Grain boundary energies play a pivotal role in determining the microstructural evolution and thermal stability of nanostructured materials. These energies underpin key processes such as sintering, ...

Engineers mimic atom-scale grain boundaries with magnetic particles to see how shear stress influences their movement. Rice University engineers who mimic atom-scale processes to make them big enough ...

SIMS imaging of lithium-ion migration within a solid electrolyte specimen. Grain boundaries resistant to ionic diffusion have created an uneven 6 Li distribution. Quantitative analysis found that ...

A major breakthrough in battery science reveals why promising single-crystal lithium-ion batteries haven’t lived up to ...

HOUSTON – (June 6, 2022) – Rice University engineers who mimic atom-scale processes to make them big enough to see have modeled how shear influences grain boundaries in polycrystalline materials. That ...