A Multipolar Approach to Sliding FerroelectricityTraditional theoretical treatments of ferroelectricity do not straightforwardly extend to sliding ferroelectrics, which are increasingly-studied layered materials where a switchable electrical…Matthew Dykes·Sep 15, 2026·Top 52%SaveLearn
Conditions for the Emergence of Spontaneous Phonon Frequency Combs from Anharmonic PotentialsPhononic frequency combs have been demonstrated experimentally and theoretically in the kHz-MHz regime under nonlinear driving; however, their spontaneous formation in the GHz-THz regime remains…Jayakrishnan SS, Mayanak K Gupta, Dipanshu Bansal·Sep 15, 2026·Top 66%SaveLearn
Robust and Efficient AI Frameworks for Scalable Material Design and Property PredictionThis thesis develops robust and efficient AI frameworks for accelerating crystalline materials discovery by addressing both major stages of the materials-design pipeline: crystal property prediction…Kishalay Das·Sep 15, 2026·Top 87%SaveLearn
The chemistry of embrittlement: How hydrogen dwindles cohesion in iron during fractureNormally strong and tough, steelx2014with iron as its basex2014falls prey to severe embrittlement when infiltrated by hydrogen; the insights into why are not well understood.…Aleksei Egorov·Sep 15, 2026SaveLearn
Enhanced thermal stability of SiGeSn by suppressing surface-mediated degradationSiGeSn alloys are promising silicon-compatible semiconductors for monolithic infrared photonics. However, their metastable nature limits the thermal budgets available for post-growth device…Anis Attiaoui, Sebastian Koelling, Lu Luo et al.·Sep 15, 2026·Top 46%SaveLearn
Designing Homogeneous Ti-Nb-Fe-Sn β Titanium Alloys by PBF-LB: A Pre-Alloyed Powder Blend StrategyMetastable β titanium alloys are attractive for biomedical and structural applications owing to their low elastic modulus, high specific strength, and excellent corrosion resistance. Laser powder…João Felipe Queiroz Rodrigues, Kristína Bartha, Mariano Casas-Luna et al.·Sep 15, 2026·Top 80%SaveLearn
Nonlinear electron-phonon interactions from first principlesElectron-phonon interactions underpin a variety of phenomena, ranging from transport and superconductivity to polarons and ultrafast carrier dynamics. Despite being one of the most intensely studied…Zhenbang Dai, Feliciano Giustino·Sep 15, 2026·Top 2%SaveLearn
Integrated quantum-secured cryptographic memory in customizable single nanodiamondsAs advanced physical cloning and cyber-extraction techniques proliferate, achieving absolute hardware-level information security has become a paramount global challenge. Conventional architectures…Tongtong Zhang, Jiaqi Li, Zhiqin Chu·Sep 15, 2026·Top 61%SaveLearn
Multiproperty Atomistic Characterization of a Synthesized Pyrazinic Nitrogen-Doped Porous Armchair Graphene NanoribbonGraphene nanoribbons (GNRs) obtained by on-surface synthesis combine a width-controlled band gap with atomic precision, making chemical decoration of their edges and interiors a practical route to…Cicera M. V. de Araújo, Isaac de M. Félix, Willian F. Radel et al.·Sep 15, 2026·Top 48%SaveLearn
Bridging powder and multi-crystal diffraction with basis-adaptive texture tomographyIn spatially resolved X-ray diffraction experiments using narrow beams, diffraction patterns from polycrystalline materials often fall between two well-served regimes. Fine-grained, weakly textured…Martin Sæbye Carøe, Mads Allerup Carlsen, Felix Tristan Frankus et al.·Sep 15, 2026·Top 68%SaveLearn
High-Pressure Refractive Indices of NaCl, KCl, CaO, SrO, and MgO Reveal the Dependence of Anion Polarizability on Coordination Number and Bond LengthSeveral alkali chlorides and alkaline-earth oxides adopt the B1 structure at ambient conditions and transform to B2 under compression, allowing to change coordination number and cation-anion distance…Konstantin Solovev, Xiangdong Li, Björn Winkler et al.·Sep 15, 2026·Top 55%SaveLearn
Higher order anharmonicity and polymorphism in the lattice thermal conductivity of transition metal dichalcogenidesWe present a comprehensive ab initio study of the effect of higher-order anharmonicity and polymorphism on the lattice thermal conductivity, κ, of single-layer transition metal…Marta Loletti, Qi Ren, Zhuyao Chang et al.·Sep 15, 2026·Top 29%SaveLearn
A transfer-rod-mounted rotatable sample holder enabling a compact modular vacuum system for ion-beam milling, oblique magnetron sputtering, and co-sputteringWe present a novel multifunctional sample-holder concept for compact research-scale vacuum systems. The sample holder is mounted directly on the transfer rod and remains mechanically connected to it…Tiago de Oliveira Schneider, Folke Kaiser, Andreas Semrad et al.·Sep 15, 2026·Top 80%SaveLearn
