David J. Srolovitz

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the capillarity-driven evolution of a toroidal island on a flat rigid substrate, where mass transport is controlled by surface diffusion and derive a reduced-order model and obtain an analytical expression for the rate of island shrinking and validate this prediction by numerical simulations based on a full, sharp-interface model.

TL;DR: By controlling mass transport by manipulation of the incident ion energy and flux, it is possible to control the plastic deformation of nanostructure deformation, thereby fabricating nanostructures with complex three-dimensional geometries.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a new class of multilayer composites that consists of alternating tough and strong layers, which reduced the coefficient of thermal expansion mismatch problem that often plagues metal-ceramic composites.

TL;DR: In this article, a formalism for predicting morphology evolution during electrodeposition as a function of the deposition parameters, composition of the electrolyte, and the species being deposited was developed, which explicitly couples the electrostatic fields and the metal cations and spectator ions of arbitrary concentrations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of dissolved solute atoms on the motion of dislocations in metals and, hence, on their plastic response is examined theoretically, and analytical estimates for the mobilities in the two regimes, as well as expressions for calculating quasiparticle interactions are provided.