Advances on strategies for searching for next generation thermal barrier coating materials

B Liu, Y Liu, C Zhu, H Xiang, H Chen, L Sun… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
Thermal barrier coating (TBC) materials play important roles in gas turbine engines to
protect the Ni-based super-alloys from the high temperature airflow damage. High melting …

Electrochemical ion insertion from the atomic to the device scale

A Sood, AD Poletayev, DA Cogswell… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Electrochemical ion insertion involves coupled ion–electron transfer reactions, transport of
guest species and redox of the host. The hosts are typically anisotropic solids with 2D …

The thermodynamic scale of inorganic crystalline metastability

W Sun, ST Dacek, SP Ong, G Hautier, A Jain… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
The space of metastable materials offers promising new design opportunities for next-
generation technological materials, such as complex oxides, semiconductors …

Thermodynamic limit for synthesis of metastable inorganic materials

M Aykol, SS Dwaraknath, W Sun, KA Persson - Science advances, 2018 - science.org
Realizing the growing number of possible or hypothesized metastable crystalline materials
is extremely challenging. There is no rigorous metric to identify which compounds can or …

The interplay between thermodynamics and kinetics in the solid-state synthesis of layered oxides

M Bianchini, J Wang, RJ Clément, B Ouyang, P Xiao… - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
In the synthesis of inorganic materials, reactions often yield non-equilibrium kinetic
byproducts instead of the thermodynamic equilibrium phase. Understanding the competition …

Metastable hexagonal close-packed palladium hydride in liquid cell TEM

J Hong, JH Bae, H Jo, HY Park, S Lee, SJ Hong… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Metastable phases—kinetically favoured structures—are ubiquitous in nature,. Rather than
forming thermodynamically stable ground-state structures, crystals grown from high-energy …

Topochemical deintercalation of Al from MoAlB: stepwise etching pathway, layered intergrowth structures, and two-dimensional MBene

LT Alameda, P Moradifar, ZP Metzger… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The synthesis of refractory materials usually relies on high-temperature conditions to drive
diffusion-limited solid-state reactions. These reactions result in thermodynamically stable …

Heteroanionic materials by design: progress toward targeted properties

JK Harada, N Charles, KR Poeppelmeier… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The burgeoning field of anion engineering in oxide‐based compounds aims to tune physical
properties by incorporating additional anions of different size, electronegativity, and charge …

Copper Sulfide Nanocrystals with Tunable Composition by Reduction of Covellite Nanocrystals with Cu+ Ions

Y Xie, A Riedinger, M Prato, A Casu… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Platelet-shaped copper sulfide nanocrystals (NCs) with tunable Cu stoichiometry were
prepared from Cu-rich covellite (Cu1. 1S) nanoplates through their reaction with a Cu (I) …

Physical descriptor for the Gibbs energy of inorganic crystalline solids and temperature-dependent materials chemistry

CJ Bartel, SL Millican, AM Deml, JR Rumptz… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The Gibbs energy, G, determines the equilibrium conditions of chemical reactions and
materials stability. Despite this fundamental and ubiquitous role, G has been tabulated for …