Our group is concerned mainly with structure and phase formation in non-equilibrium materials. Particular interests are in solidification of undercooled liquids, crystallization of metallic glasses, short-range atomic order and dynamics in liquid and amorphous metals, solid/liquid interfaces, and heterogeneous nucleation.
Congratulations to Angelo Fernandes Andreoli on a successful defence of the PhD thesis at the Technische Universität Dresden on 12 January 2022!
Thesis title: “Non-equilibrium solidification of high-entropy alloys monitored in situ by X-ray diffraction and high-speed video”
Supervisors: Dr. Ivan Kaban & Prof. Dr. Kornelius Nielsch (IFW Dresden & TU Dresden)
Congratulations to Ju Wang on a successful defence of the PhD thesis at the Technische Universität Dresden on 26 November 2020!
Thesis title: “Formation, structure and properties of ultrahigh-strength Co-Ta-B bulk metallic glasses”
Supervisors: Dr. Ivan Kaban & Prof. Kornelius Nielsch (TU Dresden & IMW at IFW Dresden)
Congratulations to Hans Weber on a successful defence of the PhD thesis at the Technische Universität Dresden on 7 September 2020!
Thesis title: “Structural and physical properties of Ge-Sb-Te phase-change alloys in the liquid state”
Supervisors: Dr. Ivan Kaban & Prof. Werner Skrotzki (TU Dresden)
Fragile-to-Strong Transition in Phase-Change Material Ge3Sb6Te5 (Advanced Functional Materials) https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202202714
In situ correlation between metastable phase transformation mechanism and kinetics in a metallic glass (Nature Communications) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23028-9
Also featured as Editor’s Highlights in Materials Science and Chemistry (listing the top 50 papers published recently in Nature Communications) https://www.nature.com/collections/eecgdgijhh
Fast-current-heating devices developed at IFW Dresden for in-situ studies of phase formation in metallic glasses using high-energy synchrotron radiation (Review of Scientific Instruments). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0005732
Metastable solidification pathways of undercooled eutectic CoSi-CoSi2 alloys revealed by in-situ high-energy synchrotron XRD (Acta Materialia). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2019.06.048
Effect of TiB2 particles on microstructure and crystallographic texture of Al-12Si fabricated by selective laser melting (Journal of Alloys and Compounds). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2019.01.327
Correlating ultrafast calorimetry, viscosity, and structural measurements in liquid GeTe and Ge15Te85 (Physical Review Materials). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.2.093405
Wetting, reactivity, and phase formation at interfaces between Ni–Al melts and TiB2 ultrahigh-temperature ceramic (Journal of the American Ceramic Society, best paper award). https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.15188
Local microstructure evolution at shear bands in metallic glasses with nanoscale phase separation (Scientific Reports). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep25832
Mapping of residual strains around a shear band in bulk metallic glass by nanobeam X-ray diffraction (Acta Materialia). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2016.03.035
Flash Joule heating for ductilization of metallic glasses (Nature Communications). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8932
Atomic structure and formation of CuZrAl bulk metallic glasses and composites (Acta Materialia). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2015.08.060
Interfacial tension, wetting and nucleation in Al-Bi and Al-Pb monotectic alloys (Acta Materialia). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2011.07.031
