Molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂) is a layered material from the transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) family, widely applied in areas ranging from tribological coatings to electronics, optics, and catalysis. However, pure TMD coatings face limitations in tribological applications due to their low hardness and poor oxidation resistance. To address these issues, combining TMDs with carbon has emerged...
Magnetoelastic interactions are responsible for many interesting phenomena such as Joule magnetostriction, the Wiedemann effect, the Villari effect, effects on sound velocity, and many others. In this work[1], we investigate the effect of microstructure on saturation magnetostriction of Terfenol-D (Tb0.27Dy0.73Fe2) by means of Finite Element Method. The model is based on the equilibrium...
There are conflicting literature reports related to Fe-Sn intermetallic phases, when, for example, the FeSn2 phase is theoretically predicted to be dynamically unstable due to imaginary phonon modes (see, e.g, C.-J. Yu et al., New J. Chem. 44 (2020) 21218, DOI:10.1039/d0nj04537c). We have, therefore, performed a combined theoretical and experimental study of both FeSn2 and FeSn intermetallics....
