Grain boundaries often play a dominant role in determining material properties and processing, which originates from their distinct local structures, chemistry, and properties. Understanding and controlling grain boundary ...

The microstructural evolution during fatigue crack propagation was investigated in a variety of planar and wavy slip FCC metals. The planar materials included Haynes 230, Nitronic 40, and 316 stainless steel, and the wavy ...

Flexible electronics based on inorganic devices has attracted increasing interest in versatile applications, from commercial systems, such as flat panel displays, to new possible systems, such as paperlike display, sensors, ...

The naïve mode coupling theory (NMCT) for ideal kinetic arrest and the nonlinear Langevin equation (NLE) theory of activated single-particle barrier hopping dynamics are generalized to describe coupled center-of-mass (CM) ...

Thermal and accelerated-ion doping, with In and Sb, during Si(001) molecular-beam epitaxy were investigated as a function of growth temperature T$\sb{\rm s}$ (500-1050$\sp\circ$C), dopant energy E$\sb{\rm d}$ (thermal-500 ...

This thesis presents experimental results on thermal conductivity measurements on both irradiated and unirradiated uranium oxides between 90 K and 658 K. The irradiation doses range from 5x10^13 argon ions/cm² to 2x10^16 ...

At T < 20°C, all nanoparticles studied in nearly pure water were found to migrate to the hot regions of the fluid; i.e., DT 50°C, the thermodiffusion coefficients were positive with a value consistent with the ...

The silicide study focuses on phase formation in Au-Si thin films. The unique finding is to determine the melting temperature of metastable phase using calorimetry, which is ∼60°C below the eutectic melting point ...

This thesis presents the experimental study of thermal transport across molecular interfaces. Molecular interfaces are fabricated by assembling Au nanocrystals with controllable surface chemistry onto oxide substrates such ...

Perchlorate-selective ion-exchange fiber composites (IXFCs) based on an active resin-on-fiber architecture exhibit rapid exchange kinetics. Coatings consist of hydrophobic poly(vinylbenzyltrialkylammonium chloride) (PVBTC) ...