Publications

Cojocaru-Mirédin, O.; Bürger, J.-C.; Polin, N.; Meledin, A.; Mayer, J.; Wuttig, M.; Daus, A.: Thermally Assisted Atomic-Scale Intermixing and Ordering in GeTe–Sb₂Te₃ Superlattices. ACS Nano (2025)

Shkodich, N.; Smoliarova, T.; Ali, H.; Eggert, B.; Rao, Z.; Spasova, M.; Tarasov, I.; Wende, H.; Ollefs, K.; Gault, B. et al.; Farle, M.: Effect of high energy ball milling, heat treatment and spark plasma sintering on structure, composition, thermal stability and magnetism in CoCrFeNiGax (x = 0.5; 1) high entropy alloys. Acta Materialia 284, 120569 (2025)

Gabriel, P.; Nallathambi, V.; Liu, J.; Staab, F.; Oyedeji, T.; Yang, Y.; Hantke, N.; Adabifiroozjaei, E.; Recalde-Benitez, O.; Molina-Luna, L. et al.; Rao, Z.; Gault, B.; Sehrt, J.; Scheibel, F.; Skokov, K.; Xu, B.-X.; Durst, K.; Gutfleisch, O.; Barcikowski, S.; Ziefuss, A.: Boosting Coercivity of 3D Printed Hard Magnets through Nano-Modification of the Powder Feedstock. Advanced Science 11 (46), 2407972 (2024)

Han, L.; Zhu, S.; Rao, Z.; Scheu, C.; Ponge, D.; Ludwig, A.; Zhang, H.; Gutfleisch, O.; Hahn, H.; Li, Z. et al.; Raabe, D.: Multifunctional high-entropy materials. Nature Reviews Materials 9 (12), pp. 846 - 865 (2024)

Yin, J.; Rao, Z.; Wu, D.; Lv, H.; Ma, H.; Long, T.; Kang, J.; Wang, Q.; Wang, Y.; Su, R.: Interpretable Predicting Creep Rupture Life of Superalloys: Enhanced by Domain-Specific Knowledge. Advanced Science 11 (11), 2307982 (2024)

Adabifiroozjaei, E.; Maccari, F.; Schäfer, L.; Jiang, T.; Recalde-Benitez, O.; Chirkova, A.; Shayanfar, N.; Dirba, I.; Kani, N. A.; Shuleshova, O. et al.; Winkler, R.; Zintler, A.; Rao, Z.; Pfeuffer, L.; Kovács, A.; E. Dunin-Borkowski, R.; Skokov, K.; Gault, B.; Gruner, M. E.; Gutfleisch, O.; Molina-Luna, L.: Martensitic phase transformation in short-range ordered Fe₅₀Rh₅₀ system induced by thermal stress and mechanical deformation. Acta Materialia 264, 119577 (2024)

Josten, N.; Franzka, S.; Rao, Z.; Smoliarova, T.; Kovács, A.; Scheibel, F.; Staab, F.; Acet, M.; Çakır, A.; Durst, K. et al.; Gault, B.; Dunin-Borkowski, R. E.; Gutfleisch, O.; Farle, M.: Location and morphology of ferromagnetic precipitates in Ni–Mn–Sn. Physical Review Materials 7, 124411 (2023)

Han, L.; Maccari, F.; Soldatov, I.; Peter, N. J.; Souza Filho, I. R.; Schäfer, R.; Gutfleisch, O.; Li, Z.; Raabe, D.: Strong and ductile high temperature soft magnets through Widmanstätten precipitates. Nature Communications 14, 8176 (2023)

Li, Y.; Wei, Y.; Wang, Z.; Liu, X.; Colnaghi, T.; Han, L.; Rao, Z.; Zhou, X.; Huber, L.; Dsouza, R. et al.; Gong, Y.; Neugebauer, J.; Marek, A.; Rampp, M.; Bauer, S.; Li, H.; Baker, I.; Stephenson, L.; Gault, B.: Quantitative three-dimensional imaging of chemical short-range order via machine learning enhanced atom probe tomography. Nature Communications 14 (1), 7410 (2023)

