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Condensed Matter, Volume 4, Issue 1

March 2019 - 34 articles

Cover Story: Realizing reversible reduction–oxidation (redox) reactions of lattice oxygen in batteries is a promising way to improve their energy and power density. While conventional oxygen absorption spectroscopy fails to distinguish the critical oxygen chemistry in oxide-based battery electrodes, high-efficiency full-range mapping of resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (mRIXS) has been developed as a reliable probe of oxygen redox reactions. Here, we provide a comprehensive analysis and an explicit interpretation of the five evolving components of O-K mRIXS of the typical battery electrode that involves lattice oxygen redox reaction upon cycling. This work is the first benchmark for a complete assignment of all the important mRIXS features collected from battery materials, and thus delivers guidelines for future studies on the characterization, analysis, and theoretical calculation for probing and understanding oxygen redox reactions. View this pape

Articles (34)

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,543 Views
16 Pages

It has been recently shown that fast oscillating control fields can be used to speed up an otherwise slow adiabatic process, making the system always follow an instantaneous eigenvector closely. In applying this method though, one typically assumes p...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,052 Views
7 Pages

In this short communication, we report a new carbon material prepared from meta-linked polyaniline that exhibits weak antiferromagnetic interactions at low temperature. The synthesis of poly(meta-aniline), abbreviated as m-PANI, was conducted using t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,720 Views
13 Pages

Out-of-equilibrium phenomena are attracting high interest in physics, materials science, chemistry and life sciences. In this state, the study of structural fluctuations at different length scales in time and space are necessary to achieve significan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,740 Views
8 Pages

Energy Response of Silicon Drift Detectors for Kaonic Atom Precision Measurements

  • Marco Miliucci,
  • Mihail Iliescu,
  • Aidin Amirkhani,
  • Massimiliano Bazzi,
  • Catalina Curceanu,
  • Carlo Fiorini,
  • Alessandro Scordo,
  • Florin Sirghi and
  • Johann Zmeskal

Novel, large-area silicon drift detectors (SDDs) have been developed to perform precision measurements of kaonic atom X-ray spectroscopy, for the study the K ¯ N strong interaction in the low-energy regime. These devices have special geom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,376 Views
19 Pages

The Potential of EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB for Radiation Based Techniques

  • Antonella Balerna,
  • Samanta Bartocci,
  • Giovanni Batignani,
  • Alessandro Cianchi,
  • Enrica Chiadroni,
  • Marcello Coreno,
  • Antonio Cricenti,
  • Sultan Dabagov,
  • Andrea Di Cicco and
  • Massimo Faiferri
  • + 25 authors

A proposal for building a Free Electron Laser, EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB, at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, is at present under consideration. This FEL facility will provide a unique combination of a high brightness GeV-range electron beam generated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,646 Views
17 Pages

Impact of Surface Roughness on Ion-Surface Interactions Studied with Energetic Carbon Ions 13C+ on Tungsten Surfaces

  • Maren Hellwig,
  • Martin Köppen,
  • Albert Hiller,
  • Hans Rudolf Koslowski,
  • Andrey Litnovsky,
  • Klaus Schmid,
  • Christian Schwab and
  • Roger A. De Souza

The effect of surface roughness on angular distributions of reflected and physically sputtered particles is investigated by ultra-high vacuum (UHV) ion-surface interaction experiments. For this purpose, a smooth (Ra = 5.9 nm) and a rough (Ra = 20.5 n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,311 Views
22 Pages

Electronic Structure of Boron Flat Holeless Sheet

  • Levan Chkhartishvili,
  • Ivane Murusidze and
  • Rick Becker

The electronic band structure, namely energy band surfaces and densities-of-states (DoS), of a hypothetical flat and ideally perfect, i.e., without any type of holes, boron sheet with a triangular network is calculated within a quasi-classical approa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,838 Views
7 Pages

Experimental Observation of Temperature-Driven Topological Phase Transition in HgTe/CdHgTe Quantum Wells

  • Maksim S. Zholudev,
  • Aleksandr M. Kadykov,
  • Mikhail A. Fadeev,
  • Michal Marcinkiewicz,
  • Sandra Ruffenach,
  • Christophe Consejo,
  • Wojciech Knap,
  • Jeremie Torres,
  • Sergey V. Morozov and
  • Vladimir I. Gavrilenko
  • + 3 authors

We report on the comparison between temperature-dependent magneto-absorption and magnetotransport spectroscopy of HgTe/CdHgTe quantum wells in terms of the detection of the phase transition between the topological insulator and band insulator states....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,769 Views
5 Pages

Model of Nano-Metal Electroplating Process in Trapezoid Profile Groove

  • Oksana Yu. Egorova,
  • Victor G. Kosushkin and
  • Leo V. Kozhitov

The principle of the electrodeposition method is to immerse the coated products in a water electrolyte solution, the main components of which are salts or other soluble compounds—metal coatings. The software COMSOL Multiphysics was allowed to p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,271 Views
10 Pages

Engineering Topological Nodal Line Semimetals in Rashba Spin-Orbit Coupled Atomic Chains

  • Paola Gentile,
  • Vittorio Benvenuto,
  • Carmine Ortix,
  • Canio Noce and
  • Mario Cuoco

In this paper, we study an atomic chain in the presence of modulated charge potential and modulated Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) of equal periods. We show that for commensurate periodicities, λ = 4 n with integer n, the three-dime...

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