858 papers
This study experimentally investigates the capillary breakup of aqueous xanthan gum liquid bridges, revealing that while free bridges exhibit distinct inertia-capillary, elasto-capillary, and viscous-capillary regimes, wetting bridges display a unified viscous-capillary response that collapses onto a master curve due to flow history effects and shows reduced sensitivity to substrate wettability.
The paper presents RADIANT, a novel six-layer HBGPE composite spacecraft shield that simultaneously enhances neutron attenuation through boron-10 capture and converts absorbed radiation energy into electrical power via scintillation, thereby transforming passive shielding mass into a functional energy-harvesting component.
This study employs first-principles DFT calculations to demonstrate that cubic MgTiS₃ and MgTiSe₃ chalcogenide perovskites possess tunable wide band gaps, strong optical absorption, and non-toxic stability, making them promising sustainable alternatives to lead-based materials for next-generation photovoltaic and photodetection applications.
This paper proposes a novel hybrid method combining the continuum-discontinuum method and smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) to effectively simulate complex fluid-solid interaction problems involving solid deformation, cracking, and motion without the need for interface elements or mesh reconstruction, as validated by experimental and numerical comparisons.
This study establishes pencil drawing as a quantitative model for wear by demonstrating that the scale-free fragmentation of graphite on rough substrates directly governs both the material transfer rate and the optical intensity of the resulting traces, thereby linking microscopic fracture processes to macroscopic visual appearance.
This paper theoretically demonstrates that a density gradient layer significantly enhances the resonant generation of internal waves by surface waves, leading to shorter wavelengths and higher growth rates, particularly when the waves propagate nearly normal to the surface wave direction.
This paper proposes a machine learning-based framework that couples multiscale finite element analysis with Artificial Neural Networks to efficiently characterize the non-Gaussian, vacancy-driven stochastic mechanical properties of SWCNT-reinforced polymer composites, significantly overcoming the computational limitations of traditional Monte Carlo simulations.
This study demonstrates that employing a full anharmonic treatment via thermodynamic integration on an Atomic Cluster Expansion potential successfully predicts the α→β phase transformation temperature of tin (288 K) with high accuracy, whereas the quasi-harmonic approximation significantly overestimates it (377 K) due to its failure to capture substantial vibrational anharmonicity in the metallic β-phase.
This paper proposes that if baryon number is an exact discrete gauge symmetry locked to the Z3 center of color, protons possess no intrinsic lifetime but instead decay via a vortex-catalyzed process with a cross-section dependent on local cosmic defect density, resulting in a unique signature of environment-dependent, clustered ∆B=3 events rather than standard ∆B=1 decays.
The paper proposes the Unified HEX Model, a pre-geometric phase-field framework where effective spacetime and quantum-like dynamics emerge from the relative phase structure of two complex scalar fields, offering a falsifiable pathway to interpret gravity as a hydrodynamic approximation and topological phase knots as candidates for dark matter and vacuum energy.