
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Influence of different exchange-correlation potentials on twisted structures of bilayer XS2 (X= Mo, Cr): In this work, we employ the LDA, GGA and GGA with four vdW corrections to study crystal and electronic structures of bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with different twist angles. We find the GGA int...
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Atomic multiplet and charge-transfer screening effects in 1$s$ and 2$p$ core-level X-ray photoelectron spectra of early 3$d$ transition-metal oxides: We present a comparative analysis of 1$s$ and 2$p$ core-level hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (HAXPES) spectra in metallic VO$_2$ and CrO$_2$. Even though the V 1...
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Thermal expansion and pressure effect in MnWO4: MnWO4 has attracted attention because of its ferroelectric property induced by frustrated helical spin order. Strong spin-lattice interaction is necessary to explain ferroelectricity associated with this type of magnetic order.We have conducted thermal expansion measureme...
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Monte Carlo and kinetic Monte Carlo methods: This article reviews the basic computational techniques for carrying out multi-scale simulations using statistical methods, with the focus on simulations of epitaxial growth. First, the statistical-physics background behind Monte Carlo simulations is briefly described. The k...
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Carrier Trapping by Oxygen Impurities in Molybdenum Diselenide: Understanding defect effect on carrier dynamics is essential for both fundamental physics and potential applications of transition metal dichalcogenides. Here, the phenomenon of oxygen impurities trapping photo-excited carriers has been studied with ultraf...
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Ambient temperature pressure driven alkane dehydrogenation by palladium metal: Dehydrogenation of alkanes is of increasing importance in fulfilling global demand for olefins and offers a potential source of carbon-neutral hydrogen as a co-product. Currently commercial dehydrogenation processes occur at high-temperatu...
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A phase field model combined with genetic algorithm for polycrystalline hafnium zirconium oxide ferroelectrics: Ferroelectric hafnium zirconium oxide (HZO) thin films show significant promise for applications in ferroelectric random-access memory, ferroelectric field-effect transistors, and ferroelectric tunneling ju...
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Molecular Motion on Semiconductor Surface via Tip-enhanced Multiple Excitation: In a low-temperature study with a scanning tunneling microscope (STM), the irreducible lateral motion of a CO molecule adsorbed on a Si(001) surface showed a hyperlinear dependence on the tunneling current. This dependence implies that th...
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First-principles prediction of oxygen octahedral rotations in perovskite-structure EuTiO3: We present a systematic first-principles study of the structural and vibrational properties of perovskite-structure EuTiO3. Our calculated phonon spectrum of the high-symmetry cubic structural prototype shows strong M- and R-po...
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Band restructuring of ordered/disordered blue TiO2 for visible photocatalyst: Black TiO2 with/without noble metal has been proposed for visible photocatalyst, still leaving poor catalyst efficiency. Alternatively, phase-mixed TiO2 such as anatase and rutile has been commonly used for visible catalysts with the inevit...
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Doping graphene with metal contacts: Making devices with graphene necessarily involves making contacts with metals. We use density functional theory to study how graphene is doped by adsorption on metal substrates and find that weak bonding on Al, Ag, Cu, Au and Pt, while preserving its unique electronic structure, can...
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Giant magnetostriction in Tb-doped Fe83Ga17 melt-spun ribbons: Giant magnetostriction is achieved in the slightly Tb-doped Fe83Ga17 melt-spun ribbons. The tested average perpendicular magnetostriction is -886 ppm along the melt-spun ribbon direction in the Fe82.89Ga16.88Tb0.23 alloy. The calculated parallel magnetostri...
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Magnetic phase diagram of Ce2Fe17: Rare-earth-based permanent-magnet materials rich in iron have relatively low ferromagnetic ordering temperatures. This is believed to be due to the presence of antiferromagnetic exchange interactions, besides the ferromagnetic interactions responsible for the magnetic order. The magne...
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Impact of Sb degrees of freedom on the charge density wave phase diagram of the kagome metal CsV$_3$Sb$_5$: Elucidating the microscopic mechanisms responsible for the charge density wave (CDW) instability of the AV$_3$Sb$_5$ (A=Cs, K, Rb) family of kagome metals is critical for understanding their unique properties, ...
