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 al.
https://doi.org/10.1557/s43577-025-01044-0
Thermodynamics of grain-boundary phases by Frolov et al.
https://doi.org/10.1557/s43577-025-01022-6
Probing grain-boundary structure, chemistry, and transitions by Zhang et al.
https://doi.org/10.1557/s43577-025-01041-3
Solute adsorption, disconnections, and grain growth: Potentially critical aspects of microstructural evolution by Marder et al.
https://doi.org/10.1557/s43577-025-01025-3
These articles are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made.
To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
The content of the articles served as basis for this notebooklm generated audio podcast.