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Phonon Self-Energy Corrections: To Screen, or Not to Screen

Phonons are collective atomic vibrations in crystals that govern many physical phenomena ranging from electrical and thermal transport to superconductivity and light absorption. When calculating phonon properties, it is important to consider that the interactions between two particles in a...
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Prof. Yann Garcia contributed to a Wiley-VCH book on...

Prof. Yann Garcia, in collaboration with Prof. Junhu Wang and Prof. Tao Zhang, director of the Mössbauer Effect Data Center from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics China, have published a Wiley-VCH book on Mössbauer spectroscopy. The book provides a comprehensive overview of relevant...
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Modeling symmetric and defect-free carbon schwarzites...

Recently, a process has been proposed for generating negatively-curved carbon schwarzites via zeolite-templating (Braun et al., 2018). However, the proposed process leads to atomistic models which are not very symmetric and often rather defective. In the present work, an improved generation...
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Electronic Properties of Functionalized Diamanes for...

Ultrathin diamond films, or diamanes, are promising quasi-2D materials that are characterized by high stiffness, extreme wear resistance, high thermal conductivity, and chemical stability. Surface functionalization of multilayer graphene with different stackings of layers could be an interesting...
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Polymer-coated silica dual functional fillers to improve...

The application of solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs) is mainly hindered by their low ionic conductivity and the limited mechanical properties. Adding functional small molecules and inorganic fillers are two of the simplest and most effective ways to improve the performance of SPEs. However, most...
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