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Shock and Release Temperatures in Molybdenum: Shock and release temperatures in Mo were calculated, taking account of heating from plastic flow predicted using the Steinberg-Guinan model. Plastic flow was calculated self-consistently with the shock jump conditions: this is necessary for a rigorous estimate of the locus...
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Powder Diffraction Data and Mesomorphic Properties for 4-Butyloxyphenyl 4'-Decyloxybenzoate: Unit cell parameters obtained from X-ray powder diffraction data are presented for the crystalline phase of a liquid crystal 4-butyloxyphenyl 4'-decyloxybenzoate: a = 23.098 (4) {\AA}, b = 5.974 (6) {\AA}, c = 12.357 (10) {\A...
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Investigation of re-entrant relaxor behaviour in lead cobalt niobate ceramic: The temperature dependent dielectric properties revealed re-entrant relaxor behaviour (Tm ~130 K and 210 K for 1 kHz) below a high temperature diffused phase transition, Tc ~270 K in lead cobalt niobate (PCN). Multiple positive/negative mag...
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The Effects of Vacancy and Oxidation on Black Phosphorus Nanoresonators: Black phosphorene is not stable at ambient conditions, so atomic defects and oxidation effects are unavoidable in black phosphorus samples in the experiment. The effects of these defects on the performance of the black phosphorus nanoresonators ar...
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Hamiltonian Transformation for Band Structure Calculations: First-principles electronic band structure calculations are essential for understanding periodic systems in condensed matter physics and materials science. We propose an accurate and parameter-free method, called Hamiltonian transformation (HT), to calculate b...
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Multiferroic Properties of Nanocrystalline BaTiO3: Some of the Multiferroics [1] form a rare class of materials that exhibit magnetoelectric coupling arising from the coexistence of ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity, with potential for many technological applications.[2,3] Over the last decade, an active research on ...
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Resonant Raman of OH/OD vibrations and photoluminescence studies in LiTaO3 thin film: Resonant Raman spectra (RRS) of O-H and O-D vibration and libration modes, their combinations and higher harmonics have been observed in LiTaO3 polycrystalline thin films. RRS peaks are superimposed on photoluminescence (PL) spectru...
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Quantitative Temperature Dependence of Longitudinal Spin Seebeck Effect at High Temperatures: This article reports temperature-dependent measurements of longitudinal spin Seebeck effects (LSSEs) in Pt/Y$_3$Fe$_5$O$_{12}$ (YIG)/Pt systems in a high temperature range from room temperature to above the Curie temperature...
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Antiferromagnetic Spin Orientation and Magnetic Domain Structure in Epitaxially Grown MnN Studied using Optical Second Harmonic Generation: MnN is a centrosymmetric collinear antiferromagnet belonging to the transition metal nitride family with a high Neel temperature, a low anisotropy field, and a large magnetic mom...
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Preventing corona effects: multi-phosphonic acid poly(ethylene glycol) copolymers for stable stealth iron oxide nanoparticles: When disperse in biological fluids, engineered nanoparticles are selectively coated with proteins, resulting in the formation of a protein corona. It is suggested that the protein corona is c...
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Symmetrical laws of structure of helicoidally-like biopolymers in the framework of algebraic topology. II. α-helix and DNA structures: In the framework of algebraic topology the closed sequence of 4-dimensional polyhedra (algebraic polytopes) was defined. This sequence is started by the polytope {240}, discovered by ...
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Limitations for the determination of piezoelectric constants with piezoresponse force microscopy: At first sight piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) seems an ideal technique for the determination of piezoelectric coefficients (PCs), thus making use of its ultra-high vertical resolution (<0.1 pm/V). Christman et al. ...
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Study of the elastocaloric effect and mechanical behavior for the NiTi shape memory alloys: The NiTi shape memory alloy exhibited excellent superelastic property and elastocaloric effect. Large temperature changes of 30 K upon loading and -19 K upon unloading were obtained at room temperature, which were higher than ...
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Highly anisotropic two-dimensional metal in monolayer MoOCl$_2$: Anisotropy is a general feature in materials. Strong anisotropy could lead to interesting physical properties and useful applications. Here, based on first-principles calculations and theoretical analysis, we predict a stable two-dimensional (2D) material...
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Monte Carlo simulation of GaAs(001) homoepitaxy: By carrying out Monte Carlo simulations based on the two-species atomic-scale kinetic growth model of GaAs(001) homoepitaxy and comparing the results with scanning tunneling microscope images, we show that initial growing islands undergo the structural transformation bef...
