Crystals, Volume 12, Issue 10

Selective laser melting (SLM) offers obvious advantages in the production of complex parts. However, the traditional 7xxx series aluminum alloy has a serious cracking tendency in the SLM process. Therefore, in order to analyze the microstructure and...

To further determine the brittle-to-ductile transition temperature, the microstructures and mechanical properties of typical forged β-solidifying Ti-42Al-5Mn (TiAlMn) and Ti-43Al-4Nb-1Mo-0.5B (TNM) alloys were studied. The results show that the...

The previous article introduced the idea of a superhydrophobic coating from carbon nanoparticles that can combine the lotus effect, the slip effect and electric current heating. A further development of this idea was suggested. The article demonstrat...

The presence of cubic PuH₂ and PuH₃, the products of hydrogen corrosion of Pu, during long-term storage is of concern because of the materials’ pyrophoricity and ability to catalyse the oxidation reaction of Pu to form PuO₂. Here, we modelled c...

With the rapid development of graphene technology, today graphene performs well in the application of light-emitting diode (LED) transparent electrodes. Naturally, high-quality contact between the graphene and the GaN underneath is very important. Th...

Diffuse interface descriptions offer many advantages for the modeling of microstructure evolution. However, the numerical representation of moving diffuse interfaces on discrete numerical grids involves spurious grid friction, which limits the overal...

The transient behavior of an ensemble of ellipsoidal particles in a supercooled binary melt is considered. The model laws, based on the Fokker-Planck type kinetic equation for the particle-volume distribution function, the thermal and mass integral b...

The early stages of nanocrystallization in amorphous Fe_73.8Si₁₃B_9.1Cu₁Nb_3.1 ribbons and microwires were compared in terms of their internal stress effects. The microstructure was investigated by the X-ray diffraction method. Classical expressions of...

This study aimed at the preparation of a 2024 aluminum alloy (2024Al) matrix composite with high strength, high toughness and high magnetic properties that can be used in practical applications. Therefore, Nd₂Fe₁₄B_p/2024Al–Co composites with differen...

In this study, the influence of microstructure and buffer system on the corrosion behaviour of Mg-1 wt. % Zn is examined. The grain size of the alloy was refined from 700 µm to under 15 µm by rolling with varying reduction percentages per...

Here we present new findings of a comprehensive study of the fundamental physicochemical properties for GeS and GeSe in bulk form. UV and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopies (UPS/XPS) were employed for the experiments, which were carried out on in sit...

Cement-based materials have always been the main choice for the construction of civil engineering infrastructures [...]

The anisotropic mechanical behavior and associated microstructure evolution in annealed Zircaloy-4 were investigated at room temperature, using quasi-in situ tensile tests along the typical direction, rolling direction (RD), and transverse direction...

It has been evaluated the relationship between the microstructure and three-body abrasive wear behavior of high-chromium (18 and 27 mass % Cr) based (3 mass % each of V, Mo, W, and Co) multicomponent white cast iron materials (high-Cr MWCIs). It was...

Due to the extreme thermal conditions and short lifetimes, experimental exploration of cathode spots in vacuum arcs is very difficult. The intensive heat in the cathode spot is believed to be generated by ion bombardment and by Joule heating. However...

Growth defects in CsB₃O₅ (CBO) crystals grown using the seed-submerged growth technique (SSGT), which includes parallel grouping, growth step, and inclusion, were observed and analyzed. Dislocation was investigated using the chemical etching method f...

Iron-based metal-organic frameworks (MIL (101)) have recently gained attention in materials science for biomedical applications. In the present work, Iron-based MOF (MIL-101(Fe)) were coated with lactoferrin (Lf) conjugated with hyaluronic acid (HA)...

The mechanism of the influence of crystal inhomogeneities on the magnetic and domain microstructures of functional materials based on yttrium iron garnet heterostructures is an important subject of investigation due to the aim to predict parameters f...

The Zr_50−x/2Co_50−x/2Al_x (x = 0, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) alloy sheets were prepared by copper mold suction casting, and the effect of Al content on the mechanical properties and the strengthening mechanism was thoroughly investigated. With Al addit...

In this study, we have chemically modified multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) with different side chains for better dispersion in liquid crystal solutions, and fabricated twisted nematic liquid crystal cells doped with such MWNT derivatives. The i...

The present research investigates the wear properties of a continuous carbon fiber-reinforced additively manufactured polymer composite under dry sliding conditions. The effect of load and fiber orientation is examined on polymer composite specimens....

Additive manufacturing of metals by employing continuous wave and short pulse lasers completely changes the way of modern industrial production. But the ultrafast laser has the superiority to short pulse laser and continuous wave laser in additive ma...

Synthon theory underlies the analysis and empirical prediction of the crystal structure. Supramolecular synthons (SMSs) formed by intermolecular hydrogen bonds, such as carboxylic $R_2^2$(8) and $C_1^1$(4) and alcoholic $C_1^1$(2) ones, are among the most popula...

With the continuous development of topological properties in condensed matter systems, the current research focus has been expanded into phononic bosonic states. Compared with the conventional electronic fermions, topological phonons exhibit very dis...

Hybrid integration of silicon photonics with lithium niobate (LN) devices provides a promising route to enable an excellent modulation performance in silicon photonic integrated circuits. To realize this purpose, a substrate containing a Si film on a...

