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A. Nassar, A. Mullis, R. Cochrane, Z. Aslam, S. Micklethwaite, L. Cao (2022), Rapid solidification of AlCoCrFeNi2.1 High-entropy Alloy, Journal of Alloys and Compounds (Vol. (Issue) 900, p. 163350), DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2021.163350

A. Pervikov, A. Filippov, Y. Mironov, M. Kalashnikov, M. Krinitcyn, D. Eskin, M. Lerner, S. Tarasov (2022), Microstructure and properties of a nanostructured W-31 wt% Cu composite produced by magnetic pulse compaction of bimetallic nanoparticles, International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials (Vol. (Issue) 103, p. 105735), DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrmhm.2021.105735

B. Daneshian, F. Gartner, H. Assadi, M. Villa Vidaller, D. Hoche, T. Klassen (2022), Features of ceramic nanoparticle deformation in aerosol deposition explored by molecular dynamics simulation, Surface and Coatings Technology (Vol. (Issue) 429, p. 127886), DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2021.127886

Changming Fang *, Maaouia Souissi, Zhongping Que and Zhongyun Fan (2022), Crystal Chemistry and Electronic Properties of the Al-Rich, MDPI, (p. 12, 329), DOI: doi.org/10.3390/met12020329

F. Gao, Z. Fan (2022), Effect of Nucleant Particle Agglomeration on Grain Size, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, (Vol. (Issue) 53 p. 810-822), DOI: 10.1007/s11661-021-06549-2

H. Demirtas, E. Karakulak, H. Nadendla (2022), Understanding the effect of Ni content on microstructure and mechanical properties of A384 HPDC alloy, Journal of Alloys and Compounds (Vol. (Issue) 896, p. 163111), DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2021.163111

I. Chang, Q. Cai (2022), From simple to complex multicomponent eutectic alloys, Progress in Materials Science, (Vol. (Issue) 123 p. 100779), DOI: 10.1016/j.pmatsci.2021.100779

I. Tzanakis, M. Khavari, M. Titze, D. Eskin (2022), Cavitation in thermoplastic melts: New insights into ultrasound-assisted fibre-impregnation, Composites Part B: Engineering, (Vol. (Issue) 229 p. 109480), DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2021.109480

I. Baker, J.W.Yeh, B.Cantor (2022), High Entropy Alloys & Materials, Springer-Nature, link to full text

Mehmet R. AbulRobert F. CochraneAndrew M. Mullis (2022), Partitionless solidification and anomalous triradiate crystal formation in drop-tube processed Al-3.9 wt%Fe alloys, (Vol. (Issue) 31 p. 103274), DOI: 10.1016/j.mtcomm.2022.103274

N. Barekar, I. Skalicky, S. Wang, P. Shurkin, O. Adole, H. Nadendla, M. Jarrett (2022), Comparative analysis of structure and properties of Nb-B inoculated direct chill cast AA4032 alloy extruded from as-cast and homogenised conditions, JOM, (p. 1-19), DOI: 10.1007/s11837-021-05134-7

S. Feng, E Liotti, PS Grant (2022), X-ray Imaging of Alloy Solidification: Crystal Formation, Growth, Instability and Defects, Materials, (Vol. (Issue) 15 (4) p. 1319), DOI: 10.3390/ma15041319

S. Feng, I Han, A Lui, R Vincent, G Ring, PS Grant, E Liotti (2022), Investigating Metal Solidification with X-ray Imaging, Metals, (Vol. (Issue) 12 (3) p. 395), DOI: 10.3390/met12030395

X. Zhu, S. Wang, X. Dong, X. Liu, S. Ji (2022), Morphologically templated nucleation of primary Si on AlP in hypereutectic Al-Si alloys, Journal of Materials Science & Technology, (Vol. (Issue) 100 p. 36-45), DOI: 10.1016/j.jmst.2021.06.009

Z. Fan, F. Gao, Y. Wang, H. Men, L. Zhou (2022), Effect of solutes on grain refinement, Progress in Materials Science, (Vol. (Issue) 123 p. 100809, DOI: 10.1016/j.pmatsci.2021.100809

Al-Helal, K., Lazaro-Nebreda, J., Patel, J. B., & Scamans, G. M. (2021). High-Shear De-Gassing and De-Ironing of an Aluminum Casting Alloy Made Directly from Aluminum End-of-Life Vehicle Scrap. In Recycling (Vol. 6, Issue 4, p. 66). MDPI AG. DOI: 10.3390/recycling6040066

Barekar, N. S., Skalicky, I., Barbatti, C., Fan, Z., & Jarrett, M. (2021). Enhancement of chip breakability of aluminium alloys by controlling the solidification during direct chill casting. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 862, 158008. DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.158008

Beckwith, C., Djambazov, G., Pericleous, K., Subroto, T., Eskin, D. G., Roberts, D., Skalicky, I., & Tzanakis, I. (2021). Multiphysics Modelling of Ultrasonic Melt Treatment in the Hot-Top and Launder during Direct-Chill Casting: Path to Indirect Microstructure Simulation. Metals, 11(5), 674. DOI: 10.3390/met11050674

Bollada, P. C., Jimack, P. K., & Mullis, A. M. (2021). A vertex based approach to crystal facet modelling in phase field. Computational Materials Science, 192(110331), 110331. DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2021.110331

Bolzoni, L., & Nadendla, H.-B. (2019). Efficacy of borides in grain refining Al-Si alloys dataset [Data set]. Brunel University London. DOI: 10.1007/s11661-018-5017-1

Cai, Q., Cantor, B., Tong, V. S., Wang, F., Mendis, C. L., Chang, I. T. H., & Fan, Z. (2021). Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Ultrafine Quaternary Al-Cu-Si-Mg Eutectic Alloy. In Metals (Vol. 12, Issue 1, p. 7). MDPI AG. DOI: 10.3390/met12010007

Cai, Q., Mendis, C. L., Wang, S., Chang, I. T. H., & Fan, Z. (2021). Effect of heat treatment on microstructure and tensile properties of die-cast Al-Cu-Si-Mg alloys. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 881(160559), 160559. DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2021.160559

Cai, Q., Mendis, C. L., Chang, I. T. H., & Fan, Z. (2021). Microstructure and mechanical properties of new die-cast quaternary Al-Cu-Si-Mg alloys. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 800, 140357. DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2020.140357

Chang, I., & Cai, Q. (2021). From simple binary to complex multicomponent eutectic alloys. Progress in Materials Science, 100779. DOI: 10.1016/j.pmatsci.2021.100779

Cui, Y., & Gourlay, C. M. (2022). Growth twinning and morphology of Al45Cr7 and Al13Fe4. In Journal of Alloys and Compounds (Vol. 893, p. 162318). Elsevier BV. DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2021.162318

Daneshian, B., Gaertner, F., Assadi, H., Hoeche, D., Weber, W., & Klassen, T. (2021). Size Effects of Brittle Particles in Aerosol Deposition— Molecular Dynamics Simulation. Journal of Thermal Spray Technology, 30(3), 503–522. DOI: 0.1007/s11666-020-01149-9

Daneshian, B., Gärtner, F., Assadi, H., Vidaller, M. V., Höche, D., & Klassen, T. (2022). Features of ceramic nanoparticle deformation in aerosol deposition explored by molecular dynamics simulation. In Surface and Coatings Technology (Vol. 429, p. 127886). Elsevier BV. DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2021.127886

Demi̇rtaş, H., Karakulak, E., & Nadenla, H. B. (2021). Al/Nb2B In-Situ Kompozit Üretimi ve Özelliklerinin İncelenmesi. Çukurova Üniversitesi Mühendislik Fakültesi Dergisi, 891–900. DOI: 10.3390/met11030478

Dong, X., Feng, L., Nyberg, E. A., & Ji, S. (2021). Development of an Mg–RE-Based Die-Cast Magnesium Alloy for Elevated Applications. In The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series (pp. 29–36). Springer International Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-72432-0_4

Dong, X., Feng, L., Wang, S., Nyberg, E. A., & Ji, S. (2021). A new die-cast magnesium alloy for applications at higher elevated temperatures of 200–300 °C. Journal of Magnesium and Alloys, 9(1), 90–101. DOI: 10.1016/j.jma.2020.09.012

Dong, X., Youssef, H., Zhu, X., Zhang, Y., Wang, S., & Ji, S. (2021). High as-cast strength die-cast AlSi9Cu2Mg alloy prepared by nanoparticle strengthening with industrially acceptable ductility. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 852(156873), 156873. DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.156873

Dou, K., Lordan, E., Zhang, Y., Jacot, A., & Fan, Z. (2021). A novel approach to optimize mechanical properties for aluminium alloy in High pressure die casting (HPDC) process combining experiment and modelling. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 296, 117193. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2021.117193

Fan, Z., Gao, F., Wang, Y., Men, H., & Zhou, L. (2021). Effect of solutes on grain refinement. Progress in Materials Science, 100809. DOI: 10.1016/j.pmatsci.2021.100809

Fan, Z., Men, H., Wang, Y., & Que, Z. (2021). A New Atomistic Mechanism for Heterogeneous Nucleation in the Systems with Negative Lattice Misfit: Creating a 2D Template for Crystal Growth. Metals, 11(3), 478. DOI: 10.3390/met11030478

Fang, C. M., Que, Z. P., & Fan, Z. (2021). Crystal chemistry and electronic structure of the β-AlFeSi phase from first-principles. Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 299, 122199. DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2021.122199

Fang, C., Yasmin, S., & Fan, Z. (2021). Interfacial interaction and prenucleation at liquid-Al/γ-Al2O3{1 1 1} interfaces. Journal of Physics Communications, 5(1), 015007. DOI: 10.1088/2399-6528/abd8eb

Fang, J., Dong, X., & Ji, S. (2021). Effect of Mn on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Al-4Ni Alloy. In JOM (Vol. 73, Issue 12, pp. 3819–3826). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. DOI: 10.1007/s11837-021-04908-3

Feng, S., Liotti, E., Lui, A., Wilson, M. D., & Grant, P. S. (2021). Nucleation bursts of primary intermetallic crystals in a liquid Al alloy studied using in situ synchrotron X-ray radiography. Acta Materialia, 221(117389), 117389. DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2021.117389

Gao, F., & Fan, Z. (2022). Effect of Nucleant Particle Agglomeration on Grain Size. In Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. DOI: 10.1007/s11661-021-06549-2

Gaafar, M. S., Marzouk, S. Y., Mahmoud, I. S., Afifi, M., Abd El-Aziz, A. M., & ElRashidy, H. (2021). Optical properties and laser prediction of strontium bismuth borate glasses doped with neodymium Ions. Physica Scripta, 96(10), 105804. DOI: 10.1088/1402-4896/ac0f40

Hou, L. G., Xiao, W. L., Su, H., Wu, C. M., Eskin, D. G., Katgerman, L., … Zhang, J. S. (2021). Room-temperature low-cycle fatigue and fracture behaviour of asymmetrically rolled high-strength 7050 aluminium alloy plates. International Journal of Fatigue, 142(105919), 105919. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2020.105919

Huang, Y., & Jiang, J. (2021). Microstructure and texture evolution during severe plastic deformation at cryogenic temperatures in an Al-0.1Mg alloy. Metals, 11(11), 1822. DOI: 10.3390/met11111822

Jabbareh, M. A., & Assadi, H. (2021). Modelling of Microstructure Evolution during Laser Processing of Intermetallic Containing Ni-Al Alloys. Metals, 11(7), 1051. DOI: 10.3390/met11071051

Jin, Z., Cai, C., Yuan, Y., Kang, D., Hunter, J., & Zhou, X. (2021). The behaviour of AA5754 and AA5052 aluminium alloys in alkaline etching solution: Similarity and difference. Materials Characterization, 171(110768), 110768. DOI: 10.1016/j.matchar.2020.110768

Jin, Z., Cai, C., Hashimoto, T., Yuan, Y., Kang, D., Hunter, J., & Zhou, X. (2021). The behaviour of iron-containing intermetallic particles in aluminium alloys in alkaline solution. Corrosion Science, 179(109134), 109134. DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2020.109134

Kenny, J., McDonald, N., Binner, J., Hong Chang, I. T., & Marinel, S. (2021). Low temperature synthesis and spark plasma sintering of a boron carbide with a low residual carbon content. In Journal of the European Ceramic Society. Elsevier BV. DOI: 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2021.10.012

Khavari, M., Priyadarshi, A., Hurrell, A., Pericleous, K., Eskin, D., & Tzanakis, I. (2021). Characterization of shock waves in power ultrasound. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 915. DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2021.186

Khavari, M., Priyadarshi, A., Subroto, T., Beckwith, C., Pericleous, K., Eskin, D. G., & Tzanakis, I. (2021). Scale up design study on process vessel dimensions for ultrasonic processing of water and liquid aluminium. Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 76(105647), 105647. DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2021.105647

K.M., S. M., Barekar, N. S., Lazaro-Nebreda, J., Patel, J. B., & Fan, Z. (2021). In-situ microstructural control of A6082 alloy to modify second phase particles by melt conditioned direct chill (MC-DC) casting process – A novel approach. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 295, 117170. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2021.117170

Lazaro-Nebreda, J., Patel, J. B., & Fan, Z. (2021). Improved degassing efficiency and mechanical properties of A356 aluminium alloy castings by high shear melt conditioning (HSMC) technology. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 294, 117146. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2021.117146

Li, Z., Beslin, E., den Bakker, A. J., Scamans, G., Danaie, M., Williams, C. A., & Assadi, H. (2021). Bonding and microstructure evolution in electromagnetic pulse welding of hardenable Al alloys. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 290(116965), 116965. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2020.116965

Lordan, E., Dou, K., Zhang, Y., Tzileroglou, C., Jacot, A., Blake, P., & Fan, Z. (2021). Turbulent breakup of non-metallic inclusions and equiaxed crystals during solidification of a hypoeutectic Al-Si alloy. Materialia, 17, 101114. DOI: 10.1016/j.mtla.2021.101114

Lordan, E., Zhang, Y., Dou, K., Jacot, A., Tzileroglou, C., Blake, P., & Fan, Z. (2021). On the probabilistic nature of high-pressure die casting. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 817, 141391. DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2021.141391

Luan, Q., Wang, J., Huang, Y., Balint, D. S., & Jiang, J. (2021). How would the deformation bands affect recrystallization in pure aluminium? Materials & Design, 209(109960), 109960. DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2021.109960

Morton, J. A., Eskin, D. G., Grobert, N., Mi, J., Porfyrakis, K., Prentice, P., & Tzanakis, I. (2021). Effect of temperature and acoustic pressure during ultrasound liquid-phase processing of graphite in water. JOM (Warrendale, Pa.: 1989), 73(12), 3745–3752. DOI: 10.1007/s11837-021-04910-9

Morton, J. A., Khavari, M., Qin, L., Maciejewska, B. M., Tyurnina, A. V., Grobert, N., Eskin, D. G., Mi, J., Porfyrakis, K., Prentice, P., & Tzanakis, I. (2021). New insights into sono-exfoliation mechanisms of graphite: In situ high-speed imaging studies and acoustic measurements. Materials Today (Kidlington, England), 49, 10–22. DOI: 10.1016/j.mattod.2021.05.005

Nadendla, H.-B., & Bolzoni, L. (2019). Towards industrial Al-Nb-B master alloys dataset [Data set]. Brunel University London. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmrt.2019.09.031

Nadendla, H.-B., & Bolzoni, L. (2019b). On the grain refining efficacy of Ti-free hypoeutectic AlSi via AlTiB, AlB and AlNbB chemical inoculation- Dataset [Data set]. Brunel University London. DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2019.152807

Nassar, A. E., & Mullis, A. M. (2021). Rapid screening of high-entropy alloys using neural networks and constituent elements. Computational Materials Science, 199, 110755. DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2021.110755

Nikbakht, R., Assadi, H., Jahani, K., Saadati, M., & Jodoin, B. (2021). Cold spray deformation and deposition of blended feedstock powders not necessarily obey the rule of mixture. In Surface and Coatings Technology (Vol. 424, p. 127644). Elsevier BV. DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2021.127644

Nikbakht, R., Saadati, M., Assadi, H., Jahani, K., & Jodoin, B. (2021). Dynamic microstructure evolution in cold sprayed Ni Ti composite coatings. Surface and Coatings Technology, 421, 127456. DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2021.127456

Peng, L., Zeng, G., Lin, C. J., & Gourlay, C. M. (2021). Al2MgC2 and AlFe3C formation in AZ91 Mg alloy melted in Fe-C crucibles. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 854(156415), 156415. DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.156415

Priyadarshi, A., Khavari, M., Bin Shahrani, S., Subroto, T., Yusuf, L. A., Conte, M., Prentice, P., Pericleous, K., Eskin, D., & Tzanakis, I. (2021). In-situ observations and acoustic measurements upon fragmentation of free-floating intermetallics under ultrasonic cavitation in water. Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 80(105820), 105820. DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2021.105820

Priyadarshi, A., Khavari, M., Subroto, T., Conte, M., Prentice, P., Pericleous, K., … Tzanakis, I. (2021). On the governing fragmentation mechanism of primary intermetallics by induced cavitation. Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 70(105260), 105260. DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2020.105260

Priyadarshi, A., Khavari, M., Subroto, T., Prentice, P., Pericleous, K., Eskin, D., Durodola, J., & Tzanakis, I. (2021). Mechanisms of ultrasonic de-agglomeration of oxides through in-situ high-speed observations and acoustic measurements. Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 79(105792), 105792. DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2021.105792

Qin, L., Maciejewska, B. M., Subroto, T., Morton, J. A., Porfyrakis, K., Tzanakis, I., Eskin, D. G., Grobert, N., Fezzaa, K., & Mi, J. (2022). Ultrafast synchrotron X-ray imaging and multiphysics modelling of liquid phase fatigue exfoliation of graphite under ultrasound. In Carbon (Vol. 186, pp. 227–237). Elsevier BV. DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2021.10.014

Que, Z., & Mendis, C. L. (2020). Effects of Native AlN Particles on Heterogeneous Nucleation in an Al-3Fe Alloy. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 52(2), 553–559. DOI: 10.1007/s11661-020-06108-1

Que, Z., Zhou, Y., Wang, Y., Mendis, C. L., & Fan, Z. (2021). Effects of Mg addition on the Al6(Fe,Mn) intermetallic compounds and the grain refinement of α-Al in Al-Fe-Mn alloys. Materials Characterization, 171, 110758. DOI: 10.1016/j.matchar.2020.110758

Scamans, G., Skeldon, P., & Zhou, X. (2021). Professor George Thompson, OBE, DSc, FREng (1946–2020). Corrosion, 77(5), 482–483. DOI: 10.5006/3856

Sberna, P., Fang, P. X., Fang, C., & Nihtianov, S. (2021). Mechanism of electronegativity heterojunction of nanometer amorphous-boron on crystalline silicon: An overview. Crystals, 11(2), 108. DOI: 10.3390/cryst11020108

Souissi, M., Fang, C. M., Sahara, R., & Fan, Z. (2021). Formation energies of θ-Al2Cu phase and precursor Al-Cu compounds: Importance of on-site Coulomb repulsion. Computational Materials Science, 194, 110461. DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2021.110461

Subroto, T., Eskin, D. G., Miroux, A., Ellingsen, K., M’Hamdi, M., & Katgerman, L. (2021). Semi-solid Constitutive Parameters and Failure Behavior of a Cast AA7050 Alloy. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 52(2), 871–888. DOI: 10.1007/s11661-020-06112-5

Subroto, T., Lebon, G. S. B., Eskin, D. G., Skalicky, I., Roberts, D., Tzanakis, I., & Pericleous, K. (2021). Numerical modelling and experimental validation of the effect of ultrasonic melt treatment in a direct-chill cast AA6008 alloy billet. Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 12, 1582–1596. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmrt.2021.03.061

Tyurnina, A. V., Morton, J. A., Subroto, T., Khavari, M., Maciejewska, B., Mi, J., Grobert, N., Porfyrakis, K., Tzanakis, I., & Eskin, D. G. (2021). Environment friendly dual-frequency ultrasonic exfoliation of few-layer graphene. Carbon, 185, 536–545. DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2021.09.036

Wang, F., Chiu, Y.-L., Eskin, D., Du, W., & Shearing, P. R. (2021). A grain refinement mechanism of cast commercial purity aluminium by vanadium. In Materials Characterization (Vol. 181, p. 111468). Elsevier BV. DOI: 10.1016/j.matchar.2021.111468

Wu, W. H., Eskin, D. G., Priyadarshi, A., Subroto, T., Tzanakis, I., & Zhai, W. (2021). New insights into the mechanisms of ultrasonic emulsification in the oil–water system and the role of gas bubbles. Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 73, 105501. DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2021.105501

Yang, H., Zhang, Y., Wang, J., Liu, Z., Liu, C., & Ji, S. (2021). Additive manufacturing of a high strength Al-5Mg2Si-2Mg alloy: Microstructure and mechanical properties. Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 91, 215–223. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmst.2021.02.048

Yang, H.-L., Zhu, M.-Z., Wang, J.-Y., Ma, C.-X., Zhou, X.-W., Xing, H.-X., Zhang, E.-L., & Ji, S.-X. (2022). Optimization of mechanical and antibacterial properties of Ti-3wt%Cu alloy through cold rolling and annealing. Rare Metals, 41(2), 610–620. DOI: 10.1007/s12598-021-01841-x

Zhang, X., Lv, Y., Tan, S., Dong, Z., & Zhou, X. (2021). Microstructure and corrosion behaviour of wire arc additive manufactured AA2024 alloy thin wall structure. Corrosion Science, 186(109453), 109453. DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2021.109453

Zhang, X., Lv, Y., Hashimoto, T., Nilsson, J.-O., & Zhou, X. (2021). Intergranular corrosion of AA6082 Al–Mg–Si alloy extrusion: The influence of trace Cu and grain boundary misorientation. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 853(157228), 157228. DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.157228

Zhang, Y., Wang, S., Lordan, E., Dou, K., Zhou, X., & Hashimoto, T. (2022). Understanding of surface segregation of Cu and Zn on nano Si precipitates to the mechanical property improvement of high pressure die casting Al9Si3CuFe alloy. In Journal of Alloys and Compounds (Vol. 895, p. 162219). Elsevier BV. DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2021.162219

Zhou, M., Li, Z., Assadi, H., Chang, I., & Barbatti, C. (2021). An accelerated three-dimensional coupled electromagnetic-mechanical model for electromagnetic pulse forming. In Journal of Manufacturing Processes (Vol. 72, pp. 240–251). Elsevier BV. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmapro.2021.10.007

Zhu, X., Dong, X., Blake, P., & Ji, S. (2021). Improvement in as-cast strength of high pressure die-cast Al–Si–Cu–Mg alloys by synergistic effect of Q-Al5Cu2Mg8Si6 and θ-Al2Cu phases. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 802, 140612. DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2020.140612

Zhu, X., Liu, F., Wang, S., & Ji, S. (2021). The development of low-temperature heat-treatable high-pressure die-cast Al–Mg–Fe–Mn alloys with Zn. Journal of Materials Science, 56(18), 11083–11097. DOI: 10.1007/s10853-021-05972-5


Conferences

Bagherpour, E. (2021). Development of a metal health service (MHS) for metallic components - The MHS project. In NICER Programme ECR Summer School. 14-16 July 2021.

