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Materials Science, Ceramics
Shiqiang Hao, Qi-Jun Hong, Michael C. Gao
Summary: It is found that the self-forming CrTaO4 oxide scale exhibits better oxidation protection for refractory high-entropy alloys compared to Cr2O3. In this study, the phase stability, mechanical properties, and thermal properties of three polymorphous phases of CrTaO4 are investigated using first-principles density functional theory calculations. The results show that all three phases are mechanically stable, but exhibit thermal softening with increasing temperature. The rutile I4(1)md phase shows the highest apparent bulk coefficient of thermal expansion and the lowest lattice thermal conductivity. The melting point of CrTaO4 is predicted to be between 1975 and 2449 K. This work provides a comprehensive theoretical understanding of the properties of CrTaO4 and offers a computational design strategy for improving the oxidation resistance of refractory alloys at high temperatures.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY
(2023)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Alex M. Ganose, Junsoo Park, Alireza Faghaninia, Rachel Woods-Robinson, Kristin A. Persson, Anubhav Jain
Summary: The authors developed a computationally efficient method for calculating carrier scattering rates of semiconductors, which shows similar accuracy to state-of-the-art methods but at a much lower computational cost. This approach enables high-throughput computational workflows for accurate screening of carrier mobilities, lifetimes, and thermoelectric power.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
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Physics, Applied
Francisco De Santiago, Marti Raya-Moreno, Alvaro Miranda, Miguel Cruz-Irisson, Xavier Cartoixa, Riccardo Rurali
Summary: In this study, the thermal conductivity of five representative III-V ternary alloys was calculated using a first-principles approach, beyond the relaxation time approximation. The tunability of thermal conductivity with alloy composition was discussed, along with the validity of approximations considering impurities.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS
(2021)
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Chemistry, Physical
Un-Gi Jong, Yun-Sim Kim, Chol-Hyok Ri, Yun-Hyok Kye, Chol-Jun Yu
Summary: Based on theoretical calculations, this study predicts the superior thermoelectric performance of the perovskite CsBI3 materials at high temperatures, mainly due to strong anharmonic phonon modes and highly degenerate electronic bands.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
(2021)
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
Zizhen Bao, Honghui Li, Anxi Cui
Summary: The study demonstrates that the lattice thermal properties of CeO2 vary significantly with increasing pressure, with acoustic and optical modes separating, causing a visible bandgap. The lattice thermal conductivity is mainly contributed by low-frequency phonons, and an increase in pressure reduces the three-phonon scattering rate of CeO2, affecting the lattice thermal conductivity.
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Chemistry, Physical
Tianyu Wang, Chun Zhang, Jia-Yue Yang, Linhua Liu
Summary: This study manipulated the lattice structure of GeTe through first-principles calculations, finding that reciprocal displacement, lattice parameters, and interaxial angles can directly influence its electronic band structure and thermoelectric properties.
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
(2021)
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Chemistry, Physical
Mauro Fava, Nakib Haider Protik, Chunhua Li, Navaneetha Krishnan Ravichandran, Jesus Carrete, Ambroise van Roekeghem, Georg K. H. Madsen, Natalio Mingo, David Broido
Summary: Using first principles calculations, researchers investigated the impact of doping on the high thermal conductivity of BAs, finding that neutral impurities scatter phonons more strongly than charged impurities, providing important guidance on the design of doping in BAs.
NPJ COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS
(2021)
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Rene Contreras, Diego Celentano, Tengfei Luo, Zeyu Liu, J. O. Morales-Ferreiro
Summary: In this study, the in-plane thermal transport property of 2D NbSe2 was investigated using first principles calculation. The results showed that the thermal conductivity of NbSe2 at room temperature is 12.3 W/mK. Transverse acoustic phonons were found to dominate the lattice thermal transport, and electron contribution to the total thermal conductivity was observed to be anomalously small in this metallic phase. The results were consistent with experimental measurements and provided detailed information on thermal conductivity contribution from different phonon modes. This study is important for integrating NbSe2 in nanodevices where both electrical and thermal properties are critical, demonstrating its great potential for thermoelectric devices.
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Physics, Applied
Yongchao Rao, C. Y. Zhao, Shenghong Ju
Summary: In this study, the thermal and electrical transport properties of diamond-cubic and metastable R8 phases of Si are comparatively studied. The results show that the metastable Si has lower lattice thermal conductivity and excellent electrical conductivity, leading to higher thermoelectric performance in n-type doping.
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Bingke Li, Chenghua Zhang, Zhehao Sun, Tao Han, Xiang Zhang, Jia Du, Jiexue Wang, Xiuchan Xiao, Ning Wang
Summary: This study uses first-principles calculations to investigate the thermoelectric properties of Tl3XSe4. The results show that Tl3XSe4 exhibits excellent thermoelectric performance, making it a potential high-performance thermoelectric material.
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
(2022)
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Materials Science, Ceramics
Yue Zhou, William G. Fahrenholtz, Joseph Graham, Gregory E. Hilmas
Summary: This study investigates the lattice thermal conductivities and thermodynamic properties of Zr2C and Zr2CO through first-principles calculations. The results show that filling oxygen in the lattice enhances the mechanical properties of Zr2C and reduces its lattice thermal conductivity, while Zr2CO exhibits higher heat capacity and thermal expansion coefficient.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY
(2022)
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Chemistry, Physical
Xin Liu, Dingbo Zhang, Hui Wang, Yuanzheng Chen, Hongyan Wang, Yuxiang Ni
Summary: The CaAs3 monolayer exhibits low lattice thermal conductivity, high Seebeck coefficient, and electrical conductivity, making it a promising candidate for applications in the thermoelectric field. Compared with conventional 2D thermoelectric materials, it does not contain expensive heavy elements, which is advantageous for practical applications as a thermoelectric material.
