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STEP Aluminium 2018 (EPSRC)

Funder: Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council
Duration: March 2019 - February 2024

People

Name Telephone Email Office
Professor Zhongyun Fan Professor Zhongyun Fan
Director - BCAST - (Professor)
(Principal investigator)
T: +44 (0)1895 266406
E: zhongyun.fan@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 266406 zhongyun.fan@brunel.ac.uk Gardiner Building 001d
Dr Yan Huang Dr Yan Huang
Honorary Senior Lecturer
T: +44 (0)1895 266976
E: yan.huang@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 266976 yan.huang@brunel.ac.uk Gardiner Building 003a
Professor Isaac Chang Professor Isaac Chang
Head of LiME Training
T: +44 (0)1895 268491
E: isaac.chang@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 268491 isaac.chang@brunel.ac.uk Gardiner Building 001h
Professor Geoffrey Scamans Professor Geoffrey Scamans
Head of Industrial Research
T: +44 (0)1895 268571
E: geoffrey.scamans@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 268571 geoffrey.scamans@brunel.ac.uk Gardiner Building 001i
Dr Changming Fang Dr Changming Fang
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
T: +44 (0)1895 267688
E: changming.fang@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 267688 changming.fang@brunel.ac.uk Gardiner Building 111
Dr Chamini Mendis Dr Chamini Mendis
Head of Academic Affairs
T: +44 (0)1895 268502
E: chamini.mendis@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0)1895 268502 chamini.mendis@brunel.ac.uk Gardiner Building 001g

Outputs

Fang, C. and Fan, Z. (2024) 'Crystal Chemistry at Interfaces Between Liquid Al and Polar SiC{0001} Substrates'. Metals, 14 (11). pp. 1 - 13.Open Access Link

Journal article

Fang, C., Wang, Y. and Fan, Z. (2024) 'Si segregation deters prenucleation at the interfaces between liquid-aluminum and TiB2 substrates, the origin of ‘Si poisoning’'. Scripta Materialia, 256 (1 February 2025). pp. 1 - 5. ISSN: 1359-6462 Open Access Link

Journal article

Fang, C. (2024) 'Effect of Lattice Misfit on the Stability of the Misfit Layer Compound (SnS)1+xNbS2'. Crystals, 14 (9). pp. 1 - 13.Open Access Link

Journal article

Hosseini, S., Mendis, C., Chang, I. and Fan, Z. (2024) 'Dependence of thermomechanical response on Cu content in a hardenable Al-Si-Mg alloy'.The 19th International Conference on Aluminium Alloys (ICAA19). Atlanta, US. 23 - 27 June.Open Access Link

Conference paper

Fang, C., Que, Z., Souissi, M. and Fan, Z. (2022) 'Crystal Chemistry and Physical Properties of A Quaternary Intermetallic Compound, θ-(Al0.8718Cu0.0256Si0.1026)13Fe4'. Metals, 12 (12). pp. 1 - 14.Open Access Link

Journal article

Fang, C., Que, Z. and Fan, Z. (2021) 'Crystal chemistry and electronic structure of the β-AlFeSi phase from first-principles'. Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 299. pp. 1 - 8. ISSN: 0022-4596 Open Access Link

Journal article

Souissi, M., Fang, CM., Sahara, R. and Fan, Z. (2021) 'Formation energies of θ-Al2Cu phase and precursor Al-Cu compounds: Importance of on-site Coulomb repulsion'. Computational Materials Science, 194. pp. 1 - 7. ISSN: 0927-0256 Open Access Link

Journal article