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SUMMARY:IMX Seminar Series - Computational tools for the ab-initio design 
 of advanced structural materials
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Anirudh Raju Natarajan\, Laboratory of materials design 
 and simulation\, EPFL\nModern manufacturing processes often exploit phase 
 transformations to tune material properties in technological applications 
 ranging from aerospace materials to energy storage and automotive applicat
 ions. For instance\, the formation of precipitate phases within a disorder
 ed matrix enhances mechanical strength and creep resistance. However\, the
  development of novel processing techniques and improved alloy chemistries
  is limited by the lack of phenomenological models that accurately describ
 e the high-temperature behavior of these materials. At the atomistic scale
 \, these models must capture a range of structural and chemical disorder. 
 Atomistic models can then be coupled with statistical mechanics techniques
  to derive thermodynamic\, kinetic and chemo-mechanical descriptions of ma
 terials. These quantities serve as essential ingredients to meso and conti
 nuum scale theories\, such as phase field models\, that describe phase tra
 nsformations and microstructure evolution. In this talk\, I will highlight
  recent theoretical advances that enable the rigorous coarse-graining of e
 lectronic structure calculations through statistical mechanics techniques.
  I will also demonstrate how these techniques can be used to design lightw
 eight structural alloys and high-temperature aerospace alloys.\nReference 
 to 2 papers:\n\n\n\n	https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-matsci-070317-124443\
 n	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.134204\n\n\n\nBio: Anirudh received 
 a B.Tech. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from the Indian Insti
 tute of Technology\, Madras\, a M.S in Materials Science and Engineering f
 rom the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor and a Ph.D. in Materials from t
 he University of California\, Santa Barbara. He set up the laboratory of m
 aterials design and simulation (MADES) at EPFL in 2022. His research inter
 ests are in the computational design and discovery of advanced engineering
  materials.
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/68532296336?pwd=UXBrN1RBWHVFQjVjSko2NDF3S3
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