Wu, P.; Zhang, Y.; Han, L.; Gan, K.; Yan, D.; Wu, W.; He, L.; Fu, Z.; Li, Z.: Unexpected sluggish martensitic transformation in a strong and super-ductile high-entropy alloy of ultralow stacking fault energy. Acta Materialia 261, 119389 (2023)

Saxena, A.; Polin, N.; Kusampudi, N.; Katnagallu, S.; Molina-Luna, L.; Gutfleisch, O.; Berkels, B.; Gault, B.; Neugebauer, J.; Freysoldt, C.: A Machine Learning Framework for Quantifying Chemical Segregation and Microstructural Features in Atom Probe Tomography Data. Microscopy and Microanalysis 29 (5), pp. 1658 - 1670 (2023)

Rao, Z.; Li, Y.; Zhang, H.; Colnaghi, T.; Marek, A.; Rampp, M.; Gault, B.: Direct recognition of crystal structures via three-dimensional convolutional neural networks with high accuracy and tolerance to random displacements and missing atoms. Scripta Materialia 234, 115542 (2023)

Zhang, X.; Han, L.; Dehm, G.; Liebscher, C.: Microstructure and physical properties of dual-phase soft magnetic Fe–Co–Ti–Ge alloys. Journal of Alloys and Compounds 945, 169282 (2023)

Wu, Y.; Skokov, K.; Schäfer, L.; Maccari, F.; Aubert, A.; Rao, Z.; Schweinar, K.; Gault, B.; Xu, H.; Jiang, C. et al.; Gutfleisch, O.: A comparative study of Nd₁₅Fe₇₈B₇ and Nd₁₅Co₇₈B₇ systems: phase formations and coercivity mechanisms. Acta Materialia 240, 118311 (2022)

Rao, Z.; Tung, P.-Y.; Xie, R.; Wei, Y.; Zhang, H.; Ferrari, A.; Klaver, T. P. C.; Körmann, F.; Prithiv, T. S.; Kwiatkowski da Silva, A. et al.; Chen, Y.; Li, Z.; Ponge, D.; Neugebauer, J.; Gutfleisch, O.; Bauer, S.; Raabe, D.: Machine learning–enabled high-entropy alloy discovery. Science 378 (6615), pp. 78 - 85 (2022)

Lukianova, O. A.; Kulitskiy, V. A.; Rao, Z.; Li, Z.; Wilde, G.; Divinski, S. V.: Self-diffusion in carbon-alloyed CoCrFeMnNi high entropy alloys. Acta Materialia 237, 118136 (2022)

Shi, H.; Azmi, R.; Han, L.; Tang, C.; Weisenburger, A.; Heinzel, A.; Maibach, J.; Stueber, M.; Wang, K.; Mueller, G.: Corrosion behavior of Al-containing MAX-phase coatings exposed to oxygen containing molten Pb at 600 degrees C. Corrosion Science 201, 110275 (2022)

Han, L.; Maccari, F.; Souza Filho, I. R.; Peter, N. J.; Wei, Y.; Gault, B.; Gutfleisch, O.; Li, Z.; Raabe, D.: A mechanically strong and ductile soft magnet with extremely low coercivity. Nature 608, pp. 310 - 316 (2022)

Han, L.; Rao, Z.; Souza Filho, I. R.; Maccari, F.; Wei, Y.; Wu, G.; Ahmadian, A.; Zhou, X.; Gutfleisch, O.; Ponge, D. et al.; Raabe, D.; Li, Z.: Ultrastrong and Ductile Soft Magnetic High-Entropy Alloys via Coherent Ordered Nanoprecipitates. Advanced Materials 33 (37), 2102139 (2021)

Ener, S.; Skokov, K.; Palanisamy, D.; Devillers, T.; Fischbacher, J.; Eslava, G. G.; Maccari, F.; Schäfer, L.; Diop, L. V. B.; Radulov, I. et al.; Gault, B.; Hrkac, G.; Dempsey, N. M.; Schrefl, T.; Raabe, D.; Gutfleisch, O.: Twins – A weak link in the magnetic hardening of ThMn₁₂-type permanent magnets. Acta Materialia 214, 116968 (2021)