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Microstructure - Electrochemical Surface Reactivity Relationship of Electrochemically Grown Manganese Oxides Films

This Thesis provides a comprehensive and correlative investigation of the microstructure, chemical state, and electrochemical reactivity of manganese oxide (MnOx) films, aiming to gain a deeper understanding of the deposition and dissolution mechanism of M ...

EPFL2024

Colloidal Atomic Layer Deposition on Nanocrystals Using Ligand-Modified Precursors

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Petru Pasquale Albertini, Ona Segura Lecina, Coline Marie Agathe Boulanger, Philippe Benjamin Green, Mark Adrian Newton, Krishna Kumar, Jari Leemans

Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a method to grow thin metal oxide layers on a variety of materials for applications spanning from electronics to catalysis. Extending ALD to colloidally stable nanocrystals promises to combine the benefits of thin metal oxi ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

A low-temperature prismatic slip instability in Mg understood using machine learning potentials

William Curtin, Xin Liu, Binglun Yin, Tao Liu

Prismatic slip in magnesium at temperatures T

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

The influence of lattice misfit on screw and edge dislocation-controlled solid solution strengthening in Mo-Ti alloys

William Curtin, Carolina Baruffi, You Rao

Mo-Ti alloys form solid solutions over a wide range of compositions, with lattice misfit parameters increasing significantly with titanium content. This indicates a strong increase in the critical stress for edge dislocation motion. Here, we probe the tran ...

SPRINGERNATURE2023

Lattice Green's function method for Atomistic/Continuum coupling

Ankit Gupta

Metal plasticity is an inherently multiscale phenomenon due to the complex long-range field of atomistic dislocations that are the primary mechanism for plastic deformation in metals. Atomistic/Continuum (A/C) coupling methods are computationally efficient ...

EPFL2023

Understanding and mitigating resistive losses in fired passivating contacts: role of the interfaces and optimization of the thermal budget

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Franz-Josef Haug, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Julien Hurni, Ezgi Genç, Sofia Libraro, Audrey Marie Isabelle Morisset

This work presents a study of p-type passivating contacts based on SiCx formed via a rapid thermal processing (RTP) step, using conditions compatible with the firing used to sinter screen-printed metallization pastes in industry. The contributions of the t ...

Elsevier2023

Understanding the growth mechanism of BaZrS3 chalcogenide perovskite thin films from sulfurized oxide precursors

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Elias Zsolt Stutz, Andrea Giunto, Santhanu Panikar Ramanandan, Iléane Tiphaine Françoise Marie Lefevre, Mirjana Dimitrievska

Barium zirconium sulfide (BaZrS3) is an earth-abundant and environmentally friendly chalcogenide perovskite with promising properties for various energy conversion applications. Recently, sulfurization of oxide precursors has been suggested as a viable sol ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Strengthening mechanisms in dilute and random solid solution high-entropy BCC alloys

Alireza Ghafarollahi

Tuning the mechanical properties of metals, including strength, through adjusting the type and/or concentration of added solute elements, has been recognized as an effective way to design and produce materials with desired or optimized mechanical propertie ...

EPFL2022

Molecular insights into the electrical double layer of colloidal oxide particles obtained through second harmonic scattering

Marie Bischoff

Photocatalytic applications play an essential role in the search for alternative energy sources and environmental decontamination techniques. It is of fundamental interest to understand on a molecular level the aqueous solid/liquid interface, where photoca ...

EPFL2022

Modulating the Reactivity of Liquid Ga Nanoparticle Inks by Modifying Their Surface Chemistry

Raffaella Buonsanti, Laia Castilla Amorós, James Richard Pankhurst, Tzu-Chin Chang Chien

Micro- and nanosized particles of liquid metals, particularly Ga-based alloys, are attracting increasing attention for applications in several fields. The surface functionalization of Ga-based nanoparticles (NPs) with organic ligands renders easily process ...

2022

Atomic doping & coating for Electrocatalysis & Li-ion batteries

Albert Claude Jean-Pierre Daubry

Molybdenum atomic-doping on bio-waste derived nitrogen-doped conductive carbon electrocatalyst was synthesized and investigated for the dinitrogen reduction to ammonia in alkaline media. The assessment of the catalytic activity was found to be non-trivial ...

EPFL2022

The thermally activated deformation behaviour of single-crystalline microcast aluminium wires

Andreas Mortensen, Léa Deillon, Suzanne Godelieve Alphonsine Verheyden

A microcasting process is used to produce high aspect ratio ( > 30) monocrystalline pure aluminium wires with a diameter between 14 and 115 mu m. The role of thermal activation in the plastic deformation of these microwires is measured by means of (single) ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Theory of kink migration in dilute BCC alloys

William Curtin, Alireza Ghafarollahi

Plastic deformation in elemental BCC metals and dilute alloys is controlled by the slower of the kink pair nucleation and kink migration processes along screw dislocations. In alloys nucleation is facilitated and migration inhibited, leading to a concentra ...

2021

High energy barriers for edge dislocation motion in body-centered cubic high entropy alloys

William Curtin, Francesco Maresca, Alireza Ghafarollahi, Recep Ekin Kubilay

Recent theory proposes that edge dislocations in random body-centered cubic (BCC) high entropy alloys have high barriers for motion, conveying high strengths up to high temperatures. Here, the energy barriers for edge motion are computed for two model allo ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Influence of Joule Effect Heating on Recrystallization Phenomena in Inconel 718

Mathijs Pieter van der Meer, Roland Logé

In this article, the Joule effect heating influence on recrystallization phenomena in the Inconel 718 nickel-based superalloy is investigated in details. On the one hand, static recrystallization kinetic studies at 1020 degrees C after cold deformation up ...

SPRINGER2021

Nanoscale Study of the Hole-Selective Passivating Contacts with High Thermal Budget Using C-AFM Tomography

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Franz-Josef Haug, Gizem Nogay, Martin Ledinsky, Philipp Friedrich Hermann Löper

We investigate hole-selective passivating contacts that consist of an interfacial layer of silicon oxide (SiOx) and a layer of boron-doped SiCx(p). The fabrication process of these contacts involves an annealing step at temperatures above 750 degrees C whi ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Theory of twin strengthening in fcc high entropy alloys

William Curtin, Recep Ekin Kubilay

Twinning in fcc High Entropy Alloys (HEAs) has been implicated as a possible mechanism for hardening that enables enhanced ductility. Here, a theory for the twinning stress is developed analogous to recent theories for yield stress. Specifically, the stres ...

2021

Theory of double-kink nucleation in dilute BCC alloys

William Curtin, Alireza Ghafarollahi

Yielding in pure BCC metals and dilute substitutional alloys occurs by double-kink nucleation and propagation along screw dislocations. At low temperatures, the yield stress is controlled by double-kink nucleation. Here, an analytical statistical model is ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Theory of screw dislocation strengthening in random BCC alloys from dilute to "High-Entropy" alloys

William Curtin, Francesco Maresca

Random body-centered-cubic (BCC) "High Entropy" alloys are a new class of alloys, some having high strength and good ductility at room temperature and some having exceptional high-temperature strength. There are no theories of strengthening of screw disloc ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Analysis of double cross-slip of pyramidal I < c plus a > screw dislocations and implications for ductility in Mg alloys

William Curtin, Zhaoxuan Wu, Rasool Ahmad

Solute accelerated cross-slip of pyramidal < c + a > screw dislocations has recently been recognized as a crucial mechanism in enhancing the ductility of solid-solution Mg alloys. In pure Mg, cross-slip is ineffective owing to the energy difference between ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020