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Rare-earth tantalates for next-generation thermal barrier coatings

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Advances in theory and computational methods for next-generation thermoelectric materials

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Applied Physics Reviews, 2025, 12
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Entropy engineering design for regulating the thermal and electrical transport in tantalate thermistor ceramics

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Post-annealing effects on (00l) texture, Cl/Se ratio, and electrical and glass-like thermal transport in Bi₄O₄SeCl₂

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High‐entropy effects enhance atomic displacements to manipulate thermal/oxygen ionic transport properties of ordered RE3MO7 ceramics

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Rare Metals, 2025, 44, 10660
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Tailoring the fracture toughness of fluorite-type rare-earth tantalates: From atomic scale fracture mechanism to bond-mediated toughening design

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Acta Materialia, 2026, 304, 121820
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A critical review on medium- and high-entropy thermoelectric alloys

Rong-Chun Chen, Xiao-Lei Shi, Hui-Jun Kang, En-Yu Guo, Zong-Ning Chen, Yi-Ping Lu, Tong-Min Wang and Zhi-Gang Chen

Materials Today, 2025, 90, 815
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Optimizing thermal insulation in thermal barrier coatings with defect-fluorite-structured high-entropy oxides

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Ceramics International, 2025, 51, 64416
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Heat transport and ionic dynamics in pure and mixed molten salts

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Physics of Fluids, 2025, 37
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Thermal Conductivities of Fluorite LnO2 and Bixbyite Ln2O3 Epitaxial Films (Ln = Ce, Pr, and Tb)

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Nanomechanical properties of RENbO4 (RE = La, Gd, Dy, Y, Yb) ceramics: A comprehensive investigation by nano indentation

Xiang Jiang, Lin Chen, Di Zhang, Shixiao Yan, Xiaoliang Sun, Jiankun Wang, Baihui Li, Guiyu Xue and Jing Feng

J Am Ceram Soc., 2025, 108
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Exceptional Thermoelectric Performance of Naturally High‐Entropy Pavonite Ag3Pb4Bi11Se22 with Unique Quasi‐Superlattice Structure and Sextuple Conduction Valleys

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Advanced Energy Materials, 2026
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Oxygen ion diffusion in RE3TaO7: Why long-range migration of O2− is prohibited in the defective-fluorite structure?

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Acta Materialia, 2024, 281, 120362
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The (RE10.5RE20.5)2Zr2O7 zirconates as a promising thermal insulating material dedicated to high-temperature applications

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Journal of Power Sources, 2025, 653, 237742
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Cu7.62Bi6Se12Cl6I: Discovery of a Low Band Gap, Low Thermal Conductivity Mixed-Anion Material

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Chem. Mater., 2026
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Thermoelectric study of A-site populated (Ca0.2Bi0.2Sr0.2La0.2Pr0.2)MnO3 high entropy manganate

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Mechanism on lattice thermal conductivity of carbon-vacancy and porous medium entropy ceramics

Xianteng Zhou, Yuanji Xu, Yue Chen and Fuyang Tian

Scripta Materialia, 2025, 259, 116568
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