Wireless charging systems are critical for safely and efficiently recharging mobile electronic devices. Current wireless charging technologies involving inductive coupling, magnetic resonance coupling, and microwave transmission are bulky, require co...

With the ever-increasing interest in low-dimensional materials, it is urgent to understand the effect of strain on these kinds of structures. In this study, taking the CF${}_2$Si monolayer as an example, a computational study was carried out to investigat...

Taking inspiration from our recent work in which a new sensor for hydrogen peroxide was proposed, our research group has now developed a simple, fast, and inexpensive voltametric system for determining proline concentration both in standard solutions...

Three new arsenato-polyoxovanadates with the composition [M(en)₃]₂[V₆As₈O₂₆] (M = Co²⁺ (I), Zn²⁺ (II), and Cd²⁺ (III)) were synthesized under solvothermal conditions in high yields, thus significantly enhancing the knowledge of As-rich polyoxovanadat...

We thoroughly investigated the electronic structure and various properties of the half-Heusler compound ScRhTe using density functional theory calculations. The electronic structure shows that ScRhTe is a narrow-band-gap semiconductor. Owing to its c...

Ag₂Te is a novel topological insulator system and a new candidate for plasmon resonance due to the existence of a Dirac cone in the low-energy region. Although the optical response spectrum of Ag₂Te has been studied by theoretical and experimental me...

To investigate the melt flow field and inclusions movement in the cold hearth for the Ti-0.3Mo-0.8Ni alloy during electron-beam cold-hearth melting, a three-dimensional numerical model was established. By using solidification and discrete phase model...

As a soft magnetic material with excellent performance, silicon steel is widely used in motors and transformers, but its mechanical properties drop sharply when the silicon content is too high. Therefore, it is of great significance to study its infl...

Biodegradable alloys and especially magnesium-based alloys are considered by many researchers as materials to be used in medicine due to their biocompatibility and excellent mechanical properties. Biodegradable magnesium-based materials have applicat...

Crystals of a new ternary compound in the Ca-In-As family, Ca₃InAs₃, have been successfully synthesized via flux growth techniques. This is only the third known compound between the respective elements. As elucidated by single-crystal X-ray diffracti...

The Special Issue on ‘Crystal Plasticity in Forming Technologies’ is a collection of 11 original articles dedicated to theoretical and experimental research that provides new insights and practical findings in topics related to crystal pl...

The interaction of near-infrared (NIR) light with matter that produces high-energy visible light emissions is known as photon upconversion, which has shown promising applications in different fields, including optoelectronics, biomedicine and photovo...

This study presents an alternative fusion method for sample dissolution and extraction of vanadium from an inorganic (V₂O₃) compound and mineral ore sample (AMIS 0501) using phosphate salts as flux. Complete sample dissolution was achieved at 800 &de...

A nonlinear unsteady-state mathematical model employing torque balance and Frank free energy according to the Leslie-Ericksen continuum theory is developed and implemented to simulate the performance of nematic liquid crystal biosensor films with aqu...

Strong terahertz (THz) emission from the methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI₃) perovskite semiconductors has been observed following above-bandgap photoexcitation, yet local THz responses of crystalline microstructures are absent. We implement laser TH...

GaN-based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) are shown to have excellent properties, showing themselves to perform well among the throng of solid-state power amplifiers. They are particularly promising candidates for next-generation mobile co...

In materials science, crystal lattice structures are the primary metrics used to measure the structure–property paradigm of a crystal structure. Crystal compounds are understood by the number of various atomic chemical settings, which are assoc...

In this paper, a novel mathematical—physical model of the generalized elasto-thermodiffusion (hole/electron interaction) waves in semiconductor materials is studied when the hyperbolic two-temperature theory in the two-dimensional (2D) deformat...

High-speed VCSELs are widely used for high-capacity, short-range data communication links. Here, we numerically investigate the optical and electronic properties of a crystal orientation-dependent 1.06% compression InGaAs-AlGaAs laser emitting around...

Cocrystals of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) are an attractive therapeutic alternative to salt formations. However, due to the molecular scale processes involved, the earliest stages of cocrystal formation remain poorly understood. In this...

The Eshelby tensor for two-dimensional (2D) piezoelectric quasicrystal composites (QCs) is considered. The explicit expressions of Eshelby tensors for 2D piezoelectric QCs are given using the Green’s function method and the interior polarizatio...

The computational design of explosives is becoming very popular since it represents a safe and environmentally friendly way of predicting the properties of these molecules. It is known that positive values of electrostatic potential in the central ar...

By using the pseudopotential plane-wave method of first principles based on density functional theory, the band structure, density of states and optical properties of Cu₂ZnSnS₄ under isotropic stress are calculated and analyzed. The results show that...

The reduction mechanisms of Yb(III) on W electrodes in molten LiCl-KCl-YbCl₃ were explored at 773 K, and the diffusion coefficient of Yb(III) was determined. Then, various electrochemical techniques were employed to investigate the electroreduction o...

As for metal matrix composites (MMCs), the selection and application of reinforcements play a vital role in their comprehensive properties. In this work, the CrCoNi medium entropy alloy (MEA) was selected as reinforcement for Al matrix composites, an...