• Hydrogen trapping and diffusion in polycrystalline nickel: the spectrum of grain boundary segregation 

      Ding, Yu; Yu, Haiyang; Lin, Meichao; Ortiz, Michael; Xiao, Senbo; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      Hydrogen as an interstitial solute at grain boundaries (GBs) can have a catastrophic impact on the mechanical properties of many metals. Despite the global research effort, the underlying hydrogen-GB interactions in ...
    • Hydrogen trapping and diffusion in polycrystalline nickel: the spectrum of grain boundary segregation 

      Ding, Yu; Yu, Haiyang; Lin, Meichao; Ortiz, Michael; Xiao, Senbo; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Hydrogen as an interstitial solute at grain boundaries (GBs) can have a catastrophic impact on the mechanical properties of many metals. Despite the global research effort, the underlying hydrogen-GB interactions in ...
    • Hydrogen-enhanced grain boundary vacancy stockpiling causes transgranular to intergranular fracture transition 

      Ding, Yu; Yu, Haiyang; Lin, Meichao; Zhao, Kai; Xiao, Senbo; Vinogradov, Alexei; Qiao, Lijie; Ortiz, Michael; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      The attention to hydrogen embrittlement (HE) has been intensified recently in the light of hydrogen as a carbon-free energy carrier. Despite worldwide research, the multifaceted HE mechanism remains a matter of debate. ...
    • Hydrogen-induced transgranular to intergranular fracture transition in bi-crystalline Nickel 

      Ding, Yu; Yu, Haiyang; Zhao, Kai; Lin, Meichao; Xiao, Senbo; Ortiz, Michael; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      It is known that hydrogen can influence the dislocation plasticity and fracture mode transition of metallic materials, however, the nanoscale interaction mechanism between hydrogen and grain boundary largely remains illusive. ...
    • An interfacial gas-enrichment strategy for mitigating hydrate adhesion and blockage 

      Ma, Rui; Xiao, Senbo; Chang, Yuanhao; Fu, Yuequn; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Unwanted gas hydrates blockage is a threat to the safety of oil-gas pipeline systems. Deploying passive anti-hydrate surfaces is a promising approach to circumventing the long-lasting hydrate problem, and a precise ...
    • Liquid layer generator for excellent icephobicity at extremely low temperature 

      Wang, Feng; Xiao, Senbo; Zhuo, Yizhi; Ding, Wenwu; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Progress in icephobicity has been made in recent years. However, the majority of the icephobic surfaces reported are relying on mechanisms of static nature, and maintaining low ice adhesion of these surfaces at extreme ...
    • Machine Learning Based Prediction of Nanoscale Ice Adhesion on Rough Surfaces 

      Ringdahl, Simen; Xiao, Senbo; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      It is widely recognized that surface roughness plays an important role in ice adhesion strength, although the correlation between the two is far from understood. In this paper, two approaches, molecular dynamics (MD) ...
    • Modeling nanoscale ice adhesion 

      Xiao, Senbo; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Anti-icing is crucial for numerous instruments and devices in low temperature circumstance. One of the approaches in anti-icing is to reduce ice adhesion strength, seeking spontaneous de-icing processes by natural forces ...
    • Nanoconfined Water Dynamics in Multilayer Graphene Nanopores 

      Pan, Junchao; Xiao, Senbo; Zhang, Zhiliang; Wei, Ning; He, Jianying; Zhao, Junhua (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Water dynamics in frictionless carbon nanotubes and across ultrathin graphene nanopores have been extensively studied. In contrast, the fundamental properties of nanoconfined water in multilayer graphene nanopores (MGPNs), ...
    • Nanomechanical Characteristics of Trapped Oil Droplets with Nanoparticles: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation 

      Chang, Yuanhao; Xiao, Senbo; Fu, Yuequn; Wang, Xiao; Zhang, Zhiliang; He, Jianying (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Nanoparticles (NPs) possess great potentials in applications to enhanced oil recovery (EOR), the underlying mechanisms of which however remain to be explored. In this study, the motion of NPs and the local pressure ...
    • Nanoscale Correlations of Ice Adhesion Strength and Water Contact Angle 

