Realized stable BP-N at ambient pressure by phosphorus doping by Guo Chen, Chengfeng Zhang, Yuanqin Zhu, Bingqing Cao, Jie Zhang, Xianlong Wang

“…However, unlike cubic gauche, layered polymeric, and hexagonal layered polymeric nitrogen (cg-N, LP-N, and HLP-N), it is always a metastable phase at high pressures up to 260 GPa, and decomposes into chains at 23 GPa. …”
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Mortality Reimagined: Going through Deleuze’s Encounter with Death by Sariyar Murat

“…First, I explore how Deleuze characterizes the ego as a metastable entity – inherently fragile and prone to disintegration. …”
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The Use of Agricultural Waste Straw to Enhance Loess Shearing Behaviour: An Experimental Investigation by Lin Wang, Wen-Chieh Cheng, Zhong-Fei Xue

“…This issue is more distinct for loess soil than other soils since it is characterised by metastable microstructure, high porosity, and water sensitivity. …”
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Cooperation in the face of crisis: effect of demographic noise in collective-risk social dilemmas by José F. Fontanari

“…We use simulations and finite-size scaling to show that cooperators eventually die off and derive scaling laws for the transient lifetimes or half-lives of the coexistence metastable state. We find that for high risk, the half-life of cooperators increases exponentially with population size, while for low risk, it decreases exponentially with population size. …”
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Surface Subsidence Control during Deep Backfill Coal Mining: A Case Study by Baiyi Li, Nan Zhou, Wenyue Qi, Ailing Li, Zhizhong Cui

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Observation of magnetic skyrmion lattice in Cr0.82Mn0.18Ge by small-angle neutron scattering by Victor Ukleev, Tapas Samanta, Oleg I. Utesov, Jonathan S. White, Luana Caron

“…Additionally, we demonstrate the persistence of a metastable SkL at 2 K, even at zero field. These findings advance our understanding of magnetic textures in Cr-based B20 compounds, highlighting Cr0.82Mn0.18Ge as a promising material for further exploration in topological magnetism.…”
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Identification of Fe-bearing phases in the as-cast microstructure of AA6026 alloy and their evolution during homogenization treatment by Radetić T., Popović M., Novaković M., Rajić V., Romhanji E.

“…During homogenization, the metastable δ-Al4(Fe,Mn)Si2 transformed into the α-Al(Fe,Mn)Si phase and fragmented. …”
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Strain-Dependence of the Structure and Ferroic Properties of Epitaxial NiTiO3 Thin Films Grown on Different Substrates by Tamas Varga, Timothy C. Droubay, Mark E. Bowden, Libor Kovarik, Dehong Hu, Scott A. Chambers

“…We set out to stabilize this metastable perovskite structure by growing NiTiO3 epitaxially on different substrates and to investigate the dependence of polar and magnetic properties on strain. …”
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Effect of Beam Power on Intermetallic Compound Formation of Electron Beam-Welded Cu and Al6082-T6 Dissimilar Joints by Darina Kaisheva, Georgi Kotlarski, Maria Ormanova, Borislav Stoyanov, Vladimir Dunchev, Angel Anchev, Stefan Valkov

“…A number of intermetallic compounds (IMCs) were formed, including the metastable Cu₉Al₄ one. An increase in the power of the electron beam reduced the cooling rate and increased the miscibility between the materials. …”
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Diffusion Behaviors of Hydrogen Isotopes in Incoloy 800H: A First-Principles Study by Hongyu Chen, Hong Li, Chuan Li, Jianzhu Cao, Chao Fang

“…Numerical results reveal that the starting and ending positions of the diffusion process are the two adjacent and most stable octahedral sites surrounded by Fe atoms and Ni atoms, and the diffusion follows an indirect path via the metastable tetrahedral sites and octahedral sites surrounded by Fe atoms and Cr atoms. …”
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Pre-martensite and bainite reactions: A thermal stability study by Aleksandra Królicka, José Antonio Jimenez, Francisca G. Caballero

“…Moreover, TEM and STEM/EDS studies revealed precipitation processes associated with the decomposition of the metastable bainitic and bainitic-martensitic structures during the tempering. …”
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Investigation on structural and magnetic properties of the mechanosynthesized Fe-doped ZrO2-15mol%Y2O3 by Sari Ali, Keddam Mourad, Ouanezar Abdelkader, Malki Abderrahim

