Day: January 11, 2025

Refractory complex concentrated alloys (RCCAs) exhibit promising mechanical properties for high-temperature structural applications. However, their development and practical use are hindered by extremely low ductility at room temperature, primarily caused by interstitial impurities inadvertently introduced during the RCCA processing. In collaboration with the research groups of Enrique Lavernia at Texas A&M University and Diran Apelian…Continue Reading The origin and control of interstitial impurities in refractory complex concentrated alloys

1D-inorganic crystals with atomic-scale helical motifs promise unique properties such as non-centrosymmetric symmetry, chiral-induced spin selectivity, and nonlinear optical activity. In collaboration with the Maxx Arguilia research group (UCI), we discover and characterize a new inorganic compound named gallium sulfur iodide (GaSI), which has a unique helical structure and a “squircular” cross-section and crystallizes in…Continue Reading Discovery of GaSI: A Helical 1D-Inorganic Crystal