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Atomic level insight into irradiation effects in nuclear fuel materials

Microstructural evolution during in-pile irradiation, radiation damage effects and fission products behavior in UO2 nuclear fuel are key issues in understanding and for the modeling of the performance as well as safety characteristics of nuclear fuels in t ...

EPFL2024

Exfoliated 2D Layered and Nonlayered Metal Phosphorous Trichalcogenides Nanosheets as Promising Electrocatalysts for CO2 Reduction

Michael Graetzel, Hong Zhang, Dan Ren, Yelin Hu, Yunfei Jiao, Bing Wu, Chen Shen, Fei Liang

Two-dimensional (2D) materials catalysts provide an atomic-scale view on a fascinating arena for understanding the mechanism of electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction (CO2 ECR). Here, we successfully exfoliated both layered and nonlayered ultra-thin met ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

Multiple Surface Site Three-Dimensional Structure Determination of a Supported Molecular Catalyst

Moreno Lelli, Pierrick Berruyer, David Benjamin Roger Antoine Gajan, Zhuoran Wang

The structural characterization of supported molecular catalysts is challenging due to the low density of active sites and the presence of several organic/organometallic surface groups resulting from the often complex surface chemistry associated with supp ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Defect-induced magnetism in homoepitaxial SrTiO3

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Daesung Park

Along with recent advancements in thin-film technologies, the engineering of complex transition metal oxide heterostructures offers the possibility of creating novel and tunable multifunctionalities. A representative complex oxide is the perovskite stronti ...

AIP Publishing2022

Atomic scale investigations of fracture in metal alloys

Eleanor Yi Kei Mak

The demand for metal alloys with superior structural performance in industrial applications continues to increase, as does the need for more-energy efficient materials and methods. Many materials that are otherwise attractive for structural applications ar ...

EPFL2021

Highlights of the Science and Life of Peter Varga (1946-2018)

Wolf-Dieter Schneider

Peter Varga has passed on October 27, 2018. His pioneering discoveries of chemical resolution at the atomic scale on surface alloys, atomic resolution of ultrathin alkali halides, nucleation of bcc iron in ultrathin films, and the microscopic structure of ...

SURFACE SCI SOC JAPAN2020

Nature of native atomic defects in ZrTe5 and their impact on the low-energy electronic structure

Oleg Yazyev, Shengnan Zhang, Helmuth Berger, Ana Akrap

Over the past decades, investigations of the anomalous low-energy electronic properties of ZrTe5 have reached a wide array of conclusions. An open question is the growth method's impact on the stoichiometry of ZrTe5 samples, especially given the very small ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Atomic-scale defects in the two-dimensional ferromagnet CrI3 from first principles

Michele Pizzochero

The family of atomically thin magnets holds great promise for a number of prospective applications in magneto-optoelectronics, with CrI3 arguably being its most prototypical member. However, the formation of defects in this system remains unexplored to dat ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2020

Pure Spin Current and Magnon Chemical Potential in a Nonequilibrium Magnetic Insulator

Kyongmo An, Li Shi

Nonequilibrium phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and in a wide range of systems, including cold atomic gases and solid-state materials. While these phenomena are challenging to describe both theoretically and experimentally, they are essential for the fun ...

2020

Atomic Scale Investigations into the Origins of Ductility in Mg Alloys

Rasool Ahmad

The industrial applications of Mg, the lightest structural metal, and abundant in Earth's crust, are hampered by its low intrinsic ductility and low fracture toughness at room temperature which is attributed to the underlying less symmetric and plastically ...

EPFL2020

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