Publications associées à Microscopic origin of concentration fluctuations over intermediate range distances in network-forming disordered systems

Anomalous Hall effect and magnetic structure of the topological semimetal (Mn0.78Fe0.22)3Ge

Me3+8Ge, being a Weyl semimetal, shows a large anomalous Hall effect (AHE), which decreases slowly with an increase in 8 from 0.1 to 0.4. However, AHE in this compound remains significantly large in the whole range of 8 because of the robust nature of the ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Scalable Room-Temperature Synthesis of a Hydrogen-Sieving Zeolitic Membrane on a Polymeric Support

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Jian Hao, Xuekui Duan

Thescalable synthesis of high-temperature H-2-sieving membranesfor energy-efficient carbon capture can potentiallyenable the implementation of precombustion carbon capture at a rapidpace. ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Atomic-level structure determination of amorphous molecular solids by NMR

Manuel Cordova, Arthur César Pinon, David Lyndon Emsley, Pinelopi Moutzouri

Structure determination of amorphous materials remains challenging, owing to the disorder inherent to these materials. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) powder crystallography is a powerful method to determine the structure of molecular solids, but disorder ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Molecular simulation on two-dimensional nanoporous material for energy-efficient separation

Mohammad Tohidivahdat

The energy-consumption by the chemical and petrochemical industry in the European Union (EU) accounts for about quarter of its energy footprint. Approximately half of this energy goes toward chemical separation, currently dominated by thermally-driven pro ...

EPFL2023

New methods for structure determination and speciation by NMR crystallography

Martins Balodis

NMR crystallography has been around for half a century, but with the advent of NMR crystal structure determination protocols in the last decade it has shown perspectives that were not seen before. Amalgamation of NMR and crystal structure determination has ...

EPFL2022

Low-energy Electron Holography Microscope for Imaging of Single Molecules

Sven Alexander Szilagyi

Structure determination techniques are an essential tool to investigate and understand molecules, especially in biology, where functionality crucially depends on structure. The dominant high-resolution methods, such as transmission electron microscopy and ...

EPFL2022

Quantifying the Solution Structure of Metal Nanoclusters Using Small-Angle Neutron Scattering

Francesco Stellacci, Stefan Guldin, Zhi Luo, Ye Yang, Huayan Yang

Metal nanoclusters are a unique class of synthetic material, as their crystal structures can be resolved using X-ray diffraction, and their chemical formula can be precisely determinated from mass spectroscopy. However, a complete structure characterizatio ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2022

Crystallization kinetics of atomic crystals revealed by a single-shot and single-particle X-ray diffraction experiment

Giorgio Rossi, Christoph Bostedt, Alessandro Colombo

Crystallization is a fundamental natural phenomenon and the ubiquitous physical process in materials science for the design of new materials. So far, experimental observations of the structural dynamics in crystallization have been mostly restricted to slo ...

National Academy of Sciences2021

Photo- and thermally-induced electronic and structural dynamics in perovskites and transition metal oxides

Oliviero Cannelli

In this thesis, we exploited optical and X-ray pump-probe methods in a synergistic approach to study the interplay of the electronic, spin and structural degrees of freedom in two class of complex systems relevant for solar energy conversion applications: ...

EPFL2021

Cubic, hexagonal and tetragonal FeGex phases (x = 1, 1.5, 2): Raman spectroscopy and magnetic properties

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Dirk Grundler, Nicolas Tappy, Santhanu Panikar Ramanandan, Anna Kúkol'ová, Mirjana Dimitrievska

There is currently an emerging drive towards computational materials design and fabrication of predicted novel materials. One of the keys to developing appropriate fabrication methods is determination of the composition and phase. Here we explore the FeGe ...

2021

Relation between Inner Structural Dynamics and Ion Dynamics of Laser-Heated Nanoparticles

Christoph Bostedt

When a nanoparticle is irradiated by an intense laser pulse, it turns into a nanoplasma, a transition that is accompanied by many interesting nonequilibrium dynamics. So far, most experiments on nanoplasmas use ion measurements, reflecting the outside dyna ...

American Physical Society2021

Static and dynamic properties of non-collinear quantum antiferromagnets explored by neutron scattering

Luc Testa

This thesis is devoted to the investigation of static and dynamic properties of two different sets of quantum magnets with neutron scattering techniques and the help of linear spin wave theory. Both systems are copper-based with spin-1/2, which makes them ...

EPFL2021

Microstructural Evolution Study of Fe-Mn-Al-C Steels Through Variable Thermomechanical Treatments

Roland Logé, Oscar Zambrano Zambrano

The microstructural evolution of the two austenitic alloys Fe-20Mn-3Al-0.7C wt pct and Fe-20Mn-6Al-0.7C wt pct when different thermal and thermomechanical treatments are performed has been studied. To this end, a generic industrial die of 100 ton capacity ...

SPRINGER2021

Chalcogenide glasses for innovation in applied science: fundamental issues and new insights

Carlo Massobrio, Assil Bouzid

We provide an overview of what has been accomplished by our team, since 1998, in the area of first-principles molecular dynamics (FPMD) modeling of glassy chalcogenides, a prototypical family of network-forming disordered materials. After a broad introduct ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2020

Long-range magnetic ordering in Li2MnGeO4 and precursor short-range spin correlations

Irina Safiulina, Artem Korshunov

Long-range magnetic ordering and short-range spin correlations in layered noncentrosymmetric orthogermanate Li2MnGeO4 were studied by means of polarized and unpolarized neutron scattering. The combined Rietveld refinement of synchrotron and neutron powder ...

2020

Neutron Diffraction and Diffraction Contrast Imaging for Mapping the TRIP Effect under Load Path Change

Helena Van Swygenhoven, Efthymios Polatidis, Markus Strobl

The transformation induced plasticity (TRIP) effect is investigated during a load path change using a cruciform sample. The transformation properties are followed by in-situ neutron diffraction derived from the central area of the cruciform sample. Additio ...

MDPI2020

Structural and Dynamical Properties of Potassium Dodecahydro-monocarba-closo-dodecaborate: KCB11H12

Wei Zhou, Mirjana Dimitrievska

MCB11H12 (M: Li, Na) dodecahydro-monocarba-closo-dodecaborate salt compounds are known to have stellar superionic Li+ and Na+ conductivities in their high-temperature disordered phases, making them potentially appealing electrolytes in all-solid-state batt ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Structural characterization and magnetic properties of chromium jarosite KCr3(OD)(6)(SO4)(2)

Sofie Janas

Potassium chromium jarosite, KCr3(OH)(6)(SO4)(2) (Cr-jarosite), is considered a promising candidate to display spin liquid behavior due to the strong magnetic frustration imposed by the crystal structure. However, the ground state magnetic properties have ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Exploring the role of halide mixing in lead-free BZA(2)SnX(4) two dimensional hybrid perovskites

Valentin Ianis Emmanuel Queloz, Giulia Grancini

The role of halide substitution in a lead-free 2D hybrid perovskite is investigated on the BZA(2)SnX(4) (BZA = benzylammonium; X = Cl, Br and I) system, by reporting the synthesis and the structural analysis by means of single-crystal X-ray diffraction dat ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Refinement for single-nanoparticle structure determination from low-quality single-shot coherent diffraction data

Christophe Nicolas, Christoph Bostedt

With the emergence of X-ray free-electron lasers, it is possible to investigate the structure of nanoscale samples by employing coherent diffractive imaging in the X-ray spectral regime. In this work, we developed a refinement method for structure reconstr ...

INT UNION CRYSTALLOGRAPHY2020