Episodes 34
Avg. Duration 18m
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Since Dec 2024
Latest Episode Feb 2026

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About This Podcast

An audio digest of selected open-access publications in materials science. Episodes include AI-generated summaries as well as complete audio versions of peer-reviewed papers. Topics span atomistic simulations, microstructure–property relationships, mechanical behavior of metals and alloys, sustainability, and digitalization in materials research. All original publications are fully cited and linked in each episode description. The audio is generated using the open-source tool Science2Go (https://github.com/biterik/science2go).

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S7E5 Solute adsorption, disconnections, and grain growth: Potentially critical aspects of microstructural evolution

Feb 19, 2026 31m

This is an audio version of the paper "Solute adsorption, disconnections, and grain growth: Potentially critical aspects of microstructural evolution" by Rachel Marder, W. Craig Carter, Wayne D.…

S7E4 Probing grain-boundary structure, chemistry, and transitions

Feb 19, 2026 49m

This is an audio version of the paper "Probing grain-boundary structure, chemistry, and transitions" by Siyuan Zhang, Eleonora Isotta, Ruben Bueno-Villoro, Christina Scheu, published 2026 in MRS…

S7E3 Defect phases beyond grain boundaries

Feb 19, 2026 51m

This is an audio version of the paper "Defect phases beyond grain boundaries" by Sandra Korte-Kerzel, Timothy J. Rupert, Daniel S. Gianola, Stefanie Sandlöbes-Haut, Zhuocheng Xie, published 2026 in…

S7E2 Thermodynamics of grain-boundary phases

Feb 19, 2026 1h 1m

This is an audio version of the paper "Thermodynamics of grain-boundary phases" by Timofey Frolov, Jörg Neugebauer, Yuri Mishin, published 2026 in MRS Bulletin.The original paper can be found at:…

S7E1 A NotebookLM generated Podcast on Defect Phases

Feb 19, 2026 17m

This Podcast discusses four papers that appeared in the Jan 2026 MRS Bulletin on defect phases:Defect phases beyond grain boundaries by Korte-Krezel et…

S6E1 Mechanochemistry: Fundamental Principles and Applications

Aug 07, 2025 1h 23m

This podcast episode is an notebooklm audio overview of the paper "Mechanochemistry: Fundamental Principles and Applications" by Liang Dong, Luofei Li, Huiyan Chen, Yi Cao, and Hai Lei.The original…

S5E12 Heavy fermions vs doped Mott physics in heterogeneous Ta-dichalcogenide bilayers

Jan 22, 2025 9m

This is an audio summary of an article by Lorenzo Crippa, Hyeonhu Bae, Paul Wunderlich, Igor I. Mazin, Binghai Yan, Giorgio Sangiovanni, Tim Wehling & Roser Valentí published in Nature…

S5E11 Enhanced elastic stability of a topologically disordered crystalline metal–organic framework

Jan 22, 2025 10m

This is an audio summary of an article by Emily G. Meekel, Phillippa Partridge, Robert A. I. Paraoan, Joshua J. B. Levinsky, Ben Slater, Claire L. Hobday and Andrew L. Goodwin which was published in…

S5E10 A critical review on Li-ion transport, chemistry and structure of ceramic–polymer composite electrolytes for solid state batteries

Jan 22, 2025 26m

This is an audio summary of an article by Sara Catherine Sand,  Jennifer L. M. Rupp and Bilge Yildiz, which was published in Chem. Soc. Rev., 2025, 54, 178 DOI: 10.1039/d4cs00214h. It is published…

S5E1 Quantitative Characterization of Nanometer-Scale Electric Fields via Momentum-Resolved STEM

Jan 22, 2025 12m

This is an audio summary of an article by Andreas Beyer, Manveer Singh Munde, Saleh Firoozabadi, Damien Heimes, Tim Grieb, Andreas Rosenauer, Knut Müller-Caspary, and Kerstin Volz published in Nano…

S5E8 Microstructure engineering for corrosion resistance in structural alloy design

Jan 21, 2025 15m

This is an audio summary of a perspective article by Karthikeyan Hariharan & Sannakaisa Virtanen, npj Materials Degradation | (2024) 8:115, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41529-024-00533-y. It is…

S5E7 Degradation in lithium ion battery current collectors

Jan 21, 2025 18m

This is an audio summary of an article by Liya Guo, Daisy B Thornton, Mohamed A Koronfel, Ifan E L Stephens and Mary P Ryan, in J. Phys. Energy 3 (2021) 032015,…

S5E6 Evolution of dislocation substructures in metals via high- ­ strain- ­ rate nanoindentation

Jan 21, 2025 20m

This is an audio summary of an article by Yuwei Zhang, Benjamin L. Hackett, Jiaqi Dong, Kelvin Y. Xie , and George M. Pharr published in PNAS 2023 vol 120, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2310500120.…

S5E1 Influence of atomic site-specific strain on catalytic activity of supported nanoparticles

Jan 21, 2025 17m

This is an audio summary of an article by Torben Nilsson Pingel, Mikkel Jørgensen Henrik Grönbeck, and Eva Olsson, publised in nature communications (2018) 9:2722 , DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05055-1.…

S5E4 Metallic glasses

Jan 21, 2025 18m

This is an audio summary of a review article by Lindsay Greer, Miguel B. Costa, and Owain S. Houghton, published in the MRS Bulletin Vol. 48, 2023, doi:10.1557/s43577-023-00586-5 The article is…

S5E3 Mechanistic understanding of microstructural effects on the thermal fatigue resistance of solder joints

Jan 21, 2025 14m

This is an audio summary of an article by Yilun Xu, Jingwei Xian, Richard J. Coyle, Christopher M. Gourlay, and Fionn P.E. Dunne published in J. Mech. Phys. Solids 187 (2024) 105623,…

Hydrogen trapping and embrittlement in metals – A review

Jan 21, 2025 16m

This is an audio summary of an article by Yi-Sheng Chen, Chao Huang, Pang-Yu Liu , Hung-Wei Yen, Ranming Niu, Patrick Burr, Katie L. Moore, Emilio Martínez-Pañeda, Andrej Atrens, and Julie…

S5E1 Electronic descriptors for dislocation deformation behavior and intrinsic ductility in bcc high-entropy alloys

Jan 21, 2025 13m

This is an audio summary of an article by PEDRO P. P. O. BORGES, ROBERT O. RITCHIE AND MARK ASTA in Science Advances, 20 Sep 2024, Vol 10, Issue 38, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adp7670 The article is…

S4E2 Metals strengthen with increasing temperature at extreme strain rates

Jan 21, 2025 11m

This is an audio summary of an article by Ian Dowding and Chris Schuh in Nature volume 630, pages 91–95 (2024). The article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International…

S4E1 Strain rate dependency of dislocation plasticity

Jan 21, 2025 22m

This is an audio overview of an article by Haidong Fan, Qingyuan Wang, Jaafar A. El-Awady, Dierk Raabe & Michael Zaiser, published in nature communications 2021,…

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