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Microstructures | Open-access, peer-reviewed journal in material science | 2025 IF 8.5 | Q1 | ESCI · Scopus · EI · CAS | EIC: Prof. Shujun Zhang

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@BryanKeIIy Good articulation of the coupled environment. Curious what dominates first in practice: dielectric performance drifting with temperature, or the absorber's microstructure and oxidation stability breaking down? That usually decides the whole design strategy.

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@kaistpr 94% retention after 100 cycles at 4C is a genuinely strong number—dendrite suppression is where most fast-charging claims quietly fall apart. Curious whether the liquid-crystalline ordering holds up under high areal capacity and in larger cells. Nice work, KAIST.

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@SeoulNatlUni Reducing scattering while keeping the pore network open is the hard part—usually you trade one for the other. Impressive that both survive. Curious how far this scales to thicker parts or higher filler loading. Nice work, Prof. Shin's team.

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@mit_dmse @UTAustin Wonderful topic. Nitrides keep reminding us how much strain and defect engineering matter for real function—precisely the processing–property connections we care about at Microstructures. Looks like it was a great session! @UTAustin

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@TBrezesinski @NatureComms @BIT1940 @PKU1898 Great collaborative work! Fast‑charging all‑solid‑state Li‑S batteries are highly promising. What microstructure‑related bottleneck do you think is the biggest barrier for practical deployment? Congrats to the team! #BatteryResearch

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@NanotechnoWorld This aligns well with our focus on microstructure-driven functional property design. Atomic-level understanding is key to translating lab discoveries into manufacturable devices.

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Great work on hafnia ferroelectricity! Tuning atomic structures of existing oxide layers is such a promising route for next-gen silicon-compatible memory & capacitors. What’s your take on the biggest remaining challenge?
#Microstructures #Hafnia #Ferroelectrics #Semiconductors

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Harnessing atomic structure to advance semiconductor technology

Researchers led by Rohan Mishra at Washington University in St. Louis have uncovered why hafnia, the insulating layer in silicon transistors, becomes ferroelectric when grown extremely thin. Rather than forcing it into a conventional ferroelectric phase, they found that stabilizing an antiferroelectric structure and switching it electrically offers a more practical route to memory storage and high energy density capacitors.

The team combined quantum mechanical modeling with atomic resolution electron microscopy and single crystal film synthesis by collaborators at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Georgia Tech. In a related study on zirconia, they observed ferroelectric domains smaller than one square nanometer and predicted that the domain walls could conduct electricity and respond to an electric bias, hinting at atomically thin memory components.

Because these oxides are compatible with existing silicon chip manufacturing, the findings suggest engineers can tune electronic behavior at the atomic level without introducing new materials or components. For researchers, the work also shows how tightly pairing theory with microscopy can resolve long standing puzzles in thin film behavior.

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AM-built metals vs bulk metals — why do the mechanical properties differ?
Prof. Jan Van Humbeeck (KU Leuven, Additive Manufacturing)
11 Nov · 09:00 UTC / 17:00 Beijing.
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📢Webinar Alert

Why do AM‑fabricated metals show different mechanical properties vs bulk materials?

🎤Prof. Jan Van Humbeeck (KU Leuven)
11 Nov 2026 09:00 UTC | 10:00 Brussels (UTC+1) | 17:00 Beijing (UTC+8)

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Read: https://t.co/qxVs2587GY
What polymer strategy do you think holds the greatest potential for next-gen battery electrodes?

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How can polymers fix the instability of high-energy battery electrodes?
Tailored polymer architectures suppress volume change & dissolution toward safer high-density batteries
Sijeong Park, Hyeju Shin, Sinho Choi*, Gyujin Song*
#Battery #ElectrodeStability #Microstructures

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Which bottleneck slows down AI-driven microstructure prediction? #AI #Microstructures

Is it limited experimental data, poor out-of-distribution generalization, insufficient physical constraints, or interpretability? We’d love your opinion.

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What’s your favourite technique for probing melt structures?https://t.co/Vn9ScHCoJZ

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Can #synchrotron experiments + #ML unlock the hidden atomic structures inside metallic melts? Our Volume 6, Issue 1 cover review sums up cutting‑edge characterization & simulation tools for liquid #metal structures and solidification.
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Have you seen oxidation generate useful functional layers instead of just material degradation?👇

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Can selective oxidation create buried ferromagnetic nanolayers in #NiMn alloys? New work reveals MnO/Ni‑rich/NiMn trilayer structure with ferromagnetic Ni‑rich subsurface.
By Michael Farle and Zian Li et al.
👉https://t.co/jyqPwwyoLi
#Magnetism #Oxidation #Microstructures

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What other perovskites could benefit from this strategy?👇

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📑Can oxygen octahedral engineering tune magnetic anisotropy in #SrRuO₃?

Thickness‑driven symmetry transition between tetragonal and orthorhombic phases tunes magnetic behaviour in epitaxial films.

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