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
(2021)
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Materials Science, Ceramics
Yiming Li, Xuanyu Meng, Qian Chen, Jiatong Zhu, Jie Xu, Michael J. Reece, Feng Gao
Summary: By combining theoretical calculations and experiments, it was found that LaSmZr2O7 exhibits good mechanical and thermal properties, with the highest hardness achieved at a Sm3+ doping rate of 50%. This material can serve as a potential option for thermal barrier coating applications.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Xin Liu, Dingbo Zhang, Yuanzheng Chen, Hui Wang, Hongyan Wang, Yuxiang Ni
Summary: TE materials like alpha-XP monolayers show promising thermoelectric properties, with alpha-BiP exhibiting better performance due to lower lattice thermal conductivity and higher ZT values. The study suggests that alpha-XP is a potential candidate for building high-performance thermoelectric devices.
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
(2021)
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
Terumasa Tadano, Wissam A. Saidi
Summary: Understanding and predicting lattice dynamics in strongly anharmonic crystals is a longstanding challenge in condensed matter physics. In this study, a first-principles method is proposed to accurately predict the phonon spectrum with strong anharmonic broadening. The proposed method incorporates frequency renormalization effects by the bubble self-energy within the quasiparticle approximation. The results show that this method can accurately predict the phase transition temperature and phonon linewidth in anharmonic crystals.
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Manuele Faccenda, Ana M. G. Ferreira, Nicola Tisato, Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni, Lars Stixrude, Giorgio Pennacchioni
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH
(2019)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
James Braithwaite, Lars Stixrude
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2019)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Aaron R. Finney, Sebastien Lectez, Colin L. Freeman, John H. Harding, Stephen Stackhouse
CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
(2019)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
A. L. Edgington, L. Vocadlo, L. Stixrude, I. G. Wood, D. P. Dobson, E. Holmstrom
EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS
(2019)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Lars Stixrude, Roberto Scipioni, Michael P. Desjarlais
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2020)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Federico Grasselli, Lars Stixrude, Stefano Baroni
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2020)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Jie Deng, Lars Stixrude
Summary: The study combined the Green-Kubo method with machine learning potential to determine the thermal conductivity of a silicate liquid and found that it increases with compression and remains nearly constant on isochoric heating. The pressure dependence is due to the increasing bulk modulus on compression, while the weak temperature dependence is due to the saturation of the phonon mean free path caused by structural disorder.
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Lars Stixrude, Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni
Summary: Exact expressions for thermal expansivity, heat capacity, and bulk modulus were derived, applicable to assemblies with arbitrary numbers of components and phases. Results were illustrated in specific systems and models, revealing the importance of phase buoyancy parameter in the mantle.
GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
(2022)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Juliane Dannberg, Rene Gassmoller, Ranpeng Li, Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni, Lars Stixrude
Summary: Phase transitions play a crucial role in mantle convection, affecting the style and evolution of the mantle. Developing new numerical methods can more accurately model the influence of phase transitions on mantle convection, with the thickness of the phase transitions having a significant impact on the style of convection.
GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
James Braithwaite, Lars Stixrude
Summary: The density contrast between crystals and coexisting liquids is important in the study of magma ocean evolution. This study used molecular dynamics simulations and spin-polarized density functional theory to investigate the behavior of iron in liquid and crystalline (Mg,Fe)O. The results showed that iron is strongly incompatible with a distribution coefficient less than 0.3 over the mantle pressure range.
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Vernon F. Cormier, Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni, Lars Stixrude, Yingcai Zheng
Summary: Stochastic tomography is a technique that uses dense deployments of seismic sensors to identify phase changes in Earth's mantle over depth intervals. By inverting spatial coherences of amplitudes and travel times of body waves, the depth and dependence of the spatial spectrum of seismic velocity can be determined. This spectrum is then interpreted using thermodynamic stability predictions and the metamorphic temperature derivative of seismic velocities as a proxy for heterogeneity induced by phase changes in the mantle. The results of applying this technique to seismic arrays in the western US are consistent with the known history of plate subduction beneath North America.
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Jiaqi Li, Thomas P. Ferrand, Tong Zhou, Jeroen Ritsema, Lars Stixrude, Min Chen
Summary: The 410-km discontinuity in the mantle transition zone is caused by the phase transformation of olivine to wadsleyite. Dense seismic arrays have revealed triplicated P-waves and provided insights into the structure of the Pacific slab near the 410-km discontinuity beneath the Sea of Japan. A low-velocity layer with reduced grain size, possibly containing unstable minerals, has been found within the cold Pacific slab near the 410-km discontinuity.
COMMUNICATIONS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Lars Stixrude, Stefano Baroni, Federico Grasselli
Summary: The origin of the low luminosity and internal tidal dissipation of Uranus remains unknown. Recent experiments suggest that Uranus has high viscosity and a growing frozen core, which explains its low heat flow. The study also predicts time-varying tidal dissipation and provides testable predictions for future space missions.
PLANETARY SCIENCE JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Junjie Dong, Rebecca A. Fischer, Lars P. Stixrude, Carolina R. Lithgow-Bertelloni
Summary: This study explores the water content in Earth's mantle, finding that the mantle water storage capacity is temperature-dependent and providing estimated values. It also discusses how the volume of early oceans may have affected sea level during the early Archean, suggesting the possibility of larger surface oceans under certain conditions.
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Lars Stixrude, Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni
Summary: This study provides exact expressions for the thermal expansivity, heat capacity and bulk modulus for multi-component multi-phase systems, and demonstrates the results in simple systems and mantle composition models. By deriving a new phase buoyancy parameter expression, regions in the mantle with larger phase buoyancy parameters compared to common phase transitions were identified.
GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
(2021)