Sadegh Azizi, Seyed Mohammad Rozati, Mohammad Bagher Askari, Parisa Salarizadeh
{"title":"Electrochemical oxidation of ethanol on NiO/MoO2 hybridized wheat husk derived activated carbon.","authors":"Sadegh Azizi, Seyed Mohammad Rozati, Mohammad Bagher Askari, Parisa Salarizadeh","doi":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad7436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/ad7436","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Ethanol oxidation process in fuel cells is most efficient when conducted by Platinum based catalysts. Our research team endeavored to find affordable and efficient catalysts, synthesizing catalysts based on metal oxides of nickel and molybdenum in the form of NiO/ MoO2 and NiO/ MoO2 hybridized with activated carbon obtained from the wheat husk (ACWH) through a hydrothermal method. After precise physical characterization, the capability of these catalysts in the ethanol oxidation process was measured through electrochemical analyses in an alkaline environment. The presence of ACWH in the catalyst structure significantly improves the active surface and electrocatalytic activity. NiO/MoO2/ACWH with a current density of 16 mA/cm2 at a peak potential of 0.55 V and 93% cyclic stability after 5000 alternate CV cycles, can be an appealing, relatively efficient, and stable option in ethanol oxidation.
.</p>","PeriodicalId":16776,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142080708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stanisław M Dubiel, Michael Y Hu, Małgorzata Sternik, E Ercan Alp, Ahmet Alatas, Ayman Said, Krzysztof Parlinski, Przemysław Piekarz
{"title":"Lattice dynamics of<sup>119</sup>Sn impurity in a bcc-Cr crystal.","authors":"Stanisław M Dubiel, Michael Y Hu, Małgorzata Sternik, E Ercan Alp, Ahmet Alatas, Ayman Said, Krzysztof Parlinski, Przemysław Piekarz","doi":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad6c97","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad6c97","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The chromium crystal doped with<sup>119</sup>Sn isotope was studied using the nuclear resonance inelastic x-ray scattering and first principles calculations. The Sn partial phonon density of states (PDOS) was obtained for three temperatures that correspond to different magnetic states of Cr. At all temperatures, the energy spectrum consists of a broad band around 18 meV and a narrow peak at 43 meV. The additional peak around 39 meV is observed only in the magnetically ordered phases, indicating the influence of magnetic order in chromium on lattice dynamics. The partial PDOS calculated with the antiferromagnetic order on Cr atoms show a very good agreement with the experimental data. It is revealed that the high-energy peak is lying above the phonon spectra of the pure bcc-Cr crystal. These are the local modes with the increased energies due to a strongly reduced distance between Sn and the nearest-neighbor Cr atoms.</p>","PeriodicalId":16776,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141902084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Juan David Álvarez-Cuartas, Diego Luis González-Cabrera, Manuel Camargo
{"title":"Epitaxial growth in one dimension.","authors":"Juan David Álvarez-Cuartas, Diego Luis González-Cabrera, Manuel Camargo","doi":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad6c98","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad6c98","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The final structure and properties of layers grown by epitaxy techniques are determined in the very early stage of the process. This review describes one-dimensional models for epitaxial growth, emphasizing the basic theoretical concepts employed to analyze nucleation and aggregation phenomena in the submonolayer regime. The main findings regarding the evolution of quantities that define the properties of the system, such as monomer and island densities, and the associated island size, gap length, and capture zone distributions are discussed, as well as the analytical tools used to evaluate them. This review provides a concise overview of the most widely used algorithms for simulating growth processes, discusses relevant experimental results, and establishes connections with existing theoretical studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":16776,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141902082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Magnetisation control of the nematicity direction and nodal points in a superconducting doped topological insulator.","authors":"D A Khokhlov, R S Akzyanov, A V Kapranov","doi":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad6e49","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad6e49","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We study the effects of magnetisation on the properties of the doped topological insulator of theBi2Se3family with nematic superconductivity. We found that the direction of the in-plane magnetisation fixes the direction of the nematicity in the system. The chiral state is more favourable than the nematic state for large values of out-of-plane magnetisation. Overall, the critical temperature of the nematic superconductivity is robust against magnetisation. We explore in detail the spectrum of the system with the pinned direction of the nematic order parameterΔy. Without magnetisation, there is a full gap in the spectrum because of finite hexagonal warping. At an out-of-plane<i>m<sub>z</sub></i>or orthogonal in-plane<i>m<sub>x</sub></i>magnetisation that is strong enough, the spectrum is closed at the nodal points that are split by the magnetisation. Flat Majorana surface states connect such split bulk nodal points. Parallel magnetisation<i>m<sub>y</sub></i>lifts the nodal points and opens a full gap in the spectrum. We discuss relevant experiments and propose experimental verifications of our theory.