Nano-phase Separation in CuI-Cu2MoO4 Superionic Conducting Glass

Nano-Al Formed by Phase Separation in the Al85Ni10Ce5 Metallic Glass

A nucleation-growth control for Al85Ni10Ce5 glass has transformed to a growth control for Al83Ni10Ce5Si2 glass. That’s to say a small quantity of Si addition can successfully separate the Al phase to single precipitate from a eutectic precipitation composited of Al and other intermetallic compound to synthesize nanostructured materials, characteristic of microstructures with finely dispersed na...

Morphology control for nano-phase separation structures

In recent years, morphology control has emerged as an important research topic in many fields such as chemistry, biology, and medicine for the development of highly efficient materials and functional structures of devices based on organic and inorganic materials and their hybrids. Once developed, these techniques will pave the way for a wide range of possibilities such as the creation of highly...

Phase-separation perspective on dynamic heterogeneities in glass-forming liquids.

We study dynamic heterogeneities in a model glass former whose overlap with a reference configuration is constrained to a fixed value. We find that the system phase separates into regions of small and large overlap, indicating that a nonzero surface tension plays an important role in the formation of dynamical heterogeneities. We calculate an appropriate thermodynamic potential and find evidenc...

Superionic to superionic phase change in water: consequences for the interiors of uranus and neptune.

Using density functional molecular dynamics free energy calculations, we show that the body centered cubic (bcc) phase of superionic ice previously believed to be the only phase is, in fact, thermodynamically unstable compared to a novel phase with oxygen positions in face centered cubic lattice sites. The novel phase has a lower proton mobility than the bcc phase and may exhibit a higher melti...

Preparation of Na Superionic Conductors by Crystallization of Glass