July 15th, 2021

Welcome to Maik, new Ph.D. Student

Maik Punke joins the group and begins his activities as research assistant to pursue his Ph.D at the Institute of Scientific Computing and Dresden Center of Computational Material Science. Welcome!

June 3rd, 2021

Talk @ 7th EarthFlow Workshop - NJORD Center

The research on the modeling of Disconnection-mediated interface migration has been presented at the 7th EarthFlow Workshop organized by the NJORD Center at the univeristy of Oslo

May 21th, 2021

Talk @ SIAM-MS21

The research on defect motion in binary crystalline systems has been presented at the SIAM-MS21 meeting with a talk entitled "Effect of compositional Strain and Cottrell Atmospheres in Binary Systems by amplitude PFC modeling"

May 17th-28th, 2021

SIAM - MS21 meeting

The group actively takes part to SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science. with the organization of the MS48: "Multiscale and coarse-grained modeling of crystal defects, grain boundaries, and plasticity" (20-25 May, see programme online)

May 6th, 2021

Paper published in Phys. Rev. Lett.

The work on "Mesoscale Defect Motion in Binary Systems" is now published in Phys. Rev, Lett. 126, 185502 (2021) - arXiv:2101.06128 Analytical expressions for defect velocity are derived together with and amplitude phase field crystal modeling and simulations. 

April 5st, 2021

Issue Cover on Math. Model Appl. Sci. (Wiley)

The research on Doubly Degenerate Cahn-Hilliard model published in a two paper series in Math. Meth. Appl. Sci. made it to the Issue's Cover!

Links: Article I, Article II & COVER

April 1st, 2021

Welcome to Marcello, new Ph.D. Student

Marcello De Donno joins the group and begins his activities as research assistant to pursue his Ph.D at the Institute of Scientific Computing and Dresden Center of Computational Material Science. Welcome!

March 18th, 2021

Two-paper series preprints available

The research on "Disconnection-Mediated Migration of Interfaces in Microstructures" carried out together with D. Srolovitz and J. Han is now reported in a two-paper series available as preprints: Part I: Continuum Description, Part II: Diffuse Interface Simulations

March 16th, 2021

Talk @ 91st GAMM meeting

Dr. Marco Salvalaglio gives a talk entitled "A coarse-grained phase-field crystal model of plastic motion" at the 91 GAMM Meeting, illustrating recent results of the modeling of defects dynamics with the APFC model.

March 1st, 2021

The activity of the "Emmy Noether" group begin!

The research activity funded by the DFG Emmy Noether Programme, entitled "A Mesoscale Framework for the modeling of defects and interface in crystals" begins today, March 1st 2021. We are looking forward for great research and collaborations!

January 18th, 2021

New Preprint available (APFC - Binary Systems)

Analytical expressions for defect velocity, amplitude phase field crystal modeling and simulations illustrated in our new preprint about "Mesoscale Defect Motion in Binary Systems". arXiv link here

December 23, 2020

2 back-to-back Papers Published in Math. Meth. Appl. Sci.

Two works, introducing the fully-variational Doubly Degenerate Cahn-Hilliard model have been published in Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences. The first address the isotropic version and its asymptotic analysis, while the second the anisotropic settings.

December 3, 2020

Contribution @ NanoSeminar (TUD)

Dr. Marco Salvalaglio illustrates the group research activities on coarse-grained modeling of crystals at the NanoSeminar, periodic appointment organized by the Institute of Material Science focusing on nanoscale material research

November 12, 2020

Proposal for the Emmy Noether Programme Accepted

The proposal of the project "A mesoscale framework for the modeling of defects and interfaces in crystals" submitted for funding within the Emmy Noether Program has been accepted. Activities will begin in 2021.

September 22-25, 2020

Research presented at the MSE congress of the DGM

Dr. Marco Salvalaglio contributed with two talks entitled "Closing the gap between atomic-scale lattice deformations and continuum elasticity within the phase-field crystal framework" and "Phase-field modeling of complex solid-state dewetting scenarios"

September 15, 2020

Paper published in PRL

The research carried out within the EU-Project NARCISO about spontaneous spinodal-like dewetting, leading to hyperuniform structures has been published in Physical Review Letters 126, 126101 (2020). (arXiv link here)