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Research project

Renaissance of alloys: nanocrystalline bimetals

Research groups:

national Centre for Advanced Tribology at Southampton (nCATS)
Lead researcher:

Professor Tomas Polcar
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researcher

TP

Professor Tomas Polcar

Professor of Materials Sci and Tribology

Connect with Tomas

Email: T.Polcar@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

national Centre for Advanced Tribology at Southampton (nCATS)

We specialise in tribology which is the science of friction, wear and lubrication of surfaces that come in to contact in motion.

Research outputs

Fabrication of nanocrystalline supersaturated W–Al alloys with enhanced thermal stability and high sinterability

Francesco Torre,

Teodor Huminiuc,

Elodia Musu,

Tomas Polcar,

Francesco Delogu,

& Antonio Mario Locci

, 2021 , Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids , 148

DOI: 10.1016/j.jpcs.2020.109686

Type: article

Factors controlling segregation tendency of solute Ti, Ag and Ta into different symmetrical tilt grain boundaries of tungsten: First-principles and experimental study

Tomas Polcar,

Ahmed Tamer AlMotasem,

& Teodor Huminiuc

, 2021 , Acta Materialia , 211

DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2021.116868

Type: article