“…It has been found that there was no sign of tetragonal to metastable m-ZrO2 transition after annealing in the temperature range 500-1100°C keeping the tetragonal phase rich in Y3+ structurally stable. …”
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Electric-field manipulation of magnetization in an insulating dilute ferromagnet through piezoelectromagnetic coupling by Dariusz Sztenkiel, Katarzyna Gas, Nevill Gonzalez Szwacki, Marek Foltyn, Cezary Śliwa, Tomasz Wojciechowski, Jarosław Z. Domagala, Detlef Hommel, Maciej Sawicki, Tomasz Dietl

“…Employing a macroscopic spin model and atomistic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert theory with Langevin dynamics, we demonstrate that the magnetoelectric response results from the inverse piezoelectric effect that changes the trigonal single-ion magnetocrystalline anisotropy. Second, in the metastable regime of ferromagnetic hystereses, the magnetoelectric effect becomes non-linear and irreversible in response to a time-dependent electric field, which can reorient the magnetization direction. …”
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Ammonia electrosynthesis from nitrate using a stable amorphous/crystalline dual-phase Cu catalyst by Yi Wang, Shuo Wang, Yunfan Fu, Jiaqi Sang, Pengfei Wei, Rongtan Li, Dunfeng Gao, Guoxiong Wang, Xinhe Bao

“…This work underscores the importance of stabilizing metastable amorphous structures for improving electrocatalytic reactivity and long-term stability.…”
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Long Noncoding RNAs, Chromatin, and Development by Daniel P. Caley, Ryan C. Pink, Daniel Trujillano, David R. F. Carter

“…We suggest that lncRNAs are at the heart of developmental regulation, determining the epigenetic status and transcriptional network in any given cell type, and that they provide a means to integrate external differentiation cues with dynamic nuclear responses through the regulation of a metastable epigenome. Better characterization of the lncRNA-protein "interactome" may eventually lead to a new molecular toolkit, allowing researchers and clinicians to modulate the genome at the epigenetic level to treat conditions such as cancer.…”
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Silver Molybdate and Silver Tungstate Nanocomposites with Enhanced Photoluminescence by Yuri V. B. De Santana, José Ernane Cardoso Gomes, Leandro Matos, Guilherme Henrique Cruvinel, André Perrin, Christiane Perrin, Juan Andrès, José A. Varela, Elson Longo

“…In contrast, the Ag2WO4 obtained in the two syntheses were structurally different: MAH exhibited the well-known tetrameric stable structure α-Ag2WO4, while coprecipitation afforded the metastable β-Ag2WO4 allotrope, coexisting with a weak amount of the α-phase. …”
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Dynamic Nonlinear and Residual Deformation Behaviors of the Fly Ash-Modified Loess by Qian Wang, Jun Wang, Xiumei Zhong, Haiping Ma, Xiaowei Xu

“…Metastable loess soils can deform, inducing geological and engineering disasters. …”
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Detectability of Emission from Exoplanet Outflows Calculated by pyTPCI, a New 1D Radiation-hydrodynamic Code by Riley Rosener, Michael Zhang, Jacob L. Bean

“…We show that the most detectable spectral lines tend to be the 589 nm Na i doublet and the 1083 nm metastable helium triplet. H α and Mg i 457 nm are moderately strong for some planets at some metallicities, but they are almost always optically thin, so some of their emission may not be from the outflow. …”
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Kinetics of grain growth in Ti-2.7Al-5.7Fe-6Mo-6V alloy by Mutava T.D., Cornish L.A., Sigalas I.

“…The metastable (βTi) alloy Ti-2.7Al-5.7Fe-6Mo-6V (wt%) was produced by semi-centrifugal casting of blended elemental powders. …”
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Role of sulphate-based additives on the early age properties of Portland cement incorporating alumina-rich ladle furnace slag by Chee Lok Yong, Tee How Tan, Haider Hamad Ghayeb, Suhana Koting, Kim Hung Mo

“…Ladle furnace slag (LFS) is a by-product of the steelmaking industry, mainly comprises calcium aluminate in the form of C12A7, forming C3AH6 upon hydration, which offers lower strength lower strength than metastable products like CAH10 and C2AH8. Introducing sulphate into LFS enhances mechanical strength through the formation of ettringite. …”
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