Beckwith, C., Subroto, T., Pericleous, K., Djambazov, G., Eskin, D. G., & Tzanakis, I. (2021). Ultrasonic Melt Treatment in a DC Casting Launder: The Role of Melt Processing Temperature. In The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series (pp. 850–857). Springer International Publishing. Light Metals 2021. 15-18 March 2021. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-65396-5_112

Cao, L. G., Hou, P. Y., Nassar, A., & Mullis, A. M. (2021). Dendritic Growth of Rapid-Solidified Eutectic High-Entropy Alloy. Materials Science Forum, 1035, 46–50. DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.1035.46

Chankitmunkong, S., Eskin, D. G., & Limmaneevichitr, C. (2021). Effects of Ultrasonic Melt Processing on Microstructure, Mechanical Properties, and Electrical Conductivity of Hypereutectic Al–Si, Al–Fe, and Al–Ni Alloys with Zr Additions. In The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series (pp. 192–197). Springer International Publishing. Light Metals 2021. 15-18 March 2021. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-65396-5_28

Chankitmunkong, S., Eskin, D. G., & Limmaneevichitr, C. (2021). Microstructure Evolution of an Al–Fe–Ni Alloy with Zr and Sc Additions Upon Different Cooling Rates During Solidification for Improving the Mechanical and Electrical Conductivity Properties. In The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series (pp. 232–238). Springer International Publishing. Light Metals 2021. 15-18 March 2021. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-65396-5_34

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E. Lordan, J. Lazaro-Nebreda, Y. Zhang, Z. Fan, Effective Degassing for Reduced Variability in High-Pressure Die Casting Performance, JOM 71 (2019) Issue 2, 824-830, DOI: 10.1007/s11837-018-3186-4

F. Wang, Z. Fan, Characterization of AlN Inclusion Particles Formed in Commercial Purity Aluminium, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science, 50 (5) (2019), 2519-2526, DOI: 10.1007/s11661-019-05150-y

G. Liu, S. Ji, Microstructure, Dynamic Restoration and Recrystallization Texture of Sn-Cu after Rolling at Room Temperature, Materials Characterization, 150 (2019), 174-183, DOI: 10.1016/j.matchar.2019.02.032

G. Liu, S. Khorsand, S. Ji, Electrochemical Corrosion Behaviour of Sn-Zn-xBi Alloys Used for Miniature Detonating Cords, Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 35 (2019), 1618-1628, DOI: 10.1016/j.jmst.2019.03.026

G. Salloum-Abou-Jaoude, D.G. Eskin, G.S.B. Lebon, C. Barbatti, P. Jarry, M. Jarrett , Altering the Microstructure Morphology by Ultrasound Melt Processing During 6XXX Aluminium DC-Casting, In Light Metals 2019, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series, (2019), 1605-10, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-05864-7_203

G.S.B. Lebon, G. Salloum-Abou-Jaoude, D.G. Eskin, I. Tzanakis, K. Pericleous, P. Jarry, Numerical Modelling of Acoustic Streaming During the Ultrasonic Melt Treatment of Direct-Chill (DC) Casting, Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 54 (2019), 171-182, DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2019.02.002

G.S.B. Lebon, I. Tzanakis, K. Pericleous, D.G. Eskin, P.S. Grant, The Essential Role of Cavitation Bubble Fraction in Controlling Acoustic Streaming: Relevance to Ultrasonic Liquid Metal Processing, Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 55 (2019), 243-255, DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2019.01.021

G.S.B. Lebon, I. Tzanakis, K. Pericleous, D.G. Eskin, P.S. Grant, Ultrasonic Liquid Metal Processing: The Essential Role of Cavitation Bubbles in Controlling Acoustic Streaming, Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 55 (2019), 243-255, DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2019.01.021

H. van Gog, W.F. Li, C.M. Fang, R.S. Koster, M. Dijkstra, M.A. van Huis, Thermal Stability and Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Atomically Thin 2D Transition Metal Oxides, NPJ 2D Materials and Applications (Nature), 3 (18) (2019), DOI: 10.1038/s41699-019-0100-z

I. Tzanakis, G.S.B. Lebon, T. Subroto, D.G. Eskin, K. Pericleous, Acoustic Cavitation Measurements and Modelling in Liquid Aluminium, In Light Metals 2019, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series, 996 (2019), 1533-8, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-05864-7_193

J. Lazaro-Nebreda, J.B. Patel, I.T.H. Chang, I.C. Stone, Z. Fan, Solidification Processing of Scrap Al-Alloys Containing High Levels of Fe, In IOP Conf. Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 529 (2019), 012059, DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/529/1/012059

J. Wang, H. Yang, H. Huang, J. Ruan, S. Ji, In-Situ Mo Nanoparticles Strengthened CoCrNi Medium Entropy Alloy, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 798 (2019), 576-586, DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2019.05.208

J. Wang, H. Yang, H. Huang, J. Ruan, S. Ji, Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of SiC Whisker Reinforced CoCrNi Medium Entropy Alloys, Materials Letters, 254 (2019), 77-80, DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2019.07.033

J. Wang, H. Yang, J. Ruan, Y. Wang, S. Ji, Microstructure and Properties of CoCrNi Medium-Entropy Alloy Produced By Gas Atomization and Spark Plasma Sintering, Journal of Materials Research, 34 (12) (2019), 2126-2136, DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2019.96

J. Wang, H. Yang, Z. Liu, R. Li, J. Ruan, S. Ji, Synergistic Effects of WC Nanoparticles and MC Nanoprecipitates on the Mechanical and Tribological Properties of Fe40Mn40Cr10Co10 Medium-Entropy Alloy, Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 8 (4) (2019), 3550-3564, DOI: 10.1016/j.jmrt.2019.06.031

J. Wang, H. Yang, Z. Liu, S. Ji, R. Li, J. Ruan, A Novel Fe40Mn40Cr10Co10/Sic Medium-Entropy Nanocomposite Reinforced by the Nanoparticles-Woven Architectural Structures, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 772 (2019), 272-279, DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2018.09.050

J.Y. Wang, J.H. Fang, H.L. Yang, Z.L. Liu, R.D. Li, S.X. Ji, Y. Wang, J.M. Ruan, Mechanical properties and wear resistance of medium entropy Fe40Mn40Cr10Co10/TiC composites, Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China, 29 (7) (2019), 1484-1494, DOI: 10.1016/S1003-6326(19)65055-7

K. Al-Helal, I.T.H. Chang, J.B. Patel, Z. Fan, Thermomechanical Treatment of High-Shear Melt-Conditioned Twin-Roll Cast Strip of Recycled AA5754 Alloy, JOM, 71 (6) (2019), 2018-2024, DOI: 10.1007/s11837-018-3190-8

K. Al-Helal, J. Lazaro-Nebreda, J.B. Patel, G.M. Scamans, Z. Fan, Melt Conditioned Direct Chill (MC-DC) Casting of AA-6111 Aluminium Alloy Formulated from Incinerator Bottom Ash (IBA), Recycling 4 (3) (2019), 37, DOI: 10.3390/recycling4030037

K. Al-Helal, J.B. Patel, Z. Fan, Melt Conditioning Twin Roll Casting with Thermo-Mechanical Treatment of Recycled AA6111 Alloy, JOM, 71 (5) (2019), 1714-1721, DOI: 10.1007/s11837-018-3189-1

L. J. Yin, S.H. Zhang, H. Wang, X. Jian, X. Wang, X. Xu, M.Z. Liu and C.M. Fang, Direct Observation of Eu Atoms in AlN Lattice and the First-Principles Simulations, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 102 (2019), 310-319, DOI: 10.1111/jace.15912

L. Peng,  G. Zeng, T.C. Su, H. Yasuda, K. Nogita, C.M. Gourlay, Al8Mn5 Particle Settling and Interactions with Oxide Films in Liquid AZ91 Magnesium Alloys, JOM, 71 (7) (2019), 2235-2244, DOI: 10.1007/s11837-019-03471-2

M. Balart, F. Gao, J.B. Patel, F. Miani, Effects of Superheat and Solute Additions on the Grain Size in Binary Copper Alloys, Metallography, Microstructure, and Analysis, 8 (4) (2019), 566-572, DOI: 10.1007/s13632-019-00559-8

M. Razavi, Y. Huang, A Magnesium-based Nanobiocomposite Processed by a Novel Technique Combining High Shear Solidification and Hot Extrusion, Recent Patents on Nanotechnology, 13 (2019), 38-48, DOI: 10.2174/1872210513666181231122808

M. Razavi, Y. Huang, Assessment of Magnesium-Based Biomaterials: From Bench to Clinic, Biomaterials Science, 7 (2019), 2241-2263, DOI: 10.1039/C9BM00289H

M.M. Moradi, H.J. Aval, R. Jamaati, S. Amirkhanlou, S. Ji, Effect Of SiC Nanoparticles on the Microstructure and Texture of Friction Stir Welded AA2024/AA6061, Materials Characterization, 152 (2019), 169-179, DOI: 10.1016/j.matchar.2019.04.020

O. Adole, N. Barekar,L . Anguilano, T. Minton, A. Novytskyi, B. McKay, Fibre/Matrix Intermetallic Phase Formation in Novel Aluminium-Basalt Composites   , Materials Letters, 239 (2019), 128-131, DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2018.12.079

P. Mair, N. Lauth, C.L. Mendis, M. Bechly, N. Hort, Mechanical and Corrosion Properties of Two Precipitation-Hardened Mg-Y-Nd-Gd-Dy Alloys with Small Changes in Chemical Composition, JOM, 71 (2019), 1426, DOI: 10.1007/s11837-019-03359-1

R. Nikbakht, S.H. Seyedein, S. Kheirandish, H. Assadi, B. Jodoin, The Role of Deposition Sequence in Cold Spraying of Dissimilar Materials, Surface and Coatings Technology, 367 (2019), 75-85, DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2019.03.065

R.A. Seraj, A. Abdollah-zadeh, S. Dosta, H. Canales, H. Assadi, I.G. Cano, The Effect of Traverse Speed on Deposition Efficiency of Cold Sprayed Stellite 21, Surface and Coatings Technology, 366 (2019), 24-34, DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2019.03.012

S. Amirkhanlou, S. Ji, A Review on High Stiffness Aluminium-Based Composites and Bimetallics, Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences, (2019), 1-21, DOI: 10.1080/10408436.2018.1485550

S. Amirkhanlou, S. Ji, Casting Lightweight Stiff Aluminum Alloys: A Review, Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences, (2019), 1-16, DOI: 10.1080/10408436.2018.1549975

S. Ji, F. Amirkhanlu, A. Mostaed, R. Beanland, Atomic Structure and Interface Chemistry in a High-Stiffness and High-Strength Al-Si-Mg/Tib2 Nanocomposite, Materials Science and Engineering A, 763 (2019), 138072, DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2019.138072

T. Su, C. O'Sullivan, T. Nagira, H. Yasuda, C.M. Gourlay, Semi-solid Deformation of Al-Cu Alloys: A Quantitative Comparison between Real-time Imaging and Coupled LBM-DEM Simulations, Acta Materialia, 163 (2019), 208-225, DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2018.10.006

X. Dong, X. Zhu, S. Ji, Effect of Super Vacuum Assisted High Pressure Die Casting on the Repeatability of Mechanical Properties of Al-Si-Mg-Mn Die-Cast Alloy , Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 266 (2019), 105-113, DOI: 10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2018.10.030

X. Yang, J.B. Patel, Y. Huang, C.L. Mendis, Z. Fan, Towards Directly Formable Thin Gauge AZ31 Mg Alloy Sheet Production by Melt Conditioned Twin Roll Casting, Materials and Design, 179 (2019), 107887, DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2019.107887

X. Zhu, H. Yang, X. Dong, S. Ji, The Effects of Varying Mg and Si Levels on the Microstructural Inhomogeneity and Eutectic Mg2Si Morphology in Die-Cast Al-Mg-Si Alloys, Journal of Materials Science, 54 (7) (2019), 5773-5787, DOI: 10.1007/s10853-018-03198-6

X.S. Huang, X.X. Dong, L.H. Liu, P.J. Li, Liquid Structure of Al-Si Alloy: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 503-504 (2019), 182-185, DOI: 10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2018.09.047

X.X. Dong, S. Amirkhanlou, S. Ji, Formation of Strength Platform in Cast Al-Si-Mg-Cu Alloys, Scientific Reports, (2019), DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-46134-7

Y. Wang, C.M. Fang, L. Zhou, T. Hashimoto, X. Zhou, Q.M. Ramasse, Z. Fan, Mechanism for Zr Poisoning of Al-Ti-B Based Grain Refiners, Acta Materialia, 164 (2019), 428-439, DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2018.10.056

Y. Wang, G.S.B. Lebon, I. Tzanakis, Y. Zhao, K. Wang, J. Stella, T. Poirier, G. Darut, H. Liao, M.P. Planche, Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Cavitation-Induced Erosion in Thermal Sprayed Single Splats, Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 52 (2019), 336-343, DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2018.12.008

Y. Zhang, S. Wang, E. Lordan, Y. Wang, Z. Fan, Improve Mechanical Properties of High Pressure Die Cast Al9Si3Cu Alloy via Dislocation Enhanced Precipitation, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 785 (2019), 1015-1022, DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2019.01.278

Z. Ma, H. Shang, A. Daszki, S. Belyakov, C.M. Gourlay, Mechanisms of beta-Sn Nucleation and Microstructure Evolution in Sn-Ag-Cu Solders Containing Titanium, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 777 (2019), 1357-1366, DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2018.11.097


Conferences

A.M. Mullis, N. Haque, Direct Observation of Dendrite Fragmentation in the Solidification of Undercooled Melts, In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Advanced Solidification Processes, 17-21 June 2019, Salzburg, Austria, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science & Engineering, 529: 012020, DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/529/1/012020

E. Bagherpour, Y. Huang, Z. Fan, Microstructural Investigation of the Assessed High Strength Al6082 Self-Piercing Riveted Joints, In Proceedings of Twenty-seventh International Conference on Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials (PFAM-XXVII), 27 to 29 May 2019, Jönköping, Sweden, link to full text

K. Dou, E. Lordan, Y.J. Zhang, A. Jacot, Z. Fan, Numerical Simulation of Fluid Flow, Solidification and Defects in High Pressure Die Casting (HPDC) Process, In IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 529 (1) (2019) 012058, DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/529/1/012058

P.C. Bollada, H. Men, C.M. Fang, P.K. Jimack, Z. Fan, A.M. Mullis, A Novel Route to the Coupling of Molecular Dynamics and Phase-Field Simulations of Crystal Growth, In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Advanced Solidification Processes, 17-21 June 2019, Salzburg, Austria, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science & Engineering, 529: 012032. DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/529/1/012032

S.H. Wang, F. Wang, Y. Wang, Q.M. Ramasse, Z. Fan, Segregation of Ca at the Mg/MgO Interface and its Effect on Grain Refinement of Mg Alloys, In IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 529 (2019) 012048, DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/529/1/012048

T. Subroto, D.G. Eskin, I. Tzanakis, G.S.B. Lebon, A. Miranda, K. Pericleous, Optimization of Ultrasonic Cavitation Processing in the Liquid Melt Flow, In IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 529 (2019), 012050, DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/529/1/012050

X. Zhu, S. Ji, The Formation of Al6 (Fe, Mn) Phase in Die-Cast Al-Mg Alloys, In IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 529 (1) (2019), 012011, DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/529/1/012011

A. Dybalska, D.G. Eskin, J.B. Patel, Validation of the Physical Simulations of a Stirred Molten Metal Using Particle Image Velocimetry Data, JOM, 70 (7) 2018, 1256-1260, DOI: 10.1007/s11837-018-2924-y

A. Khvan, D.G. Eskin, K. Starodub, A. Dinsdale, F. Wang, C.M. Fang, V. Cheverikin, M. Gorshenkov, New Insights into Solidification and Phase Equilibria in the Al-Al3Zr System: Theoretical and Experimental Investigations, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 743 (2018), 626-638, DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2018.02.023

A. Piglione, B. Dovgyy, C. Liu, C.M. Gourlay, P. Hooper, M. Pham, Printability and Microstructure of the CoCrFeMnNi High-entropy Alloy Fabricated by Laser Powder Bed Fusion, Materials Letters, 224 (2018), 22-25, DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2018.04.052

A.G. Bhagurkar, A. Yamamoto, L. Wang, M. Xia, A. R. Dennis, J.H. Durrell, T.A. Aljohani, H.B. Nadendla, D.A. Cardwell, High Trapped Fields in C-doped MgB2 Bulk Superconductors Fabricated by Infiltration and Growth Process, Scientific reports, 8 (1) (2018), 13320, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-31416-3

A.M. Mullis, P.C. Bollada, P.K. Jimack, Development of an Anti-Trapping Current for Phase Field Models Using Arbitrary CALPHAD Thermodynamics, Materials Science Forum, 941 (2018), 2337-2342, DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.941.2337

A.M. Mullis, P.C. Bollada, P.K. Jimack, Simulation of Intermetallic Solidification Using Phase-Field Techniques, Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals, 71 (2018), 2617-2622, DOI: 10.1007/s12666-018-1428-3

A.M. Mullis, P.C. Bollada, P.K. Jimack, Simulation of Intermetallic Solidification using Phase-field Techniques, Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals, 71 (2018), 2617-2622, DOI: 10.1007/s12666-018-1428-3

A.T. Miranda, L. Bolzoni, N. Barekar, Y. Huang, J. Shin, S.H. Ko, B.J. McKay, Processing, Structure and Thermal Conductivity Correlation in Carbon Fibre Reinforced Aluminium Metal Matrix Composites, Materials & Design, 156 (2018), 329-339, DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2018.06.059

B. Jiang, H. Men, Z. Fan, Atomic Ordering in the Liquid Adjacent to an Atomically Rough Solid Surface, Computational Materials Science, 153 (2018), 73-81, DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2018.06.005

C.M. Fang, H. Men, Z. Fan, Chemical Effect of Substrates on Prenucleation, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 49A (2018), 6231-6241, DOI: 10.1007/s11661-018-4882-y

C.M. Fang, Z. Fan, A Comparative Study of Prenucleation on Zr and MgO Substrates by Ab Initio MD Simulations, In Proceedings of The 11th International Conference on Magnesium Alloys and Their Applications, 24 to 27 July 2018, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, C.L. Mendis, 41-50, link to full text

C.M. Fang, Z. Fan, An Ab Initio Study on Stacking and Stability of TiAl3 Phases, Computational Materials Science, 153 (2018), 309-314, DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2018.07.011

C.M. MacRae, A.E. Hughes, J.S. Laird, A.M. Glenn, N.C. Wilson, A. Torpy, M.A. Gibson, X. Zhou, N. Birbilis, G.E. Thompson, An Examination of the Composition and Microstructure of Coarse Intermetallic Particles in AA2099 T8, including Li Detection, Microscopy and Microanalysis, In press, 2018, DOI: 10.1017/S1431927618000454

D. Liu, H. Lin, X. Zhou, Y. Wu, Effect of Cooling Conditions on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Friction Stir Welded 7055 Aluminium Alloy Joints, Materials Characterization, 141 (2018), 74-85, DOI: 10.1016/j.matchar.2018.04.029

E. Liotti, C. Arteta, A. Zisserman, A. Lui, V. Lempitsky, P.S. Grant, Crystal Nucleation in Metallic Alloys using X-ray Radiography and Machine Learning, Science Advances, 4 (2018), eaar4004, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar4004

G. Lin, D. Liu, M. Chen, C. You, Z. Li, Y. Wang, W. Li, Preparation and Characterization of Biodegradable Mg-Zn-Ca/MgO Nanocomposites for Biomedical Applications, Materials Characterization, 144 (2018), 120-130, DOI: 10.1016/j.matchar.2018.06.028

G. Liu, S. Ji, Effect of Bi on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Sn-Zn Alloys Processed by Rolling Material Characterization, 137 (2018), 39-49, DOI: 10.1016/j.matchar.2018.01.017

