Atomistic mechanism of corrosion-induced grain boundary migration in NiCr alloys in molten FLiNaKCorrosion of Ni-Cr structural alloys in molten fluoride salts is a persistent material degradation problem, yet the atomistic role of grain boundaries in this process remains poorly understood. Here…Sadia Khan, Hamdy Arkoub, Miaomiao Jin·Jul 17, 2026SaveLearn
Subgrain-resolved Analysis of Degradation in Cu Metallization via Scanning 3DXRD and Thermomechanical ModelingMetallization layers play a key role in the performance and reliability of modern power semiconductor devices. During short-circuit events, rapid heating of power metallization layers induces…Nikhil Prabhu, Laura Neumann, Michael Reisinger et al.·Jul 17, 2026SaveLearn
Emergent Interfacial Magnetism in Epitaxial RuO2The magnetic ground state of the altermagnet candidate RuO2 remains controversial, with magnetic signatures observed mainly in epitaxial films. Here we show, using first-principles calculations,…Yudi Yang, Zhuang Qian, Shi Liu et al.·Jul 17, 2026SaveLearn
Structural Relaxation Enables Millisecond Infrared Photodetection in Selenium Iodine SemiconductorsThe optoelectronic performance of amorphous and partially crystalline semiconductors is strongly governed by structural disorder, yet establishing direct correlations between structural evolution and…Biman Jana·Jul 17, 2026SaveLearn
Nonuniform pressure helps structural superlubricityStructural superlubricity, nearly vanishing friction between two structurally incommensurate crystalline surfaces, is a promising avenue for reducing friction in applications, but requires very…Melisa M. Gianetti, Viet Hung Ho, Bjørn Haugen et al.·Jul 17, 2026SaveLearn
Two-step growth of (In,Ga)N pseudo-substrates on GaN templates by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy(In,Ga)N layers are grown by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy on GaN templates. We introduce a two-step protocol that involves switching the growth conditions from initially N-stable to…Huaide Zhang, Jingxuan Kang, Aidan F. Campbell et al.·Jul 17, 2026SaveLearn
Interface-Engineered Giant Multistate Resistance Switching in Altermagnetic CrSb Multiferroic Tunnel JunctionsAltermagnets enable spin-split transport without stray magnetic fields, yet converting their momentum-dependent spin splitting into a strong tunnel-junction response requires interface-selected…Zhi Yan, Yuwen Hua, Yueting Li et al.·Jul 17, 2026SaveLearn
General and scalable vapor etching and transformation platform for two-dimensional materialsTwo-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials derived from non-van der Waals (non-vdW) solids offer exceptional physicochemical properties, yet their synthesis is impeded by intrinsic covalent/metallic bonding…Zhiguo Du, Jikai Zhang, Jonas Björk et al.·Jul 17, 2026SaveLearn
Symmetry-Enforced Dirac Fermions and Structural Metastability in Pentagonal Monolayers of Transition-Metal DitelluridesThe recent synthesis of pentagonal PdTe2 monolayer motivates broader research interests in transition-metal ditellurides whose electronic phases are governed by symmetry and structural…Manoj Gadtoula, Clayton Conner, Avinash Sah et al.·Jul 17, 2026SaveLearn
Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy as a Universal Defect Fingerprinting Tool for Organic Halide Perovskite Solar CellsOrganic-inorganic hybrid perovskites (OHPs) deliver certified single-junction power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) exceeding 26% and perovskite-silicon tandem values surpassing 34%, yet a substantial…Inhee Maeng, Young Mi Lee, Jinwoo Park et al.·Jul 17, 2026SaveLearn
Symbolic Predicate-Guided Language Agents for Inverse Design of Perovskite OxidesEfficient discovery of high-performance materials has been pursued through a variety of data- and AI-driven strategies, among which inverse design, generating materials from desired target…Dong Hyeon Mok, Seoin Back, Victor Fung et al.·Jul 17, 2026SaveLearn
On the capacitance gradient description in Heterodyne Kelvin Probe Force MicroscopyKelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM) probes local surface-potential variations through the electrostatic force between a conductive tip and a surface, which depends on the potential difference and…Hugo Valloire, Sylvain Clair, Christian Loppacher et al.·Jul 17, 2026SaveLearn
