{"title":"Study of engineering developing decagonal-like rational approximant structure of Al–Ni–Cu–Fe–Mn–Cr senary system in aluminum alloy through additive manufacturing","authors":"Kai-Chieh Chang, Fei-Yi Hung, Jun-Ren Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.mtadv.2024.100513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtadv.2024.100513","url":null,"abstract":"Quasi-periodic materials hold unique properties, but mass-producing bulk materials with such structures remains challenging. The rational approximant phase belongs to the Bravais crystal system but exhibits irrational cut features and diffraction symmetries, which are similar to quasicrystals. This study uses additive manufacturing (AM) and prolonged annealing to create an aluminum-based alloy featuring a quasicrystal-like rational approximant phase, Al(Cu, Ni)(Cr, Mn, Fe), overcoming the production limitations of reproducible quasi-periodic materials. This phase transformation occurs at the Al–AlFeNi interface, resulting in a monoclinic periodic structure with long-range translational symmetry. The structure comprises sublattices of stars and compressed hexagons, forming tile mode coverings with pseudo-five-fold decagonal shield-like tiles (SLTs) through transition-element atoms. Furthermore, HAADF imaging reveals clear dark monoclinic rhombic patterns with long-range ordered translational symmetry, free from atomic defects. The rational approximant phase has been verified crystallography through X-ray diffraction, confirming its translational symmetry. Additionally, the Al(Zr, Sc) phase facilitates the phase transformation process through lattice interactions. These findings introduce a novel perspective on the phase transformation in decagonal-like rational approximants and broaden the realm for future engineering applications.","PeriodicalId":48495,"journal":{"name":"Materials Today Advances","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141548423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"3D printed MXene architectures for a plethora of smart applications","authors":"Maria Leonor Matias, Cláudia Pereira, Henrique Vazão Almeida, Santanu Jana, Shrabani Panigrahi, Ugur Deneb Menda, Daniela Nunes, Elvira Fortunato, Rodrigo Martins, Suman Nandy","doi":"10.1016/j.mtadv.2024.100512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtadv.2024.100512","url":null,"abstract":"This review explores the integration of titanium carbide (TiCT) MXene materials with three-dimensional (3D) printing techniques for advanced functional applications. TiCT MXenes exhibit remarkable intrinsic properties like high surface area, metallic conductivity, and flexible surface functionalities. These materials can be associated to 3D printing techniques that offer solutions to conventional techniques’ limitations, enabling the creation of high-performance, free-standing, and multiscale devices with precise control over architecture. Additionally, 3D printing techniques are cost-effective, energy-saving, and sustainable, reducing material waste and carbon footprint. This review begins by presenting an overview of two-dimensional (2D) materials and their distinct characteristics when comparted to the MXenes family, followed by discussions on synthesis routes for 3D printable MXene inks and fabrication methods for complex MXene-based structures. Various applications of 3D-printed MXene architectures are explored, particularly in energy storage devices like supercapacitors and batteries, leveraging MXenes exceptional electrical conductivity and high surface area to enhance energy storage capabilities. Moreover, the potential of 3D-printed MXene architectures in smart devices, incorporating technologies such as artificial intelligence and connectivity features, is highlighted, particularly in smart sensors, biosensors, electromagnetic shielding, and environmental remediation.","PeriodicalId":48495,"journal":{"name":"Materials Today Advances","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141508825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Data-driven discovery of novel metal organic frameworks with superior ammonia adsorption capacity","authors":"Sanghyun Kim, Joo-Hyoung Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.mtadv.2024.100510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtadv.2024.100510","url":null,"abstract":"Ammonia (NH) has been a subject of great interest due to its important roles in diverse technological applications. However, high toxicity and corrosiveness of NH has made it an important task to develop an efficient carrier to safely capture NH with high capacity. Here, we employ a machine learning (ML) model to discover high-performance metal organic frameworks (MOFs) that will work as efficient NH carriers. By constructing databases at two distinct conditions, adsorption and desorption, through Grand Canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) simulations to train ML models, we identify eight novel MOFs as potentially efficient NH carriers through screening the large-scale MOF databases with the trained models and GCMC verification. The identified MOFs exhibit the average NH working capacity exceeding 1100 mg/g, and subsequent molecular dynamics simulations demonstrate mechanical stability of the predicted MOFs. Moreover, analyses of the diffusion mechanism within the proposed MOFs underscore the strong dependence of NH₃ gas diffusivity on the structural details of the materials.","PeriodicalId":48495,"journal":{"name":"Materials Today Advances","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141508824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ravi K. Biroju, Dipak Maity, Viliam Vretenár, Ľubomír Vančo, Rahul Sharma, M. Sahoo, Jitendra Kumar, G. Gayathri, T. N. Narayanan, Saroj K Nayak
{"title":"Quantification of alloy atomic composition sites in 2D ternary MoS2(1-x)Se2x and their role in persistent photoconductivity, enhanced photoresponse and photo-electrocatalysis","authors":"Ravi K. Biroju, Dipak Maity, Viliam Vretenár, Ľubomír Vančo, Rahul Sharma, M. Sahoo, Jitendra Kumar, G. Gayathri, T. N. Narayanan, Saroj K Nayak","doi":"10.1016/j.mtadv.2024.100504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtadv.2024.100504","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48495,"journal":{"name":"Materials Today Advances","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141232841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Halima El Aadad, Hicham El Hamzaoui, Gaëlle Brévalle-Wasilewskis, Rémy Bernard, Christophe Kinowski, Yves Quiquempois, Marc Douay
{"title":"Solmers: Versatile hybrid resins for nanometric 3D printing of silica-based photonic components","authors":"Halima El Aadad, Hicham El Hamzaoui, Gaëlle Brévalle-Wasilewskis, Rémy Bernard, Christophe Kinowski, Yves Quiquempois, Marc Douay","doi":"10.1016/j.mtadv.2024.100500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtadv.2024.100500","url":null,"abstract":"Owning to their intrinsic properties, silica-based glasses are widely used in various technological fields, especially in photonics. However, high degree of flexibility is yet challenging in realization of next-generation miniaturized optical components. In this work, we develop an approach based on ‶Solmers″ hybrid resins allowing versatile two-photon polymerization 3D printing of silica glasses with 23 nm resolution, doping with Germanium and/or rare-earths elements. Other dopants such as gold nanoparticles were also incorporated for localized metallization. After 3D printing and sintering (1100–1300 °C), high optical quality glasses with low surface roughness (<0.2 nm) were obtained. Structural analyses confirmed the amorphous structure of silica glasses. Various mono- or multi-materials microstructures were successfully fabricated on fused silica substrates. Besides, this approach was extended to the functionalization of optical fibers for optical sensing applications in harsh environment (1000 °C). Compared to organic or organic-inorganic materials, these dense silica-based glasses with enhanced optical and structural properties will open new avenues for the development of emerging advanced optical components.","PeriodicalId":48495,"journal":{"name":"Materials Today Advances","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141188473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tailoring the permittivity of passivated dyes to achieve stable and efficient perovskite solar cells with modulated defects","authors":"Rongxin Wang, Zhichao Lin, Xinhua Ouyang","doi":"10.1016/j.mtadv.2024.100501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtadv.2024.100501","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48495,"journal":{"name":"Materials Today Advances","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141147919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}