{"id":1920,"date":"2026-02-27T13:12:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2026-03-03T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:52:00","slug":"egami-and-xus-research-featured-on-journal-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/egami-and-xus-research-featured-on-journal-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Egami and Xu\u2019s Research Featured on Journal Covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1801 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/weinan-xu-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Weinan Xu\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/weinan-xu-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/weinan-xu.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-483 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Egami-Takeshi-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Takeshi Egami\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Egami-Takeshi-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Egami-Takeshi.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>UT-ORNL Distinguished Scientist\/Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/faculty\/takeshi-egami\/\">Takeshi Egami<\/a> and Assistant Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/faculty\/weinan-xu\/\">Weinan Xu<\/a> recently had their research featured on covers of renowned\u00a0materials science journals.<\/p>\n<p>Egami\u2019s article, <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acs.langmuir.5c05017\">Relaxor Ferroelectric-Like Spatiotemporal Memory in Field-Driven Lipid Bilayers,<\/a>\u00a0was on the January 2026 cover of <i>Langmuir,<\/i> a scientific journal published by the American Chemical Society. Egami also had an article published in the January 2026 edition of <i>Condensed Matter <\/i>titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2410-3896\/11\/1\/4\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Electron Correlation and High-Temperature Superconductivity.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Xu\u2019s article <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/full\/10.1021\/acsaenm.5c01153\">Phase-Change Polymer\u2014Metal Composites with Tunable Thermal Conductivity and Their Additive Manufacturing,<\/a> was featured on the February 2026 cover of the ACS journal <i>Applied Engineering Materials<\/i>. In July 2025, Xu also had an article, <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlelanding\/2025\/ta\/d5ta04676a\">Sustainable thermoplastic elastomer-based nanocomposites and their 3D printing for flexible and stretchable sensors,<\/a> featured on the cover of the <i>Journal of Materials Chemistry<\/i>.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"h4 orange-mark\">Contact<\/h2>\n<p>Rhiannon Potkey (<a href=\"mailto:rpotkey@utk.edu\">rpotkey@utk.edu<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UT-ORNL Distinguished Scientist\/Professor Takeshi Egami and Assistant Professor Weinan Xu recently had their research featured on covers of renowned\u00a0materials science [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[309,519],"class_list":["post-1920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-news","tag-takeshi-egami","tag-weinan-xu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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