</p>","PeriodicalId":16776,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141971324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding molecular geometric phase effects with exact effective force: case study of a model system.","authors":"Ye Li, Zixuan Wang, Chen Li","doi":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad6dca","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad6dca","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this work, molecular geometric phase effects are studied using the idea of exact factorization (EF) (Abedi<i>et al</i>2010<i>Phys. Rev. Lett.</i><b>105</b>123002) and exact effective force (Li<i>et al</i>2022<i>Phys. Rev. Lett.</i><b>128</b>113001). In particular, we performed dynamics simulations for a two-state vibronic coupling model, and interpreted the results in three different perspectives: the Born-Huang expansion, the exact time-dependent potential energy surface (TDPES) and the exact effective force. We find that (i) at particular moment, while the vanishing nuclear density that occurs periodically in space is conventionally attributed to destructive interference of the nuclear wave packet owing to the geometric phase, such phenomenon can be equally well interpreted through the energy perspective, as manifested in the exact TDPES in the EF scheme; (ii) when combined with trajectory-based classical dynamics, the exact effective force obtained through EF qualitatively reproduces the correct nuclear density, while the adiabatic force gives the wrong density, particularly in the interference region. Our results suggest that the exact effective force is a potential starting point for making approximations and improving trajectory-based computational methods towards an accurate description of geometric phase effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":16776,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141913067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A perspective on reducing stabilizing pressure for high-temperature superconductivity in hydrides.","authors":"Qiwen Jiang, Ling Chen, Mingyang Du, Defang Duan","doi":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad7217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/ad7217","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The theoretical predictions and experimental syntheses of hydrogen sulfide (H3S) have ignited a surge of research interest in hydride superconductors. Over the past two decades, extensive investigations have been conducted on hydrides with the ultimate goal of achieving room-temperature superconductivity under ambient conditions. In this review, we present a comprehensive summary of the current strategies and progress towards this goal in hydride materials. We conclude their electronic characteristics, hydrogen atom aggregation forms, stability mechanisms, and more. While providing a real-time snapshot of the research landscape, our aim is to offer deeper insights into reducing the stabilizing pressure for high-temperature superconductors in hydrides. This involves defining key long-term theoretical and experimental opportunities and challenges. Although achieving high critical temperatures for hydrogen-based superconductors still requires high pressure, we remain confident in the potential of hydrides as candidates for room-temperature superconductors at ambient pressure.</p>","PeriodicalId":16776,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142017824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lalhum Hima, Bernard Lalroliana, Lalmuan Chhana, R Zosiamliana, D P Rai, Ramesh Chandra Tiwari, Lalhriat Zuala
{"title":"Comprehensive investigation of structural, magnetic, electronic, optical, mechanical, and piezoelectric properties of ATiO3 (A= Mn, Fe, Ni) compounds for sustainable energy materials.","authors":"Lalhum Hima, Bernard Lalroliana, Lalmuan Chhana, R Zosiamliana, D P Rai, Ramesh Chandra Tiwari, Lalhriat Zuala","doi":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad7218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/ad7218","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This work employs Density Functional Theory (DFT) to investigate the characteristics of ATiO3 (A= Mn, Fe, Ni) by utilizing GGA and DFT+U formalisms. Our results reveal that the investigated compounds exhibit a ground-state magnetic arrangement in the G-type antiferromagnetic configuration. Substitution of the A-site atoms along the row leads to a decrease in volume due to poor electronic shielding effects with transition metals. All systems investigated are stable under dynamical conditions, with no imaginary phonon. From the formation energy calculations, NiTiO3 was identified as the most formable and stable compound. DFT+U was most effective for FeTiO3, resulting in significantly wider bandgaps compared to the GGA-level bandgaps. Optical properties such as static dielectric constants, refractive index, and reflectivity were overestimated by the GGA when