Archive of featured papers of the month, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy

Topological model of type II deformation twinning in NiTi martensite

July, 2019

R C. Pond, J.P. Hirth and K. M. Knowles, "Topological model of type II deformation twinning in NiTi martensite", Philosophical Magazine 99, 1619‒1632 (2019)

Make plastic cool again

July, 2019

P. Lloveras, A. Aznar, M. Barrio, Ph. Negrier, C. Popescu, A. Planes, L. Mañosa, E. Stern Taulats, A. Avramenko, N. D. Mathur, X. Moya, and J.-Ll. Tamarit, "Colossal barocaloric effects near room temperature in plastic crystals of neopentylglycol", Nature Communications 10 1083 (2019)

Shear is the new normal

June, 2019

M. Ghidini, R. Mansell, F. Maccherozzi, X. Moya, L. C. Phillips, W. Yan, D. Pesquera, C. H. W. Barnes, R. P. Cowburn, J.-M. Hu, S. S. Dhesi and N. D. Mathur. “Shear-strain mediated magnetoelectric effects revealed by imaging”, Nature Materials (2019)

Ultraclean van der Waals contacts

May, 2019

Y. Wang, J. C. Kim, R. J. Wu, J. Martinez, X. Song, Ji. Yang, F. Zhao, A. Mkhoyan, H. Y. Jeong and M. Chhowalla, “Van der Waals contacts between three-dimensional metals and two-dimensional semiconductors”, Nature 568 (2019) 70-74

Biskyrmions or Magnetic Bubbles?

May, 2019

J. C. Loudon, A. C. Twitchett-Harrison, D. Cortés-Ortuño, M. T. Birch, L. A. Turnbull, A. Štefančič, F. Y. Ogrin, E. O. Burgos-Parra, N. Bukin, A. Laurenson, H. Popescu, M. Beg, O. Hovorka, H.Fangohr, P. A. Midgley, G. Balakrishnan, and P. D. Hatton, "Do Images of Biskyrmions Show Type-II Bubbles?", Advanced Materials 31 (2019) 1806598

Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy

Papers of the month - archive

Topological model of type II deformation twinning in NiTi martensite

Make plastic cool again

Shear is the new normal

Ultraclean van der Waals contacts

Biskyrmions or Magnetic Bubbles?

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