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Giant interfacial perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in MgO/CoFe/capping layer structures: Magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) based on CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB structures is of great interest due to its application in the spin-transfer-torque magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM). Large interfacial perpendicular magnetic anisot...
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The local atomic quasicrystal structure of the icosahedral Mg25Y11Zn64 alloy: A local and medium range atomic structure model for the face centred icosahedral (fci) Mg25Y11Zn64 alloy has been established in a sphere of r = 27 A. The model was refined by least squares techniques using the atomic pair distribution (PDF...
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Microscale simulation of adhesive and cohesive failure in rough interfaces: Multi-material lightweight designs, e.g. the combination of aluminum with fiber-reinforced composites, are a key feature for the development of innovative and resource-efficient products. The connection properties of such bi-material interfac...
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Encoding Complexity within Supramolecular Analogues of Frustrated Magnets: At the heart of systems chemistry lies the idea that supramolecular interactions can give rise to complex and unexpected collective states that emerge on a fundamentally different lengthscale to that of the interactions themselves. While in ce...
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Yield criterion and finite strain behavior of random porous isotropic materials: The mechanical response of isotropic elastoplastic materials containing random distributions of initially spherical voids is investigated computationally based on Fast Fourier Transform simulations. Numerical limit-analysis simulations a...
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Weak antilocalization in a noncentrosymmetric CaAgBi single crystal: We report on the single crystal growth and transport properties of a topological semimetal CaAgBi which crystallises in the hexagonal $ABC-$type structure with the non-centrosymmetric space group $\mathit{P6_3mc}$ (No. 186). The transverse magnetoresi...
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Systematical, experimental investigations on LiMgZ (Z= P, As, Sb) wide band gap semiconductors: This work reports on the experimental investigation of the wide band gap compounds LiMgZ (Z = P, As, Sb), which are promising candidates for opto-electronics and anode materials for Lithium batteries. The compounds crystal...
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High entropy van der Waals materials (Review article): By breaking the restrictions on traditional alloying strategy, the high entropy concept has promoted the exploration of the central area of phase space, thus broadening the horizon of alloy exploitation. This review highlights the marriage of the high entropy conce...
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Synthesis and Local Probe Gating of a Monolayer Metal-Organic Framework: Achieving large-area uniform two-dimensional (2D) metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and controlling their electronic properties on inert surfaces is a big step towards future applications in electronic devices. Here we successfully fabricated a 2D m...
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Giant Anisotropy of Spin-Orbit Splitting at the Bismuth Surface: We investigate the bismuth (111) surface by means of time and angle resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. The parallel detection of the surface states below and above the Fermi level reveals a giant anisotropy of the Spin-Orbit (SO) spitting. These strong ...
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Conditions for the formation of pure birnessite during the oxidation of Mn(II) cations in aqueous alkaline medium: Birnessite was synthetized through redox reaction by mixing MnO4-, Mn2+ and OH- solutions. The Mn(VII): Mn(II) ratio of 0.33 was chosen and three methods were used consisting in a quick mixing under vigo...
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A General Framework for Liquid Marbles: Liquid marbles refer to liquid droplets that are covered with a layer of non-wetting particles. They are observed in nature and have practical significance. However, a generalized framework for analyzing liquid marbles as they inflate or deflate is unavailable. The present study ...
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Interfacial-Redox-Induced Tuning of Superconductivity in YBa$_{2}$Cu$_{3}$O$_{7-δ}$: Solid state ionic approaches for modifying ion distributions in getter/oxide heterostructures offer exciting potentials to control material properties. Here we report a simple, scalable approach allowing for total control of the supe...
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Correlation of microdistortions with misfit volumes in High Entropy Alloys: The yield strengths of High Entropy Alloys have recently been correlated with measured picometer-scale atomic distortions. Here, the root mean square microdistortion in a multicomponent alloy is shown to be nearly proportional to the misfit-v...
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Stress transmission in planar disordered solid foams: Stress transmission in planar open-cell cellular solids is analysed using a recent theory developed for marginally rigid granular assemblies. This is made possible by constructing a one-to-one mapping between the two systems. General trivalent networks are mapped on...
