ERC Advanced Grant · 2019
The Physics of Metal Plasticity
The societal need to conserve materials and energy calls for lighter and stronger metal components. The advantage of metals is their unique combination of plasticity (i.e. formability) and strength, which is governed by their complex structure. This structure is organized hierarchically on several length scales. In contrast to functional materials and polymers, this complexity has led to the common theoretical framework being not physics, but an engineering science: metallurgy. As a result, phenomenological models prevail. The big obstacle to understand the underlying physics is the lack of visualization of the dynamics of the structure. From 2012 to 2019 I have developed a hard x-ray…
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