JS Park, A Walsh - Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Solar cells are semiconductor devices that generate electricity through charge generation upon illumination. For optimal device efficiency, the photogenerated carriers must reach the …
According to recent experimental research, vanadium-carbide precipitates can improve hydrogen resistance and hardness in steels. In the present article, density functional theory …
Grain boundary (GB) segregation of Al in ZnO plays an important role in lowering its thermal conductivity for thermoelectric applications. However, the effect of Al concentration on the …
H Chen, Y Jiao, Y Liu - Materials Science and Engineering: A, 2015 - Elsevier
A novel nonlocal lattice particle framework is proposed to investigate the microstructural effects, such as the crystallographic orientation distribution and grain boundary properties …
While computational methods for the study of point defects in materials have received significant attention, methods for the investigation of grain boundaries require further …
PE L'vov, VV Svetukhin - Physics of the Solid State, 2017 - Springer
Based on the free-energy density functional method (the Cahn–Hilliard equation), a phenomenological model that describes the influence of grain boundaries on the distribution …
J Zhang, A Koneru… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Defects such as grain boundaries (GBs) are almost inevitable during the synthesis process of 2D materials. To take advantage of the fascinating properties of 2D materials …
Grain boundary energy influences multiple properties like grain-growth, complexion- transition, intergranular corrosion, etc. In atomistic simulations, a straightforward method of …
Grain boundaries (GBs) in two-dimensional (2D) materials often have a profound impact on various material properties from mechanical to optical to electronic, yet predicting all …