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Induced Giant Piezoelectricity in Centrosymmetric Oxides: Piezoelectrics are materials that linearly deform in response to an applied electric field. As a fundamental prerequisite, piezoelectric material must possess a non centrosymmetric crystal structure. For more than a century, this remains the major obstacle for f...
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Interface collisions with diffusive mass transport: We report on a linear Langevin model that describes the evolution of the roughness of two interfaces that move towards each other and are coupled by a diffusion field. This model aims at describing the closing of the gap between two two-dimensional material domains du...
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Scaling of the thermally induced sign inversion of longitudinal spin Seebeck effect in a compensated ferrimagnet: Role of magnetic anisotropy: We report on a systematic investigation of the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect (LSSE) in a GGG(Gd3Ga5O12)/GdIG(Gd3Fe5O12)/Pt film series exhibiting an in-plane magnetic easy ...
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Polarization Morphology and Electrocaloric Response of Strained Ferroelectric Core-Shell Nanorods and Nanowires: Using Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire (LGD) approach we proposed the analytical description of the Vegard strains influence on the spontaneous polarization and electrocaloric response in ferroelectric core-shel...
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Ultrafast Epitaxial Growth of Metre-Sized Single-Crystal Graphene on Industrial Cu Foil: A foundation of the modern technology that uses single-crystal silicon has been the growth of high-quality single-crystal Si ingots with diameters up to 12 inches or larger. For many applications of graphene, large-area high-qual...
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First-principles methodology for studying magnetotransport in narrow-gap semiconductors: an application to Zirconium Pentatelluride ZrTe5: The origin of anomalous resistivity peak and accompanied sign reversal of Hall resistivity of ZrTe$_5$ has been under debate for a long time. Although various theoretical models h...
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Lattice expansion and non-collinear to collinear ferrimagnetic order in MnCr$_2$O$_4$ nanoparticle: We report magnetic behaviour of MnCr$_2$O$_4$, which belongs to a special class of spinel, known as chromite. Bulk MnCr$_2$O$_4$ shows a sequence of magnetic states, which follows paramagnetic (PM) to collinear ferrima...
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Strongly Constrained and Appropriately Normed Semilocal Density Functional: The ground-state energy, electron density, and related properties of ordinary matter can be computed efficiently when the exchange-correlation energy as a functional of the density is approximated semilocally. We propose the first meta-GGA (m...
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New apparatus for DTA at 2000 bar: thermodynamic studies on Au, Ag, Al and HTSC oxides: A new DTA (Differential Thermal Analysis) device was designed and installed in a Hot Isostatic Pressure (HIP) furnace in order to perform high-pressure thermodynamic investigations up to 2 kbar and 1200C. Thermal analysis can be c...
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A scalable parallel Monte Carlo algorithm for atomistic simulations of precipitation in alloys: We present an extension of the semi-grandcanonical (SGC) ensemble that we refer to as the variance-constrained semi-grandcanonical (VC-SGC) ensemble. It allows for transmutation Monte Carlo simulations of multicomponent sy...
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Deep Learning and Crystal Plasticity: A Preconditioning Approach for Accurate Orientation Evolution Prediction: Efficient and precise prediction of plasticity by data-driven models relies on appropriate data preparation and a well-designed model. Here we introduce an unsupervised machine learning-based data preparati...
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Fourier analysis of the IR response of van der Waals materials: In this letter, we report on an analytical technique for optical investigations of semitransparent samples. By Fourier transforming optical spectra with Fabry-Perot resonances we extract information about sample thickness and its discrete variations. Moreo...
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Impact of electron solvation on ice structures at the molecular scale: We determine the impact of electron solvation on D$_2$O structures adsorbed on Cu(111) with low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy, two-photon photoemission, and ab initio theory. UV photons generating solvated electrons lead not only to tran...
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Bandgap of two-dimensional materials: Thorough assessment of modern exchange-correlation functionals: The density functional theory (DFT) approximations that are the most accurate for the calculation of band gap of bulk materials are hybrid functionals like HSE06, the MBJ potential, and the GLLB-SC potential. More re...
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Electronic structure of Ba(Zn0.875Mn0.125)2As2 studied by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy: Electronic structure of single crystalline Ba(Zn$_{0.875}$Mn$_{0.125}$)$_{2}$As$_{2}$, parent compound of the recently founded high-temperature ferromagnetic semiconductor, was studied by high-resolution photoemission...
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