Jon Paul Maria

TL;DR: It is demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that entropy predominates the thermodynamic landscape, and drives a reversible solid-state transformation between a multiphase and single-phase state.

TL;DR: Development of higher permittivity dielectrics for dynamic random-access memories serves to illustrate the magnitude of the now urgent problem of identifying alternatives to silicon dioxide for the gate dielectric in logic devices, such as the ubiquitous field-effect transistor.

TL;DR: The authors introduce an entropy-forming-ability descriptor capturing the synthesizability of high-entropy materials, and apply the model to the discovery of new refractory metal carbides.

TL;DR: In this paper, the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) was observed by attenuated total reflection of near-infrared radiation and is in agreement with electron energy loss spectroscopy measurements.

TL;DR: Measuring the structural, mechanical, and thermal properties of single-crystal entropy-stabilized oxides, it is shown that local ionic charge disorder can effectively reduce thermal conductivity without compromising mechanical stiffness, resulting in this class of material possessing the highest ratio of elastic modulus to thermal Conductivity of any isotropic crystal.