AI for Science with GPT-6 Astra: Thermal Design and Electrothermal Analysis of 2D CFETThermal optimization of 2D CFET inverters requires testing structural proposals against their electrical costs. We examine these research tasks using an AI agent workflow within a supplied…Min-Hui Kim, Khushi Sharma, Sarah Zhang et al.·Sep 15, 2026·Top 98%SaveLearn
Beyond the Binary Hull: Higher-Order Thermodynamic Stabilization in Inorganic Ternary CompoundsStable ternary compounds lie below every competing phase on a conventional convex hull, but this does not reveal whether their stability is inherited from already favorable binaries or created by…Pravan Omprakash·Sep 15, 2026·Top 65%SaveLearn
Development of a Physics-Informed Neural Framework, MEOWN, for Rapid Prediction of Muon Stopping Sites in Crystalline Materials, for understanding Quantum Magnet employing Muon SpectroscopyMuon-spin rotation/relaxation is one of the most powerful microscopic probes for understanding magnetic order, spin dynamics, superconductivity, and complex magnetic phases in emerging quantum…A. Pandey, K. Sharma, S. Ghosh et al.·Sep 15, 2026·Top 88%SaveLearn
Probabilistic Deep Learning Framework for Phase Transformation Forecasting aided by In Situ High temperature MicroscopyThe mechanical performance of structural materials is governed by their microstructure, which is itself set by the thermal history imposed during processing. Predicting how that microstructure…Ioannis Kouroudis, Niki Balestrieri, Stefan Rotzsche et al.·Sep 15, 2026·Top 78%SaveLearn
ZStar: An automated toolkit for polarization, Born effective charges, dielectric response, and infrared and Raman spectra calculationsBorn effective charges (BEC) link atomic displacements to polarization, connecting lattice vibrations to dielectric response and infrared activity. We present ZStar, an open-source Python toolkit…Xudong Zhu, Junhong Li, Gan Jin et al.·Sep 15, 2026SaveLearn
Fractional-Quantum Ferroelectrics: A Route to High-Mobility Ferroelectric SemiconductorsFerroelectric semiconductors are promising for multifunctional electronics, yet their typically low carrier mobilities remain a major limitation. Using first-principles phonon-limited transport…Rong-Tian Pang, Wenjie Hu, Youning Liu et al.·Sep 15, 2026·Top 17%SaveLearn
SpectraFit XPS: a free, browser-based application for X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy peak fitting and quantificationSpectraFit XPS is a free web application for the analysis of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) data that runs entirely in the browser, with no installation and no server-side processing: spectra…Yongsup Park·Sep 15, 2026·Top 85%SaveLearn
Topological spin textures in 2D altermagnetic chromium chalcogenides: Interplay between magnetic frustration and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactionAltermagnetism has recently emerged as a distinct magnetic paradigm, yet the exploration of topological spin textures within two-dimensional (2D) altermagnets remains limited. Using first-principles…Zirui Zhang, Shiwei Zhu, Ruixiao Ma et al.·Sep 15, 2026·Top 9%SaveLearn
Interplay between Interlayer Shift and Twist: Twisted van der Waals Nanowires Driven by Rotational TwinningIn van der Waals(vdW) layered materials, interlayer shift and twist have enabled the control of material properties through polytype and moire engineering. Various approaches, including bottom-up…Dong-gyu Kim, Kisung Kang, Hani Kang et al.·Sep 15, 2026·Top 13%SaveLearn
Electric-Field-Switchable Altermagnetism via Ligand Rotation in a d0 Metal-Organic FrameworkAltermagnetism combines vanishing net magnetization with momentum-dependent spin splitting. While altermagnetic signatures have been identified in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), non-invasive…Hongjing Wang, Xiuling Li, Xiaojun Wu·Sep 15, 2026·Top 23%SaveLearn
The Closer, the Better: Engineering RGB Thermometric Performance in Tb3+, Eu3+-Doped MOFsThe effectiveness of luminescence thermometry, which exploits temperature-induced changes in the spectroscopic properties of phosphor materials for temperature sensing, has been extensively…M. Szymczak, L. Giang, L. Marciniak·Sep 15, 2026SaveLearn
Electrical Probing of Sub-Néel Spin Dynamics in Two-Dimensional Antiferromagnets Using Graphene HeterostructuresLow-dimensional antiferromagnetic van der Waals materials have emerged as a versatile platform for exploring exotic spin dynamics and magnetic phases, yet electrically accessing these phenomena…Adrián García-Martín, Sara Gullace, Nicolás Montenegro-Pohlhammer et al.·Sep 15, 2026·Top 20%SaveLearn