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An equimolar NiCoFeCrGa high entropy alloy having dual-phase composition was studied, where the constituent phases exhibit distinct mechanical properties. Micropillars with various diameters were created from two differently heat treated samples, then they ...

2025

Cyclic loading of WC-Ni by FEM with a realistic 3D morphology

Daniele Mari, Lucas Eric Jacques Degeneve

A Finite Element Model produced from a real WC-10wt.%Co sample is used to study the mechanical behavior of cemented carbides in compression tests. The model is obtained by slicing the sample by Focused Ion Beam and reconstructing it. This model is used to ...

2025

Avoiding cracks in multi-material printing by combining laser powder bed fusion with metallic foils: Application to Ti6Al4V-AlSi12 structures

Shruti Banait, Roland Logé, Jamasp Jhabvala, Eric Boillat, Seyed Amirmohammad Jamili

Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) as an additive manufacturing (AM) technology has emerged as a powerful platform for producing multi-material metallic structures. The main drawbacks of using metallic powders for multi-material printing are related to technic ...

2025

The Influence of Micro- and Macrocracks on the Permeability of Granite

Marie Estelle Solange Violay

Damage zones exist around crustal faults, where micro- and macrocracks coexist and form a complex conduit network for fluid flow. The permeability of these zones can change rapidly as the crack network evolves during deformation. To investigate the relativ ...

SPRINGER WIEN2024

Modeling friction and wear using an adaptive discrete-continuum coupling

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When two objects slide against each other, wear and friction occur at their interface. The accumulation of wear forms what is commonly referred to as a ``third-body''. Understanding third-body evolution has significant applications in industry, where contr ...

EPFL2024

Drag reduction of flexible disks through vortex ring manipulation

Mrudhula Baskaran

Extreme weather events are increasing in frequency in recent years due to global climate change. These events damage infrastructure and pose an open challenge to engineers to design more weather-resistant infrastructure. As engineers, we turn to nature fo ...

EPFL2024

Solute-strengthening in metal alloys with short-range order

William Curtin, Shankha Nag

Recent surging interest in strengthening of High Entropy Alloys (HEAs) with possible chemical ordering motivates the development of new theory. Here, an existing theory for random alloys that accounts for solute-dislocation and solute–solute interactions i ...

2024

Effects of beam shaping on copper-steel interfaces in multi-material laser beam powder bed fusion

Seyed Amirmohammad Jamili

Multi-material laser beam powder bed fusion (PBF-LB) is a promising approach to meet industrial demands for multifunctional components, due to its enhanced freedom of design. Copper and stainless steel are interesting materials to be combined due to the hi ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024

Surface segregation in high-entropy alloys from alchemical machine learning

Michele Ceriotti, Sandip De, Guillaume André Jean Fraux, Arslan Mazitov, Nataliya Lopanitsyna

High-entropy alloys (HEAs), containing several metallic elements in near-equimolar proportions, have long been of interest for their unique mechanical properties. More recently, they have emerged as a promising platform for the development of novel heterog ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Painting Taylor vortices with cellulose nanocrystals: Suspension flow supercritical spectral dynamics

Marianne Liebi

We study the flow stability and spatiotemporal spectral dynamics of cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) suspensions in a custom Taylor-Couette flow cell using the intrinsic shear induced birefringence and liquid crystalline properties of CNC suspensions for flow v ...

Aip Publishing2024

Methylammonium Nitrate-Mediated Crystal Growth and Defect Passivation in Lead Halide Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Yeonju Kim

Additive engineering has been a crucial strategy to improve photovoltaic properties by reducing carrier trap centers or increasing carrier diffusion lengths in the lead halide perovskite active layer. We introduced a small amount of CH3NH3 +NO3 - (methylam ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Highly Efficient and Air-Stable Inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells Enabled by Polylactic Acid Modification

Yong Ding

Inorganic perovskite solar cells (PSCs) suffer from serious carrier recombination and open-circuit voltage loss because of surface defects and unfavorable energy level alignment. Herein, a polylactic acid (PLA) modification approach to improve the performa ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

Multifunctional sulfonium-based treatment for perovskite solar cells with less than 1% efficiency loss over 4,500-h operational stability tests

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Bowen Yang, Jiajia Suo, Yeonju Kim

The stabilization of grain boundaries and surfaces of the perovskite layer is critical to extend the durability of perovskite solar cells. Here we introduced a sulfonium-based molecule, dimethylphenethylsulfonium iodide (DMPESI), for the post-deposition tr ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Microstructure et usinabilité d'alliages de titane béta-métastable

Loïc Favre

Titanium has become in recent years an interesting material in many applications that require a combination of high mechanical properties and low density. It has the peculiarity of undergoing an allotropic transformation at 882°C. Below this temperature, ...

EPFL2023

FIB-Fabrication of Resonating Cantilevers to Explore Symmetry-Breaking in Quantum Materials

Amelia Emily-Kay Estry

Scientific progress and technological advancements on novel materials are often deterred by limitations on size and quality of samples. Materials with electronic phenomena attractive for applications, and presenting many open scientific questions, are ofte ...

EPFL2023

Damping of flexure blades based on bi-material additive manufacturing

Simon Nessim Henein, Florent Cosandier, Loïc Benoît Tissot-Daguette, Nikola Kalentics, Florent Alexandre Boudoire, Elias Sebastian Klauser

Flexure-based mechanisms have become state-of-the-art solutions for the design of high-precision mechanisms, free from friction wear, backlash, and lubrication. These properties which are necessary for applications in ultraclean or harsh environments, neve ...

2023

Control of intermetallics in the interface in directed energy deposition of titanium on stainless steel 316L

Di Cui

Application of a single metal or alloy is often restricted by its properties from optimal combination of performance and cost. Therefore, there is a vast need of joining dissimilar metals for various applications in biomedical, aerospace, automobile and ma ...

EPFL2023

Effect of Y2O3 dispersoids on microstructure and creep properties of Hastelloy X processed by laser powder-bed fusion

Christian Leinenbach

Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) was used to consolidate powders of a Ni-Cr-Fe-Mo alloy (Hastelloy X) blended with 1 wt% Y2O3 nanometric powders. The nearly-dense, crack-free specimens, with and without oxide dispersion strengthening (ODS), exhibit high-aspe ...

ELSEVIER2022

Vacancy segregation and intrinsic coordination defects at (111) twist grain boundaries in diamond

Carolina Baruffi

High radiation damage resistance has become increasingly important for applications of functional materials in harsh environments. The high radiation damage resistance diamond cubic carbon is a unique material which is considered for radiation environments ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2023

Three-dimensional in situ imaging of single-grain growth in polycrystalline In2O3:Zr films

Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Monica Morales Masis, Michael Elias Stückelberger

Understanding grain morphology and kinetics of solid-phase crystallization is important for controlling the functional properties of polycrystalline materials. Here, in situ coherent X-ray diffraction imaging and transmission electron microscopy elucidate ...

SPRINGERNATURE2022