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Developing new classes of materials using bottom-up approaches and advanced deposition.

Project Description

Building materials from bottom-up approach offers a wide range of tailoring opportunities. In this project we developed and characterized new class of materials with applications in magnetism. We used inert gas condensation technique to develop a new class of composite materials containing nanocrystals in a nanoglass matrix. We also developed cluster ion beam depositions to produce metastable structures.

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Related Publications

"A New Class of Cluster–Matrix Nanocomposite..."

Advanced Materials • Mar 2023

This study presents the creation of nanocomposite materials from a bimetallic system of nickel and copper, which are usually completely miscible under equilibrium conditions...

"Energetically deposited cluster assembly of metallic glasses"

Acta Materialia • July 2022

Metallic glasses, traditionally created by rapid quenching and ball milling, lack a clear understanding of their structure compared to crystalline materials...

"Dislocation exhaustion and ultra-hardening of nanograined metals..."

Nature Communications • Sept 2022

This study discusses overcoming the challenges in the continuous grain refinement of high-strength metals, which is complicated by the inverse Hall-Petch effect...

"Nanoglass–Nanocrystal Composite—a Novel Material Class..."

Small • Feb 2018

The study introduces a new class of materials known as nanoglasses, which consist of nanosized glassy particles separated by amorphous interfaces...