Materials: Machine Read
by Erik Bitzek
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Slags, engineered artificial minerals, and the physics of breaking…
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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).
Episodes
The newest 20 of 37 episodes
- Slags, engineered artificial minerals, and the physics of breaking them apart: an introduction for PhD students with a focus on atomistic modelling · 2 h 12 min · Season 9 Episode 1This is an audio read of "Slags, engineered artificial minerals, and the physics of breaking them apart: an introduction for PhD students with a focus on atomistic modelling" by…
- Geologic hydrogen: a review of resource potential, subsurface dynamics, exploration, production, transportation, and research opportunities · 43 min · Season 8 Episode 1This is a notebookLM-generated podcast about the paper "Geologic hydrogen: a review of resource potential, subsurface dynamics, exploration, production, transportation, and…
- Mechanochemistry: Looking back and ahead · 1 h 33 min · Season 6 Episode 2This is an audio version of the paper "Mechanochemistry: Looking back and ahead" by Tomislav Stolar, Jasna Alić, Lucia Casali, Nikita Gugin, Matej Baláž, Adam A.L. Michalchuk…
- Solute adsorption, disconnections, and grain growth: Potentially critical aspects of microstructural evolution · 31 min · Season 7 Episode 5This is an audio version of the paper "Solute adsorption, disconnections, and grain growth: Potentially critical aspects of microstructural evolution" by Rachel Marder, W. Craig…
- Probing grain-boundary structure, chemistry, and transitions · 50 min · Season 7 Episode 4This is an audio version of the paper "Probing grain-boundary structure, chemistry, and transitions" by Siyuan Zhang, Eleonora Isotta, Ruben Bueno-Villoro, Christina Scheu…
- Defect phases beyond grain boundaries · 51 min · Season 7 Episode 3This 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…
- Thermodynamics of grain-boundary phases · 1 h 1 min · Season 7 Episode 2This 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…
- A NotebookLM generated Podcast on Defect Phases · 18 min · Season 7 Episode 1This Podcast discusses four papers that appeared in the Jan 2026 MRS Bulletin on defect phases: Defect phases beyond grain boundaries by Korte-Krezel et al…
- Mechanochemistry: Fundamental Principles and Applications · 1 h 23 min · Season 6 Episode 1This 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…
- Heavy fermions vs doped Mott physics in heterogeneous Ta-dichalcogenide bilayers · 10 min · Season 5 Episode 12This 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…
- Enhanced elastic stability of a topologically disordered crystalline metal–organic framework · 11 min · Season 5 Episode 11This 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…
- A critical review on Li-ion transport, chemistry and structure of ceramic–polymer composite electrolytes for solid state batteries · 26 min · Season 5 Episode 10This 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…
- Quantitative Characterization of Nanometer-Scale Electric Fields via Momentum-Resolved STEM · 13 min · Season 5 Episode 1This 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…
- Microstructure engineering for corrosion resistance in structural alloy design · 15 min · Season 5 Episode 8This is an audio summary of a perspective article by Karthikeyan Hariharan & Sannakaisa Virtanen, npj Materials Degradation | (2024) 8:115…
- Degradation in lithium ion battery current collectors · 18 min · Season 5 Episode 7This 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…
- Evolution of dislocation substructures in metals via high- strain- rate nanoindentation · 20 min · Season 5 Episode 6This 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…
- Influence of atomic site-specific strain on catalytic activity of supported nanoparticles · 18 min · Season 5 Episode 1This 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…
- Metallic glasses · 19 min · Season 5 Episode 4This 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…
- Mechanistic understanding of microstructural effects on the thermal fatigue resistance of solder joints · 14 min · Season 5 Episode 3This 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)…
- Hydrogen trapping and embrittlement in metals – A review · 17 minThis 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…