      Rønneberg, Sigrid; Xiao, Senbo; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Surfaces with low ice adhesion represent a promising strategy to achieve passive anti-icing performance. However, as a successful and robust low ice adhesion surface must be tested under realistic conditions at low ...
    • Nanoscale Deicing by Molecular Dynamics Simulation 

      Xiao, Senbo; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Deicing is important to human activities in low-temperature circumstances, and is critical to combat the damages caused by excessive accumulation of ice. The aim of creating anti-icing materials, surfaces and applications ...
    • Nanoscale Hydrate Adhesion on Organic Surfaces 

      Ma, Rui; Xiao, Senbo; Chang, Yuanhao; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      The future of addressing persistent gas hydrate blockages in oil and gas pipelines lies in the realm of surface material design, aimed at reducing environmental harm and energy inefficiencies associated with traditional ...
    • Nature-inspired Entwined Coiled Carbon Mechanical Metamaterials: Molecular Dynamics Simulations 

      Wu, Jianyang; shi, qiao; Zhang, Zhisen; Wu, Hong-Hui; Wang, Chao; Ning, Fulong; Xiao, Senbo; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Journal article, 2018)
      Entwining-induced robust natural biosystems show superior mechanical performances over the counterpart. However, the role played by topological entwinement on the mechanical properties of artificial nanohelixes remains ...
    • One-Step Fabrication of Bioinspired Lubricant-Regenerable Icephobic Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces (SLIPS) 

      Zhuo, Yizhi; Wang, Feng; Xiao, Senbo; Zhang, Zhiliang; He, Jianying (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Icephobic coating and surfaces are essential for protecting infrastructures such as transmission lines, transportation vehicles, and many others from severe damages of excessive icing. The slippery liquid-infused porous ...
    • Onion inspired hydrate-phobic surfaces 

      Wang, Feng; Xiao, Senbo; He, Jing; Ning, Fulong; Ma, Rui; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Hydrate plugging in gas- and oil-production and transport systems has long been a critical challenge. Traditional hydrate mitigation strategies through applying chemicals and thermal destabilization are costly and ...
    • Phonon thermal transport in copper: the effect of size, crystal orientation and grain boundaries 

      Sæther, Sandra; Merete Falck, Erichsen; Xiao, Senbo; Zhang, Zhiliang; Lervik, Anders; He, Jianying (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      In electronic devices at the micro- and nanoscale, thermal management is vital. At such small sizes, crystal orientation, grain boundaries, and even the size itself can play an important role in the thermal transport and ...
    • Polysiloxane as icephobic materials – the past, present and the future 

      Zhuo, Yizhi; Xiao, Senbo; Amirfazli, Alidad; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Polysiloxane is one of the most favorite polymeric materials used in the emerging field of passive surface icephobicity; This is due to its tailorable softness, hydrophobicity, and relatively high durability. Given the ...
    • A quantitative study of salinity effect on water diffusion in n-alkane phases: from pore-scale experiments to molecular dynamic simulation 

      Yan, Lifei; Chang, Yuanhao; Hassanizadeh, S. Majid; Xiao, Senbo; Raoof, Amir; Berg, Carl Fredrik; He, Jianying (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Numerous mechanisms have been proposed to untangle the effect of a low concentration of dissolved salts in the water flooding medium. One potential mechanism for enhanced oil movement is proposed with osmosis effect, ...
    • Raman antenna effect from exciton–phonon coupling in organic semiconducting nanobelts 

      Wang, Mao; Gong, Yi; Alzina, Francesc; Svoboda, Ondrej; Ballesteros, , Belén; Sotomayor Torres, Clivia M.; Xiao, Senbo; Zhang, Zhiliang; He, Jianying (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The highly anisotropic interactions in organic semiconductors together with the soft character of organic materials lead to strong coupling between nuclear vibrations and exciton dynamics, which potentially results in ...