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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Synthesis and Properties of Functional Materials,Thermodynamics and Kinetics as well as Properties of Phases and Microstructure of Materials,Mechanical Properties of Metallic Materials and their Microstructural Causes |
| Keywords | Phasendiagramme, neue Werkstoffe, physikalisch-chemische Eigenschaften, Übergangsmetall-Karbide |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Philadelphia |
| Institution | Drexel University |
| Institute | Department of Materials Engineering |
| Homepage | http://www.materials.drexel.edu/faculty/Barsoum/index.htm |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Manfred Rühle | Institut für Werkstoffwissenschaften, Pulvermetallurgisches Laboratorium, Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme, Stuttgart |
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| Prof. Dr. Fritz Aldinger | Institut für Werkstoffwissenschaften, Pulvermetallurgisches Laboratorium, Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme, Stuttgart |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/09/2000 |
Programme(s)
| 2000 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Prof. Barsourum is a Distinguished Professor of Materials Engineering at Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA. His current research interests, among others, focus on developing and characterizing ceramic based materials for very high temperature applications. Prof. Barsoum and his research group were the first to fabricate and comprehensively characterize a new class of ternary carbides and nitrides. Their prototype is Ti3SiC2 which reveals very interesting properties. He has clearly worked out the relationship between the materials crystal chemistry, phase equilibria and microstructure development of these technically important materials group. Based on these results, he adjusted the processing and optimized the resulting physico-chemical and mechanical properties of this totally new class of materials. During his stay at the Max-Planck-Insitut für Metallforschung he plans to investigate some of the most promising known other 60 candidate materials of that type using special equipment for their production and characterization |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2001 | Michel W. Barsoum, Tamer El-Raghy: The MAX Phases: Unique New Carbide and Nitride Materials. In: American Scientist, 2001, 334-343 |
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| 2001 | Michel W. Barsoum, M. Radovic, P. Finkel, T. El-Raghy: Ti3SiC2 and ice. In: Applied Physics Letters, 2001, 479-481 |