G. Zeng, J.W. Xian, C.M. Gourlay, Nucleation and Growth Crystallography of Al8Mn5 on B2-Al(Mn,Fe) in AZ91 Magnesium Alloys, Acta Materialia, In press, 2018, DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2018.04.032

G.S. Peng, G.S. Song, Y. Wang, K.H. Chen, S.Y. Chen, Intensive Melt Shearing and Calcium Concentration Effects on Grain Refinement of Commercial Purity Mg, International Journal of Cast Metals Research, 31 (2018), 99-107, DOI: 10.1080/13640461.2017.1376828

G.S. Peng, Y. Wang, Z. Fan, Competitive Heterogeneous Nucleation between Zr and MgO Particles in Commercial Purity Mg, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 49 (2018), 2182–2192, DOI: 10:1007/s11661-018-4594-3

H. Hajipour, A. Abdollah-zadeh, H. Assadi, E. Taheri-Nassaj, H. Jahed, Effect of Feedstock Powder Morphology on Cold-Sprayed Titanium Dioxide Coatings, Journal of Thermal Spray Technology, 27 (8) (2018), 1542-1550, DOI: 10.1007/s11666-018-0782-3

H. Men, Z. Fan, Prenucleation Induced by Crystalline Substrates, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, (2018), DOI: 10.1007/s11661-018-4628-x

I. Fartushna, M. Mardani, A. Khvan, V. Cheverikin, D. Ivanov, A. Kondratiev, and A. Dinsdale, Phase Equilibria in the Ce-Co-Fe-System at 900 °C, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 756 (2018), 644-649, DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2018.06.261

J. Wang, P. Andrews, C. Butler, E. McAlpine, G.M. Scamans, X. Zhou, Optical Cleanliness Measurement Methods for Aluminium Sheet Surfaces, Surface and Interface Analysis, (2018), 1-10, DOI: 10.1002/sia.6566

J. Xian, M. Mohd Salleh, S. Belyakov, T. Su, G. Zeng, K. Nogita, H. Yasuda, C.M. Gourlay, Influence of Ni on the Refinement and Twinning of Primary Cu6Sn5 in Sn-0.7Cu-0.05Ni, Intermetallics, 102 (2018), 34-45, DOI: 10.1016/j.intermet.2018.08.002

L. Li, S. Ji, Q. Zhu, Y. Wang, X. Dong, W. Yang, S. Midson, Y. Kang, Effect of Zn Concentration on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Al-Mg-Si-Zn Alloys Processed by Gravity Die Casting, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 49 (2018), 3247-3256, DOI: 10.1007/s11661-018-4684-2

L. Yang, G. Liu, L. Ma, E. Zhang, X. Zhou, G.E. Thompson, Effect of Iron Content on the Corrosion of Pure Magnesium: Critical Factor for Iron Tolerance Limit, Corrosion Science, In press, 2018, DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2018.04.024

M. Rahimian, S. Amirkhanlou, P. Blake, S. Ji, Nanoscale Zr-containing precipitates; a Solution for Significant Improvement of High-temperature strength in Al-Si-Cu-Mg alloys, Materials Science and Engineering: A, 721 (2018), 328-338, DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2018.02.060

M. Razavi, Y. Huang, Assessment of Magnesium-Based Biomaterials: From Bench to Clinic, Biomaterials Science, 7 (2019), 2241-2263, DOI: 10.1039/C9BM00289H

M. Xu, L. Wang, W. Lu, L. Zhang, H. Nadendla, Y. Wang, M. Xia, J. Li, The Nucleation Potency of In-situ Formed Oxides in Liquid Iron, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 49A (2018), 1762-1769, DOI: 10.1007/s11661-018-4528-0

M.C. Veale, P. Seller, M. Wilson, E. Liotti, HEXITEC: A High-Energy X-ray Spectroscopic Imaging Detector for Synchrotron Applications Synchrotron Radiation News, 31 (6) (2018), 28-32, DOI: 10.1080/08940886.2018.1528431

M.H. Chen, P.C. Bollad, P.K. Jimack, Dynamic Load Balancing for the Parallel, Adaptive, Multigrid Solution of Implicit Phase-field Simulations, International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling, In review, 2018, link to full text

M.M. Moradi, H.J. Aval, R. Jamaati, S. Amirkhanlou, S. Ji, Microstructure and Texture Evolution of Friction Stir Welded Dissimilar Aluminum Alloys: AA2024 and AA6061, Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 32 (2018), 1-10, DOI: 10.1016/j.jmapro.2018.01.016

N. Hou, S.A. Belyakov, L. Pay, A. Sugiyama, H. Yasuda, C.M. Gourlay, Competition Between Stable and Metastable Eutectic Growth in Sn-Ni Alloys, Acta Materialia, 149 (2018), 119-131, DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2018.02.034

N. Liu, C. Chen, I. Chang, P. Zhou, X. Wang, Compositional Dependence of Phase Selection in CoCrCu0.1FeMoNi-Based High-Entropy Alloys, Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 11 (8) (2018), 1290, DOI: 10.3390/ma11081290

P. Maier, M. Bechly, C.L. Mendis, N. Hort, Precipitation Hardening on Mechanical and Corrosion Properties of Extruded Mg10Gd Modified with Nd and La, Metals, 8 (8) (2018), 640, DOI: 10.3390/met8080640

P. Pandee, C.M. Gourlay, S.A. Belyakov, G. Zeng, U. Patakham, K. Chanyathunyaroj, C. Limmaneevichitr, AlSi2Sc2 Intermetallic Formation in Al-7Si-0.3Mg-xSc Alloys and their Effects on As-cast Properties, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 731 (2018), 1159-1170, DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2017.10.125

P.C. Bollada, P.K. Jimack, A.M. Mullis, A Numerical Approach to Compensate for Phase Field Interface Effects in Alloy Solidification, Computational Materials Science, 151 (2018), 338-350, DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2018.04.050

P.C. Bollada, P.K. Jimack, A.M. Mullis, Faceted and Dendritic Morphology Change in Alloy Solidification, Computational Materials Science, 144 (2018), 76-84, DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2017.12.007

P.C. Bollada, P.K. Jimack, A.M. Mullis, Numerical Approach to Compensate for Phase-field Interface Effects in Alloy Solidification, Computational Materials Science, 151 (2018), 338-350, DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2018.04.050

Q. Yuan, Y. Huang, D. Liu, M. Chen, Effects of Solidification Cooling Rate on the Corrosion Resistance of a Biodegradable ß-TCP/Mg-Zn-Ca Composite, Bioelectrochemistry, 124 (2018), 93-104, DOI: 10.1016/j.bioelechem.2018.07.005

R. Nikbakht, S.H. Seyedein, S. Kheirandish, H. Assadi, B. Jodoin, Asymmetrical Bonding in Cold Spraying of Dissimilar Materials, Applied Surface Science, 444 (2018), 621-632, DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2018.03.103

R.H. Buzolin, C.L. Mendis, D. Tolnai, E.P. da Silva, K.U. Kainer, N. Hort, , H.C. Pinto, On The Influence of Solution and Ageing Treatments on the Microstructure of ZK40 Alloys Modified with Ca, Gd, Nd and Y Additions, Practical Metallography, 55 (4) (2018), 268-287, DOI: 10.3139/147.110518

R.H. Buzolin, M. Mohedano, C.L. Mendis, B. Mingo, D. Tolnai, C. Blawert, K. Kainer, H. Pinto, N. Hort, Corrosion Behaviour of As-cast ZK40 with CaO and Y Additions, Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China (English Edition), 28 (2018), 427-439, DOI: 10.1016/S1003-6326(18)64676-X

S. Belyakov, J. Xian, G. Zeng, K. Sweatman, T. Nishimura, T. Akaiwa, C.M. Gourlay, Precipitation and Coarsening of Bismuth Plates in Sn-Ag-Cu-Bi and Sn-Cu-Ni-Bi Solder Joints, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 30 (1) (2018), 378-390, DOI: 10.1007/s10854-018-0302-8

S. Feng, E. Liotti, A. Lui, S. Kumar, A. Mahadevegowda, K.A.Q. O’Reilly, P.S. Grant, An In-situ Method to Estimate the Tip Temperature and Phase Selection of Secondary Fe-rich Intermetallics using Synchrotron X-ray Radiography, Scripta Materialia, 149 (2018), 44-48, DOI: 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2018.02.001

S.D. Liu, H. Lin, X. Zhou, Y. Wu, Effect of Cooling Conditions on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Friction Stir Welded 7055 Aluminium Alloy Joints, Materials Characterization, 141 (2018), 74-85, DOI: 10.1016/j.matchar.2018.04.029

T. Gu, C.M. Gourlay, T. Britton, Evaluating Creep Deformation in Controlled Microstructures of Sn-3Ag-0.5Cu Solder, Journal of Electronic Materials, 48 (1) (2018), 107-121, DOI: 10.1007/s11664-018-6744-1

T.A. Kassam, N. Hari Babu, N. Ludford, S. Yan, A. Howkins, Secondary Phase Interaction at Interfaces of High-Strength Brazed Joints made using Liquid Phase Sintered Alumina Ceramics and Ag-Cu-Ti Braze Alloys, Nature Scientific Reports, 8 (2018), 3352, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-20674-w

T.L. Lee, J. Mi, S.B. Ren, J.F. Fan, S. Kabra, S.Y. Zhang, P.S. Grant, Modelling and Neutron Diffraction Characterization of the Interfacial Bonding of Spray Formed Dissimilar Steels, Acta Materialia, 155 (2018), 318-330, DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2018.05.055

W. Li, H. Assadi, F. Gaertner, S. Yin, A Review of Advanced Composite and Nanostructured Coatings by Solid-State Cold Spraying Process Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences, (2018), 1-48, DOI: 10.1080/10408436.2017.1410778

W. Yang, S. Ji, R. Zhang, J. Zhang, L. Liu, Abnormal Grain Refinement Behaviour in High-Pressure Die Casting of Pure Mg with Addition of Zr as Grain Refiner, JOM, 70 (2018), 2555-2560, DOI: 10.1007/s11837-018-3087-6

X. Dong, H. Yang, X. Zhu, S. Ji, High Strength and Ductility Aluminium Alloy Processed by High Pressure Die Casting, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 773 (2018), 86-96, DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2018.09.260

X. Dong, S. Ji, Si Poisoning and Promotion on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Al–Si–Mg Cast Alloys, Journal of Materials Science, 53 (2018), 7778-7792, DOI: 10.1007/s10853-018-2022-0

X. Dong, Y. Zhang, S. Amirkhanlou, S. Ji, High Performance Gravity Cast Al9Si0.45Mg0.4Cu Alloy Inoculated with AlB2 and TiB2, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 252 (2018), 604-611, DOI: 10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2017.10.028

X. Dong, Y. Zhang, S. Ji, Improvement of Mechanical Properties in a High Silicon Al-Si-Mg Alloy through Effective Grain Refinement in Sand Casting, SciFed Journal of Metallurgical Science, 1 (2018), 1000001

X. Huang, X. Dong, L. Liu, P. Li, An Improved Modified Embedded-Atom Method Potential to Fit the Properties of Silicon at High Temperature, Computational Materials Science, 153 (2018), 251-257, DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2018.07.001

X. Zhang, B. Liu, X. Zhou, J. Wang, T. Hashimoto, C. Luo, Z. Sun, Z. Tang, F. Lu, Laser Welding Introduced Segregation and its Influence on the Corrosion Behaviour of Al-Cu-Li Alloy, Corrosion Science, 135 (2018), 177-191, DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2018.02.044

X. Zhang, B. Liu, X. Zhou, J. Wang, T. Hashimoto, C. Luo, Z. Sun, Z. Tang, F. Lu, Laser Welding Introduced Segregation and its Influence on the Corrosion Behaviour of Al-Cu-Li Alloy, Corrosion Science, 135 (2018), 177-191, DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2018.02.044

X. Zhang, X. Zhou, J. Nilsson, Z. Dong, C. Cai, Corrosion Behaviour of AA6082 Al-Mg-Si Alloy Extrusion: Recrystallized and Non-recrystallized Structures, Corrosion Science, 144 (2018), 163-171, DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2018.08.047

X. Zhang, X. Zhou, J.-O. Nilsson, Z. Dong, C. Cai, Corrosion Behaviour of AA6082 Al-Mg-Si Alloy Extrusion: Recrystallized and Non-recrystallized Structures, Corrosion Science, 144 (2018), 163-171, DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2018.08.047

X. Zhu, P. Blake, K. Dou, S. Ji, Strengthening Die-Cast Al-Mg and Al-Mg-Mn Alloys with Fe as a Beneficial Element, Materials Science and Engineering A, 732 (2018), 240-250, DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2018.07.005

X. Zhu, P. Blake, S. Ji, The Formation Mechanism of Al6 (Fe, Mn) Phase in Die-Cast Al-Mg Alloys, CrystEngComm, 20 (27) (2018), 3839-3848, DOI: 10.1039/C8CE00675J

X.L. Yang, C.L. Mendis, J.B. Patel, Z. Fan, Microstructure Evolution and Mechanical Properties of Thin Strip Twin Roll Cast (TRC) Mg Sheet, Minerals, Metals and Materials Series, F7 (2018), 429-432, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-72332-7_66

Y. Huang, J. Li, L. Zhou, Mg-3Zn-0.5Zr/HA Nanocomposites Fabricated by High Shear Solidification and Equal Channel Angular Extrusion, Materials Science and Technology, 34 (15) (2018), 1868-1879, DOI: 10.1080/02670836.2018.1495880

Y. Zhang, J.B. Patel, J. Lazaro-Nebreda, Z. Fan, Improved Defect Control and Mechanical Property Variation in High-Pressure Die Casting of A380 Alloy by High Shear Melt Conditioning, JOM, 70 (2018), 2726-2730, DOI: 10.1007/s11837-018-3005-y

Y. Zhang, J.B. Patel, Y. Wang, Z. Fan, Variation Improvement of Mechanical Properties of Mg-9Al-1Zn Alloy with Melt Conditioned High Pressure Die Casting, Materials Characterization, 144 (2018), 498-504, DOI: 10.1016/j.matchar.2018.08.007

Y. Zhang, S. Amirkhanlou, S. Ji, Reinforcement of TiB2 Nanoparticles in Aluminium Piston Alloys for High Performance at Elevated Temperature, Nanomanufacturing and Metrology, 1 (4) (2018), 248-251, DOI: 10.1007/s41871-018-0027-6

Z. Fan, F. Gao, L. Zhou, S.Z. Lu, A New Concept for Growth Restriction During Solidification, Acta Materialia, 152 (2018), 248-257, DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2018.04.045

Z. Hong, A. Morrison, H. Zhang, S.G. Roberts, P.S. Grant, Development of a Novel Melt Spinning Based Processing Route for Oxide Dispersion Strengthened Steels, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 49 (2018), 604-612, DOI: 10.1007/s11661-017-4398-x

Z. Hong, A. Morrison, H. Zhang, S.G. Roberts, P.S. Grant, Development of a Novel Melt Spinning Based Processing Route for Oxide Dispersion Strengthened Steels, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 49 (2018), 604–612, DOI: 10.1007/s11661-017-4398-x

Z.L. Ma, S.A. Belyakov, J.W. Xian, C.M. Gourlay, Nucleation and Twinning in Tin Droplet Solidification on Single Crystal Intermetallic Compounds, Acta Materialia, 150 (2018), 281-294, DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2018.02.047

Z.P. Que, Y. Wang, Z. Fan, Formation of the Fe-Containing Intermetallic Compounds during Solidification of Al-5Mg-2Si-0.7Mn-1.1Fe Alloy, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 49 (2018), 2173-2181, DOI: 10.1007/s11661-018-4591-6


Conferences

A.M. Mullis, P.C. Bollada, P.K. Jimack, Development of an Anti-Trapping Current for Phase-Field Models Using Arbitrary CALPHAD Thermodynamics, In Proceedings of THERMEC’ 2018, International Conference on Processing and Manufacture of Advanced Materials, 8-13 July 2018, Paris, Materials Science Forum, 941, 2337-2342, DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.941.2337

A.M. Mullis, P.C. Bollada, P.K. Jimack, Phase-field Modelling of Intermetallic Solidification, In 147th Annual Meeting & Exhibition Supplemental Proceedings, TMS 2018, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series, 11-15 March 2018, Arizona, USA, eds. TMS 2018, Springer, Cham, 587-596, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-72526-0_55

G.S.B. Lebon, H.T. Li, J.B. Patel, H. Assadi, Z. Fan, Numerical Modelling of Melt Conditioned Direct-chill (MC-DC) Casting of AZ31 Magnesium Alloy, In Proceedings of The 11th International Conference on Magnesium Alloys and Their Applications, 24 to 27 July 2018, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, C. Mendis, 100-106, DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2019.08.032

H.T. Li, J.B. Patel, Z. Fan, Melt Conditioned Direct-chill (MC-DC) Casting of Mg Alloys, In Proceedings of The 11th International Conference on Magnesium Alloys and Their Applications, 24 to 27 July 2018, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, C. Mendis, 107-114

H.T. Li, J.B. Patel, Z. Fan, Solidification Mechanisms of Melt Conditioned Direct-chill (MC-DC) Casting, In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Aluminium Alloys (ICAA16), 17-21 June 2018, Montreal, Canada, link to full text

I. Tzanakis, G.S.B. Lebon, D.G. Eskin, M. Hyde, P.S. Grant, Investigation of Acoustic Streaming and Cavitation Intensity in Water as a Liquid Metal Analogue, In Proceedings of the ASME 10th International Symposium on Cavitation (CAV2018). DOI: 10.1115/1.861851_ch113

J. Lazaro-Nebreda, J.B. Patel, G.M. Scamans, Z. Fan, Multi-purpose High Shear Melt Conditioning Technology for Effective Melt Quality and for Recycling of Al-Alloy Scrap, In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Aluminium Alloys (ICAA16), 17-21 June 2018, Montreal, Canada, link to full text

J.B. Patel, H.T. Li, X.L. Yang, Y. Zhang, Z. Fan, Developments in Application of High Shear Melt Conditioning (HSMC) Technology to Mg Alloys, In Proceedings of The 11th International Conference on Magnesium Alloys and Their Applications, 24 to 27 July 2018, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, C.L. Mendis, 18-25

P.C. Bollada, A.M. Mullis, P.K. Jimack, Free Energy vs. Grand Potential Energy Formulations in Phase Field Modelling of Alloy Solidification, In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Solidification & Gravity 2018, 3-6 September 2018, Miskolc-Lillafüred, Hungary, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, ISBN 978-963-508-889-8, 47-51, link to full text

S. Amirkhanlou, S. Ji, Stiffness Improvement Through Alloying Elements in Al Alloys, In Light Metals 2018, TMS 2018, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series, 11-15 March 2018, Arizona, USA, eds. O. Martin, Springer, Cham, 431-433, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-72284-9_58

X. Dong, S. Ji, Grain Refinement of Al–Si–Mg Cast Alloys by Al3Ti3B Master Alloy, In Light Metals 2018, TMS 2018, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series, 11-15 March 2018, Arizona, USA, eds. O. Martin, Springer, Cham, 319-323, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-72284-9_43

X.L. Yang, C.L. Mendis, J.B. Patel, Y. Huang, Z. Fan, Development of Melt-Conditioned Twin-Roll Casting (MC-TRC) Process for Thin Gauge Mg Alloy Strip Production, In Proceedings of The 11th International Conference on Magnesium Alloys and Their Applications, 24 to 27 July 2018, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, C.L. Mendis, 69-75

Y. Zhang, J.B. Patel, Z. Fan, Improvement on Variation of Mechanical Properties of AZ91 Alloy by Melt Conditioned High Pressure Die Casting (MC-HPDC), In Proceedings of The 11th International Conference on Magnesium Alloys and Their Applications, 24 to 27 July 2018, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, C.L. Mendis, 93-99

Z. Fan, Heterogeneous Nucleation, Grain Initiation and Grain Refinement of Mg-Alloys, In Proceedings of The 11th International Conference on Magnesium Alloys and Their Applications, 24 to 27 July 2018, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, C.L. Mendis, 7-17

A. Dybalska, D. Eskin, J.B. Patel, Evaluation of Shearing Time Sufficient for Effective Liquid Metal Processing, JOM, 69 (2017), 720-724, DOI: 10.1007/s11837-017-2286-x

A.G. Bhagurkar, A. Yamamoto, A.R. Dennis, J.H. Durrell, T.A. Aljohani, H.B. Nadendla, D.A. Cardwell, Microstructural Evolution in Infiltration-growth Processed MgB2 Bulk Superconductors, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 100, (2017), 2451–2460, DOI: 10.1111/jace.14792

A.P. Dobrowolska, B. Dierre, C.M. Fang, H.T. Hintzen, P. Dorenbos, Thermal Quenching of Eu2+ Emission in Ca- and Sr-Ga2S4 in relation with VRBE schemes, Journal of Luminescence, 184 (2017), 256-261, DOI: 10.1016/j.jlumin.2016.12.022

Amirkhanlou, S. Ji, Y. Zhang, D. Watson, Z. Fan, High modulus Al-Si-Mg-Cu/Mg2Si-TiB2 Hybrid Nanocomposite: Microstructural Characteristics and Micromechanics-based Analysis, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 694, (2017), 313–324, DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2016.10.016

Arabgol, M. Villa Vidaller, H. Assadi, F. Gärtner, T. Klassen, Influence of Thermal Properties and Temperature of Substrate on the Quality of Cold-Sprayed Deposits, Acta Materialia, 127, (2017), 287–301, DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2017.01.040

