High-throughput computational materials design is an emerging area of materials science. By combining advanced thermodynamic and electronic-structure methods with intelligent data mining and database construction, and exploiting the power of current supercomputer architectures, scientists generate, manage and analyse enormous data repositories for the discovery of novel materials. In this Review we provide a current snapshot of this rapidly evolving field, and highlight the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.

The high-throughput highway to computational materials design

Microwave versus conventional sintering: A review of fundamentals, advantages and applications

This article reviews static and dynamic interfacial effects in magnetism, focusing on interfacially-driven magnetic effects and phenomena associated with spin-orbit coupling and intrinsic symmetry breaking at interfaces. It provides a historical background and literature survey, but focuses on recent progress, identifying the most exciting new scientific results and pointing to promising future research directions. It starts with an introduction and overview of how basic magnetic properties are affected by interfaces, then turns to a discussion of charge and spin transport through and near interfaces and how these can be used to control the properties of the magnetic layer. Important concepts include spin accumulation, spin currents, spin transfer torque, and spin pumping. An overview is provided to the current state of knowledge and existing review literature on interfacial effects such as exchange bias, exchange spring magnets, spin Hall effect, oxide heterostructures, and topological insulators. The article highlights recent discoveries of interface-induced magnetism and non-collinear spin textures, non-linear dynamics including spin torque transfer and magnetization reversal induced by interfaces, and interfacial effects in ultrafast magnetization processes.

https://link.aps.org/accepted/10.1103/RevModPhys.89.025006

Interface-induced phenomena in magnetism

Synthesis and characterization of surfactant-coated superparamagnetic monodispersed iron oxide nanoparticles

We propose and characterize a new Z2 class of topological semimetals with a vanishing spin-orbit interaction. The proposed topological semimetals are characterized by the presence of bulk one-dimensional (1D) Dirac line nodes (DLNs) and two-dimensional (2D) nearly flat surface states, protected by inversion and time-reversal symmetries. We develop the Z2 invariants dictating the presence of DLNs based on parity eigenvalues at the parity-invariant points in reciprocal space. Moreover, using first-principles calculations, we predict DLNs to occur in Cu_{3}N near the Fermi energy by doping nonmagnetic transition metal atoms, such as Zn and Pd, with the 2D surface states emerging in the projected interior of the DLNs. This Letter includes a brief discussion of the effects of spin-orbit interactions and symmetry breaking as well as comments on experimental implications.

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Dirac Line Nodes in Inversion-Symmetric Crystals.

1. Introduction 2. Magnetostatics 3. Magnetism of electrons 4. Magnetism of localized electrons on the atom 5. Ferromagnetism and exchange 6. Antiferromagnetism and other magnetic order 7. Micromagnetism, domains and hysteresis 8. Nanoscale magnetism 9. Magnetic resonance 10. Experimental methods 11. Magnetic materials 12. Applications of soft magnets 13. Applications of hard magnets 14. Spin electronics and magnetic recording 15. Special topics Appendixes Index.

J. M. D. Coey

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Magnetism and Magnetic Materials