Microstructural evolution and mechanical hardening of Cr-coated MDA cladding under high-dose Fe ion irradiation

Mohamad, A. B.; Chen, J.*; Ioka, Ikuo*; Suzuki, Eriko; Kondo, Keietsu; Abe, Yosuke; Yamashita, Shinichiro; Okubo, Nariaki; Nemoto, Yoshiyuki; Okada, Yuji*; et al.

Journal of Nuclear Materials, 625, p.156513_1 - 156513_9, 2026/04

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2026.156513

Surface magnon propagation in a van der Waals Antiferromagnet

Chen, J.*; Yamamoto, Kei; 13 of others*

Physical Review Letters, 136(5), p.056702_1 - 056702_8, 2026/02

https://doi.org/10.1103/bkzn-qpqg

All-temperature barocaloric effects at pressure-induced phase transitions

Zhao, X.*; Zhang, Z.*; Hattori, Takanori; Wang, J.*; Li, L.*; Jia, Y.*; Li, W.*; Xue, J.*; Fan, X.*; Song, R.*; et al.

Nature Communications (Internet), 16, p.7713_1 - 7713_8, 2025/08

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63068-z

Caloric effects usually occur in the vicinity of solid-state phase transitions with a limited refrigeration temperature span. Here, we introduce and realize an unprecedented concept -all temperature barocaloric effect, i.e., a remarkable barocaloric effect in KPF across an exceptionally wide temperature span, from 77.5 to 300 K and potentially down to 4 K, covering typical room temperature, liquid nitrogen, liquid hydrogen, and liquid helium refrigeration regions. The directly measured barocaloric adiabatic temperature change reaches 12 K at room temperature and 2.5 K at 77.5 K upon the release of a 250 MPa pressure. This effect is attributed to a persistent phase transition to a rhombohedral high pressure phases. We depict the thermodynamic energy landscape to account for the structural instability. This unique all-temperature barocaloric effect presents a novel approach to highly applicable solid-state refrigeration technology, transcending the conventional multi-stage scenario.

SR study on the noncentrosymmetric superconductor NbGe

Jiao, J. C.*; Chen, K. W.*; Hillier, A. D.*; Ito, Takashi; Higemoto, Wataru; Li, Z.*; Lv, B.*; Xu, Z.-A.*; Shu, L.*

Physical Review B, 110(21), p.214516_1 - 214516_9, 2024/12

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.110.214516

Magnetic excitation in the hyperkagome antiferromagnet MnRhSi

Shamoto, Shinichi; Yamauchi, Hiroki; Iida, Kazuki*; Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko*; Kaneko, Koji; Chen, Y.-S.*; Yano, Shinichiro*; Hsu, P.-T.*; Lee, M. K.*; Hall, A. E.*; et al.

Physical Review Research (Internet), 6(3), p.033303_1 - 033303_7, 2024/09

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.033303

The magnetic excitation extends at least from 0.3 to 140 meV. The integrated inelastic scattering intensity leads to a localized magnetic moment of about 5 per Mn site fluctuating at 200 K in the wide energy range, although the long-range ordered magnetic moment is only 2.61 at 4 K. The result suggests that a large part of the magnetic moment does not order in MnRhSi.

Giant barocaloric effects in sodium hexafluorophosphate and hexafluoroarsenate

Zhang, Z.*; Hattori, Takanori; Song, R.*; Yu, D.*; Mole, R.*; Chen, J.*; He, L.*; Zhang, Z.*; Li, B.*

Journal of Applied Physics, 136(3), p.035105_1 - 035105_8, 2024/07

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0211085

Solid-state refrigeration using barocaloric materials is environmentally friendly and highly efficient, making it a subject of global interest over the past decade. Here, we report giant barocaloric effects in sodium hexafluorophosphate (NaPF) and sodium hexafluoroarsenate (NaAsF) that both undergo a cubic-to-rhombohedral phase transition near room temperature. We have determined that the low-temperature phase structure of NaPF is a rhombohedral structure with space group R and NaAsF, i.e., F, E, and A. The phase transition temperature varies with pressure at a rate of dT/dP = 250 and 310 K/GPa for NaPF and NaAsF. The pressure-induced entropy changes of NaPF and NaAsF are determined to be around 45.2 and 35.6J kgK, respectively. The saturation driving pressure is about 40 MPa. The pressure-dependent neutron powder diffraction suggests that the barocaloric effects are related to the pressure-induced cubic-to-rhombohedral phase transitions.

Direct observations of dynamic and reverse transformation of Ti-6Al-4V alloy and pure titanium

Guo, B.*; Chen, H.*; Chong, Y.*; Mao, W.; Harjo, S.; Gong, W.; Zhang, Z.*; Jonas, J. J.*; Tsuji, Nobuhiro*

Acta Materialia, 268, p.119780_1 - 119780_11, 2024/04

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2024.119780

Comparison of dose and risk estimates between ISS Partner Agencies for a 30-day Lunar Mission

Shavers, M. R.*; Semones, E. J.*; Shurshakov, V.*; Dobynde, M.*; Sato, Tatsuhiko; Komiyama, Tatsuto*; Tomi, L.*; Chen, J.*; El-Jaby, S.*; Straube, U.*; et al.

Journal of Medical Physics - Zeitschrift fr medizinische Physik -, 34(1), p.31 - 43, 2024/02

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zemedi.2023.10.005

The Partner Agencies of the International Space Station (ISS) present an intracomparison of the ionizing radiation absorbed dose and risk quantities used to characterize example mission lunar space. The results and the work itself provide insights to the level of agreement with which space agencies can perform organ dosimetry and calculate effective dose. This work was performed in collaboration with the advisory and guidance efforts of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) Task Group 115 and will be presented in an ICRP Report

Quantum critical behavior of the hyperkagome magnet MnCoSi

Yamauchi, Hiroki; Sari, D. P.*; Yasui, Yukio*; Sakakura, Terutoshi*; Kimura, Hiroyuki*; Nakao, Akiko*; Ohara, Takashi; Honda, Takashi*; Kodama, Katsuaki; Igawa, Naoki; et al.

Physical Review Research (Internet), 6(1), p.013144_1 - 013144_9, 2024/02

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.013144

Chiral Dirac fermion in a collinear antiferromagnet

Zhang, A.*; Deng, K.*; Sheng, J.*; Liu, P.*; Kumar, S.*; Shimada, Kenya*; Jiang, Z.*; Liu, Z.*; Shen, D.*; Li, J.*; et al.

Chinese Physics Letters, 40(12), p.126101_1 - 126101_8, 2023/12

https://doi.org/10.1088/0256-307X/40/12/126101