Bowen Li, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA;Dipankar Ghosh, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA, dghosh@odu.edu Eugene A. Olevsky, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA;Kathy Lu, University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA; Faqin Dong, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, China; Ruigang Wang, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA;Alexander D. Dupuy, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA; Jinhong Li, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China; Gregory B. Thompson, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA; Babak Anasori, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA