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Following demands for materials with peculiar transport properties, e.g. in magnetoelectronics or thermoelectrics, there is a need for materials modeling at the quantum-mechanical level. We combine density-functional with various…
It is important to accurately model materials' properties at lower length scales (micro-level) while translating the effects to the components and/or system level (macro-level) can significantly reduce the amount of experimentation required…
The mechanical properties and long-term structural reliability of crystalline materials are strongly influenced by microstructural features such as grain size, morphology, and crystallographic texture. These characteristics not only…
Recent years have seen a significant increase in the use of machine intelligence for predicting electronic structure, molecular force fields, and the physicochemical properties of various condensed systems. However, substantial challenges…
High entropy alloys (HEAs) are a recently-opened research area in materials science and condensed matter physics. Although 3d-metal-based HEAs have already been the subject of many investigations, studies of HEA superconductors, which tend…
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In order to reduce cobalt within the primary circuit of pressurised water reactors (PWRs), wear-resistant steels are being researched and developed. In particular interest is the understanding of galling mechanisms, an adhesive wear…
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…
The design of correlated materials challenges researchers to combine the maturing, high throughput framework of DFT-based materials design with the rapidly-developing first-principles theory for correlated electron systems. We review the…
Soft materials, such as liquids, polymers, foams, gels, colloids, granular materials, and most soft biological materials, play an important role in our daily lives. From a mechanical viewpoint, soft materials can easily achieve large…
Predicting the strength of materials requires considering various length and time scales, striking a balance between accuracy and efficiency. Peierls stress measures material strength by evaluating dislocation resistance to plastic flow,…
Non-linear effects in accelerator physics are important for both successful operation of accelerators and during the design stage. Since both of these aspects are closely related, they will be treated together in this overview. Some of the…
The purpose of this manuscript is to review my recent activity on three main research topics. The first concerns the nature of low temperature amorphous solids and their relation with the spin glass transition in a magnetic field. This is…
Understanding material behavior under high velocity impact is the key to addressing a variety of fundamental questions in areas ranging from asteroid strikes and geological cratering to impact-induced phase transformations, spallation,…
Along with high strength, plasticity is what makes metals so widely usable in our material world. Both strength and plasticity properties of a metal are defined by the motion of dislocations - line defects in the crystal lattice that divide…
The High Intensity Heavy-Ion Accelerator Facility is a new project in the Institute of Modern Physics. The dipole magnets of all rings are conceived as fast cycled superconducting magnet with high magnetic field and large gap, the warm iron…
The development of new fire-resistant steels represents a challenge in materials science and engineering of utmost importance. Alloying elements such as Nb and Mo are generally used to improve the strength at both room- and…
New superconducting materials, particularly iron-based superconductors (IBS), have recently attracted attention for their potential applications in particle detectors and accelerators. This paper discusses the application of these materials…
The remarkable strength of glasses is examined using the random first order transition theory of the glass transition. The theory predicts that strength depends on elastic modulus but also on the configurational energy frozen in when the…
The next generation of accelerators for MegaWatt proton, electron and heavy-ion beams puts unprecedented requirements on the accuracy of particle production predictions, the capability and reliability of the codes used in planning new…