B. Kang, Q.G. Feng, C. Summers, C.M. Fang, R. Adhikari, K. Biswas, Emerging new Pseudobinary and Ternary Halides as Scintillators for Radiation Detection, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 64 (2017), 1817-1824, DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2016.2632064

Bolzoni, H.B. Nadendla, Considerations on the Effect of Solutal on the Grain Size of Castings from Superheated Melts, Materials Letters, 201, (2017), 9–12, DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2017.04.117

C.B. Basak, H.B. Nadendla, Influence of Cu on Modifying the Beta Phase and Enhancing the Mechanical Properties of Recycled Al-Si-Fe Cast Alloys, Scientific Reports, 7 (2017), 5779, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-05937-2

C.M. Fang, M.A. van Huis, Structure and Stability of Hcp Iron Carbide Precipitates: A First-principles Study, Heliyon, 3 (2017), e00408, DOI 10.1016/j.heliyon.2017.e00408

C.M. Fang, V. Mohammadi, S. Nihtianov, M.H.F. Sluiter, Stability, Local Structure and Electronic Properties of Borane Radicals on the Si(100) 2×1:H Surface: A First-principles Study, Computational Materials Science, 140 (2017), 253-260, DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2017.08.036

D. Liu, Y. Liu, Y. Zhao, Y. Huang, M. Chen, The Hot Deformation Behaviour and Microstructure Evolution of HA/Mg03Zn-0.8Zr Composites for Biomedical Application, Materials Science and Engineering: C, 77 (2017), 690-697, DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2017.03.239

D. Mata, M. Serdechnova, M. Mohedano, C.L. Mendis, S.V. Lamaka, J. Tedim, T. Hack, S. Nixon, M.L. Zheludkevich, Hierarchically Organized Li-Al-LDH Nano-flakes: a Low-temperature Approach to Seal Porous Anodic Oxide on Aluminum Alloys, RSC Advances, 7 (2017), 35357-35367, DOI: 10.1039/c7ra05593e

F. Ren, J. Wang, H. Ge, J. Li, Q. Hu, H.B. Nadendla, M. Xia, J. Li, A Homogeneous Billet Layer Casting Fabrication Method, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 48 (2017), 4453-4457, DOI: 10.1007/s11661-017-4239-y

G. Liu, S. Ji, L. Grechcini, A. Bentley, Z. Fan, Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Sn–Cu alloys for Detonating and Explosive Cords, Materials Science and Technology, 33 (2017), 1907-1918, DOI: 10.1080/02670836.2017.1334337

G.B. Lebon, I. Tzanakis, K. Pericleous, D. Eskin, Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Acoustic Pressures in Different Liquids, Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 42 (2017), 411-421, DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2017.12.002

G.S. Peng, Y. Wang, K.H. Chen, S.Y. Chen, Improved Zr Grain Refining Efficiency for Commercial Purity Mg via Intensive Melt Shearing International Journal of Cast Metals Research, 30 (2017), 374-378, DOI: 10.1080/13640461.2017.1317393

H. Dieringa, L. Katsarou, R. Buzolin, G. Szakács, M. Horstmann, M. Wolff, C.L. Mendis, S. Vorozhtsov, D. StJohn, Ultrasound Assisted Casting of an AM60 Based Metal Matrix Nanocomposite, its Properties, and Recyclability, Metals, 7 (2017), 388, DOI: 10.3390/met7100388

H. Shang, Z.L. Ma, S.A. Belyakov, C.M. Gourlay, Grain Refinement of Electronic Solders: the Potential of Combining Solute with Nucleant Particles, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 715 (2017), 471-485, DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2017.04.268

H.-T. Li, P. Zhao, R. Yang, J.B. Patel, X. Chen, Z. Fan, Grain Refinement and Improvement of Solidification Defects in Direct-Chill Cast Billets of A4032 Alloy by Melt Conditioning, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 48 (2017), 2481-2492, DOI: 10.1007/s11663-017-1016-7

Isakov, C.J. Stevens, F. Castles, P.S. Grant, A Split Ring Resonator Dielectric Probe for Near-Field Dielectric Imaging, Scientific Reports, 7, (2017), 2038, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-02176-3

J.B. Patel, X. Yang, C.L. Mendis Z. Fan, Melt Conditioning of Light Metals by Application of High Shear for Improved Microstructure and Defect Control, The Journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), 69, (2017), 1071–1076, DOI: 10.1007/s11837-017-2335-5

J.W. Xian, S.A. Belyakov, M. Ollivier, K. Nogita, H. Yasuda, C.M. Gourlay, Cu6Sn5 Crystal Growth Mechanisms during Solidification of Electronic Interconnections, Acta Materialia, 126, (2017), 540–551, DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2016.12.043

J.W. Xian, Z.L. Ma, S.A. Belyakov, M. Ollivier, C.M. Gourlay, Nucleation of Tin on the Cu6Sn5 Layer in Electronic Interconnections, Acta Materialia, 123, (2017), 404–415, DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2016.10.008

K.M. Kareh, C. O'Sullivan, T. Nagira, H. Yasuda, C.M. Gourlay, Dilatancy in Semi-solid Steels at High Solid Fraction, Acta Materialia, 125, (2017), 187–195, DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2016.11.066

L. Wang, L. Yang, D. Zhang, M. Xia, Y. Wang, B. Chen, J. Li, Nucleation Interface of Al−Sb Alloys on Single Crystal Al2O3 Substrate, Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China, 27 (2017), 2104-2111, DOI: 10.1016/S1003-6326(17)60236-X

L. Wang, W. Lu, Q. Hu, M. Xia, Y. Wang, J.G. Li, Interfacial Tuning for the Nucleation of Liquid AlCu Alloy, Acta Materialia, 139 (2017), 75-85, DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2017.07.058

L. Zheng, T.L. Lee, N. Liu, Z. Li, G. Zhang, J. Mi, P.S. Grant, Numerical and Physical Simulation of Rapid Microstructural Evolution of Gas Atomised Ni Superalloy Powders, Materials and Design, 117 (2017), 157–167, DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2016.12.074

L. Zheng, T.L. Lee, N. Liu, Z. Li, G. Zhang, J. Mi, P.S. Grant, Numerical and Physical Simulation of Rapid Microstructural Evolution of Gas Atomised Ni Superalloy Powders, Materials and Design, 117 (2017), 157–167, DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2016.12.074S

M. Serdechnova, M. Mohedano, B. Kuznetsov, C.L. Mendis, M. Starykevich, S. Karpushenkov, J. Tedim, M.G.S. Ferreira, C. Blawert, M.L. Zheludkevich, PEO Coatings with Active Protection Based on In-Situ Formed LDH-Nanocontainers, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 164, (2017), C36-C45, DOI: 10.1149/2.0301702jes

M. Tong, J.B. Patel, I.C. Stone, Z. Fan, D.J. Browne, Identification of Key Liquid Metal Flow Features in the Physical Conditioning of Molten Aluminium Alloy with High Shear Processing, Computational Materials Science, 131 (2017), 35-43, DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2017.01.050

M.M. Salleh, C.M. Gourlay, J.W. Xian, S.A. Belyakov, H. Yasuda, S.D. McDonald, K. Nogita, In Situ Imaging of Microstructure Formation in Electronic Interconnections, Scientific reports, 7, (2017), 40010, DOI: 10.1038/srep40010

Nafisul, R.F. Cochrane, A.M. Mullis, Disorder-order Morphologies in Drop-tube Processed Ni3Ge: Dendritic and Seaweed Growth, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 707, (2017), 327–331, DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2016.11.080

Nafisul, R.F. Cochrane, A.M. Mullis, Morphology of Spherulites in Rapidly Solidified Ni3Ge Droplets, Crystals, 7, (2017), 100, DOI: 10.3390/cryst7040100

Ollivier, R.M. Harker, C.M. Gourlay, Reaction-induced Surface Reconstruction of Silver in Contact with Zirconium, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 691, (2017), 624–633, DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2016.08.282

Oloyede, R.F. Cochrane, A.M. Mullis, Effect of Rapid Solidification on the Microstructure and Microhardness of BS1452 Grade 250 Hypoeutectic Grey Cast Iron, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 707, (2017), 347–350, DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2016.08.214

Pawar, T.J.A. Slater, T.L. Burnett, X. Zhou, G.M. Scamans, Z. Fan, G.E. Thompson, P.J. Withers, Crystallographic Effects on the Corrosion of Twin Roll Cast AZ31 Mg Alloy Sheet, Acta Materialia, 133, (2017), 90–99, DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2017.05.027

R.H. Buzolin, M. Mohedano, C.L. Mendis, B. Mingo, D. Tolnai, C. Blawert, K.U. Kainer, H. Pinto, N. Hort, As Cast Microstructures on the Mechanical and Corrosion Behaviour of ZK40 Modified with Gd and Nd Additions, Materials Science and Engineering A, 682, (2017), 238–247, DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2016.11.022

S. Ji, H. Yang, X. Cui, Z. Fan, Macro-heterogeneities in Microstructures, Concentrations, Defects and Tensile Properties of Die Cast Al–Mg–Si Alloys, Materials Science and Technology, 33 (2017), 2223-2233, DOI: 10.1080/02670836.2017.1334309

S.A. Belyakov, J.W. Xian, K. Sweatman, T. Nishimura, T. Akaiwa, C.M. Gourlay, Influence of Bismuth on the Solidification of Sn-0.7 Cu-0.05 Ni-xBi/Cu Joints, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 701, (2017), 321–334, DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2016.12.404

V. Mohammadi, S. Nihtianov, C.M. Fang, A Doping-less Junction-formation Mechanism between N-silicon and an Atomically Thin Boron Layer, Scientific Reports, 7 (2017), 13247, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-13100-0

V.M. Sreekumar, H.B Nadendla, D. Eskin, Prospects of In-situ α-Al2O3 as an Inoculant in Aluminium – a Feasibility Study, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 26 (2017), 4166-4176, DOI: 10.1007/s11665-017-2853-x

W. Yang, H. Fredriksson, S. Ji, Halo Formation of Zn-Al alloys under Conventional Solidification and Intensive Convection Solidification, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 696 (2017), 460-469, DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2016.11.281

W. Yang, L. Liu, J. Zhang, S. Ji, Insight into the Partial Solutionisation of a High Pressure Die-cast Al-Mg-Zn-Si Alloy for Mechanical Property Enhancement, Materials Science and Engineering: A, 682 (2017), 85-89, DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2016.11.028

X. Dong, Y. Zhang, S. Amirkhanlou, S. Ji, High Performance Gravity Cast Al9Si0.45Mg0.4Cu Alloy Inoculated with AlB2 and TiB2, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 252 (2018), 604-611, DOI: 10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2017.10.028

X. Dong, Y. Zhang, S. Ji, Enhancement of Mechanical Properties in High Silicon Gravity Cast AlSi9Mg Alloy Refined by Al3Ti3B Master Alloy, Materials Science and Engineering A, 700 (2017), 291-300, DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2017.06.005

X. Zhang, X. Zhou, T. Hashimoto, J. Lindsay, O. Ciuca, C. Luo, Z. Sun, X. Zhang, The Influence of Grain Structure on the Corrosion Behaviour of 2A97-T3 Al-Cu-Li Alloy, Corrosion Science, 116 (2017), 14-21, DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2016.12.005

X. Zhang, X. Zhou, T. Hashimoto, J. Lindsay, O. Ciuca, C. Luo, Z. Sun, X. Zhang, The Influence of Grain Structure on the Corrosion Behaviour of 2A97-T3 Al-Cu-Li Alloy, Corrosion Science, 116 (2017), 14-21, DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2016.12.005

X.S. Huang, X. Dong, C.M. Yang, F. Tian, L.H. Liu, G.Q. Chen, P.J. Li, Investigation of Atom Distribution in Mg-9wt.%Al Melt using Small-angle X-ray Scattering and Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 473 (2017), 47-53, DOI: 10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2017.07.026

Y. Zhang, S. Ji, G. Scamans, Z. Fan, Interfacial Characterisation of Overcasting a Cast Al-Si-Mg (A356) Alloy on a Wrought Al-Mg-Si (AA6060) Alloy, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 243 (2017), 197-204, DOI: 10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2016.12.022

Y. Zhang, S. Ji, Z. Fan, Improvement of Mechanical Properties of Al-Si Alloy with Effective Grain Refinement by In-situ Integrated Al2.2Ti1B-Mg Refiner, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 710 (2017), 166-171, DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2017.03.244

Y.M. Kim, C.L. Mendis, T. Sasaski, D. Letzig, F. Pyczak, K. Hono, S. Yi, Static Recrystallization Behaviour of Cold Rolled Mg-Zn-Y Alloy and Role of Solute Segregation in Microstructure Evolution, Scripta Materialia, 136 (2017), 41-45, DOI: 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2017.04.001

Z.L. Ma, C. M. Gourlay, Nucleation, Grain Orientations, and Microstructure of Sn-3Ag-0.5 Cu Soldered on Cobalt Substrates, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 706, (2017), 596–608, DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2017.02.243

Z.L. Ma, S.A. Belyakov, K. Sweatman, T. Nishimura, C.M. Gourlay, Harnessing Heterogeneous Nucleation to Control Tin Orientations in Electronic Interconnections, Nature Communications, 8 (2017), 1916, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-01727-6


Conferences

A. Valizadeh, I.T.H. Chang, I.C. Stone, Bonding of Aluminium to Low Carbon Steel using an Overcasting Process, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 687-690, link to full text

A.T. Dinsdale, C.M. Fang, Z. Fan, Z.V. Khvan, The Critical Assessment of Data for Al-Fe based Intermetallic Phases Formed during Solidification of Aluminium Alloys, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 171-174, link to full text

Al-Helal, I.C. Stone, Z. Fan, Refinement of Primary Silicon Crystals by Novel P-doped γ-Al2O3 Particles in Solidification of Hypereutectic Al-Si Alloys, Materials Science Forum, 877, (2017), 550–557, DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.877.550

Amirkhanlou, Y. Zhang, S. Ji, Z. Fan, Young’s Modulus of Al-Si-Mg-Cu Based Alloy Under Different Heat Treatment Processes, In Proceedings of Light Metals 2017, 26 February – 2 March 2017, San Diego, California, USA, ed. A. P. Ratvik, Springer, 335–342, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51541-0_44

B. Jiang, Z. Fan, Grain Initiation: Progressive vs. Explosive, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 61-65

C.M. Fang, H. Men, Z. Fan, Effect of Substrate Chemistry on Prenucleation by Ab Initio MD Simulation, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 52-55

D.G. Eskin, I. Tzanakis, F. Wang, G.S.B. Lebon, K. Pericleous, P.D. Lee, T. Connolley, J. Mi, Fundamental Studies of Ultrasonic Melt Processing, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 546-549

F. Gao, H. Assadi, Z. Fan, A Phase-field Study of Grain Refinement: Role of Number Density of Inoculant Particles, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 99-102

F. Wang, D. Eskin, J.W. Mi, T. Connolley, I. Tzanakis Refinement of Primary Al3Ti Intermetallic Particles in an Al-0.4 wt% Ti Alloy by Ultrasonic Melt Processing, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 166-170

F. Yan, Y.H. Zhao, H. Hou, S. Ji, Effect of Fe Addition on the Microstructure and Mechanical Property of Diecast Al-Mg2Si-Mg based Alloy, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 255-258

G. Salloum-Abou-Jaoude, D.G. Eskin, C. Barbatti, P. Jarry, M. Jarrett, Effect of Ultrasonic Melt Treatment on Grain Refinement of Direct Chill Cast AA6082 Aluminium Alloy. In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 550-553

G. Zeng, J.W. Xian, C.M. Gourlay, Growth of Al8Mn5 Intermetallic in AZ91, In Magnesium Technology 2017. TMS 2017. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series, 26 February-2 March 2017, San Diego, CA, USA, eds. K. Solanki, D. Orlov, A. Singh, N. Neelameggham, Springer, Cham, 85-92, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-52392-7_15

G. Zeng, K. Nogita, J.W. Xian, H. Yasuda, C.M. Gourlay, Solidification of Al8Mn5 in Mg-Al-Zn-Mn alloys, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 259-262

G. Zeng, K. Nogita, S. Belyakov, J.W. Xian, S.D. McDonald, K.V. Yang, H. Yasuda, C.M. Gourlay, Real-time Observation of AZ91 Solidification by Synchrotron Radiography, In Magnesium Technology 2017, TMS 2017, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series, 26 February-2 March 2017, San Diego, CA, USA, eds. K. Solanki, D. Orlov, A. Singh, N. Neelameggham, Springer, Cham, 597 603, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-52392-7_82

G. Zeng, X. Zhu, S. Ji, C.M. Gourlay, The Morphology and Distribution of Al8Mn5 in High Pressure Die Cast AM50 and AZ91, In Magnesium Technology 2017, TMS 2017, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series, 26 February-2 March 2017, San Diego, CA, USA, eds. K. Solanki, D. Orlov, A. Singh, N. Neelameggham, Springer, Cham, 137-144, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-72332-7_21

H. Men, Z. Fan, Effect of Lattice Misfit on Prenucleation by Molecular Dynamics Simulation, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 43-47

H. Men, Z. Fan, Effect of Misfit on Heterogeneous Nucleation by Molecular Dynamics Simulation, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 48-51

H.-T. Li, J.B. Patel, G.M. Scamans, Z. Fan, Melt Conditioned Direct-chill (MC-DC) Casting of Al and Mg Alloys, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 589-592

H.-T. Li, J.B. Patel, Z. Fan, Solidification Mechanisms of Melt Conditioned Direct-chill (MC-DC) Casting, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 137-140

I.T.H. Chang, Q. Cai, X. Zhu, Y. Zhang, F. Gao, Z. Fan, Refinement of Eutectic Microstructure in Quaternary Al-Cu-Si-Mg Alloys, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 406-409

J. Lazaro Nebreda, J.B. Patel, I.C. Stone, G.M. Scamans, Z. Fan, De-Ironing of Aluminium Alloy Scrap by High Shear Melt Conditioning Technology, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 601-60

J. Wu, R. Morrell, L. Chapman, J. Clark, P. Quested, Characterisation of Thermal Conductivity Reference Material Using the NPL Axial Heat Flow Apparatus, In High Temperatures-High Pressure, 21st European Conference of Thermophysical Properties, 3-8 September 2017, Graz, Austria. In press.

J.B. Patel, J. Lazaro Nebreda, Z. Fan, Efficient De-gassing of Aluminium Alloy Melts by High Shear Melt Conditioning Technology, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 597-600

J.B. Patel, M.J. Balart, Z. Fan, Grain Refinement of Pure Copper, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 103-106

J.W. Xian, S.A. Belyakov, K. Nogita, H. Yasuda, C.M. Gourlay, Faceted and Nonfaceted Growth of Cu6Sn5 Crystals, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 251-254

J.W. Xian, Z.L. Ma, H. Shang, S.A. Belyakov, C.M. Gourlay, Heterogeneous Nucleation Mechanisms in Solder Joints, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 66-69

Ji, D. Watson, Z. Fan, X-Ray Computed Tomographic Investigation of High Pressure Die Castings, In Proceedings of Light Metals 2017, 26 February – 2 March 2017, San Diego, California, ed. A.P. Ratvik, Springer, 867–866, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51541-0_104

K. Al-Helal, I.C. Stone, Z. Fan, Refinement and Modification of Silicon Phases in Solidification of High Purity Hypereutectic AL-15Si Alloy, In Proceedings of the Liquid Metal Processing & Casting Conference, LMPC 2017, 10-13 September 2017, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, eds. M.J.M. Krane, R.M. Ward, S. Rudoler, A.J. Elliott, A. Pate, 281-286

K. Schneider, B.J. McKay, N. Hari Babu, Influence of Alloying Elements on Intermetallic Formation in Al-Mg Compound Castings, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 189-192

K.W. Al-Helal, I.C. Stone, Z. Fan, Effect of Solidification Rate on Macro-segregation and Morphologies of Silicon Phases in Solidification of Al-15Si Alloy, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 517-520

K.W. Al-Helal, P.M. Thomas, Z. Fan, Design and Development of Continuous Melt-conditioned Twin Roll Casting Process for Aluminium Alloys, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 671-674

L. Bolzoni, H.B. Nadendla, Equiaxed Structure in DC-casting Al-10Si Billets via Engineered Nucleation, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 141-144

L. Wang, X. Ge, M. Xia, W. Lu, Y. Wang, H.B. Nadendla, J.G. Li, Nucleation Pathway of Pure Al on Al2O3(10–10) Substrate, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 70-73

M. Rahimian, S. Ji, P. Blake, D. Watson, Z. Fan, The Effect of Transition Alloying Elements on the Microstructure of Al-Si Alloys, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 403-405

Nafisul, R.F. Cochrane, A.M. Mullis, Morphology of Order-Disorder Structures in Rapidly Solidified L12 Intermetallics, In Proceedings of TMS 2017 146th Annual Meeting and Exhibition, 26 February – 2 March 2017, San Diego, California, USA, ed. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), 729–736, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51493-2_70

Oloyede, R.F. Cochrane, A.M. Mullis, Phase Transformation, Microstructural Evolution and Property Modification in Rapidly Solidified Grey Cast Iron, In Proceedings of TMS 2017 146th Annual Meeting and Exhibition, 26 February – 2 March 2017, San Diego, California, USA, ed. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), 719–727, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51493-2_69

P. Quested, R. Morrell, A. Dinsdale, L Chapman, The Measurement and Estimation of Density for Selected Liquid Alloys, In High Temperatures-High Pressure, 21st European Conference of Thermophysical Properties, 3-8 September 2017, Graz, Austria. In press.