compared to DFT+U results. The absorption edges of FeTiO3, MnTiO3, and NiTiO3 were analyzed, with DFT+U showing delayed onset compared to GGA. FeTiO3 was found to be the most effective absorber within the visible spectrum according to DFT+U, while NiTiO3 was predicted to be the best absorber by GGA. Each compound's mechanical stability was tested and verified based on the Born criteria, with FeTiO3 exhibiting the highest elastic moduli under DFT+U, while NiTiO3 had the highest shear and Young's modulus according to GGA. Among the studied compounds, FeTiO3 is the best-performing and most efficient piezoelectric compound with e_16 = 5.418 C m^(-2) under DFT+U. Overall, the studied compounds demonstrate promising capabilities for a wide range of applications in the field of photovoltaic devices, and piezoelectric materials, due to their remarkable optical, and piezoelectric properties.</p>","PeriodicalId":16776,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142017825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hyperuniformity in Ashkin-Teller model.","authors":"Indranil Mukherjee, P K Mohanty","doi":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad6c99","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad6c99","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We show that equilibrium systems in<i>d</i>dimension that obey the inequalitydν>2,known as Harris criterion, exhibit suppressed energy fluctuation in their critical state. Ashkin-Teller model is an example in<i>d</i> = 2 where the correlation length exponent<i>ν</i>varies continuously with the inter-spin interaction strength<i>λ</i>and exceeds the valued2set by Harris criterion when<i>λ</i>is negative; there, the variance of the subsystem energy across a length scale<i>l</i>varies asld-αwith hyperuniformity exponentα=2(1-ν-1).Point configurations constructed by assigning unity to the sites which has coarse-grained energy beyond a threshold value also exhibit suppressed number fluctuation and hyperuniformiyty with same exponentα.</p>","PeriodicalId":16776,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141902083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discovery of novel materials through machine learning.","authors":"Akinwumi Akinpelu, Mangladeep Bhullar, Yansun Yao","doi":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad6bdb","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad6bdb","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Experimental exploration of new materials relies heavily on a laborious trial-and-error approach. In addition to substantial time and resource requirements, traditional experiments and computational modelling are typically limited in finding target materials within the enormous chemical space. Therefore, creating innovative techniques to expedite material discovery becomes essential. Recently, machine learning (ML) has emerged as a valuable tool for material discovery, garnering significant attention due to its remarkable advancements in prediction accuracy and time efficiency. This rapidly developing computational technique accelerates the search and optimization process and enables the prediction of material properties at a minimal computational cost, thereby facilitating the discovery of novel materials. We provide a comprehensive overview of recent studies on discovering new materials by predicting materials and their properties using ML techniques. Beginning with an introduction of the fundamental principles of ML methods, we subsequently examine the current research landscape on the applications of ML in predicting material properties that lead to the discovery of novel materials. Finally, we discuss challenges in employing ML within materials science, propose potential solutions, and outline future research directions.</p>","PeriodicalId":16776,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141897655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
German D Samolyuk, K D Belashchenko, David S Parker
{"title":"On the origin of magnetic anisotropy in 4<i>f</i>-free ferromagnets based on the CaCu<sub>5</sub>structure<sup />.","authors":"German D Samolyuk, K D Belashchenko, David S Parker","doi":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad673a","DOIUrl":"10.1088/1361-648X/ad673a","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using first-principles calculations, we investigate the origin of magnetocrystalline anisotropy in a series of 4<i>f</i>-electron-free intermetallics with CaCu<sub>5</sub>-based structures: YCo<sub>5</sub>, YCo<sub>4</sub>B, and Y<sub>3</sub>Co<sub>13</sub>B<sub>2</sub>. The electronic structure of these compounds is characterized by a set of narrow 3<i>d</i>bands near the Fermi level. In YCo<sub>5</sub>the easy-axis anisotropy originates primarily in the spin-orbit coupling-induced mixing of the electronic states with Codx2-y2anddxycharacter. The analysis of<b>k</b>-resolved anisotropy shows that positive contributions accumulate from the entire Brillouin zone but are particularly large near thekz=0plane. The analysis of the single-site and two-site terms reveals a large positive single-site contribution to the magnetocrystalline anisotropy from the Co atoms on the honeycomb sublattice, along with two-site contributions from both honeycomb and kagome sublattices.</p>","PeriodicalId":16776,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141759349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}