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Aperiodicity and un-conventional rotational symmetries allow quasicrystalline structures to exhibit unusual physical and functional properties. In magnetism, artificial ferromagnetic quasicrystals exhibited knee anomalies suggesting reprogrammable magnetic ...

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NMR Crystallography in the Big Data Era: New Methods and Applications Powered by Machine Learning

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Structure determination of materials is key to understanding their physical properties. While single-crystal X-ray diffraction is the gold standard for structures displaying long-range order, many materials of interest are polycrystalline and/or disordered ...

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The subject of the present work is discovery and in-depth characterization of a new class of functional materials. Tuning of the bond polarity and orbital occupation with a goal of establishing balance between localization and delocalization of electrons - ...

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New methods for structure determination and speciation by NMR crystallography

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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 ...

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Concrete cancer : characterization of Alkali Silica Reaction early stage products by electron microscopy

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

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A strong coupling of the lattice to functional properties is observed in many transition metal oxide systems, such as the ABO(3) perovskites. In the quest for tailor-made materials, it is essential to be able to control the structural properties of the com ...

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A Low-Parametric Rhombic Microstructure Family for Irregular Lattices

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Direct Observation of Worm‐Like Nanochannels and Emergent Magnon Motifs in Artificial Ferromagnetic Quasicrystals

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Strain glass transition of cobalt phase in a cemented carbide

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Cemented carbides are hard materials used for the fabrication of cutting tools. They consist of hard micron or sub-micron carbide grains held together in a matrix of a tough metallic binder such as cobalt. The understanding and control of cobalt characteri ...

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While in 3D materials melting is a single, first-order phase transition, in 2D systems, it can also proceed via an intermediate phase. For a skyrmion lattice in Cu2OSeO3, magnetic field variations can tune this quasiparticle 2D solid into a skyrmion liquid ...

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Influence of Minor Cr Additions on Crystal Growth in Rapidly Solidified Al-20Zn Alloys

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

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Variant selection in martensitic steels

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The martensitic phase transformation in steel is one of the most famous solid state transformation because of its contribution in the development of the modern industry. This transformation from a face-centered cubic (FCC) high temperature phase, called th ...

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