Related papers: Capturing short-range order in high-entropy alloys…
Organic semiconductors are promising materials for cheap, scalable and sustainable electronics, light-emitting diodes and photovoltaics. For organic photovoltaic cells, it is a challenge to find compounds with suitable properties in the…
Developing data-driven machine-learning interatomic potentials for materials containing many elements becomes increasingly challenging due to the vast configuration space that must be sampled by the training data. We study the learning…
Multi-principal element alloys open large composition spaces for alloy development. The large compositional space necessitates rapid synthesis and characterization to identify promising materials, as well as predictive strategies for alloy…
Interatomic potentials are key to uncovering microscopic structure-property relationships, essential for multiscale simulations and high-throughput experiments. For metallic glasses, their disordered atomic structure makes the development…
Modeling inorganic glasses requires an accurate representation of interatomic interactions, large system sizes to allow for intermediate-range structural order, and slow quenching rates to eliminate kinetically trapped structural motifs.…
Using an all-electron, first principles, Landau-type theory, we study the nature of short-range order and compositional phase stability in equiatomic refractory high entropy alloys, NbMoTa, NbMoTaW, and VNbMoTaW. We also investigate…
The tools and technology that are currently used to analyze chemical compound structures that identify polymer types in microplastics are not well-calibrated for environmentally weathered microplastics. Microplastics that have been degraded…
The prediction of phase diagrams in the search for new phases is a complex and computationally intensive task. Density functional theory provides, in many situations, the desired accuracy, but its throughput becomes prohibitively limited as…
The design of high-entropy alloys (HEA) with desired properties is challenging due to their large compositional space. While various machine learning (ML) models can predict specific HEA solid-solution phases (SS), predicting high-entropy…
In recent years, significant progress has been made in the development of machine learning potentials (MLPs) for atomistic simulations with applications in many fields from chemistry to materials science. While most current MLPs are based…
The design of new High Entropy Alloys that can achieve exceptional mechanical properties is presently of great interest to the materials science community. However, due to the difficulty of designing these alloys using traditional methods,…
Multi-principal-element alloys, including high-entropy alloys, experience segregation or partially-ordering as they are cooled to lower temperatures. For Ti$_{0.25}$CrFeNiAl$_{x}$, experiments suggest a partially-ordered B2 phase, whereas…
The presence, nature, and impact of chemical short-range order in the multi-principal element alloy CrCoNi are all topics of current interest and debate. First-principles calculations reveal that its origins are fundamentally magnetic,…
The crystal structure of the MAPbI$_3$ hybrid perovskite forms an intricate electrostatic puzzle with different ordering patterns of the MA molecules at elevated temperatures. For this perovskite three published model Hamiltonians based on…
Atom probe tomography (APT) is ideally suited to characterize and understand the interplay of chemical segregation and microstructure in modern multicomponent materials. Yet, the quantitative analysis typically relies on human expertise to…
Local chemical order (LCO) is a key descriptor linking composition, atomic arrangement, and function in high-entropy alloys (HEAs), yet remains difficult to quantify. This Perspective highlights how X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS)…
Machine-learning of atomic-scale properties amounts to extracting correlations between structure, composition and the quantity that one wants to predict. Representing the input structure in a way that best reflects such correlations makes…
High-entropy materials shift the traditional materials discovery paradigm to one that leverages disorder, enabling access to unique chemistries unreachable through enthalpy alone. We present a self-consistent approach integrating…
Reduced order models are computationally inexpensive approximations that capture the important dynamical characteristics of large, high-fidelity computer models of physical systems. This paper applies machine learning techniques to improve…
A central problem in multicomponent lattice systems is to systematically quantify multi-point ordering. Ordering in such systems is often described in terms of pairs, even though this is not sufficient when three-point and higher-order…