Rules for the creation of alloys within the family of Heusler compounds, which are ordered compounds formed between metals, have been broadly formulated.
Heusler compounds are important functional materials, used for their magnetic and thermoelectric properties. These rules will help in designing new materials with optimized functionality.
Plant/polymer composite materials have been fabricated. These composite materials are stimuli responsive and can undergo shape-shifting behavior in response to temperature or light.
IRG1 has developed a toolkit for carrying out simulated X-ray adsorption spectroscopy (XAS). XAS is a powerful technique for understanding the surface local structure and chemistry of complex interfaces at the nanoscale.
IRG1 has developed a computational framework for understanding how nanoparticles (NPs) assemble at the interface between two immiscible fluids.
This is the first demonstration of living ring opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) from a biological substrate.
Many organisms use cilia to control fluids at the microscale. Engineering a cilia platform with comparable capabilities, however, has remained elusive. Now, Cornell researchers have taken a step towards such systems by creating electronically-actuated artificial cilia that can create arbitrary flow patterns in liquids near a surface.
Normally, unwanted oscillations are removed from a dynamical system through the introduction of energy loss. In materials used for moving photons between light waves of different frequencies – a key process, e.g., for transfer of information between nodes of a quantum network – unwanted oscillations between photon populations can limit device efficiency and cause instability and noise.
The ability to thermally trigger a conformational changeand collapse in a constituent resilin-like protein (RLP) providesthe opportunity to build, and eventually move, a bundlemer nanostructure.
This work demonstrates that the TI vdW material Bi2Se3 can be grown as a single-crystalline single-orientation film on semiconductor substrates with appropriate substrate pre-treatment conditions.
IRG-2 developed a symmetry-based approach that uses only few inputs, to carry out an efficient yet systematic search for topological magnons in magnetic insulators. Robust against disorders and decoherence, they serve as potential platforms for magnon-based spintronic devices.
