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Recent advances in synchrotron X-ray studies of the atomic structures of metal alloys in liquid state (2024)
Journal Article
Huang, S., Xiang, K., & Mi, J. (2024). Recent advances in synchrotron X-ray studies of the atomic structures of metal alloys in liquid state. Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 203, 180-200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmst.2024.02.038

Research into the atomic structures of metal materials in the liquid state, their dynamic evolution versus temperature until the onset of crystal nucleation has been a central research topic in condensed matter physics and materials science for well... Read More about Recent advances in synchrotron X-ray studies of the atomic structures of metal alloys in liquid state.

Synchrotron X-ray operando studies of atomic structure evolution of multi-component Al alloys in liquid state (2023)
Thesis
Huang, S. Synchrotron X-ray operando studies of atomic structure evolution of multi-component Al alloys in liquid state. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4443461

This research has studied one of the challenging scientific issues in materials science, i.e., in real time, understanding quantitatively the 3D atomic structures of multiple component alloys in the liquid state and how the atomic structures evolve w... Read More about Synchrotron X-ray operando studies of atomic structure evolution of multi-component Al alloys in liquid state.

Direct Evidence of the Exfoliation Efficiency and Graphene Dispersibility of Green Solvents toward Sustainable Graphene Production (2022)
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Ng, K. L., Maciejewska, B. M., Qin, L., Johnston, C., Barrio, J., Titirici, M. M., Tzanakis, I., Eskin, D. G., Porfyrakis, K., Mi, J., & Grobert, N. (2023). Direct Evidence of the Exfoliation Efficiency and Graphene Dispersibility of Green Solvents toward Sustainable Graphene Production. ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 11(1), 58-66. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c03594

Achieving a sustainable production of pristine high-quality graphene and other layered materials at a low cost is one of the bottlenecks that needs to be overcome for reaching 2D material applications at a large scale. Liquid phase exfoliation in con... Read More about Direct Evidence of the Exfoliation Efficiency and Graphene Dispersibility of Green Solvents toward Sustainable Graphene Production.

Temperature as a key parameter for graphene sono-exfoliation in water (2022)
Journal Article
Kaur, A., Morton, J. A., Tyurnina, A. V., Priyadarshi, A., Holland, A., Mi, J., Porfyrakis, K., Eskin, D. G., & Tzanakis, I. (2022). Temperature as a key parameter for graphene sono-exfoliation in water. Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 90, Article 106187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultsonch.2022.106187

Graphene dispersions in water are highly desirable for a range of applications such as biomedicines, separation membranes, coatings, inkjet printing and more. Recent novel research has been focussed on developing a green approach for scalable product... Read More about Temperature as a key parameter for graphene sono-exfoliation in water.

Multiscale interactions of liquid, bubbles and solid phases in ultrasonic fields revealed by multiphysics modelling and ultrafast X-ray imaging (2022)
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Qin, L., Porfyrakis, K., Tzanakis, I., Grobert, N., Eskin, D. G., Fezzaa, K., & Mi, J. (2022). Multiscale interactions of liquid, bubbles and solid phases in ultrasonic fields revealed by multiphysics modelling and ultrafast X-ray imaging. Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 89, Article 106158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultsonch.2022.106158

The volume of fluid (VOF) and continuous surface force (CSF) methods were used to develop a bubble dynamics model for the simulation of bubble oscillation and implosion dynamics under ultrasound. The model was calibrated and validated by the X-ray im... Read More about Multiscale interactions of liquid, bubbles and solid phases in ultrasonic fields revealed by multiphysics modelling and ultrafast X-ray imaging.

Effect of trace boron on grain refinement of commercially pure aluminum by Al–5Ti–1B (2022)
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XIAO, F., WU, M. X., WANG, Y. X., ZHOU, W. Z., WANG, S. B., WANG, D. H., ZHU, G. L., JIANG, M., SHU, D., MI, J. W., & SUN, B. D. (2022). Effect of trace boron on grain refinement of commercially pure aluminum by Al–5Ti–1B. Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China, 32(4), 1061-1069. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1003-6326%2822%2965855-2

The effect of boron content on grain refinement of commercially pure aluminum by Al–5Ti–1B was quantitatively assessed. When the boron content is less than 0.03 wt.%, the refining performance of Al–5Ti–1B gradually is weakened as the boron content in... Read More about Effect of trace boron on grain refinement of commercially pure aluminum by Al–5Ti–1B.

Study of the composition, processing and microstructure relationship of light alloys (2022)
Thesis
Sumayli, A. I. Study of the composition, processing and microstructure relationship of light alloys. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4508161

This research consists of two main parts. The first part concerns the study of the effect of pulse electromagnetic fields on the microstructural evolution and the hardness of an Al-20%Si alloy. A pulse magnetic field apparatus is used to produce diff... Read More about Study of the composition, processing and microstructure relationship of light alloys.

Synchrotron x-ray total scattering and modeling study of high-pressure-induced inhomogeneous atom reconfiguration in an equiatomic Zr50Cu50 metallic glassy alloy (2022)
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Luo, S., Khong, J. C., Daisenberger, D., Huang, S., McMillan, P. F., & Mi, J. (2022). Synchrotron x-ray total scattering and modeling study of high-pressure-induced inhomogeneous atom reconfiguration in an equiatomic Zr50Cu50 metallic glassy alloy. Physical Review B, 105(6), Article 064203. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.105.064203

We studied in situ the local atomic structure evolution of an equiatomic Zr50Cu50 metallic glassy alloy under high pressure compression inside a diamond anvil cell using synchrotron x-ray total scattering. The empirical potential structure refinement... Read More about Synchrotron x-ray total scattering and modeling study of high-pressure-induced inhomogeneous atom reconfiguration in an equiatomic Zr50Cu50 metallic glassy alloy.

3D local atomic structure evolution in a solidifying Al-0.4Sc dilute alloy melt revealed in operando by synchrotron X-ray total scattering and modelling (2022)
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Huang, S., Luo, S., Qin, L., Shu, D., Sun, B., Lunt, A. J. G., Korsunsky, A. M., & Mi, J. (2022). 3D local atomic structure evolution in a solidifying Al-0.4Sc dilute alloy melt revealed in operando by synchrotron X-ray total scattering and modelling. Scripta materialia, 211, Article 114484. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2021.114484

Using synchrotron X-ray total scattering and empirical potential structure refinement modelling, we studied systematically in operando condition the disorder-to-order local atomic structure transition in a pure Al and a dilute Al-0.4Sc alloy melt in... Read More about 3D local atomic structure evolution in a solidifying Al-0.4Sc dilute alloy melt revealed in operando by synchrotron X-ray total scattering and modelling.

Ultrasound cavitation induced nucleation in metal solidification: an analytical model and validation by real-time experiments (2021)
Journal Article
Huang, H., Qin, L., Tang, H., Shu, D., Yan, W., Sun, B., & Mi, J. (2021). Ultrasound cavitation induced nucleation in metal solidification: an analytical model and validation by real-time experiments. Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 80, Article 105832. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultsonch.2021.105832

Microstructural refinement of metallic alloys via ultrasonic melt processing (USMP) is an environmentally friendly and promising method. However, so far there has been no report in open literature on how to predict the solidified microstructures and... Read More about Ultrasound cavitation induced nucleation in metal solidification: an analytical model and validation by real-time experiments.