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Biodegradable, self-powered E-skin for contactless respiratory and epidermal humidity monitoring Open

Xuetao Zhang, Qing Yue, H. W. Sheng, Jiao Yuan, Lingxiao Ma , et al. · 2025

Humidity monitoring is vital for respiratory health assessment, yet conventional sensors lack flexibility, back-end power supply, and environmental friendliness, demanding flexible, self-powered, and biodegradable devices. Here, we develop…

Risk factors and predictive modeling of intraoperative hypothermia in laparoscopic surgery patients Open

Yan Cheng, H. W. Sheng · 2025

Enhancing the strength and ductility of a medium entropy alloy through non-basal slip activation Open

Zhen Chen, Yang Chen, Daixiu Wei, Xu Liu, Xuan Luo , et al. · 2025

Preserving high-pressure solids via freestanding thin-film engineering Open

Tao Liang, Zhidan Zeng, Ziyin Yang, Fujun Lan, Hongbo Lou , et al. · 2025

Study on the Mechanism of Mechanical Properties and Wind Leakage Sealing Effect of KH570-Enhanced VAE/Cement Materials Open

Qingsong Zhang, H. W. Sheng, Jinliang Li, Jinhu Li, Hao Zhang · 2025

In order to address the issue of wind leakage leading to spontaneous coal combustion in goafs during gob-side entry mining, a KH570 silane coupling agent (SCA)-modified vinyl acetate–ethylene (VAE)/cement-based flexible spraying sealing ma…

The Analysis of Chaos and Fractals Open

H. W. Sheng · 2025

The exploration of the relationship between fractals and chaotic systems not only contributes to advancing fundamental disciplines such as theoretical physics and mathematics, but also offers novel perspectives and methodologies for solvin…

Coupled Crystal-Plasticity and Phase-Field Modeling on Failure Mechanism of Additive Manufacturing Titanium Alloy Open

H. W. Sheng, Zixin Wang, Wei Rao, Jianfeng Zhao, Qingsheng Yang · 2025

Coupled Crystal-Plasticity and Phase-Field Modeling on Failure Mechanism of Selective Laser Melting Titanium Alloy Open

H. W. Sheng, Zixin Wang, Wei Rao, Jianfeng Zhao, Qingsheng Yang · 2025

Pressure-induced structural crossover in a metallic glass Open

Dazhe Xu, Hongbo Lou, Di Peng, Zhenfang Xing, Fujun Lan , et al. · 2024

The local atomic structure has long been recognized as a predominant characteristic and key to understanding glassy structures and properties. However, the factors governing the formation and evolution of these structures in metallic glass…

Folded network and structural transition in molten tin Open

Liang Xu, Zhigang Wang, Jian Chen, Songyi Chen, Wenge Yang , et al. · 2022

A tunable band gap of the layered semiconductor Zn3In2S6 under pressure Open

Resta A. Susilo, Yu Liu, H. W. Sheng, Hongliang Dong, Raimundas Sereika , et al. · 2021

A highly tunable band gap of the layered semiconductor Zn 3 In 2 S 6 under pressure is reported. The change in the band gap is strongly coupled to the variation and transformation of the crystal structure.

Accepted manuscript of "Synthesis of paracrystalline diamond" by Tang et al. [Nature 7886, 605, 2021] Open

Hu Tang, Xiaohong Yuan, Yong Cheng, Hongzhan Fei, Fuyang Liu , et al. · 2021

Accepted manuscript of "Synthesis of paracrystalline diamond" by Tang et al. [Nature 7886, 605, 2021]

Structural Origin of Boson Peak in Glasses Open

Yuan Tian, Xiaozhe Shen, Qingyang Gao, Zhen Lu, Jie Yang , et al. · 2021

Boson peak, the excess low energy excitations in the terahertz regime, is one of the most unique features of disordered systems and has been linked to many anomalous properties of glass materials. The nature and structural origin of the bo…

Synthesis of Paracrystalline Diamond Open

H. W. Sheng, Hu Tang, Xiaohong Yuan, Yong Cheng, Hongzhan Fei , et al. · 2021

Solids in nature can be generally classified into crystalline and non-crystalline states, depending on whether long-range lattice periodicity is present in the material. The differentiation of the two states, however, could face fundamenta…

Polyamorphism in a solute-lean Al–Ce metallic glass Open

Ziliang Yin, Hongbo Lou, H. W. Sheng, Zhidan Zeng, Wendy L. Mao , et al. · 2021

Polyamorphism discovered in lanthanide-rich metallic glasses (MGs) has been attributed to the electronic transition of the lanthanide element as a solvent element. In this work, we report that pressure-induced polyamorphism still exists in…

Effects of minor alloying on the mechanical properties of Al based metallic glasses Open

Vrishank Jambur, Chaiyapat Tangpatjaroen, Jianqi Xi, J. Tarnsangpradit, Ming Gao , et al. · 2020

