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Equiatomic NiCoCr solid solutions have been recently shown to display exceptional mechanical properties, that have been suggested to be linked to nanostructural short-range order (SRO) features that may arise from thermal treatments, such…
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Recent developments in the percolation theory of passivation have shown that chemical short-range order (SRO) affects the aqueous passivation behavior of alloys. However, there has been no systematic exploration to quantify these SRO…
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We present a generalized method to describe the x-ray scattering intensity of the Bragg spots in a diffraction pattern from nanocrystals exposed to intense x-ray pulses. Our method involves the subdivision of a crystal into smaller units.…
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