Mrs BulletinPub Date : 2024-04-12DOI: 10.1557/s43577-024-00698-6
Xiaoming Mao, Nicholas Kotov
{"title":"Complexity, disorder, and functionality of nanoscale materials","authors":"Xiaoming Mao, Nicholas Kotov","doi":"10.1557/s43577-024-00698-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1557/s43577-024-00698-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The world of biology created a wealth of complex materials intertwining order, disorder, and hierarchy. They are produced with minimal energy expenditures and display combinations of properties that surpass materials aimed to be perfectly ordered crystals or perfectly disordered glasses. De novo engineering of biomimetic materials with “impossible” combination of properties necessary for multiple technologies becomes possible considering complexity as a design parameter but this methodology lacks foundational principles. This article delineates the concept of complexity in the context of materials science. It examines the pathway to quantitative complexity–functionality relations and explores pragmatic approaches to scalable complex materials guided by discrete mathematics of nanoassemblies from imperfect components.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Graphical abstract</h3>\u0000","PeriodicalId":18828,"journal":{"name":"Mrs Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140599976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mrs BulletinPub Date : 2024-04-10DOI: 10.1557/s43577-024-00700-1
Qian Chen, Xin Zhang
{"title":"Nanoparticle self-assemblies with modern complexity","authors":"Qian Chen, Xin Zhang","doi":"10.1557/s43577-024-00700-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1557/s43577-024-00700-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Thanks to decades of tireless efforts, nanoparticle assemblies have reached an extremely high level of controllability, sophistication, and complexity, with new insights provided by integration with graph theory, cutting-edge characterization, and machine learning (ML)-based computation and modeling, as well as with ever-diversifying applications in energy, catalysis, biomedicine, optics, electronics, magnetics, organic biosynthesis, and quantum technology. Nanoparticle assemblies can be crystalline, known as superlattices or supracrystals. Their assembly entails a transition from disorder—dispersed nanoparticles—to order, which can be achieved through classical nucleation pathways or nonclassical pathways via prenucleation precursors or particle aggregation. The periodic lattices allow facile manipulations of electrons, phonons, photons, and even spins, leading to advanced device components and metamaterials. Meanwhile, aperiodic assemblies out of nanoparticles, such as gels, networks, and amorphous solids, also start to attract attention. Despite the loss of periodicity, symmetry-lowering or symmetry-breaking three-dimensional (3D) structures emerge with unique properties, such as chiroptical activity, topological mechanical strength, and quantum entanglement. Real-space imaging such as electron microscopy and x-ray-based tomography methods are utilized to characterize these complex structures, whereas mathematical tools such as graph theories are in need to describe such complex structures. This issue aims to provide a timely review of the efforts in this greatly broadened materials design space, including experiment, simulation, theory, and applications. Nine top experts (and their teams) from four countries deliver six articles summarizing fundamental mechanistic understandings of nanoparticle assemblies, highlighted with the developments of state-of-the-art <i>in situ</i> characterization tools and ML-assisted reverse engineering, and newly emergent applications of nanoarchitectures.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Graphical abstract</h3>","PeriodicalId":18828,"journal":{"name":"Mrs Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140599929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mrs BulletinPub Date : 2024-04-10DOI: 10.1557/s43577-024-00702-z
Joodeok Kim, Sungsu Kang, Fanrui Cheng, Yi Wang, Xingchen Ye, Jungwon Park
{"title":"Recent advances in liquid phase transmission electron microscopy of nanoparticle growth and self-assembly","authors":"Joodeok Kim, Sungsu Kang, Fanrui Cheng, Yi Wang, Xingchen Ye, Jungwon Park","doi":"10.1557/s43577-024-00702-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1557/s43577-024-00702-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Over the last several decades, colloidal nanoparticles have evolved into a prominent class of building blocks for materials design. Important advances include the synthesis of uniform nanoparticles with tailored compositions and properties, and the precision construction of intricate, higher-level structures from nanoparticles via self-assembly. Grasping the modern complexity of nanoparticles and their superstructures