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Abstract Thin‐film solid‐state metal dealloying (thin‐film SSMD) is a promising method for fabricating nanostructures with controlled morphology and efficiency, offering advantages over conventional bulk materials processing methods for integration into practical applications. Although machine learning (ML) has facilitated the design of dealloying systems, the selection of key thermal treatment parameters for nanostructure formation remains largely unknown and dependent on experimental trial and error. To overcome this challenge, a workflow enabling high‐throughput characterization of thermal treatment parameters is demonstrated using a laser‐based thermal treatment to create temperature gradients on single thin‐film samples of Nb‐Al/Sc and Nb‐Al/Cu. This continuous thermal space enables observation of dealloying transitions and the resulting nanostructures of interest. Through synchrotron X‐ray multimodal and high‐throughput characterization, critical transitions and nanostructures can be rapidly captured and subsequently verified using electron microscopy. The key temperatures driving chemical reactions and morphological evolutions are clearly identified. While the oxidation may influence nanostructure formation during thin‐film treatment, the dealloying process at the dealloying front involves interactions solely between the dealloying elements, highlighting the availability and viability of the selected systems. This approach enables efficient exploration of the dealloying process and validation of ML predictions, thereby accelerating the discovery of thin‐film SSMD systems with targeted nanostructures. 

This is the first of our papers on quasi-split affine quantum symmetric pairs $(\stackrel{~<\#comment/>}{\mathbf{U}}\left(\stackrel{^<\#comment/>}{\mathfrak{g}}\right),{\stackrel{~<\#comment/>}{\mathbf{U}}}^{\mathrm{ı<\#comment/>}})$, focusing on the real rank one case, i.e., $\mathfrak{g}={\mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{l}}_3$equipped with a diagram involution. We construct explicitly a relative braid group action of type $A_2^{\left(2\right)}$on the affine $\mathrm{ı<\#comment/>}$quantum group ${\stackrel{~<\#comment/>}{\mathbf{U}}}^{\mathrm{ı<\#comment/>}}$. Real and imaginary root vectors for ${\stackrel{~<\#comment/>}{\mathbf{U}}}^{\mathrm{ı<\#comment/>}}$are constructed, and a Drinfeld type presentation of ${\stackrel{~<\#comment/>}{\mathbf{U}}}^{\mathrm{ı<\#comment/>}}$is then established. This provides a new basic ingredient for the Drinfeld type presentation of higher rank quasi-split affine $\mathrm{ı<\#comment/>}$quantum groups in the sequels. 

The ı \imath Hall algebra of the projective line is by definition the twisted semi-derived Ringel-Hall algebra of the category of 1 1 -periodic complexes of coherent sheaves on the projective line. This ı \imath Hall algebra is shown to realize the universal q q -Onsager algebra (i.e., ı \imath quantum group of split affine A 1 A_1 type) in its Drinfeld type presentation. The ı \imath Hall algebra of the Kronecker quiver was known earlier to realize the same algebra in its Serre type presentation. We then establish a derived equivalence which induces an isomorphism of these two ı \imath Hall algebras, explaining the isomorphism of the q q -Onsager algebra under the two presentations. 

Abstract In this paper, a new technique is presented for parametrically studying the steady-state dynamics of piecewise-linear nonsmooth oscillators. This new method can be used as an efficient computational tool for analyzing the nonlinear behavior of dynamic systems with piecewise-linear nonlinearity. The new technique modifies and generalizes the bilinear amplitude approximation method, which was created for analyzing proportionally damped structural systems, to more general systems governed by state-space models; thus, the applicability of the method is expanded to many engineering disciplines. The new method utilizes the analytical solutions of the linear subsystems of the nonsmooth oscillators and uses a numerical optimization tool to construct the nonlinear periodic response of the oscillators. The method is validated both numerically and experimentally in this work. The proposed computational framework is demonstrated on a mechanical oscillator with contacting elements and an analog circuit with nonlinear resistance to show its broad applicability.