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Christopher P. Race coauthored An atomistic modelling study of the properties of dislocation loops in zirconium by Rory Hulse and Christopher P. Race. The work constructs and relaxes atomistic models of dislocation loops in zirconium, comparing their energies, shapes and orientations. Such comparisons help connect microscopic defects with irradiation growth in a structural material.[ref]
M. Bober is an author of Plutonium redistribution in fast reactor mixed oxide fuel pins by M. Bober and others. The study uses autoradiographs of irradiated fuel to examine how plutonium redistributes, considering thermal diffusion, evaporation–condensation and oxygen chemistry. The contribution is a spatial measurement of fuel evolution rather than an assumption that its starting composition remains uniform.[ref]
A. S. Fraser coauthored High-temperature Embrittlement of Stainless Steel irradiated in Fast Fluxes by A. S. Fraser and others. The paper connects reduced high-temperature ductility after irradiation with a helium embrittlement mechanism involving grain boundaries. Its thin-foil observations relate a microscopic damage structure to the mechanical response of stainless steel.[ref]
Enrico Lucon is an author of NIST Software Package for Obtaining Charpy Transition Curves by Enrico Lucon and others. The report explains fitting and interpreting Charpy impact test measurements across a ductile-to-brittle transition. Absorbed energy, lateral expansion and fracture appearance supply different descriptions of the transition, so the reported transition temperature depends on the chosen criterion.[ref]
E. R. Gilbert coauthored The influence of cold-work level on the irradiation creep and swelling of AISI 316 stainless steel by E. R. Gilbert and F. A. Garner. Measurements of pressurized stainless steel tubes exposed in a fast reactor separate irradiation creep, void swelling and other contributions to strain. The study compares annealed and cold-worked specimens after correcting for the stress dependence of swelling.[ref]
F. A. Garner coauthored The influence of cold-work level on the irradiation creep and swelling of AISI 316 stainless steel by E. R. Gilbert and F. A. Garner. Measurements of pressurized stainless steel tubes exposed in a fast reactor separate irradiation creep, void swelling and other contributions to strain. The study compares annealed and cold-worked specimens after correcting for the stress dependence of swelling.[ref]
Olga Bubnova is the first-listed author of Optimization of the thermoelectric figure of merit in PEDOT by Olga Bubnova and others. The work studies a conducting polymer as a material exhibiting the thermoelectric effect, connecting its electrical transport, Seebeck coefficient and thermal conductivity. It makes organic conductors part of the materials question expressed by the thermoelectric figure of merit.[ref]
H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia writes explanatory accounts of microstructure and deformation in engineering materials. Nickel based superalloy: dislocation structure by H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia interprets paired dislocations after creep, while Tempered Martensite by H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia connects heat treatment to the structure of martensite. Both use observable structures to explain a material's mechanical behaviour.[ref][ref]
Tempered Martensite by H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. microstructural account
Yanhui Zhang supplied the transmission electron microscopy image reproduced in Nickel based superalloy: dislocation structure by H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. It shows paired dislocation loops in a nickel-based superalloy after creep testing. The source credits the image explicitly; this establishes the contribution without inferring an unrelated same-name biography.[ref]
Nickel based superalloy: dislocation structure by H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. micrograph credit and interpretation
Xintao Zhu coauthored Grain Selection in a High-Efficiency 2D Grain Selector During Casting of Single-Crystal Superalloys by Xintao Zhu and others. The experiments use optical microscopy and electron backscatter diffraction to follow competitive growth of crystal grains in a nickel-based superalloy. Varying the selector geometry tests how one crystal grain survives to form a single crystal.[ref]
Fu Wang coauthored Grain Selection in a High-Efficiency 2D Grain Selector During Casting of Single-Crystal Superalloys by Xintao Zhu and others. The experiments use optical microscopy and electron backscatter diffraction to follow competitive growth of crystal grains in a nickel-based superalloy. Varying the selector geometry tests how one crystal grain survives to form a single crystal.[ref]
Dexin Ma coauthored Grain Selection in a High-Efficiency 2D Grain Selector During Casting of Single-Crystal Superalloys by Xintao Zhu and others. The experiments use optical microscopy and electron backscatter diffraction to follow competitive growth of crystal grains in a nickel-based superalloy. Varying the selector geometry tests how one crystal grain survives to form a single crystal.[ref]
Andreas Bührig-Polaczek coauthored Grain Selection in a High-Efficiency 2D Grain Selector During Casting of Single-Crystal Superalloys by Xintao Zhu and others. The experiments use optical microscopy and electron backscatter diffraction to follow competitive growth of crystal grains in a nickel-based superalloy. Varying the selector geometry tests how one crystal grain survives to form a single crystal.[ref]
Researcher in evolutionary genomics. Singhal and collaborators studied stable recombination hotspots in birds, connecting comparative genomic evidence with questions about how the locations of genetic exchange persist through time.[ref]
Stable recombination hotspots in birds by Sonal Singhal and others. Title, author list and reported study
Researcher in molecular evolution. Chen and collaborators investigated the origin of an Antarctic fish antifreeze-glycoprotein gene from a trypsinogen gene, tracing a new biochemical adaptation to modification of an older genetic sequence.[ref]
Researcher in evolutionary genomics. Lamichhaney and collaborators investigated Darwin's finches using genome sequencing, connecting inherited sequence differences with beak variation and the history of diversification.[ref]
Researcher in reproductive genetics. Davies and collaborators re-engineered PRDM9 zinc fingers and reversed hybrid sterility in mice, connecting DNA-binding specificity with reproductive compatibility.[ref]
Researcher in developmental genetics. Halder and collaborators induced eyes at unusual body locations by directing eyeless expression in Drosophila, testing a developmental regulator through a striking gain-of-function experiment.[ref]
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