Kavli Affiliate: Zhiting Tian | First 5 Authors: Jinghang Dai, Jinghang Dai, , , | Summary: The traditional atomistic Green’s function (AGF) was formulated in the harmonic regime, preventing it from capturing the role of anharmonicity in interfacial thermal transport. Incorporating anharmonicity into AGF has long been desired but remains challenging. We developed a rigorous […]

Kavli Affiliate: Ulrich Wiesner | Summary:Solid polymer electrolytes for lithium batteries promise improvements in safety and energy density if their conductivity can be increased. Nanostructured block copolymer electrolytes specifically have the potential to provide both good ionic conductivity and good mechanical properties. This study shows that the previously neglected nanoscale composition of the polymer electrolyte […]

Kavli Affiliate: Paul L. McEuen | First 5 Authors: Cheng Tan, Derek Y. H. Ho, Lei Wang, J. I. A. Li, Indra Yudhistira | Summary: Electronic transport in the regime where carrier-carrier collisions are the dominant scattering mechanism has taken on new relevance with the advent of ultraclean two-dimensional materials. Here we present a combined […]

Kavli Affiliate: Chris B. Schaffer| First 5 Authors: Yousef Abou El-Neaj, Yousef Abou El-Neaj, , , | Summary:We propose in this White Paper a concept for a space experiment using cold atoms to search for ultra-light dark matter, and to detect gravitational waves in the frequency range between the most sensitive ranges of LISA and […]

Kavli Affiliate: Richard D. Robinson | Summary:Magic-sized clusters (MSCs) are renowned for their identical size and closed-shell stability that inhibit conventional nanoparticle (NP) growth processes. Though MSCs have been of increasing interest, understanding the reaction pathways toward their nucleation and stabilization is an outstanding issue. In this work, we demonstrate that high concentration synthesis (1000 […]

Kavli Affiliate: Richard D. Robinson | Summary:Structural transformations in molecules and solids have generally been studied in isolation, while intermediate systems have eluded characterization. We show that a pair of CdS cluster isomers provides an advantageous experimental platform to study isomerization in well-defined atomically precise systems. The clusters coherently interconvert over an est. 1 eV […]

Kavli Affiliate: Jin Suntivich | First 5 Authors: Padtaraporn Chanhom, Kevin E. Fritz, Lee Burton, Jan Kloppenburg, Yaroslav Filinchuk | Summary: Electrides are ionic crystals in which the electrons prefer to occupy free space, serving as anions. Because the electrons prefer to be in the pockets, channels, or layers to the atomic orbitals around the […]

Kavli Affiliate: Jin Suntivich | Summary:Electrides are ionic crystals in which the electrons prefer to occupy free space, serving as anions. Because the electrons prefer to be in the pockets, channels, or layers to the atomic orbitals around the nuclei, it has been challenging to find electrides with partially filled d-shells, since an unoccupied d-shell […]

Kavli Affiliate: Abraham Stroock | Summary:In this paper, we investigate quantitatively the coupling between gradients of temperature and of chemical or water potential under steady state conditions in the vapor phase. This coupling is important for the measurement and modeling of the dynamics of water in unsaturated environments like soils and plants. We focus on […]

Kavli Affiliate: Jie Shan | First 5 Authors: Xuhui Li, Xuhui Li, , , | Summary: In the work of N. Martys et al. [Nicos S. Martys, Xiaowen Shan, Hudong Chen, Phys. Rev. E, Vol. 58, Num.5, 1998 ], a self-consistent force term to any order in the Boltzmann-BKG equation is derived by the Hermite […]