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A Metal-Organic Framework with Optimized Porosity and Functional Sites for High Gravimetric and Volumetric Methane Storage Working Capacities

April 24, 2018
Author(s)
Hui-Min Wen, Bin Li, Libo Li, Rui-Biao Lin, Wei Zhou, Guodong Qian, Banglin Chen
Extensive research has been devoted to develop new porous materials for high methane storage capacity. While great progress has been made in recent years, it still remains very challenging to target simultaneously high gravimetric and volumetric methane

Screened Moments and Extrinsic In-Gap States in Samarium Hexaboride

April 18, 2018
Author(s)
W. T. Fuhrman, J. R. Chamorro, P. A. Alekseev, J.-M. Mignot, T. Keller, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, Yiming Qiu, P. Nikolic, T. M. McQueen, Collin L. Broholm
The Kondo impurity effect in metals is the result of quantum-mechanical scattering of conduction electrons by magnetic impurities. 1 This process leads to exotic effects such as unconventional superconductivity and an effective electron mass enhanced by 2

Journal of Applied Crystallography: The First 50 Years and Beyond

April 1, 2018
Author(s)
Andrew J. Allen, Janos Hajdu, Garry J. McIntyre
The first issue of the Journal of Applied Crystallography appeared in April 1968. So, with this issue we celebrate its 50th birthday! We should start by expressing our appreciation for all the readers, authors, reviewers, editors and technical staff who

Glassy Phases in Organic Semiconductors

March 17, 2018
Author(s)
Chad R. Snyder, Dean M. DeLongchamp
Organic semiconductors may be processed from fluids using graphical arts printing and patterning techniques to create complex circuitry. Because organic semiconductors are weak van der Waals solids, the creation of glassy phases during processing is quite

Zero-field current switching of magnetic domains via chiral domain walls

March 16, 2018
Author(s)
Yufan Li, Qinli Ma, Daniel Gopman, Yury Kabanov, Robert D. Shull, C Chien
In ferromagnetic (FM) materials, the inherent exchange interaction, magnetic anisotropy, & dipolar forces dictate the domain walls (DWs), Bloch or N´eel, that separate magnetic moments. However, in FM thin films in contact with heavy metal (HM) with strong

Pre-Viking Swedish Hillfort Glass: A Novel Long-Term Alteration Analogue for Vitrified 6 Nuclear Waste

March 1, 2018
Author(s)
Jamie L. Weaver, Carolyn Pearce, Rolf Sjoblom, John McCloy, Micah Miller, Tamas Varga, Bruce Arey, Michele Conroy, David Peeler, Robert Koestler, Paula DePriest, Edward Vicenzi, Albert Kruger
Examining ancient anthropogenic glasses altered in natural environments over hundreds of years can inform and verify models for predicting long-term rates of glass corrosion. Understanding corrosion mechanisms is critical for modeling the performance of

Depth Dependant Element Analysis of PbMg 1/3 Nb 2/3 O 3 using Muonic X-rays

February 28, 2018
Author(s)
Katherine L Brown, Chris PJ Stockdale, Haosu Luo, X Zhao, Jiefang Li, Dwight Viehland, Guangyong Xu, Peter M. Gehring, K Ishida, A. D. Hillier, C. Stock
The relaxor PbMg 1.3Nb 2/3O 3 (PMN) has received attention due to its potential applications as a piezoelectric when doped with PbTiO3 (PT). Previous results have found that there are two phases existing in the system, one linked to the near-surface

Weak and Strong Gels and the Emergence of the Amorphous Solid State

February 23, 2018
Author(s)
Jack F. Douglas
Gels are amorphous solids whose macroscopic viscoelastic response derives from contraints in the material that serve to localize the constituent molecules or particles about their average positions in space. These contraints may either be local in nature

A Non-Invasive Method to Directly Quantify Surface Heterogeneity of Porous Materials

February 22, 2018
Author(s)
Wei-Shan NMN Chiang, Daniel Georgi, Taner Yildirim, Jin-hong Chen, Yun Liu
Many porous materials have widely differing pore surface properties because the matrix materials forming the pores are heterogeneous at microscopic levels resulting in different adsorption/desorption behaviors and storage capacity of guest molecules in

Topological Rigidification of Flexible Polymers in Solution

February 22, 2018
Author(s)
Jack F. Douglas, Fernando Vargas-Lara
We use molecular dynamic simulations on a coarse-grained model for flexible polymers in solution to study how molecular topology affects the intrinsic rigidity of polymeric chains. In particular, we study how polymeric "topological complexity", defined by

What Does the Tg of Thin Polymer Films Really Tell Us?

February 22, 2018
Author(s)
Wengang Zhang, Francis W. Starr, Jack F. Douglas
The disparate results for Tg shifts in ultra-thin polymer films with the same film thickness, substrate, and chemistry raises the question of whether Tg is a useful way to characterize thin films. Underlying many Tg measurements is the assumption that Tg

Spin Canting Across Core/Shell Fe 3 O 4 /Mn x Fe 3-x O 4 Nanoparticles

February 21, 2018
Author(s)
Samuel D. Oberdick, Ahmed Abdelgawad, Carlos Moya, Samaneh Mesbahi-Vasey, Demie Kepaptsoglou, Vlado K. Lazarov, Richard F. L. Evans, Daniel Meilak, Elizabeth Skoropata, Johan van Lierop, Ian Hunt-Isaak, Hillary Pan, Yumi Ijiri, Kathryn L. Krycka, Julie Borchers, Sara A. Majetich
Core/shell Fe 3dO 4/Mn xFe 3-xO 4 nanoparticles were synthesized in a single reaction using molecular precursors with different thermal stability. Scanning transmission electron microscopy combined with electron energy loss spectroscopy confirms the core

Synchrotron Methods for Flexible Hybrid Electronics Industrial Recommendations on Interagency (DoC-DoD-DoE) Partnerships to Address Measurement Challenges Hindering the Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Ecosystem

February 12, 2018
Author(s)
Christopher L. Soles, Richard A. Vaia, Ronald Pindak
The round-table participants concluded that facilities at NSLS-II provide immediate opportunities to address some of the critical processing and measurement challenges that are blocking the path towards a sustainable US-centric Flexible Hybrid Electronic

Valence, loop formation and universality in self-assembling patchy particles

February 7, 2018
Author(s)
Debra J. Audus, Francis W. Starr, Jack F. Douglas
Patchy particles have emerged as an attractive model for phase separation and self-assembly in globular proteins solutions, colloidal patchy particles, and molecular fluids where directional interactions are operative. In our previous work, we extensively
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