P. Quested, R. Morrell, A. Dinsdale, L. Chapman, The Measurement and Estimation of Density for Selected Liquid Alloys, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 538-542

P.C. Bollada, A.M. Mullis, Phase Field Modelling of Multiphase Alloy Solidification: A Review, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 197-200

P.C. Bollada, P.K. Jimack, A.M. Mullis, Faceting in Al-Si using Phase Field, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 247-250

R. Ritwik, P.N. Quested, Viscosity of Liquid Metals - Some Experiments with Concentric Cylinder Viscometers, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 521-524

Rahimian, S. Ji, P. Blake, D. Watson, Z. Fan, Microstructural Transition and Elevated Temperature Tensile Properties of Modified Al-Si-Cu-Mg Alloys, In Proceedings of Light Metals 2017, 26 February – 2 March 2017, San Diego, California, USA, ed. A.P. Ratvik, Springer, 419–425, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51541-0_52

S. Amirkhanlou, S. Ji, Y. Zhang, D. Watson, High Modulus Al-based Alloy Prepared by Low Pressure Die Casting In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 683-689

S. Khorsand, Y. Huang, Integrated Casting-extrusion of an AA6082 Aluminium Alloy, In Proceedings of Light Metals 2017, TMS 2017, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Series, 26 February-2 March 2017, San Diego, California, ed. A.P. Ratvik, Springer, 235-241, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51541-0_32

S.A. Belyakov, T. Nishimura, T. Akaiwa, K. Sweatman, C.M. Gourlay, Role of Bi in Microstructure Formation of Sn-Cu-Ni Based BGAs on Cu Metallizations, In Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Electronics Packaging (ICEP), 19 – 22 April 2017, Yamagata, Japan, 232-236

Subroto, C.L. Mendis, F. D’Elia, G. Szakács, J.L. Fife, N. Hort, K.U. Kainer, D. Tolnai, 3D Microstructural Evolution on Solidifying Mg–5Nd–5Zn Alloy Observed via In Situ Synchrotron Tomography, In Proceedings of Magnesium Technology 2017, 26 February – 2 March 2017, San Diego, California, ed. K.N. Solanki, D. Orlov, A. Singh, N.R. Neelameggham, Springer, 2017, 99–106, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-52392-7_83

T.C. Su, C. O’Sullivan, T. Nagira, H. Yasuda, C.M. Gourlay, Exploring Semi-solid Deformation with the Discrete Element Method and Synchrotron Radiography, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 512-516

Tong, J.B. Patel, I.C. Stone, Z. Fan, D.J. Browne, The Scale-Up of High Shear Processing for the Purification of Recycled Molten Scrap Aluminium Alloy: Key Features of Fluid Flow, In Proceedings of Light Metals 2017, 26 February – 2 March 2017, San Diego, California, ed. A.P. Ratvik, Springer, 1123–1129, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51541-0_135

Wang, G. Peng, Z. Fan, Grain Refinement of Mg and its Alloy by Inoculation of In Situ MgO Particles, In Proceedings of Magnesium Technology 2017, 26 February – 2 March 2017, San Diego, California, ed. K.N. Solanki, D. Orlov, A. Singh, N.R. Neelameggham, Springer, 2017, 99–106, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-52392-7_17

X. Dong, S. Ji, Y. Zhang, Z. Fan, Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of a Cast Al-Si-Mg-Cu Alloy Refined by Al5Ti1B and Al3Ti3B, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 107-110

X.L. Yang, H.-T. Li, J.B. Patel, Z. Fan, Improving Particle Distribution in Metal Matrix Composites by Intensive Melt Shearing, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 613-616

X.L. Yang, J.B. Patel, C.L. Mendis, Z. Fan, Melt Conditioned Twin Roll Casting (MC-TRC) Process for Thin Gauge Mg Alloy Strip, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 585-588

Y. Huang, L. Zhou, M. Razavi, The Impact of High Shear Treatment on the HA Particle Distribution and Microstructure of Mg-HA Nanocomposite Castings, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 625-629

Y. Huang, Steady State and a General Scale Law of Deformation, In IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 38th Risø International Symposium on Materials Science, 4-8 September 2017, Roskilde, Denmark, 012029, DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/219/1/012029

Y. Qiu, H. Assadi, Z. Fan, Modelling of Microstructure Evolution in Twin-Roll Casting of Magnesium, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 571-575

Y. Wang, H.-T. Li, Z. Fan, Grain Refinement of Al- and Mg- alloys by Native Oxide Particles, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 81-86

Y. Wang, Z.P. Que, Y. Zhang, Z. Fan, Effect of Interfacial Segregation on Heterogeneous Nucleation, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 56-60

Y. Zhang, J.B. Patel, Z. Fan, Melt Conditioned High Pressure Die Casting of AZ91D Mg Alloy with Improved Variation of Mechanical Properties In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 593-596

Y. Zhao, W. Du, B. Koe, T. Connolley, S. Irvine, P.K. Allan, C.M. Schlepütz, W. Zhang, F. Wang, D.G. Eskin, J. Mi, Synchrotron X-ray Tomography Studies of Fe-rich Intermetallic Phases in Al Alloys, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 263-266

Z. Fan, F. Gao, S.Z. Lu, L. Zhou, A New Concept of Growth Restriction Coefficient, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 91-94

Z.P. Que, Y.P. Zhou, Y. Wang, Z. Fan, Composition Templating for Heterogeneous Nucleation of Intermetallic Compounds, In Proceedings of the 6th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing (SP17), 25-28 July 2017, Old Windsor, UK, ed. Z. Fan, 158-161

Zhang, S. Ji, Z. Fan, The Enhancement of Mechanical Properties of A356 Alloy Solidified at Lower Cooling Rate via Effectively Grain Refinement, In Proceedings of Light Metals 2017, 26 February – 2 March 2017, San Diego, California, ed. A.P. Ratvik, Springer, 221–226, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51541-0_30

A.G. Bhagurkar, A. Yamamoto, L. Anguilano, A.R. Dennis, J.H. Durrell, N.H. Babu, D.A. Cardwell, A Trapped Magnetic Field of 3T in Homogeneous, Bulk MgB2 Superconductors Fabricated by a Modified Precursor Infiltration and Growth (MPIG) Process, Superconductor Science and Technology, 29, (2016), 035008, DOI: 10.1088/0953-2048/29/3/035008

Amirkhanlou, M. Rahimian, M. Ketabchi, N. Parvin, P. Yaghinali, F. Carreño, Strengthening Mechanisms in Nanostructured Al/SiCp Composite Manufactured by Accumulative Press Bonding, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 47, (2016), 5136–5145, DOI: 10.1007/s11661-016-3666-5

Assadi, H. Kreye, F. Gärtner, T. Klassen, Cold Spraying – A Materials Perspective, Acta Materialia, 116, (2016), 382–407, DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2016.06.034

Barekar, S. Das, X. Yang, Y. Huang, O. El Fakir, A.G. Bhagurkar, L. Zhou, Z. Fan, The Impact of Melt Conditioning on Microstructure, Texture and Ductility of Twin Roll Cast Aluminium Alloy Strips, Materials Science and Engineering A, 650, (2016), 365–373, DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2015.10.079

Bolzoni, H. Nadendla, Engineering the Heterogeneous Nuclei in Al-Si Alloys for Solidification Control, Applied Materials Today, 5, (2016), 255–259, DOI: 10.1016/j.apmt.2016.11.001

Bolzoni, H.B. Nadendla, Heterogeneous Nb-Based Nuclei for the Grain Refinement of Al-Si Alloys, The Journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), 68, (2016), 1301–1306, DOI: 10.1007/s11837-016-1855-8

Bolzoni, M. Nowak, H. Nadendla, Nb-Based Heterogeneous Nuclei for Enhanced α-Mg Nucleation in Mg(-Al) Alloys, Materials Letters, 169, (2016), 207–209, DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2016.01.121

Bolzoni, M. Xia, H. Nadendla, Formation of Equiaxed Crystal Structures in Directionally Solidified Al-Si Alloys using Nb-Based Heterogeneous Nuclei, Scientific Reports, 6, (2016), 39554, DOI: 10.1038/srep39554

Burugapalli, M. Razavi, L. Zhou, Y. Huang, In Vitro Cytocompatibility Study of a Medical β-type Ti-35.5Nb-5.7Ta Titanium Alloy, Journal of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, 6, (2016), 141–148, DOI: 10.1166/jbt.2016.1424

C.B. Basak, N. Hari Babu, Morphological Changes and Segregation of β-Al9Fe2Si2 Phase: A Perspective from Better Recyclability of Cast Al-Si Alloys, Materials and Design, 108, (2016), 277–288, DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2016.06.096

D. Zhang, L. Wang, B. Chen, M. Xia, J.G. Li, N. Hari Babu, Y. Wang, Potential Nucleation Agents in Al-Mg Alloys, Metallurgia Italiana, 108 (2016), 153-156

E. Liotti, A. Lui, S. Kumar, Z. Guo, C. Bi, T. Connolley, P.S. Grant, The Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Dendrite Fragmentation in Solidifying Al-Cu alloys under Different Conditions, Acta Materialia, 121 (2016), 384-395, DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2016.09.013

L. Wang, L. Yang, D. Zhang, M. Xia, Y. Wang, J.G. Li, The Role of Lattice Misfit on Heterogeneous Nucleation of Pure Aluminum, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 47 (2016), 5012-5022, DOI: 10.1007/s11661-016-3691-4

M.J. Balart, J.B. Patel, F. Gao, Z. Fan, Grain Refinement of Deoxidized Copper, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 47, (2016), 4988–5011, DOI: 10.1007/s11661-016-3671-8

M.J. Balart, J.B. Patel, Z. Fan, Melt Protection of Mg-Al Based Alloys Metals, 6, (2016), 131, DOI: 10.3390/met6060131

Nafisul, R.F. Cochrane, A.M. Mullis, Rapid Solidification Morphologies in Ni3Ge: Spherulites, Dendrites and Dense-branched Fractal Structures Intermetallics, 76, (2016), 70–77, DOI: 10.1016/j.intermet.2016.06.012

Oloyede, T.D. Bigg, R.F. Cochrane, A.M. Mullis, Microstructure Evolution and Mechanical Properties of Drop-tube Processed, Rapidly Solidified Grey Cast Iron, Materials Science and Engineering A, 654, (2016), 143–150, DOI: 10.1016/j.msea.2015.12.020

P.C. Bollada, P.K. Jimack, A.M. Mullis, Bracket Formalism Applied to Phase Field Models of Alloy Solidification, Computational Materials Science, 126, (2016), 426–437, DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2016.09.036


Conferences

Abou-Khalil, G. Salloum-Abou-Jaoude, G. Reinhart, C. Pickmann, G. Zimmermann, Y. Houltz, J. Li, O. Janson, H. Nguyen-Thi, In Situ Investigation of the Effects of Gravity Level Variations on the Directional Solidification Microstructures during Parabolic Flights, In Proceedings of TMS 2016 145th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, 14 – 18 February 2016, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, ed. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), 43–50, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-48254-5_6

Al-Helal, I.C. Stone, Z. Fan, Refinement of Primary Silicon Crystals by Novel Al-ZnS Master Alloy in Solidification of Hypereutectic Al-Si Alloys, In Light Metals 2016, 14 – 18 February 2016, Nashville, Tennessee, USA ed. E. Williams, Springer, 271–273, DOI: 10.1002/9781119274780.ch45

Al-Helal, I.C. Stone, Z. Fan, Refinement of Primary Silicon Crystals by Novel P-Doped γ-Al2O3 Particles in Solidification of Hypereutectic Al-Si Alloys, In Proceedings of The 15th International Conference on Aluminium Alloys (ICAA15), 12 – 16 June 2016, Chongqing, China, ed. Q. Liu,

Huang, Solute Effect on Grain Boundary Migration in Ultrafine/Nanostructured Materials, In Proceedings of International Conference and Exhibition on Materials Chemistry, 31 March – 1 April 2016, Valencia, Spain eds. M.A. Ali et al. OMICS International, Journal of Materials Sciences and Engineering 2016, 5, s65, DOI: 10.4172/2169-0022.C1.011

J.B. Patel, P. Lloyd, G. Peng, Z. Fan, Development of the New High Shear Technology for Continuous Processing of Mg-alloys for Ingot Casting, In Magnesium Technology, TMS 2016, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Series. 14-18 February 2016, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, eds. A. Singh, K. Solanki, M.V. Manuel, N.R. Neelameggham, Springer, 29-33, DOI: 10.1002/9781119274803.ch8

Ji, F. Gao, Z. Fan, Thermodynamics Calculation of Extra Mn Addition in the Recycling of Al-Si-Cu Aluminium Alloys, In Proceedings of The 15th International Conference on Aluminium Alloys (ICAA15), 12 – 16 July 2016, ChongQing China, eds. Q. Liu, J.F. Nie, R. Sanders, Z. Jia, L. Cao, Trans Tech Publications, 33–38, DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.877.33

Ji, F. Yang, Z. Fan, A High Strength Aluminium Alloy for High Pressure Die Casting, In Proceedings of Light Metals 2016, 14 – 18 February 2016, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, ed. E. Williams, Springer, 207–210, DOI: 10.1002/9781119274780.ch35

Ji, H. Yang, D. Watson, Z. Fan, Weibull Analysis for the Repeatibility of Die Castings Made by an Al-Mg-Si-Mn Alloy, In Proceedings of Light Metals 2016, 14 – 18 February 2016, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, ed. E. Williams, Springer, 679–685, DOI: 10.1002/9781119274780.ch114

Wang, L. Zhou, Z. Fan, Mechanism of Zirconium Poisoning Effect on TiB2 Inoculation in Aluminium Alloys, In Light Metals 2016, 14 – 18 February 2016, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, ed. E. Williams, Springer, 725–729, DOI: 10.1002/9781119274780.ch122

Y. Wang, L. Zhou, Z. Fan, Mechanism of Zirconium Poisoning Effect on TiB2 Inoculation in Aluminium Alloys, In Proceedings of Light Metals 2016, TMS 2016, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Series, 14-18 February 2016, Nashville, Tennessee, USA ed. E. Williams, Springer, 725-729

 Montalba, D.G.Eskin, A. Miranda, D. Rojas, K. Ramam, Effect of electroceramic particles on damping behaviour of aluminium hybrid composites produced by ultrasonic cavitation and mechanical stirring, Materials and Design, 84, (2015), 110–117,

N.A. Belov, A.N. Alabin, I.A. Matveeva, D.G. Eskin, Effect of zirconium additions and annealing temperature on electrical conductivity and hardness of hot rolled aluminium sheets, Trans. Nonferrous Met. Soc., 25 (2015), 2817−2826

T. Pabel, T. Petkov, M. da Silva, R. Ruzsinszki, X. Planta, J. Tort and D. Eskin, The effect of ultrasonic degassing on the quality and properties of components produced by low and high pressure die casting, Intern. Foundry Res., 3 (2015), 28–33

I. Tzanakis, G.S.B Lebon, D.G. Eskin, K. Pericleous, Comparison of cavitation intensity in water and in molten aluminium using a high-temperature cavitometer In Proceedings of The 9th International Symposium on Cavitation (CAV2015), 6–10 December 2015, Lausanne, Switzerland, M Farhat and A Müller, IOP Publishing Ltd, 656, paper 012120.

Fan, ICASP-4 (International Conference on Advanced Solidification Processing) Foreword, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 46, (2015), 4847

Das, N. Barekar, O. El Fakir, X. Yang, J.P. Dear, Z. Fan, Influence of Intensive Melt Shearing on Subsequent Hot Rolling and the Mechanical Properties of Twin Roll Cast AZ31 Strips, Materials Letters, 147, (2015), 54–57

V.M. Sreekumar, N.H. Babu, D.G. Eskin, Z. Fan, Structure-property Analysis of In-situ Al-MgAl2O4 Metal Matrix Composites Synthesized using Ultrasonic Cavitation, Materials Science and Engineering A, 628, (2015), 30–40

Das, N.S. Barekar, O. El Fakir, L. Wang, A.P. Rao, J.B. Patel, H.R. Kotadia, A. Bhagurkar, J.P. Dear, Z. Fan, Effect of Melt Conditioning on Heat Treatment and Mechanical Properties of AZ31 Alloy Strips Produced by Twin Roll Casting, Materials Science and Engineering A, 620, (2015), 223–232

Yang, S. Ji, W. Yang, Y. Wang, Z. Fan, Effect of Mg Level on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Die-cast Al-Si-Cu Alloys, Materials Science and Engineering A, 642, (2015), 340–350

Yang, S. Ji, D. Watson, Z. Fan, Repeatability of Tensile Properties in High Pressure Die-Castings of an Al-Mg-Si-Mn Alloy, Metals and Materials International, 21, (2015), 936–943

Yang, X. Zhou, M. Curioni, S. Pawar, H. Liu, Z. Fan, G. Scamans, G. Thompson, Corrosion Behavior of Pure Magnesium with Low Iron Content in 3.5 wt% NaCl Solution, Journal of Electrochemical Society, 162, (2015), 362–368

Yang, X. Zhou, S.M. Liang, R. Schmid-Fetzer, Z. Fan, G. Scamans, J. Robson, G. Thompson, Effect of Traces of Silicon on the Formation of Fe-rich Particles in Pure Magnesium and the Corrosion Susceptibility of Magnesium, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 619, (2015), 396–400

Yang, L. Liu, J. Zhang, S. Ji, Z. Fan, Heterogeneous Nucleation in Mg–Zr Alloy Under Die Casting Condition, Materials Letters, 160, (2015), 263–267

Yan, W. Yang, S. Ji, Z. Fan, Effect of Solutionising and Ageing on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of a High Strength Die-cast Al–Mg–Zn–Si Alloy, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 167, (2015), 88–96

Pawar, X. Zhou, G.E. Thompson, G. Scamans, Z. Fan, The Role of Intermetallics on the Corrosion Initiation of Twin Roll Cast AZ31 Mg Alloy, Journal of Electrochemical Society, 162, (2015), 442–448

Pawar, X. Zhou, T. Hashimoto, G.E. Thompson, G. Scamans, Z. Fan, Investigation of the Microstructure and the Influence of Iron on the Formation of Al8Mn5 Particles in Twin Roll Cast AZ31 Magnesium Alloy, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 628, (2015), 195–198

G.E. Thompson, X. Zhou, G. Scamans, A. Abouarkoub, Microstructure and Corrosion Properties of the Plasma-MIG Welded AA5754 Automotive Alloy, Journal of Minerals and Materials Characterization and Engineering, 23, (2015), 318–325

Bolzoni, M. Nowak, N.H. Babu, Assessment of the Influence of Al–2Nb–2B Master Alloy on the Grain Refinement and Properties of LM6 (A413) Alloy, Materials Science and Engineering A, 628, (2015), 230–237

T.L. Burnett, N.J. Holroyd, G.M. Scamans, X. Zhou, P.J. Withers, The Role of Crack Branching in Stress Corrosion Cracking of Aluminium Alloys, Corrosion Reviews, 33, (2015)

M.J. Balart, J.B. Patel, Z. Fan, Grain refinement of DHP Copper by Particle Inoculation, International Journal of Cast Metals Research, 28, (2015), 242–247

Bolzoni, M. Nowak, N.H. Babu, Grain Refining Potency of Nb–B Inoculation on Al–12Si–0.6 Fe–0.5 Mn Alloy, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 623, (2015), 79–82

Bolzoni, K. Nowak, H.B. Nadendla, Grain Refinement of Al-Si Alloys by Nb-B Inoculation. Part II: Application to Commercial Alloys, Materials and Design, 66, (2015), 376–383

Abouarkoub, G.E. Thompson, X. Zhou, T. Hashimoto, G. Scamans, The Influence of Prolonged Natural Aging on the Subsequent Artificial Aging Response of the AA6111 Automotive Alloy, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 46, (2015), 4380–4393

M.J. Balart, J.B. Patel, F. Gao, Z. Fan, Grain Refinement of DHP Copper by Elemental Additions, International Journal of Cast Metals Research, 28, (2015), 248–256

N.J.H. Holroyd, J.T. Evans, G.M. Scamans, Pre-exposure Embrittlement of an Al-Cu-Mg Alloy, Corrosion Reviews, 33, (2015), 361–372

Balart, J. Patel, F. Gao, Z. Fan, Effects of Casting Temperature and Microalloying Elements on the Grain Structure of DHP Copper, In Proceedings of Metal 2015: 24th International Conference on Metallurgy and Materials, 3 – 5 June 2015, Brno, Czech Republic, 1376–1381

Fitzner, M. Thomas, J. Quinta da Fonseca, S.Y. Zhang, J. Kelleher, M. Preuss, The Effect of Aluminium on Deformation and Twinning in Alpha Titanium: The ND Case, In Proceedings of Ti-2015: The 13th World Conference on Titanium, 16 – 20 August 2015, San Diego, California, USA, eds. V. Venkatesh, et al. Wiley, 1051–1055

Oloyede, T. Bigg, A.M. Mullis, Effect of Cooling Rate On Drop-tube Processed Commerical Grey Cast Iron, In Proceedings of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE2015), 13 – 19 November 2015, Houston, Texas, USA, V014T11A018

Tong, S.C. Jagarlapudi, J.B. Patel, I.C. Stone, Z. Fan, D.J. Browne, Computational Prediction of the Refinement of Oxide Agglomerates in a Physical Conditioning Process for Molten Aluminium Alloy, In Proceedings of MCWASP XIV: International Conference on Modelling of Casting, Welding and Advanced Solidification Processes, 21 – 26 June 2015, Hyogo, Japan, 84, 012092

M.D. Wilson, T. Connolley, I.P. Dolbnya, P.S. Grant, E. Liotti, A. Lui, A. Malandain, K. Sawhney, P. Seller, M.C. Veale, Energy Dispersive Detector for White Beam Synchrotron X-ray Fluorescence Imaging, In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation (SRI2015), 6 – 10 July 2015, New York, USA, ed. Q. Shen, C. Nelson, 050008

P. Que, Y. P. Zhou, Y. Wang, Z. Fan, Effect of MgO on Phase Selection in Al–Mg–Si–Fe–Mn Alloys, Trans. Indian Institute of Metals, 2015, vol 68, issue 6, pp. 1167-1172

Pabel T, Petkov T, da Silva M, Ruzsinszki R, Planta X, Tort J, Eskin D. The effect of ultrasonic degassing on the quality and properties of components produced by low and high pressure die casting, Intern. Foundry Res., 2015, No.3, pp. 28–33.

