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Embedded Ferroelectric Nanoclusters Can Drive Polarization Reversal in a Non‐Ferroelectric Polar Film via the Proximity Effect

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Ferroelectric nanoclusters create local internal fields in a normally non‐switchable polar film because of polarization mismatch at their interfaces. That field opposes polarization in the regions with larger polarization and reinforces polarization in the regions with smaller polarization.
Anna N. Morozovska, Eugene A. Eliseev, Sergei V. Kalinin, Long‐Qing Chen, Dean R. Evans, Venkatraman Gopalan   +5 more
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Impact of Disorder on Microscopic Superconducting and Normal‐State Responses in a Kagome Metal

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Using depth‐resolved, field‐ and pressure‐dependent μSR$\umu{\rm SR}$ measurements, we show that disorder in Ta‐doped KV3Sb5 drives a crossover from nodal to nodeless superconductivity while strongly modifying the normal‐state magnetic response. Our results reveal that disorder affects superconductivity and magnetism in fundamentally different ways ...
J. N. Graham, S. S. Islam, G. Janka, A. Doll, P. Král, O. Gerguri, J. A. Krieger, T. J. Hicken, X. Xu, X. Yan, H. Qin, Z. Salman, A. Suter, T. Prokscha, R. Thomale, H. Luetkens, R. Khasanov, J.‐X. Yin, Z. Guguchia   +18 more
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Nanoscale Spatial Tuning of Superconductivity in Cuprate Thin Films via Direct Laser Writing

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Maskless direct laser writing enables local control of oxygen stoichiometry in epitaxial YBCO thin films under ambient conditions. Sub‐micrometer grayscale patterns with tunable optical response and superconducting transport properties are achieved.
Irene Biancardi, Valerio Levati, Jordi Alcalà, Thomas Günkel, Nicolas Lejeune, Riccardo Girelli, Alejandro V. Silhanek, Valeria Russo, Narcís Mestres, Daniela Petti, Anna Palau, Edoardo Albisetti   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Polarization Sensitivity of Chiral Manganese Halide Scintillators Enables High‐Resolution X‐Ray Imaging

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Highly luminescent chiral manganese halide crystals are synthesized using chiral ligands, and they exhibit dissymmetry factors up to 1.4 × 10−2 and show X‐ray detection scintillation capability with a light yield of 43 380 photons/MeV and a low detection limit of 0.05198 µGyair·s−1.
Yue Han, Jun'an Lai, Peng He, Wenxia Zhang, Xirong Ke, Shengsi Liu, Kang An, Xiao‐Fang Jiang, Lakshminarayana Polavarapu, Xiaosheng Tang   +9 more
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Strong Lead‐Free Bioinspired Piezoceramics for Durable Energy Transducers

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
We fabricated brick‐and‐mortar lead‐free piezoceramics with Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3 monocrystal platelets as bricks and amorphous silica as mortar. The alignment of the bricks and the presence of the amorphous silica led to anisotropic residual stresses. These residual stresses increase the samples toughness, strength and durability while the brick alignment ...
Ruxue Yang, Temesgen Tadeyos Zate, Peiren Wang, Soumyajit Mojumder, Elo Overgaard Mogensen, Oriol Gavalda‐Diaz, Zihe Li, Shitong Zhou, Ajeet Kumar, James Roscow, Hamideh Khanbareh, Astri Bjørnetun Haugen, Florian Bouville   +12 more
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The pinning effect of dilute defects

We consider the Bernoulli free boundary problem with ``defects", inhomogeneities in the coefficients of compact support. When the defects are small and arrayed periodically there exist plane-like solutions with a range of large-scale slopes slightly different from the background field value. This is known as pinning.
Feldman, William M, Kim, Inwon C
openaire   +2 more sources

Bridging Polymer Brushes and Coatings Through Ultra‐Thick Growth by Surface‐Initiated Photoiniferter Polymerization

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Surface‐initiated photoiniferter‐mediated polymerization (SI‐PIMP) enables the controlled growth of UHMW polymer brushes with multi‐micrometer thicknesses, bridging conventional brushes and bulk‐like coatings. UHMW brushes are synthesized through a controlled/living process; they provide low friction and enhanced wear resistance under aqueous ...
Elena Avanzini, Emanuele Grigolon, Lily E. Diodati, Matteo Savio, Megan E. Lott, Kaden C. Stevens, Francesca Lorandi, Brent S. Sumerlin, Edmondo M. Benetti   +8 more
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Cooperative control of mixed vehicle platoon based on pinning consensus of heterogeneous multi‐agent system

IET Intelligent Transport Systems
This paper proposes a longitudinal controller for the mixed vehicle platoon in the presence of driver response time‐delay and communication time‐delay based on the pinning consensus of heterogeneous multi‐agent system.
Wenju Du, Changxi Ma, Jiangang Zhang
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Increasing Inter‐Micellar Connectivity Toughens and Imparts Cooling‐Induced Shape Memory in Micellar Hydrogels

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Oligomerizing Pluronic triblock copolymers provides a processing strategy for tuning the mechanical properties and stimuli‐responsive behaviors of micellar hydrogels. Varying oligomer fraction produces hydrogels spanning brittle to highly extensible responses; maintaining micellar architectures enables cooling‐induced reverse thermal shape memory and ...
Gourav Kumbhojkar, Eric Yang, Arman Moussavi, EunBi Oh, Haeji Kim, Wei Chen, Junsoo Kim, Sinan Keten, Ryan L. Truby   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dislocation-induced ordering as a source of strengthening in refractory multi-principal element alloys

npj Computational Materials
In refractory multi-principal element alloys (RMPEAs), the rapid atomic diffusion occurring near dislocations facilitates local segregation and chemical ordering, leading to the formation of unique atomic environments capable of pinning dislocations on ...
Yuhao Luo, Tianyi Wang, Zhihao Huang, Yanqing Su, Shuozhi Xu, Peter K. Liaw, Xiang-Guo Li   +6 more
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