PRX Energy - July 2023

PRX Energy View Email Online   Volume 2, Issue 3 (partial) July - September 2023   View Issue   Advertisement First content from PRX Life is now online! The first published articles from PRX Life, APS's new interdisciplinary, open-access journal exclusively for quantitative biological research, are now online. Access highly selective research at the intersection of physics and biology every month by signing up for alerts.     Advertisement Deadline August 4: 2024 APS Committee Nominations 2024 Committee Nominations are currently open, and will close August 4. Please nominate colleagues (or yourself). Service by APS's diverse, talented, and engaged membership strengthens our community and enhances the leadership skills of committee members.     Advertisement APS General Election: Meet the Candidates Get to know the candidates for Vice President, General Councilor, International Councilor, and Chair-Elect of the Nominating Committee. Polls are currently open, and will close August 25. Learn more.     Not an APS member? Join today to start connecting with a community of more than 50,000 physicists.   Air-Sensitivity Study on LiNiO2 Layered Cathode Materials by Using Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations Xian-Qi Xu, Jun-Yan Chen, Jia-Hua Liu, Yi-Ning Jia, Chi Fang, Jun-Yu Jiao, Feng Pan, Jia-Xin Zheng, Yao Jiang, Bo Xu, and Chu-Ying Ouyang PRX Energy 2, 033001 (2023) – Published 6 July 2023 Using simulations, this study explores the atomic-scale mechanism of air sensitivity of a LiNiO2 cathode material; consequently, doping strategies are proposed to improve stability for lithium batteries.     Quantum Dynamics for Energetic Advantage in a Charge-Based Classical Full Adder João P. Moutinho, Marco Pezzutto, Sagar Silva Pratapsi, Francisco Ferreira da Silva, Silvano De Franceschi, Sougato Bose, António T. Costa, and Yasser Omar PRX Energy 2, 033002 (2023) – Published 12 July 2023 A proposal for quantum-based classical computation shows how approaches from quantum computing may enable energy-efficient classical information processing and highlights energy costs that currently limit this technology.     Geodesic Lower Bound of the Energy Consumption to Achieve Membrane Separation within Finite Time Jin-Fu Chen, Ruo-Xun Zhai, C. P. Sun, and Hui Dong PRX Energy 2, 033003 (2023) – Published 19 July 2023 Membrane technologies promise energy-efficient processes for separation of mixtures. The tradeoff between operation time and energy consumption posts constraint on the optimization of such processes. Here the authors establish an equivalence between optimizing the energy consumption within given operation time to finding the geodesic curve in a geometric space.     Thermal Contributions to the Local and Long-Range Structural Disorder in CH3NH3PbBr3 Nicholas J. Weadock, Cameron MacKeen, Xixi Qin, Louis Waquier, Yevgeny Rakita, Julian A. Vigil, Hemamala I. Karunadasa, Volker Blum, Michael F. Toney, and Frank Bridges PRX Energy 2, 033004 (2023) – Published 21 July 2023 A combination of experimental techniques and simulations show that thermally activated dynamics are the main component of structural disorder in lead halide perovskites, rather than static disorder.     Comparative Study of Magnetocaloric Properties for Gd3+ Compounds with Different Frustrated Lattice Geometries EliseAnne C. Koskelo, Paromita Mukherjee, Cheng Liu, Alice C. Sackville Hamilton, Harapan S. Ong, Claudio Castelnovo, M.E. Zhitomirsky, and Siân E. Dutton PRX Energy 2, 033005 (2023) – Published 31 July 2023 Using experiment and simulations, a comparison of four candidate magnetocaloric materials provides insight for the design of efficient refrigerant materials.       American Physical Society: 1 Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740 ©2023 American Physical Society | All rights reserved   You are receiving this email because you are subscribed to Table of Content alerts. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, please update your preferences.