Inverse heterodyne effect in bimodal Kelvin probe force microscopyHeterodyne Kelvin probe force microscopy (He-KPFM) enables high-sensitivity electrostatic measurements by converting a bias-modulated interaction into a resonant response at a higher cantilever…Hugo Valloire, Sylvain Clair, Christian Loppacher et al.·Jul 17, 2026SaveLearn
Harnessing electrostatics through temperature modulations to control ferroelectricsTemperature modulations provide an alternative method for dynamically controlling the ferroelectric state. In this paper, we use scale-independent Landau potentials and predictive atomistic…Cameron A. M. Scott, Xabier Diaz de Cerio, Jorge Íñiguez-González·Jul 17, 2026SaveLearn
Large spin splitting at ferromagnetic surfaces of bulk antiferromagnetsWe use density functional theory and model Hamiltonians to reveal large spin splitting of bands localized at ferromagnetic surfaces of bulk antiferromagnets (AFMs). There is great interest in…William A. Schaarman, Sophie F. Weber·Jul 17, 2026SaveLearn
Surface-Sensitive Mapping of Anisotropic Phonon Cascades in Td-WTe2Understanding how energy flows from photoexcited carriers into the lattice is essential for describing nonequilibrium phenomena in low-symmetry quantum materials. Here, we use ultrafast low-energy…Alp Akbiyik, Felix Kurtz, Nandana Veena Uday et al.·Jul 17, 2026SaveLearn
Hydrogen-induced lattice cohesion weakening favors atomic displacementAtomic displacement -- the fundamental process underlying diverse deformation and damage phenomena in metals, from irradiation defect production to stress-driven dislocation motion -- is governed by…Liang Gao, Yiran Mao, Markus Wilde et al.·Jul 17, 2026SaveLearn
Fracture energy of 6H-SiC at the microscale: effects of testing geometry and notch preparationMicromechanical testing enables small-scale fracture energy measurements, but values depend strongly on geometry and specimen preparation. Here, the fracture energy of the single-crystal 6H-SiC…Zhuoqi Lucas Li, Siyang Wang, Ao Li et al.·Jul 17, 2026SaveLearn
High temperature Jahn-Teller distortion and short-range order in CsCuCl3CsCuCl3, chiral and Jahn-Teller distorted at room temperature, takes a more symmetric structure above 423 K. Describing this 'simpler' high temperature structure is far from simple and has…Emma A. Pappas, Toby Woods, Jue Liu et al.·Jul 17, 2026SaveLearn
Self-consistent evaluation of the Berry connection for Wannier functionsThe Berry connection is a gauge-dependent quantity frequently used to describe the optical response of solids. Its evaluation requires a k-derivative with respect to the cell periodic-part of the…Martin Thümmler, Thomas Lettau, Alexander Croy et al.·Jul 17, 2026SaveLearn
Chirality Cannot Be Ferroic in Enantiomorphic Space-GroupsWith growing interest in structural chirality in periodic solids, it has been suggested that chirality might constitute a new ferroic order parameter. In this work, we demonstrate, by means of a…F. Gómez-Ortiz, S. Mamoudou Taganga, E. E. McCabe et al.·Jul 17, 2026SaveLearn
Machine Learning for Electrode Materials: Property Prediction via CompositionIn this work, we benchmark three leading composition based Machine Learning (ML) frameworks, MODNet, CrabNet, and a random forest model based on Magpie features, predicting the properties of battery…Hao Wu, Cameron Hargreaves, Arpit Mishra et al.·Jul 17, 2026SaveLearn
Spectra-Scope : A toolkit for automated and interpretable characterization of material properties from spectral dataSpectroscopy is a central pillar of materials characterization, providing useful information on properties like structure, composition, or excited state dynamics of a system. However, many…Amalya C. Johnson, Chris Fajardo, Leena Sansguiri et al.·Jul 17, 2026SaveLearn
Inelastic Constitutive Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks: A generalized framework for automated discovery of interpretable inelastic material modelsA key problem of solid mechanics is the identification of the constitutive law of a material, that is, the relation between strain history and stress. Machine learning has lead to considerable…Chenyi Ji, Kian P. Abdolazizi, Hagen Holthusen et al.·Jul 17, 2026SaveLearn
exa-PD: A scalable high-performance workflow for multi-element phase diagram constructionExa-PD is a highly parallelizable workflow designed for the construction of multi-element phase diagrams (PDs). It uses standard sampling techniques, molecular dynamics (MD) and Monte Carlo (MC) as…Zhuo Ye, Feng Zhang, Maxim Moraru et al.·Jul 16, 2026SaveLearn