Tzanakis I, Xu WW, Lebon GSB, Eskin DG, Pericleous K, Lee PD. In situ synchrotron radiography and spectrum analysis of transient cavitation bubbles in molten aluminium alloy, Physics Procedia, 2015, vol. 70, pp. 841–845.

Tzanakis I, Lebon GSB, Eskin DG, Pericleous K. Effect of Input Power and Temperature on the Cavitation Intensity During the Ultrasonic Treatment of Molten Aluminium, Trans. Indian Institute of Metals, 2015, vol. 68, no. 6, pp. 1023-1026. 

Lebon GSB, Tzanakis I, Pericleous K, Eskin DG. Dynamics of two interacting hydrogen bubbles in liquid aluminum under the influence of a strong acoustic field, Physical Review E2015, vol. 92, 043004-1–043004-8. 

Belov NA, Alabin AN, Matveeva IA, Eskin DG. Effect of zirconium additions and annealing temperature on electrical conductivity and hardness of hot rolled aluminum sheets, Trans. Nonferrous Met. Soc. China, 2015, vol. 25, pp. 2817−2826.

Yan Huang and Zhongyun Fan. Microstructure and Texture Development During Melt Conditioned Twin Roll Casting and Downstream Processing in an AZ31 Magnesium Alloy, Materials Science Forum Vols. 828-829 (2015) pp 87-92

Hajo Dieringa, Sanjeev Das, Dmitry Eskin, Zhongyun Fan, Lydia Katsarou, Manfred Horstmann, Gerrit Kurz, Chamini Mendis, Norbert Hort and Karl Ulrich Kainer. Twin-roll Casting after Intensive Melt Shearing and Subsequent Rolling of an AM30 Magnesium Alloy with Addition of CaO and SiC, Materials Science Forum Vols. 828-829 (2015) pp 35-40 

V.M. Sreekumar, N. Hari Babu, D.G. Eskin and Z. Fan. Development of New Oxide Based Master Alloys and their Grain Refinement Potency in Aluminium Alloys, Materials Science Forum Vols. 828-829 (2015) pp 23-28 

Z.P. Que, Y. Wang, Y.P. Zhou, L. Liu, Z. Fan. Effect of Al-5Ti-1B Grain Refiner Addition on the Formation of Intermetallic Compounds in Al-Mg-Si-Mn-Fe alloys, Materials Science Forum Vols. 828-829 (2015) pp 53-57

H.-T. Li, J. B. Patel, H. R. Kotadia, Z. Fan. Controlling the Formation of Iron-Bearing Intermetallics in Wrought Al Alloys by Melt Conditioned DC (MC-DC) Casting Technology, Materials Science Forum Vols. 828-829 (2015) pp 43-47 

Tzanakis I, Xu WW, Eskin DG, Lee P, Kotsovinos N. In Situ Observation and Analysis of Ultrasonic Capillary Effect in Molten Aluminium, Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 2015, vol. 27, pp. 72–80. 

Vorozhtsov SA, Eskin DG, Tamayo J, Vorozhtsov AB, Promakhov VV, Averin AA, Khrustalyov AP. The Application of External Fields to Manufacturing Novel Dense Composite Master Alloys and Aluminum-based Nanocomposites, Metall. Mater. Trans. A, 2015, vol. 46A, July, pp. 2870–2875. 

Joshi U, Vadakke Madam SK, Eskin D, Hari-Babu N. Development of Al-B-C master alloy under external fields, Metall. Mater. Trans. A, 2015, vol. 46A, July, pp. 2862–2869. 

L. Bolzoni, N. Hari Babu. Refinement of the Grain Size of the LM25 Alloy (A356) by 96Al-2Nb-2B Master Alloy, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 222 219-223 (2015)

M. Nowak, W. K. Yeoh, L. Bolzoni, N. Hari Babu. Development of Al-Nb-B Master Alloys using Nb and KBF4 Powders, Materials and Design, 75 40-46 (2015) 

M. Nowak, L. Bolzoni, N. Hari Babu, The Effect of Nb-B Inoculation on Binary Hypereutectic and Near-eutectic LM13 Al-Si Cast Alloys, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 641 22-29 (2015)

U. Joshi; VM Sreekumar, D. Eskin, H. Babu Nadendla. Development of Al-B-C master alloy under external fields, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 46 2862-2869 (2015)

VM Sreekumar, H. Babu Nadendla, DG Eskin, Z Fan, Structure–property analysis of in-situ Al–MgAl2O4 metal matrix composites synthesized using ultrasonic cavitation, Mater. Sci. Eng. A, 2015, vol. 628, pp. 30–40., 

C. Montalba, K. Ramam, DG. Eskin, EM. Ruiz-Navas, O. Prat. Fabrication of a Novel Hybrid AlMg5/SiC/PLZT Metal Matrix Composite Produced by Hot Extrusion, Materials and Design, 2015, vol. 69, pp. 213–218. 

DG. Eskin DG, K. Al-Helal, I. Tzanakis. Application of a plate sonotrode to ultrasonic degassing of aluminum melt, J. Mater. Proc. Technol., 2015, vol. 222, pp. 148–154. 

W Yang, S Ji, Z Li, M Wang. Grain boundary precipitation induced by grain crystallographic misorientations in an extruded Al–Mg–Si–Cu alloy, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 624, 27-30, 

S Ji, F Yan, Z Fan. Development of a high strength Al–Mg 2 Si–Mg–Zn based alloy for high pressure die casting, Materials Science and Engineering: A 626, 165-174

SJ Wenchao Yang, X Yang. Melt Superheating on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Diecast Al-Mg-Si-Mn Alloy, Met. Mater. Int. 21 (2), 382~390

Z. Fan, Y. Wang, Y. Zhang, T. Qin, X.R. Zhou, G.E.Thompson, T. Pennycook, T. Hashimoto, Grain refining mechanism in the Al/Al–Ti–B system, Acta Materialia 84 (2015) 292–304 

VM Sreekumar, N Hari Babu, DG Eskin, Z Fan, Structure–property analysis of in-situ Al–MgAl2O4 metal matrix composites synthesized using ultrasonic cavitation, Mater. Sci. Eng. A, 2015, vol. 628, pp. 30–40.

D Eskin, N Alba-Baena, T Pabel, M da Silva, Ultrasonic Degassing of Aluminium Alloys: Basic Studies and Practical Implementation, Mater. Sci. Technol., 2015, vol. 31, pp. 79–84.

S Vorozhtsov, I Zhukov, A Vorozhtsov, A Zhukov, D Eskin, A Kvetinskaya, Synthesis of Micro- and Nanoparticles of Metal Oxides and Their Application for Reinforcement of Al-Based Alloys, Advances in Mater. Sci. Eng., 2015, vol. 2015, Article ID 718207 

L. Zhou and Z. Fan, Effect of Free Ti on Grain Refinement of Aluminium Inoculated with Potent TiB2 Particles, Materials Science Forum, 790-791 (2014), 155-160

M.J. Balart, J.B. Patel and Z. Fan, Grain Refinement of Phosphorus Deoxidised Copper, Materials Science Forum, 790-791 (2014), 161-161

G.S. Peng, Y. Wang, M.X. Xia and Z. Fan, Interaction between Zr Addition and Intensive Melt Shearing on Grain Refinement of Commercial Purity Magnesium, Materials Science Forum, 790-791 (2014), 167-172

N. Barekar, S. Das, Z. Fan, R. Cinderey and N. Champion, Microstructural Evaluation during Melt Conditioned Twin Roll Casting (MC-TRC) of Al-Mg Binary Alloys, Materials Science Forum, 790-791 (2014), 285-290

S. Das, N. Barekar and Z. Fan, Solidification Mechanism of the Melt Conditioned Twin Roll Cast Magnesium Alloy, Materials Science Forum, 790-791 (2014), 291-295

H. Men and Z. Fan, Molecular dynamic simulation of the atomic structure of aluminum solid-liquid interfaces, Materials Research Express, 1 (2014), 025705

D.G. Eskin, Ultrasonic Melt Processing: Opportunities and Misconceptions, Materials Science Forum, 794-796 (2014), 101–106

V.M. Sreekumar, N. Hari Babu, D.G. Eskin and Z. Fan, Grain refinement efficiency of a new oxide-containing master alloy for aluminium casting alloys, Materials Science Forum, 794-796 (2014), 155–160.

W.C. Yang, S. Ji, X,. Zhou, I.C. Stone, G.M. Stone, G.E. Thompson and Z. Fan, Heterogeneous Nucleation of α-Al Grain on Primary a-AlFeMnSi Intermetallic Investigated Using 3D SEM Ultramicrotomy and HRTEM, Metallurgical And Materials Transactions A, 45 (2014), 3971-3980

H.R. Kotadia, J.B. Patel, H.-T. Li, F. Gao and Z. Fan, Microstructure Evolution in Melt Conditioned Direct Chill (MC-DC) Casting of Fe–Rich Al-alloy submitted to the 7th Light Metals Conference, South Africa, October 2014

K.H. Kim, Detection of a layer of Al2O3 layer at the interface of Al/MgAl2O4 by high resolution observation using dual beam FIB and TEM, Metallography, Microstructure, and Analysis, 3(2014), 233-237

F. Yan, S. Ji and Z. Fan, Effect of Cu on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Diecast Al-Mg2Si-Mg Based Alloy, Materials Science Forum, 794 (2014), 172-177

H.L. Yang, S. Ji, D. Watson, M. White and Z. Fan, Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Ductile Aluminium Alloy Manufactured by Recycled Materials, Materials Science Forum, 794 (2014), 1077-1082

D. Watson, S. Ji and Z. Fan, A Super-Ductile Alloy for the Diecasting of Aluminium Automotive Body Structural Components, Materials Science Forum, 794 (2014), 526-531

S. Kumar, S. Agarwal and K.A.Q. O’Reilly, In-situ Al3Nb formation in liquid Al by Nb particle addition, Materials Science Forum, 790-791 (2014), 515-520

J.B. Patel, H.T. Li, X. Mingxu, S. Jones, S. Kumar, K.A.Q. O’Reilly and Z. Fan, Melt Conditioned Direct Chill Casting (MC-DC) Process for Production of High Quality Aluminium Alloy Billets, Materials Science Forum, 794-796 (2014), 149-154

S. Kumar, N. Hari Babu, G.M. Scamans, Z. Fan and K.A.Q. O'Reilly, Twin roll casting of Al-Mg alloy with high added impurity content, Metallurgical and Materials Transaction A, 45 (2014), 2842-2854

F. Yan, S. Kumar, B.J. McKay and K.A.Q. O’Reilly, Effect of Mn on Fe phase formation in high purity Aluminium, Journal of Cast Materials Research, 27 (2014), 202-206

J. Tamayo-Ariztondo, S. Vadakke Madam, E. Djan, D.G. Eskin, N. Hari Babu and Z. Fan, Nanoparticles Distribution and Mechanical Properties of Aluminum-Matrix Nano-Composites Treated with External Fields, Light Metals 2014, ed. J. Grandfield, TMS/Wiley, 2014, 1411–1415

J. B Patel, H. T. Li, X. Mingxu, S. Jones, S. Kumar, K. O’Reilly and Z. Fan, Melt conditioned direct chill casting (MC-DC) process for production of high quality aluminium alloy billets, 14th Inter. Conf. Aluminium Alloys, Trondheim, Norway, 2014, 14

S. Ji, Y. Wang, D. Watson and Z. Fan, Microstructural Characteristics of Diecast AlMgSiMn Alloy, Materials Science Forum, 783-786 (2014), 234-238

M.J. Balart and Z. Fan, Surface Oxidation of Molten AZ91D Magnesium Alloy in Air, International Journal of Cast Metals Research, 27 (2014), 167-175

J.H. Li, M.Z. Zarif, M. Albu, B.J. McKay, F. Hofer and P. Schumacher, Nucleation kinetics of entrained eutectic Si in Al–5Si alloys, Acta Materialia, 72 (2014), 80–98

T. Subroto, A. Miroux A, L. Bouffier, Ch. Josserond, L. Salvo, M. Suéry, D.G. Eskin and L. Katgerman, Formation of hot tear under controlled solidification conditions, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 45 (2014), 2855-2862

H. Mehrara, D.G. Eskin, R.H. Petrov, M. Lalpoor and L. Katgerman, Linear Contraction Behavior of Low-Carbon, Low-Alloy Steels During and After Solidification Using Real-Time Measurements, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 45 (2014), 1445–1455

J. Tamayo-Ariztondo, S. Vadakke Madam, E. Djan, D.G. Eskin, N. Hari Babu and Z. Fan, Nanoparticles Distribution and Mechanical Properties of Aluminum-Matrix Nano-Composites Treated with External Fields, Light Metals 2014, ed J. Grandfield, TMS/Wiley, 2014, 1411–1415, 

E. Djan, S. Vadakke Madam, N. Hari Babu, J. Tamayo-Ariztondo, D.G. Eskin and Z. Fan, Processing of Metal Matrix Composites Under external fields and their application as grain refiner, Light Metals 2014, ed J. Grandfield, TMS/Wiley, 2014, 1401–1404

S. Vorozhtsov, D.G. Eskin, A. Vorozhtsov and S. Kulkov, Physico-Mechanical and Electrical Properties of Aluminum-Based Composite Materials with Carbon Nanoparticles, Light Metals 2014, ed J. Grandfield, TMS/Wiley, 2014, 1373–1377

L. Bolzoni, M. Nowak and N.H. Babu, On the Performance of a Novel Grain Refiner in Hyper-Eutectic Al-Si Cast Alloys, Light Metals 2014, ed J. Grandfield, TMS/Wiley, 2014, 957-962

D.G. Eskin, Mechanisms and Control of Macrosegregation in DC Casting, Light Metals 2014, ed J. Grandfield, TMS/Wiley, 2014, 851–860, 

D.G Eskin, T. Atamanenko, L. Zhang and L. Katgerman, On the mechanisms of grain refinement of by ultrasonic melt treatment in the presence of transition metals, Essential Readings in Light Metals, eds. J.F. Grandfield and D.G Eskin, TMS/Wiley, 2013, 415–419, 

R. Nadella, D.G. Eskin and L. Katgerman, Effect of grain refinement on defect formation in DC cast Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloy billet, Essential Readings in Light Metals, eds. J.F. Grandfield and D.G Eskin, TMS/Wiley, 2013, 842–847

D.G. Eskin, M. Lalpoor and L. Katgerman, Cold cracking during direct-chill casting, Essential Readings in Light Metals, Essential Readings in Light Metals, eds. J.F. Grandfield and D.G Eskin, TMS/Wiley, 2013, 939-944, 

U. Joshi and N.H. Babu, Effect of Al Addition on Microstructure of AZ91D, Magnesium Technology 2014, eds M. Alderman, M. V. Manuel, N. Hort and N. R. Neelameggham, TMS/Wiley, 2014, 209-212, 

H. Men and Z. Fan, Atomic ordering in liquid aluminium induced by substrates with misfits, Computational Materials Science, 85 (2014), 1-7, 

T. Smith, K. O'Reilly, S. Kumar and I. Stone, Influence of Grain-Refiner Addition on the Morphology of Fe-Bearing Intermetallics in a Semi-Solid Processed Al-Mg-Si Alloy, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 44 (2013), 4866-4871

T. Subroto, A. Miroux, D.G. Eskin, K. Ellingsen, A. Marson, M. M'Hamdi and L. Katgerman, Tensile mechanical behavior of as-cast AA7050 alloy in the super-solidus temperature range, Proc. 13th International Conference on Fracture, Beijing, China, June 16–21, 2013, 9

D.G. Eskin, Structure and casting defects of billets produced by direct-chill casting, Proc. 7th Int. Conf. Advanced Casting Processes, Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, 12-14 November, 2013

I. Tzanakis, A. Georgoulas, D. Fytanidis, M. Hadfield, N. Kotsovinos, Preliminary investigation of the impact pressure from a single cavitation water bubble on a solid boundary wall, using experimental, analytical and numerical methods. 5th World Tribology Congress (WTC), Turin, Italy, 8-13 September 2013

N. Hari Babu, M. Nowak and L. Bolzoni, Grain Refiner for Al-Si Alloys, Light Metals 2013, ed. B. Sadler, Warrendale, TMS/Wiley, 2013, DOI: 

Y. Huang, Characteristics of steady state deformation of an Al–0.1 Mg alloy at low temperatures, Journal of Material Science, 48 (2013), 4484-4491

J.B. Patel, Y.B. Zuo, Z. Fan, Liquid metal engineering by application of intensive shearing, Liquid Metal Processing and Casting Conference, Austin, Texas, 2013, 291

S. Ji, W. Yang, B. Jiang and Z. Fan, Improvement of Mechanical Properties of HPDC A356 Alloy through Melt Quenching Process, Proceedings of the 2013 International Symposium on Liquid Metal Processing and Casting (eds M. J. M. Krane, A. Jardy, R. L. Williamson and J. J. Beaman), TMS/Wiley, 2013

Y. Yue, W.D. Griffiths and N.R. Green, Modelling of the Effects of Entrainment Defects on Mechanical Properties in a Cast Al-Si-Mg Alloy, Materials Science Forum, 765 (2013), 225-229, 

L. Bolzoni, N.H. Babu, E.M. Ruiz-Navas, E. Gordo, Comparison of Microstructure and Properties of Ti-6Al-7Nb Alloy Processed by Different Powder Metallurgy Routes, Key Engineering Materials, 551 (2013), 161-179

 Y. Huang, A New Approach to Solute Effect on Grain Boundary Migration, Materials Science Forum, 753 (2013), 131-134, 

S. Ji, W. Yang, F. Gao, D. Watson and Z. Fan, Effect of Iron in Al-Mg-Si-Mn Ductile Diecast Alloy, Light Metals 2013, ed. B. Sadler, Warrendale, TMS/Wiley, 2013

H.B. Nadendla, M. Nowak and L. Bolzoni, Grain Refiner for Al-Si Alloys, Light Metals 2013, ed. B. Sadler, Warrendale, TMS/Wiley, 2013, 

I.C. Stone, B.J. McKay and Z. Fan (eds.), Proceedings of the 6th International Light Metals Technology Conference, July 24th-26th, 2013, Old Windsor, UK, Transtech Publications, Zürich-Dürnten, 2013

D.G. Eskin, T. Atamanenko, L. Zhang and L. Katgerman,On the mechanisms of grain refinement of by ultrasonic melt treatment in the presence of transition metals, Essential Readings in Light Metals, ed. J.F. Grandfield, D.G Eskin, Hoboken, Wiley, 2013, 415–419

R. Nadella, D.G. Eskin, L. Katgerman, Effect of grain refinement on defect formation in DC cast Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloy billet, Essential Readings in Light Metals, ed. J.F. Grandfield, D.G Eskin, Hoboken, Wiley, 2013, 842–847

D.G. Eskin, M. Lalpoor, L. Katgerman, Cold cracking during direct-chill casting, Essential Readings in Light Metals, ed. J.F. Grandfield, D.G Eskin, Hoboken, Wiley, 2013, 939-944

J.F. Grandfield, D.G. Eskin, I.H. Bainbridge, Direct-Chill Casting of Light Alloys Science and Technology, Hoboken: J. Willey and Sons/TMS, 2013, 411

H. Mehrara, D.G. Eskin, R.H. Petrov, M. Lalpoor, L Katgerman, Linear Contraction Behavior or Low-Carbon, Low-Alloy Steels During and After Solidification Using Real-Time Measurements, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Vol. 45A, March 2014 - 1445. 

I. Tzanakis, D.G. Eskin, A. Georgoulas, D.K. Fytanidis, Incubation pit analysis and calculation of the hydrodynamic impact pressure from the implosion of an acoustic cavitation bubble. Ultrasonics Sonochemistry 21 (2014) 866-878.

