High-temperature structural disorders stabilize hydrous aluminosilicates in the mantle transition zone by Baoyun Wang, Jin Liu, Yanyao Zhang, Baisheng Nie, Wei Yang, Jialong Hao, Xing Ding, Yongjun Tian

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Magnetoresistance Effect in NiFe/BP/NiFe Vertical Spin Valve Devices by Leilei Xu, Jiafeng Feng, Kangkang Zhao, Weiming Lv, Xiufeng Han, Zhongyuan Liu, Xiaohong Xu, He Huang, Zhongming Zeng

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Transformation of M/A Constituents during Tempering and Its Effects on Impact Toughness of Weld Metals for X80 Hot Bends by Gui-ying Qiao, Xiu-lin Han, Xiao-wei Chen, Xu Wang, Bo Liao, Fu-ren Xiao

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The Kinetic Parameters of Carbonaceous Materials Activated with Potassium Hydroxide by Zou Yong, Han Bu-Xing

“…On the basis of micropore formation in carbonaceous materials, the activation energy for the potassium hydroxide activation of Chinese petroleum coke and coal has been deduced theoretically as dB 0 /dt = A exp(–E a ∈/RT), where ∈ is the formation energy for the metastable solid formed at the activation temperature. …”
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Nucleation Kinetics, Growth and Characterization Studies of a Diamagnetic Crystal-Zinc Sulphate Heptahydrate (ZSHH) by R. Kanagadurai, R. Durairajan, R. Sankar, G. Sivanesan, S. P. Elangovan, R. Jayavel

“…Solubility, metastable zone width and induction period measurements have been performed on zinc sulphate heptahydrate (ZSHH). …”
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Slow and stored light via electromagnetically induced transparency using a Λ-type superconducting artificial atom by Kai-I Chu, Xiao-Cheng Lu, Kuan-Hsun Chiang, Yen-Hsiang Lin, Chii-Dong Chen, Ite A. Yu, Wen-Te Liao, Yung-Fu Chen

“…However, the lack of a metastable state in most superconducting artificial atoms hinders the development of photonic quantum memory in this platform. …”
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Numerical simulation of a helium plasma–material interaction experiment in GyM linear device through SOLPS-ITER and ERO2.0 codes by F. Mombelli, G. Alberti, E. Tonello, C. Tuccari, A. Uccello, C. Baumann, X. Bonnin, J. Romazanov, M. Passoni, the GyM team

“…On the plasma side, simulated profiles are validated against experimental data to provide a realistic plasma background, and the role of He metastable states is assessed for the first time in SOLPS simulations. …”
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Effect of La on oxidation properties and mechanism of high-speed steel rolls by Si-Min Wang, Hao-Nan Li, Gui-Ying Qiao, Long-Sheng Peng, Yi Wang, Fu-Ren Xiao

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A multifunctional quasi-solid-state polymer electrolyte with highly selective ion highways for practical zinc ion batteries by Chengwu Yang, Pattaraporn Woottapanit, Sining Geng, Rungroj Chanajaree, Yue Shen, Kittima Lolupiman, Wanwisa Limphirat, Teerachote Pakornchote, Thiti Bovornratanaraks, Xinyu Zhang, Jiaqian Qin, Yunhui Huang

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A Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Simulation Using NAMD Package to Reveal Aggregation Profile of Phospholipids Self-Assembly in Water by Dwi Hudiyanti, Muhammad Radifar, Tri Joko Raharjo, Narsito Narsito, Sri Noegrohati

“…Our findings have highlighted the idea that liposomes and deformed liposomes are metastable phases which eventually will turn into planar bilayer, the stable one.…”
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Effect of EDTA on the Growth Kinetics and Structural and Optical Properties of KDP Crystal by Anisur Rahman, Jiban Podder

“…The solubility of potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KDP) was determined for five different temperatures. Metastable zone width of aqueous solutions of KDP saturated at different temperatures was determined by nucleation method in pure form and adding a well-known chelating agent ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (0.5 mol% EDTA). …”
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Metallic and ferromagnetic carbon allotrope discovered using molecular precursors by Hong Fang, Joel Therrien, Puru Jena

“…Here, using an organic molecular precursor 3,3-dimethyl-1-butene (C_{6}H_{12}) and a comprehensive theoretical study, we have discovered a metastable crystalline carbon phase that is both metallic and ferromagnetic under ambient conditions. …”
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Positive strain rate dependence: optimizing TRIP effect for high-speed deformation in lean duplex stainless steel by Yongxin Wang, Lei Chen, Xingzhou Cai, Motomichi Koyama, Zhenting Wang, Xiaolong Li, Zhikun Bai, Xiaocong Ma, Miao Jin

“…This discovery offers novel insights into alloy design strategies for metastable steels, improving production efficiency in forming processes.…”
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Energetics and phase diagrams of Fe-Cr and Co-Cr systems from first principles by Vreštzál J., Houserová J., Šob M.

“…Our approach is based on the two-sublattice model, similarly as for solid solution phases, but the structural energy differences for end-members in the metastable or unstable structures are obtained by means of first-principles electronic structure calculations. …”
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Ion irradiation introduced high-density core-shell structured nanoprecipitates in FeCrNi by Yizhou Qian, Xiaolei Ma, Kangkang Wen, Siyu Chen, Yiheng Chen, Yugang Wang, Tongde Shen, Gang Sha, Chenxu Wang

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Accelerated non-linear destruction of the earth's crust by E. V. Artyushkov

“…At temperature and pressure typical for this depth, basalts are metastable and should transform into another assemblage of minerals which corresponds to garnet granulites and eclogites with higher densities 3300–3600 kg m−3. …”
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An Approach to Modeling the Impact of Traffic Incident on Urban Expressway by Yaping Li, Jian Lu, HongWu Li, Huihui Xiao, Qingchao Liu

“…This study proposes a methodology to estimate the impact of traffic incident on urban expressway on the basis of modified cell transmission model. The metastable state was taken into account in the proposed method to reflect the actual operating state of traffic flow on urban expressway as much as possible. …”
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Stability and Failure Mechanism Analyses of the Zhenggang Landslide in Southwestern China by Shengnian Wang, Weiya Xu, Jinyuan Liu

“…Results of geological investigations indicate that the Zhenggang landslide has undergone sliding several times and is in a metastable state now. The distribution of the activity of the landslide is a retrogressive landslide in Zone I but an advancing landslide in Zone II. …”
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Multi-scale Laplacian community detection in heterogeneous networks by Pablo Villegas, Andrea Gabrielli, Anna Poggialini, Tommaso Gili

“…Moreover, we demonstrate the existence of a particular class of nodes, called metastable nodes, that switch regions to which they belong at different scales, likely playing a pivotal role in cross-regional communication and, therefore, in managing macroscopic effects of the whole network.…”
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Combining machine-learned and empirical force fields with the parareal algorithm: application to the diffusion of atomistic defects by Gorynina, Olga, Legoll, Frédéric, Lelièvre, Tony, Perez, Danny

“…We consider a self-interstitial atom in a tungsten lattice and compute the average residence time of the system in metastable states. Our numerical results demonstrate significant computational gains using the adaptive parareal algorithm in comparison to a sequential integration of the Langevin dynamics. …”
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