requires fundamental understandings of the processes of nanoparticle growth and self-assembly. <i>In situ</i> liquid phase transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has significantly advanced our understanding of these dynamic processes by allowing direct observation of how individual atoms and nanoparticles interact in real time, in their native phases. In this article, we highlight diverse nucleation and growth pathways of nanoparticles in solution that could be elucidated by the <i>in situ</i> liquid phase TEM. Furthermore, we showcase <i>in situ</i> liquid phase TEM studies of nanoparticle self-assembly pathways, highlighting the complex interplay among nanoparticles, ligands, and solvents. The mechanistic insights gained from <i>in situ</i> liquid phase TEM investigation could inform the design and synthesis of novel nanomaterials for various applications such as catalysis, energy conversion, and optoelectronic devices.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Graphical abstract</h3>\u0000","PeriodicalId":18828,"journal":{"name":"Mrs Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140599841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mrs BulletinPub Date : 2024-04-05DOI: 10.1557/s43577-024-00708-7
{"title":"Science as Art","authors":"","doi":"10.1557/s43577-024-00708-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1557/s43577-024-00708-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18828,"journal":{"name":"Mrs Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140599931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mrs BulletinPub Date : 2024-04-04DOI: 10.1557/s43577-024-00705-w
Rahul Rao
{"title":"Lead-free, low-permittivity electrostrictor could be an alternative to lead-based materials","authors":"Rahul Rao","doi":"10.1557/s43577-024-00705-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1557/s43577-024-00705-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18828,"journal":{"name":"Mrs Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140599879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mrs BulletinPub Date : 2024-04-04DOI: 10.1557/s43577-024-00695-9
Leonardo Giannini, Nima Razavi, Antonio Alvaro, Nicola Paltrinieri
{"title":"Embrittlement, degradation, and loss prevention of hydrogen pipelines","authors":"Leonardo Giannini, Nima Razavi, Antonio Alvaro, Nicola Paltrinieri","doi":"10.1557/s43577-024-00695-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1557/s43577-024-00695-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The detrimental effects induced by hydrogen on different materials—including steels—are a well-known and studied phenomenon. In the last century, several research papers focusing on hydrogen damages were published, including investigations concerning the hydrogen impact on the crack growth rate in steels subjected to cyclic loading. However, the past studies focused on material behavior and the role of external factors (e.g., pressure, temperature, stress field, microstructure, inhibitors, etc.), while the consequences of these findings on safety procedures and guidelines remain unspoken. The present work aims at investigating how the manifestation of the hydrogen degradation effect on equipment subjected to fatigue loadings may reflect on conventional safety practices. More accurately, a review of the parameters governing pipeline fatigue life is undertaken to analyze how such variables may lead to undesirable events and ultimately promoting a loss of containment scenario. In this sense, this work appeals for an evolution of the existing inspection methodologies for components that may experience fatigue failures (i.e., piping and pipeline systems), since the time-dependency of the detrimental effects induced by hydrogen should be considered in the operations of accident prevention and risk mitigation. Hence, the development of a preventive inspection and maintenance strategy specifically conceived for hydrogen technologies is essential to avoid the loss prevention of hydrogen systems. This will not only contribute to a quicker and larger scale spread of a hydrogen infrastructure, but it will also foster the energy-transition challenge that our society is facing today.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Graphical abstract</h3>\u0000","PeriodicalId":18828,"journal":{"name":"Mrs Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140599873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mrs BulletinPub Date : 2024-04-02DOI: 10.1557/s43577-024-00713-w
Henry Q. Afful
{"title":"Enhancing a sense of belonging in our communities","authors":"Henry Q. Afful","doi":"10.1557/s43577-024-00713-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1557/s43577-024-00713-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18828,"journal":{"name":"Mrs Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140754732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}