F. Yan, S. Ji and Z. Fan, Effect of Excess Mg on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Al-Mg2Si High Pressure Die Casting Alloys, Materials Science Forum Vol. 765 p 64-68 (2013) 

M. Xia, A.K. Prasada Rao and Z. Fan, Solidification Mechanisms in Melt Conditioned Direct Chill (MC-DC) Cast AZ31 Billets, Materials Science Forum Vol. 765 (2013) p 291-295 

X. Xue, Y. Wang, I. Stone and Z. Fan, Hot Cracking Susceptibility in the TIG Joint of AZ31 Mg-Alloy Plates Produced by the TRC Process with and without Intensive Melt Shearing, Materials Science Forum Vol. 765 (2013) p 756-760 

G. Peng, Y. Wang and Z. Fan, Effect of Intensive Melt Shearing and Zr Content on Grain Refinement of Mg-0.5Ca-xZr Alloys, Materials Science Forum Vol. 765 (2013) p 336-340 

Y. Wang, H.T. Li, Z. Fan and G. Scamans, Characterisation of Oxide Films in Al-Mg Alloy Melts Materials, Science Forum Vol. 765 (2013) p 220-224 

H.T Li, G. Scamans and Z. Fan, Refinement of the Microstructure of an Al-Mg2Si Hypereutectic Alloy by Intensive Melt Shearing. Materials Science Forum Vol. 765 (2013) p 97-101 

S. Das, S. Ji, O. El Fakir, L. Wang, J. Dear, J. Lin, I. Stone, G. Scamans and Z. Fan, Melt Conditioned Twin Roll Casting (MC-TRC) of Thin Mg-Alloy Strips for Direct Stamping of Mg Components. Materials Science Forum Vol. 765 (2013) p 170-174 

S. Ji, D. Watson, Y. Wang, M. White and Z. Fan, Effect of Ti Addition on Mechanical Properties of High Pressure Die Cast Al-Mg-Si Alloys. Materials Science Forum Vol. 765 (2013) p 23-27 

Y.B. Zuo, Z. Fan, Q.F. Zhu, L. Lei and J.Z. Cui, Modification of a Hypereutectic Aluminium Silicon Alloy under the Influence of Intensive Melt Shearing. Materials Science Forum Vol. 765 (2013) p 140-144 

K. Al-Helal, Y. Wang, I. Stone and Z. Fan, Effect of Ca Level on the Formation of Silicon Phases During Solidification of Hypereutectic Al-Si Alloys. Materials Science Forum Vol. 765 (2013) p 117-122 

S. Ji, B. Jiang, W. Yang and Z. Fan, Melt Quenched High Pressure Die Casting (MQ-HPDC) of an A356 Alloy. Materials Science Forum Vol. 765 (2013) pp 195-199 

Z. Cassinath, M. Xia, Y. Huang and Z. Fan, Process Optimization and Microstructure Control for Twin Screw Rheo-Extrusion of an AZ91D Magnesium Alloy. Materials Science Forum Vol. 765 (2013) p 439-443 

S. Ko, B. Kim, Y. Kim, T. Kim, K. Kim, B. McKay and J. Shin, Manufacture of CNTs-Al Powder Precursors for Casting of CNTs-Al. Matrix Composites. Materials Science Forum Vol. 765 (2013) p 353-357 

L. Bolzoni, M. Nowak, F. Yan, and N. Hari Babu, Grain Refiner Development for Al Containing Mg Alloys. Materials Science Forum Vol. 765 (2013) p 145-149 

L. Bolzoni, M. Nowak and N. Hari Babu, Influence of a Novel Master Alloy Addition on the Grain Refinement of Al-Si Cast Alloys. Materials Science Forum Vol. 765 (2013) p 311-315 

L. Bolzoni, E.M. Ruiz-Navas, and E. Gordo, Processing of Elemental Titanium by Powder Metallurgy Techniques, Materials Science Forum Vol. 765 (2013) p 383-387 

N. Alba-Baena, T. Pabel, N. Villa-Sierra and D. Eskin, Effect of Ultrasonic Melt Treatment on Degassing and Structure of Aluminium Alloys, Materials Science Forum Vol. 765 (2013) p 271-275 (2013) 

A. Miranda, N. Alba-Baena, B.J. McKay, D.G. Eskin, S.H. Ko, and J.S. Shin, Study of Mechanical Properties of an LM24 Composite Alloy Reinforced with Cu-CNT Nanofillers, Processed Using Ultrasonic Cavitation. Materials Science Forum Vol. 765 (2013) p 245-249 

Y. Huang, D-B. Liu, M, Xia, and L. Anguilano, Characterization of an Mg-2Zn-1Ca 1β-TCP Composite Fabricated by High Shear Solidification and ECAE, Materials Science Forum Vol. 765 (2013) p 813-817 

S. Ji, Y. Wang, D. Watson, and Z. Fan, Microstructural Evolution and Solidification Behavior of Al-Mg-Si Alloy in High-Pressure Die Casting, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Vol 44A, July 2013— 3185-3197.

BÖttger D, Apel M, Santillana B, Eskin DG, Relationship Between Solidification Microstructure and Hot Cracking Susceptibility for Continuous Casting of Low-Carbon and High-Strength Low-Alloyed Steels: A Phase-Field Study, Metall. Mater. Trans. A, 2013 (Currently available online only).

S. Jones, A.K. Prasada Rao and Z. Fan, Melt conditioned direct chill (MC_DC) casting of Al Alloys, Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals, 2013

N. Alba-Baena, D. Eskin, Kinetics of ultrasonic degassing of aluminum alloys, Light Metals 2013, ed. B. Sadler, Warrendale, TMS/Wiley, 2013 p 957-962.

N. Hari Babu, Z. Fan, D.G. Eskin, Application of external fields to technology of metal-matrix composite materials, TMS 2013 Annual Meeting Supplemental Proceedings, Warrendale, TMS/Wiley, 2013, p 1037-1044.

M. Xia, Y. Huang, Z. Cassinath, Z. Fan, Rheo-extrusion of AZ91D alloy, Solid State Phenomena, 2013, 192-193, p 470-475.

Z. Fan, An Epitaxial Model for Heterogeneous Nucleation on Potent Substrates, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, 44A, 2013, p 1409-1418.

S. Ji, W. Yang, B. Jiang, J.B. Patel, and Z. Fan, Weibull statistical analysis of the effect of melt conditioning on the mechanical properties of AM60 alloy, Materials Science & Engineering A 566 2013, p 119-125.

F. Yan, B.J. McKay, Z. Fan and M.F. Chen, (2011). Preliminary study of the characteristics of a high Mg containing Al-Mg-Si alloy. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 27(1).

Shouxun Ji, Wenchao Yang, Feng Gao, Douglas Watson, and Zhongyun Fan, Effect of iron on the microstructure and mechanical property of Al-Mg-Si-Mn and Al-Mg-Si diecast alloys, Materials Science & Engineering A 564 2013, p 130-139.

N.S. Reddy, A.K. Prasada Rao, J. Krishnaiah, M. Chakraborty and B.S. Murty, Design of an ideal Grain-Refiner alloy for Al-7Si Alloy using artificial neural networks, Journal of Materials Engineering & Performance, Vol.22, Issue 3 2013, p 696-699 

L. Katgerman, DG Eskin, Structure and defect formation during DC casting of aluminium alloys, Intern. Conf. on Advances in Metallic Materials and Manufacturing Processes for Strategic Sectors, ICAMPS 2012; Trivandrum; 19–21 January 2012. Materials Science Forum, 2012, vol. 710, p 43-49.

L Zhang, DG Eskin, A Miroux, L Katgerman, Formation of microstructure in Al-Si alloys under ultrasonic melt treatment, Light Metals 2012, ed. C.E. Suarez, Warrendale: TMS/Springer, 2012, p 999–1004.

L Zhang, DG Eskin, A Miroux, L Katgerman, Role of solute and transition metals in grain refinement of aluminium alloys under ultrasonic melt treatment, Proc. 13th Intern, Conf. on Aluminum Alloys (ICAA13), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, June3-7, 2012, ed. H. Weiland, A.D. Rollett, W.A. Cassada, Hoboken: Wiley/TMS, 2012, p 1389–1394.

M Faraji, DG Eskin, L Katgerman, Grain refinement in hypoeutectic Al-Si alloys using ultrasonic vibrations, Foundry Trade Journal International, 2012, vol. 186 (3694), pp. 119–123.

L Zhang, DG Eskin, A Miroux, T Subroto, L Katgerman, Effect of inlet geometry on macrosegregation during the direct chill casting of 7050 alloy billets: experiments and computer modelling, Proc. MCWASP XIII, International Conference on Modeling of Casting, Welding and Advanced Solidification Processes, 17–22 June 2012, Schladming, Austria; IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng., 2012, vol. 33, paper 012019

Y. Huang, Evolution of Microstructure and Texture during Hot Deformation of a Commercially Processed Supral100, Journal of Materials Science and Technology, 28 (2012), 531-536

Y. Huang and F.J. Humphreys, The Effect of Solutes on Grain Boundary Mobility during Recrystallization and Grain Growth in Some Single-Phase Aluminium Alloys, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 132 (2012), 166-174

D. Liu, Y. Huang and P.B. Prangnell, Microstructure and Performance of a Bio-Degradable Mg-2Zn-0.5Ca-1B-TCP Composite Fabricated by Combined Solidification and Severe Deformation Processing, Materials Letters, 82 (2012), 7-9

D. Liu, Y. Zuo, W. Meng, M. Chen and Z. Fan, Fabrication of Biodegradable Nano-Sized β-TCP/Mg Composite by a Novel Melt Shearing Technology, Materials Science and Engineering C, 32 (2012), 1253-1258

S. Pawar, X. Zhou, G.E. Thompson, J.D. Robson, I. Bayandorian, G. Scamans and Z. Fan, Influence of Lead on the Microstructure and Corrosion Behaviour of Melt-Conditioned, Twin-Roll-Cast AZ91D Magnesium Alloy, Corrosion, 68 (2012), 548-556

T Subroto, A Miroux, D Mortensen, M M’Hamdi, DG Eskin, L Katgerman, Semi-quantitative predictions of hot tearing and cold cracking in aluminum DC casting using numerical process simulator, Proc. MCWASP XIII, International Conference on Modeling of Casting, Welding and Advanced Solidification Processes, 17–22 June 2012, Schladming, Austria;IOP Conf. Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2012, vol. 33, paper 012068.

Y. Zhang, N. Ma, B. McKay, X. Li and H. Wang, The Role of Fe on the Grain Refinement of High Purity Aluminium, Advanced Materials Research, 538-541 (2012), 2264-2268

S. Ji and Z. Fan, Extruded microstructure of Zn-5 wt-%Al eutectic alloy processed by twin screw extrusion, Materials Science and Technology Vol 28 no. 11 2012, p 1287-1294.

J.B. Patel, A.K. Prasada Rao, B. Jiang, Y.B. Zuo, and Z. Fan, Melt conditioned direct chill casting (MC-DC) process for production of high quality Mg-Alloy billets, Mg2012, 9th International Conference of Magnesium Alloys and their Applications, 2012. p 713-736.

S. Ji, D. Watson, Z. Fan and M. White, Development of a super ductile Al-Mg-Si alloy, Materials Science & Engineering A 556 2012, p 824-833.

B. Santillana, R. Boom, D. Eskin, H. Mizukami, M. Hanao, and M. Kawamoto, High-Temperature Mechanical Behavior and Fracture Analysis of a Low-Carbon Steel Related to Cracking, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions 43A 2012, p 5048-5057.

L. Zhang, D.G. Eskin, A. Miroux, T. Subroto and L. Katgerman, Influence of Melt Feeding Scheme and Casting Parameters During Direct-Chill Casting on Microstructure of an AA7050 Billet, Metallurgical and Materials Transaction 43B, 2012, p 1565-1573.

M.C. Schenker, M.J.B.M Pourquie, D.G. Eskin, and B.J. Boersma, PIV quantification and numerical modelling of the flow induced by an ultrasonic horn, Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 2013, vol 10 p. 502-509.

H.-T. Li, Y. Wang, and Z. Fan, Mechanisms of enhanced heterogeneous nucleation during solidification in binary Al-Mg alloys, Acta Materialia 60 2012, p 1528-1537.

Y. Wang, H.T. Li, and Z. Fan, Oxidation of Aluminium Alloy Melts and Inoculation by Oxide Particles, Indian Institute of Metals 2012, online

K. Sundaram, H.B. Nadendla, G. Scamans, D. Eskin and Z. Fan, Solidification behaviour of an AA5754 Al alloy ingot cast with high impurity content; International Journal of Materials Research, 2012, vol. 103, no. 10, pp 1228-1234.

M. Xia, Y. Huang, Z. Cassinath, and Z. Fan, Continuous twin screw rheo-extrusion of an AZ91D magnesium alloy, Metall Mater Trans 43A issue 11, 2012, p 4331-4344.

K. Al-Helal, I.C. Stone, and Z. Fan, Simultaneous Primary Si Refinement and Eutectic Modification in Hypereutectic Al-Si Alloys, Indian Institute of Metals 2012, online. 

H. Emmerich, H. Löwen, R. Wittkowski, T. Gruhn, G. I. Tóth, G. Tegze, and L. Gránásy, Phase-field-crystal models for condensed matter dynamics on atomic length and diffusive time scales, an overview; Advances in Physics, 2012

S. Pawar, X. Zhou, G.E. Thompson, J.D. Robson, I. Bayandorian, G. Scamans, and Z. Fan: Influence of Lead on the Microstructure and Corrosion Behavior of Melt-Conditioned, Twin-Roll-Cast AZ91D Magnesium Alloy, Corrosion 68, 2012, p 548-556.

S. Jones, A.K. Prasada Rao, J.B. Patel, G.M. Scamans, and Z. Fan, Microstructural Evolution in Intensively Melt sheared Direct Chill Cast Al-alloys, 13th Int. conference of Aluminium Alloys (ICAA13), Pittsburgh, 2012, p 91-96.

Y.B. Zuo, B. Jiang, Y. Zhang and Z. Fan, Melt conditioned DC (MC-DC) casting of magnesium alloys, Magnesium Technology 155- 160

I. Bayandorian, I. Stone, Y. Huang, and Z. Fan, Twin roll casting of thin AZ31 magnesium alloy strip with uniform microstructure and chemistry, Magnesium Technology 135- 140

D. Liu, W. Meng, M. Chen, Y. Zuo and Z. Fan, Fabrication of biodegradable nano-sized β-TCP/Mg composite by a novel melt shearing technology, Materials Science and Engineering C 32 (5) : 1253- 1258

L-Q. Yang, J. Xu, G-J. Liu and Z. Fan, Formation mechanism of non-dendritic microstructure in rheo-diecast AZ91D magnesium alloy by different stirring speed, Cailiao Rechuli Xuebao/Transactions of Materials and Heat Treatment 33 (10) : 91- 95

Y.B. Zuo, B. Jiang, Y.J. Zhang, and Z. Fan, Degassing LM25 aluminium alloy by novel degassing technology with intensive melt shearing, International Journal of Cast Metals Research 26 (1), pp 16- 21

G. Scamans, H-T Li and Z. Fan, Melt Conditioned Casting of Aluminum Alloys, 13th Int. Conference on Aluminium Alloys (ICAA13) Pittsburgh, 2012, p 1395-1400.

I. Bayandorian, Y. Huang and Z. Fan, The impact of melt conditioned twin roll casting on the downstream processing of an AZ31 magnesium alloy, Metall Mater Trans 43A 2012, p 1035-1047.

G. I. Tóth, G. Tegze, T. Puszatai, and L. Gránásy, Heterogeneous Crystal Nucleation: The Effect Lattice Mismatch, Physical Review Letters, January 2012.

A.K. Prasada Rao, An approach for predicting the composition of a recyled al-alloy; Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals, 65 (6), 2011, p 615-617.

A.K. Prasada Rao, Influence of vanadium on the microstructure of A319 alloy, Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals, 65 (4-5), 2011, p 447-451.

T. Qin and Z. Fan, Molecular Analysis of Grain Refining in Aluminium with Al-5Ti-B, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 27, 2011, 012004.

TV Atamanenko, DG Eskin, M Sluiter, L Katgerman, On the mechanism of grain refinement in Al–Zr–Ti alloys, J. Alloys and Compounds, 509 (1), 2011, pp. 57–60.

M Lalpoor, DG Eskin, D Ruvalcaba, HG Fjær, A Ten Cate, N Ontijt, L Katgerman, Cold cracking in DC-cast high strength aluminium alloy ingots: An intrinsic problem intensified by casting process parameters, Mater. Sci. Eng. A, 528, 2011, pp. 2831–2842.

DG Eskin, M Lalpoor, L Katgerman, Cold Cracking during Direct-Chill Casting, Light Metals, Warrendale: TMS. 2011, pp. 669–674.

DG Eskin, A Jafari, L Katgerman, Contribution of forced centreline convection during direct-chill casting of round billets to macrosegregation and structure of a binary Al–Cu aluminium alloy, Mater. Sci. Technol., 27, 2011, pp. 890–896.

L Zhang, DG Eskin, L Katgerman, Influence of ultrasonic melt treatment on the formation of primary intermetallics and related grain refinement in aluminum alloys, J. Mater. Sci., 46, 2011, pp. 5252–5259 

DG Eskin, Modern trends in science and technology of solidification of aluminium alloys. Metalloved. Termich. Obrab. Mater.,  9, 2011, pp. 6–11.

L Katgerman, D Eskin, Developments in aluminium casting research, Proceedings of the R. Guthrie Honorary Symposium on Process Metallurgy, M. Isac, Ed., June 6-9, 2011, Montreal, Canada, Montreal: McGill Metals Processing Centre, 2011, pp. 177–181.

M Lalpoor, DG Eskin, L Katgerman, Thermal expansion/contraction behavior of AA7050 alloy in the as-cast condition relevant to thermomechanical simulation of residual thermal stresses, Int. J. Mater. Res., 2011, vol. 102, no. 10, pp. 1286-1293.

B Santillana, F Grimberg, G Abbel, DG Eskin, L Katgerman, R Boom, Thermal analysis of commercial steel grades, European Conference on Continuous Casting ECCC7 (Dusseldorf, Germany), 2011 (CD).

B Santillana, DG Eskin, R Boom, L Katgerman, Effect of V and N on the microstructure evolution during continuous casting of steel, Proc. 3rd Intern. Conf. Advances in Solidification Processes ICASP3, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Physics Publishing,27, 2011, 012059.

TAS Subroto, DG Eskin, L Katgerman, Constitutive behavior of an AA7050 alloy in sub-solidus temperature range, Proc. 3rd Intern. Conf. Advances in Solidification Processes ICASP3, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Physics Publishing, 27, 2011, 012074.

H Mehrara, B Santillana, DG Eskin, R Boom, L Katgerman, G Abbel, Variations of primary dendrite arm spacing in thin-slab casting of low carbon and low alloy steels, Proc. 3rd Intern. Conf. Advances in Solidification Processes ICASP3, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Physics Publishing, 27, 2011, 012046.

T Qin, Z Fan, Reconstruction of 2D Al3Ti on TiB2 in an aluminium melt, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 27, 2011, 012004

L Zhang, DG Eskin, AG Miroux, L Katgerman, On the mechanism of the formation of primary intermetallics under ultrasonic melt treatment in an Al-Zr-Ti alloy, Proc. 3rd Intern. Conf. Advances in Solidification Processes ICASP3, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, Institute of Physics Publishing, 2011, vol. 27, 012002.

Z. Fan, Epitaxial nucleation and grain refinement; Solidification Science and Technology, ed. Z. Fan and I.C. Stone, Brunel University Press, 2011, p 29-44.

J.D. Hunt, Z. Fan,  A simple model for the nucleation and growth of equiaxed grains;  in Solidification Science and Technology, ed. Z. Fan and I.C. Stone, Brunel University Press, p 59-78, 2011

H.T. Li, Y. Wang, M. Xia, Y. Zuo, Z. Fan, Harnessing oxides in liquid metals and alloys, in Solidification Science and Technology, ed. Z. Fan and I.C. Stone, Brunel University Press, p 93-110, 2011

I. Bayandorian, Z. Fan, I.C. Stone, Y. Huang, G.M. Scamans, Advances in twin roll casting of magnesium alloys, Solidification Science and Technology, ed. Z. Fan, and I.C. Stone, Brunel University Press, 2011, p 319-333

Y. Wang, Z. Fan, X. Zhou, G.E. Thompson, Characterisation of magnesium oxide and its interface with alpha-Mg in Mg-Al bases alloys; Philos. Mag Letters 91(8), 2011, p 516-529        

S. Kumar, N. Hari-Babu, G.M. Scamans, Z. Fan, Influence of intensive melt shearing on the microstructure and mechanical properties of an Al-Mg alloy with high added impurity content, Met and Mats. Trans A, 42A, 2011, p 3141-3149.   