High-pressure strengthening in ultrafine-grained metals Open

Xiaoling Zhou, Zongqiang Feng, Linli Zhu, Jianing Xu, Lowell Miyagi , et al. · 2020

Two-way tuning of structural order in metallic glasses Open

Hongbo Lou, Zhidan Zeng, Fei Zhang, Songyi Chen, P. Luo , et al. · 2020

Plasticity without dislocations in a polycrystalline intermetallic Open

Hubin Luo, H. W. Sheng, Hongliang Zhang, Feng‐Qing Wang, Jinkui Fan , et al. · 2019

Dislocation activity is critical to ductility and the mechanical strength of metals. Dislocations are the primary drivers of plastic deformation, and their interactions with each other and with other microstructural features such as grain …

Strengthening in multi-principal element alloys with local-chemical-order roughened dislocation pathways Open

Qing‐Jie Li, H. W. Sheng, E. Ma · 2019

High-entropy and medium-entropy alloys are presumed to have a configurational entropy as high as that of an ideally mixed solid solution (SS) of multiple elements in near-equal proportions. However, enthalpic interactions inevitably render…

Robust Formation of Ultrasmall Room-Temperature Neél Skyrmions in Amorphous Ferrimagnets from Atomistic Simulations Open

T. Chung, Yunkun Xie, H. W. Sheng, Avik W. Ghosh, S. J. Poon · 2019

Neél skyrmions originate from interfacial Dzyaloshinskii Moriya interaction (DMI). Recent studies have explored using thin-film ferromagnets and ferrimagnets to host Neél skyrmions for spintronic applications. However, it is unclear if ult…

Robust Formation of Ultrasmall Room-Temperature Neél Skyrmions in Amorphous Ferrimagnets from Atomistic Simulations Open

T. Chung, Yunkun Xie, H. W. Sheng, Avik W. Ghosh, S. J. Poon · 2019

Robust Formation of Ultrasmall Room-Temperature Neél Skyrmions in Amorphous Ferrimagnets from Atomistic Simulations Open

Chung Ting Ma, Yunkun Xie, H. W. Sheng, Avik W. Ghosh, S. Joseph Poon · 2019

Neél skyrmions originate from interfacial Dzyaloshinskii Moriya interaction (DMI). Recent studies have explored using thin-film ferromagnets and ferrimagnets to host Neél skyrmions for spintronic applications. However, it is unclear if ult…

Li-ion battery material under high pressure: amorphization and enhanced conductivity of Li4Ti5O12 Open

Yanwei Huang, Yu He, H. W. Sheng, Xia Lu, Haini Dong , et al. · 2018

Lithium titanium oxide (Li4Ti5O12, LTO), a ‘zero-strain’ anode material for lithium-ion batteries, exhibits excellent cycling performance. However, its poor conductivity highly limits its applications. Here, the structural stability and co…

Skyrmion Formation Induced by Antiferromagnetic-enhanced Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii Moriya Interaction Open

Marco Chung Ting, Yunkun Xie, H. W. Sheng, S. J. Poon, Avik W. Ghosh · 2018

Neél skyrmions originate from interfacial Dzyaloshinskii Moriya interaction (DMI). Recent studies have explored using ferromagnet to host Neél skyrmions for device applications. However, challenges remain to reduce the size of skyrmion to …

Tunable twin stability and an accurate magnesium interatomic potential for dislocation-twin interactions Open

Zongrui Pei, H. W. Sheng, Xie Zhang, Rui Li, Bob Svendsen · 2018

Hydrogen-Bond Symmetrization Breakdown and Dehydrogenation Mechanism of FeO2H at High Pressure Open

Shengcai Zhu, Qingyang Hu, Wendy L. Mao, Ho‐kwang Mao, H. W. Sheng · 2017

The cycling of hydrogen plays an important role in the geochemical evolution of our planet. Under high-pressure conditions, asymmetric hydroxyl bonds tend to form a symmetric O-H-O configuration in which H is positioned at the center of tw…

Synthesis of quenchable amorphous diamond Open

Zhidan Zeng, Liuxiang Yang, Qiaoshi Zeng, Hongbo Lou, H. W. Sheng , et al. · 2017

Diamond owes its unique mechanical, thermal, optical, electrical, chemical, and biocompatible materials properties to its complete sp 3 -carbon network bonding. Crystallinity is another major controlling factor for materials properties. Al…

TEM Study of Amorphous Carbon with Fully sp3-Bonded Structure Open

Jianguo Wen, Zhidan Zeng, Liuxiang Yang, Qiaoshi Zeng, Hongbo Lou , et al. · 2017

Stability limits and transformation pathways ofα-quartz under high pressure Open

Qingyang Hu, Jinfu Shu, Wenge Yang, Changyong Park, Mingwei Chen , et al. · 2017

Ubiquitous on Earth, \ensuremath{\alpha}-quartz plays an important role in modern science and technology. However, despite extensive research in the past, the mechanism of the polymorphic transitions of \ensuremath{\alpha}-quartz at high p…

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