S. Kumar, N. Hari-Babu, G.M. Scamans, Z. Fan, Microstructural evaluation of a melt conditioned twin roll cast Al-Mg alloy, Mats Science Tech, 2011, p1833-1839

Y.B. Zuo, B. Jiang, P. Enright, G.M. Scamans, Z. Fan, Degassing of LM24 Al-alloy by intensive melt shearing, International Journal of Cast Metals Research, 24, 2011, p 307-313

H. Men, Z. Fan, Effects of lattice mismatch on interfacial structures of liquid and solidified Al in contact with hetero-phas substrates: MD simulations; Materials Science and Engineering 27, 2011

H. Men, Z. Fan, Atomistic study on structures of solidified a-Al at interfaces with hetero-phase substrates, Philosophical Magazine, 2011            

Y. Zuo, B. Jiang, Z. Fan, Microstructures of DC cast light alloys under the influence of intensive melt shearing, Proc. of 5th Light Metal Technology Conf. Germany, 2011

Z. Fan, Y. Zuo, B. Jiang,  A new technology for treating liquid metals with intensive melt shearing;  Proc. of 5th Light Metals Technology Conf. Germany July 2011  

I. Bayandorian, Y. Huang, G.M. Scamans, Z. Fan, Magnesium alloy strip produced by a melt-conditioned twin roll casting process, LMT 2011 conf paper, Materials Science Forum, 690, 2011, pp 129-132

M. Nowak, N. Hari-Babu, Novel grain refiner for hypo and hyper-eutectic Al-Si alloys, LMT 2011 Conf paper, Materials Science Form, 690, 2011, p 49-52

L. Zhang, D.G. Eskin, L. Katgerman, Influence of ultrasonic melt treatment on the formation of primary intermetallics and related grain refinement in aluminum alloys, Journal of Materials Science, 46, 2011, p 5252-5259    

F. Yan, B.J. McKay, Z. Fan, Effect of intensive shearing on microstructure and mechanical properties of Al-Mg casting alloys,  Proc. of ICASP3, Aachen, June 2011  

H. Men, Z. Fan, Molecular dynamics simulations of heterogeneous nucleation of liquid aluminium, Proc. of ICASP3, Aachen, June 2011. Mater. Sci. Eng

Y. Huang, I. Bayandorian, Z. Fan, Microstructure control during twin roll casting of an AZ31magnesium alloy, Proc. of ICASP3, Aachen, June 2011

T. Qin, Z. Fan, Molecular dynamics analysis of grain refining in aluminium with Al-5Ti-B, Proc. of ICASP3, Aachen, June 2011  

H.T. Li, S. Ji, Z. Fan, The effect of intensive shearing on the formation of Fe-containing intermetallics in HPDC Al-alloys, Proc. of ICASP3, Aachen, June 2011  

Z. Zhang, H.T. Li, I.C. Stone, Z. Fan, Refinement of primary Si in hypereutectic Al-Si alloys by intensive melt shearing, Proc. of ICASP3, Aachen, June 2011

Z. Fan. Y. Zuo, B. Jiang, A new technology for treating liquid metals with intensive melt shearing, Proc. of ICASP3, Aachen, June 2011     

H.T. Li, Z. Fan, Enhanced heterogeneous nucleation on oxides in Al alloys by intensive shearing, Proc. of ICASP3, Aachen,  2011    

Y. Zuo, B. Jiang, Y. Zhang, and Z. Fan, Grain refinement of DC cast magnesium alloys with intensive melt shearing, Proc. of ICASP3, Aachen, 2011    

Y. Zuo, MX Xia, SM Liang, Y. Wang, GM Scamans, Z Fan, Grain refinement of DC Cast AZ91D Mg Alloy by intensive melt shearing, Materials Science and Technology 27 (1), 2011, 101-107

M. Nowak and N. Hari-Babu, Novel grain refiner for Al-Si alloys, TMS, 2, 2011, p 291

D.G. Eskin, M. Lalpoor, L. Katgerman, Cold Cracking during Direct-Chill Casting, Proceedings at Light Metals 2011, Warrendale, TMS 2011, pp 669-674

H. Men, Z. Fan, Effects of solute content on grain refinement in an isothermal melt,  Acta Materialia 59 2011,  p 2704-2712.   

Y. Zuo, H. Li, M. Xia, B. Jiang, G.M. Scamans, Z Fan, Refining grain structure and porosity of an aluminium alloy with intensive melt shearing, Scripta Materialia 64, 2011, p 209-212   

H.T. Li, M. Xia, Ph. Jarry, G.M. Scamans, Z. Fan, Grain refinement in a AlZnMgCuTi alloy by intensive melt shearing, A multi-step nucleation mechanism, Journal of Crystal Growth 314, 2011, p 285-292           

GI Tóth, JR Morris, L Gránásy, Ginzburg-Landau- Type Field Model for Competing fcc and bcc Nucleation, Physical Review Letters, 2011            

G Tegze, GITóth, L Gránásy, Faceting and Branching in 2D Growth, Physical Review Letters, 2011        

G Tegze, L Gránásy, GI Tóth, JF Douglas, T Pusztai, Tuning the structure of non-quilibrium soft materials by varying the thermodynamic driving force for crystal ordering, Soft Matter, 2011, p 178-1799      

L Gránásy, GTegze, GI Tóth, T Pusztai, Phase-field crystal modelling of crystal nucleation, heteroepitaxy and patterning,  Philosophic Magazine 19(1), 2011, p 123-149                     

Y Huang, GH Zahid, PB Prangnell, Loss of high angle boundary area during annealing a Cryo-SPD processed Al-alloy with an nano-scale lamella grain structure, 4th Int. Conf. on Recrystallization and Grain growth, 2010        

S Kumar, N. Hari-Babu, GM Scamans, Z Fan, Melt conditioned twin roll casting process for Aluminium Alloy, ICAA12, 2010, p. 721-726

S Tzamtzis, H Zhang, M Xia, N Hari Babu, Z Fan, Recycling of high grade die casting AM series magnesium scrap with the melt conditioned high pressure die casting (MC-HPDC) process, Materials Science and Eng. A, 528, 2010, p 2664    

M Xia, M Subhajit, D Brij, G Liu, Z Fan, Melt conditioned high pressure die-casting of mg-Zn-Y alloy, Met. and Mats. Trans 41B, 2010, pp 209-213

M Zarif, B McKay, P Schumacher, Study of Heterogeneous Nucleation of Eutectic Si in High Purity Al-Si Alloys with Sr Addition, Met and Mats Trans A, 2010         

HR Kotadia, N Hari Babu, H Zhang, S Arumuganathar, Z Fan, Solidification Behaviour of Intensively Sheared Hypoeutectic Al-Si Alloy Liquid, Metallurgical and Materials Transaction A, 42, 2010, pp 1117-1121           

J Xu, GJ Liu, SM Zhang, LK Shi, Z Fan, Rheo-Diecasting of AZ91D Magnesium Alloy, Rare Metals, 29, 2010, pp 542-546

M Zarif, B McKay, P Schumacher, Study of Heterogeneous Nucleation of Eutectic Si in High Purity Al-Si Alloys with Sr Addition, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 42, 2010, pp 1684-1691

GL Zhu, J Xu, ZF Zhang, GJ Liu, Z Fan, Effect of High Shear Rate on Solidification Microstructure of Semisolid AZ91D Alloy, Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China, 20, 2010, pp s868-s872

H Men, B Jiang, Z Fan, Mechanisms of grain refinement by intensive shearing of AZ91 alloy melt,  Acta Materialia, 58, 2010, p 6526-6534

I. Stone, Casting is Considered, Materials World, 18, 2010, pp 27-28    

Z Fan, M Xia, Z Bian, I Bayandorian, L Cao, H Li, GM Scamans, Refinement of Solidification Microstructure by the MCAST Process, Materials Science Forum, 649 (2010), 315-323Z

Z Fan,M Xia, Y Wang, S Arumuganathar, GM Scamans, Shear Enhanced Heterogeneous Nucleation in AZ91D Alloy, Materials Science Forum, 649, 2010, pp 301-306

NS Barekar, BK Dhindaw, Z Fan, Improvement in silicon morphology and mechanical properties of Al-17Si alloy by melt conditioning shear technology, International Journal of Cast Metals Research, 23 (4), 2010, pp 225-230   

H Men, Z Fan, Transition of amorphous to crystalline oxide film in initial oxide overgrowth on liquid metals, Materials Science Technology, 27 (6), 2011, pp. 1033-1039

Y Wang, M Xia, Z Fan, X Zhou, G Thompson, The effect of Al8Mn5 intermetallic particles on grain size of as-cast Mg-Al-Zn AZ91D alloy, Intermetallics 18, 2010 pp 1683-1989

YB Zuo, MX Xia, SM Liang, Y Wang, GM Scamans, Z Fan, Grain refinement of DC cast AZ91D Mg alloy by intensive melt shearing, Materials Science and Technology 27, 2010, pp 101-107    

S Tzamtzis, H Zhang, N Hari Babu, Z Fan, Microstructural refinement of AZ91D die-cast alloy by intensive shearing, Materials Science and Eng. A, 527(12), 2010, pp 2929-2934

HR Kotadia, N Hari Babu, H Zhang, Z. Fan, Microstructural refinement of Al-10.2% Si alloy by intensive shearing, Materials Letters, 64, (2010), pp 671

HR Kotadia, E Doernberg, JB Patel, Z Fan, R Schmid-Fetzer, Solidification of Al-Sn-Cu Based Immiscible Alloys under Intense Shearing, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 40 (9), pp 2202-2211.    

GM Scamans, Z Fan, Recovery Mission, Materials World, 17, 2009, pp 29-31    

Z Fan, Y Wang, M Xia, Shear Enhanced Heterogeneous Nucleation during Solidification of Mg-Alloy, Proc. of Magnesium 8th Int. Conference, 2009, pp 193-199

I Bayandorian, M Xia, R Keyte, GM Scamans, Z Fan, Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Melt Conditioned Twin Roll Cast AZ31 Alloy Strip, Proc. of Magnesium 8th Int. Conference, 2009, pp 200-205

Y Zuo, G Liu, H Zhang, S Tzamtzis, N Hari-Babu, GM Scamans, Z Fan, Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of M-Alloys produced by the MC-HPDC Process, Proc. of Magnesium 8th Int. Conference, 2009, pp 246-351    

HR Kotadia, JB Patel, Z Fan, E Doernberg, R Schmid-Fetzer, Solidification and processing of aluminium based immiscible alloys, Aluminium Alloys, Fabrication, Characterization and Applications II, San Francisco, TMS, 2009, pp 81-86    

S Tzamtzis, H Zhang, G Liu, Y Wang, N Hari Babu, Z Fan, Melt Conditioned High Pressure Die Casting (MC-HPDC) of Mg-Alloys, Proc. of Magnesium Technology, TMS 2009, pp 91-96    

M Xia, Y Wang, H Li, S Arumuganathar, Y Zuo, GM Scamans, Z Fan, Refinement of Solidification Microstructure by MCAST Process, Proc. of Magnesium Technology, TMS 2009, pp 135-140    

I Bayandorian, Z Bian, M Xia, H Zhang, GM Scamans, Z Fan, Magnesium Alloy Strip Produced by Melt Conditioned Twin Roll Casting (MC-TRC) Process, Proc. of Magnesium Technology, TMS 2009, pp 363 - 368  

Z Fan, Y Wang, M Xia, S Arumuganathar, Enhanced heterogeneous nucleation in AZ91D alloy by intensive melt shearing,  Acta Materialia, 2009, pp 4891-4901

G Tegze, L Gránásy, GI Tóth, F Podmaniczky, A Jaatinen, T Ala-Nissila, T Pusztai, Diffusion-Controlled Anisotropic Growth of Stable and Metastable Crystal Polymorphs in the Phase-Field Crystal Model, Physical Review Letters   

GI Tóth, L Gránásy, Crystal Nucleation in the Hard-Sphere System Revisited: A Crystal Test of Theoretical Approaches Journal Physical Chemical B 113, 2009, pp 5141-5148

NS Barekar, S Tzamtzis, N Hari Babu, Z Fan, B.K. Dhindaw, Processing of Ultrafine-size Particulate Metal Matrix Composites by Advanced Shear Technology, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 40A, pp 691-701  

N Barekar, S Tzamtzis, BK Dhindaw, J Patel, N Hari Babu, Z. Fan, Processing of Aluminum-Graphite Particulate Metal Matrix Composites by Advanced Shear Technology, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 18 (9), 2009, pp 1230-1240  

NS Barekar, N. Hari Babu, BK Dhindaw, Z Fan, Effect of intensive Shearing on the Morphology of Primary Silicon and Properties of Hypereutectic Al-Si alloy, Materials Science and Technology 26, 2010

S Tzamtzis, NS Barekar, N Hari Babu, J Patel, BK Dhindaw, Z Fan, Processing of advanced Al/SiC particulate metal matrix composites under intensive shearing - A novel Rheo-process, Composites: Part A, 40, 2009,  pp 144-151    

JA Warren, T Pusztai, L Környei, LGránásy, Phase field approach to heterogeneous crystal nucleation in alloys, Physical Review B, 79, 2009

G Tegze, G Bansel, GI Tóth, T Pusztai, Z Fan, L Gránásy, Advanced Operator-Splitting-Based Semi-Implicit Spectral Method to Solve the Binary Phase-Field Crystal Equations with Variable Coefficients, Journal of Computational Physics, 228, 2009,  pp 1612-1623  

GI Tóth, G Tegze, T Pusztai, L Gránásy, Polymorphism, crystal nucleation and growth in the phase-field model in 2d and 3d, J. Phys. Condes. Matter, 22 (36), 2010, pp 364101

T Pusztai, G Tegze, Gyula I Tóth, L Kornyei, G Bansel, Z Fan, L Gránásy, Phase-field approach to polycrystalline solidification including heterogeneous and homogeneous nucleation, J. Phys: Condens. Matter, 20, 2008, 404205, 16pp    

Z Fan, Y Wang, ZF Zhang, M Xia, HT Li, J Xu, L Gránásy, GM Scamans, Shear Enhanced Heterogeneous Nucleation in Some Mg- and Al-Alloys, International Journal of Cast Metals Research

Z Fan, M Xia, H Zhang, G Liu, JB Patel, Z Bian, I Bayandorian, Y Wang, HT Li, GM Scamans, Melt Conditioning by Advanced Shear Technology (MCAST) for Refining Solidification Microstructures, International Journal of Cast Metals Research, 2008 

HR Kotadia, JB Patel, Z Fan, E Doernberg, R Schmid-Fetzer, Processing of Al-45Sn-10Cu Based Immiscible Alloy by a Rheomixing process, Solid State Phenomena vols 141-143, 2008, pp 529-534

R Haghayeghi, Y Liu, Z Fan, Melt Conditioned Direct Chill Casting (MC-DC) of Wrought Al-alloys, Solid State Phenomena Vols 141-143, 2008, pp 403-408

N Hari Babu, S Tzamtzis, N Barekar, JB Patel, Z Fan, Fabrication of Metal Matrix Composites under Intensive Shearing, Solid State Phenomena, Vol. 141-143, 2008, 373-378

Z Bian, I Bayandorian, Z Fan, Extremely fine and uniform microstructure of magnesium AZ91D alloy sheets produced by melt conditioned twin roll casting, Materials Science and Technology, 2008

Z Bian, I Bayandorian, HW Zhang, Z Fan, Twin Roll Casting and Melt Conditioned Twin-roll Casting of Magnesium, Solid State Phenomena, Vols 141-143, 2008, pp 195-200

W Löser, R Hermann, TG Woodcock, J Fransaer, M Krivilyov, L Gránásy, T Pusztai, GI. Tóth, DM Herlach, D Holland-Moritz, M Kolbe, T Volkmann, Nucleation and Phase Selection in Undercooled Melts: Magnetic Alloys of Industrial Relevance (MAGNEPHAS), Journal of Japanese Society of Microgravity Applications, Vol 25, No.3, 2008, pp 495-500.  

JB Patel, YQ Liu, G Shao and Z Fan, Rheo-processing of an alloy specifically designed for semi-solid metal processing on the Al-Mg-Si system, Mat. Science and Engineering A, 476, 2008, pp 341-349

G Liu, Y Wang, Z Fan, A physical approach to the direct recycling of Mg-alloy scrap by the rheo-diecasting process, Mat. Science and Engineering A, 472, 2008, pp 251-257

Y Wang, G Liu, F Wang, Z Fan, Microstructural Characterisation and Thermal Stability of an Mg-Al-Sr alloy prepared byRheo-diecasting, Proceedings of the 5th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processings, Sheffield, July 2007, pp 600-605   

G Liu, Y Wang, Z Fan, Rheo-diecasting AZ91D magnesium alloy, Proceedings of the 5th Decennial International Conference on Solidification Processing, Sheffield, 2007, pp 595-599

GI Tóth, László Gránásy, Phase field theory of interfaces and crystal nucleation in a eutectic system of fcc structure: I. Transitions in the one-phase liquid region, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 127, 2007 

GI Tóth, László Gránásy, Phase field theory of interfaces and crystal nucleation in a eutectic system of fcc structure: II. Nucleation in the metastable liquid immiscibility region, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 127, 2007    

X Fang, G Shao, YQ Liu, Z Fan, Effects of intensive forced melt convection on the mechanical properties of Fe- containing Al-Si based alloys, Mat. Science Eng A, Vol. 445-446, 2007, pp 65-72 

M Qian, Heterogeneous nucleation on potent spherical substrates during solidification, Acta Materialia, 55, 2007, pp 943-953 

X Fang, Z. Fan, A Novel approach to produce Al-alloy foams, J. Mater Sci, 42, 2007, pp 7894-7898    

Z. Fan, Melting Moments, Materials World, 15, 2007, 25-26

M. Hitchcock and Z. Fan: Solidification Behaviour of 357 Al-alloy under Intensive Forced Convection, Acta Materialia (2006) Vols 519-521, p 1747-1752    

S.M. Zhang, Z. Fan and Z. Zhen: Direct Chill Rheocasting (RDC) of AZ32 Mg-Alloy, Materials Science and Technology (2006), Vol 22, N 12, p1489-1498    

M. Hitchcock, Y. Wang and Z. Fan: Secondary solidification behaviour of the Al-Si-Mg alloy prepared by the rheo-diecasting process, Acta Materialia (2006), p 1589-1598.    

S. Ji, K. Roberts and Z. Fan:  Isothermal coarsening of fine and spherical particles in semisolid slurry of Mg-9Al-1Zn alloy under low shear, Scripta Mat. 55 (2006), p 971-974. 

S. Ji, Ma Qian and Z. Fan: The Creep Behaviour of Rheo-diecast AZ91D (Mg-9Al-1Zn) alloy, Materials Science & Engineering A, 434, (2006), p 7-12.    

G.M. Scamans and Z. Fan: Cost and Strength Competitive Aluminium Alloys for Automotive Applications, SAE/UK Vehicle Technology Magazine (2006) in press.    

G.M. Scamans and Z. Fan: High Sheer Rheocasting of Aluminium Alloys, APT Aluminium - Process & Product Technology, Aluminium 2006 Special Edition, p 54-57.    

X. Fang, G. Shao and Z. Fan: Microstructure and mechanical properties of Fe-containing Al-alloys processed by a rheo-diecasting process, Materials Science Forum 519-521 (2006) 1251-1256.    

Z. Fan, G. Liu and M. Hitchcock: Solidification behaviour of Al-alloys under intensive forced convection, Proc. ICAA10 in Canada July 2006.    

Y. Wang, G. Liu and Z. Fan: Mechanical Properties and Microstructural Evolution of Rheo-diecast AZ91D Magnesium Alloy During Heat Treatment, Proc. World Foundry Congress Conf. in Harrogate June 2006, paper 82.    

S.M. Zhang, Z. Zhen and Z. Fan: Direct Chill Rheocasting (RDC) and extrusion of AZ32 Mg-Alloy, Proc. World Foundry Congress Conf. in Harrogate, June 2006, paper no. 83.    

X. Fang, J. Patel and Z. Fan: Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Rheo-diecast (RDC) aluminium alloys, Proc. World Foundry Congress Conf. in Harrogate, June 2006, paper no. 70.    

Z. Fan, G. Liu, Y. Wang:Microstructure and Mechanical properties of rheo-diecast AZ91D magnesium alloy. Journal of Materials Science, Vol. 41, issue 12, (2006), 3631-3644.    

Ma Qian: Creation of semisolid slurries containing fine and spherical particles by grain refinement based on the Mullins-Sekerka stability criterion, Acta Materialia 2006, Vol 54, 2241-2252    

Ma Qian:  Creation of Fine and Spherical Magnesium Crystals via Control of Nucleation and Growth Instabilities;  7th Int. Conference on Magnesium Alloys and their Application 2006, Dresden, Germany.

G. Shao, V. Varsani, Z. Fan: Thermodynamic modelling of the Y-Zn and Mg-Zn-Y systems, Calphad, 2006, 286-295.    

A. Das, G. Liu, Z. Fan: Investigation on the microstructural refinement of an Mg-6wt.% Zn alloy, Materials Science & Engineering A 2006, 419, 349-356.    

Jie Geng, G. Shao, P. Tsakiropoulos: Study of three-phase equilibrium in the Nb-rich corner of Nb-Si-Cr system, Intermetallics, 2006, 14, 832-837    

G.M. Scamans and Z. Fan: Direct Chill Rheocasting (DCRC) Developments for Magnesium Alloys, Cast Metal & Diecasting Times, (2006) April/May.    

Ma Qian, A. Das: Grain refinement of magnesium alloys by zirconium: Formation of equiaxed grains, Scripta Materials, 2006, Vol 54, 881-886    

Z. Zhen, Ma Qian, S. Ji, Z. Fan: The effects of rheo-diecasting on the integrity and mechanical properties of Mg-6Al-1Zn, Scripta Materialia, 2006 Vol 54, 207-211    

X. Fang, Z. Fan: Rheo-diecasting of Al-Si-Pb immiscible alloys, Scripta Materialia, 2006 Vol 54, 789-793    

S.Ji, Ma Qian, Z. Fan: Semisolid Processing Characteristics of AM Series Mg Alloys by Rheo-Diecasting, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 2006, Vol 37A, 779-787.    

Y. Wang, G. Liu and Z. Fan: Microstructural evolution of rheo-diecast AZ91D magnesium alloy during heat treatment, Acta Materialia, 2006, Vol 54, p 689-699.    

Y. Wang, G. Liu and Z. Fan: A new heat treatment procedure for rheo-diecast AZ91D magnesium alloy, Scripta Materialia, 2006, Vol 54, p903-908    

M.A. Lourenço, M. Milosavljević, G. Shao, R.M. Gwilliam and K.P. Homewood: Boron engineered dislocation loops for efficient room temperature silicon light emitting diodes, Thin Sold Films 2006, 504, 36-40    

G. Shao, V. Varsani, Y. Wang, Ma Qian and Z. Fan: On the solidification microstructure of Mg–30Zn–2.5Y metal–intermetallic alloy, Intermetallics, 2006,v14, p596-602

M. Milosavljevic, G. Shao, M.A. Lourenco, R.M. Gwilliam, K.P. Homewood, S.P. Edwards, R. Valizadeh and J.S. Colligon:  Transition from amorphous to crystalline beta phase in co-sputtered FeSi2 films as a function of temperature;  Journal of Applied Physics 98, 2005.