Publications of Ziyuan Rao

Cheng, H.; Luo, H.; Li, Y.; Rao, Z.; Zhao, Q.; Pan, Z.; Kong, Q.; Li, X.; Raabe, D.: Segregation passivation makes cost-effective stainless steel resistant to corrosion and hydrogen embrittlement. Science Advances 12 (5), eadz1833 (2026)

Nallathambi, V.; Gabriel, P.; Chen, X.; Rao, Z.; Skokov, K.; Gutfleisch, O.; Barcikowski, S.; Ziefuss, A.; Gault, B.: Effect of Ag nano-additivation on microstructure formation in Nd-Fe-B magnets built by laser powder bed fusion. Acta Materialia 297, 121353 (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)

Rao, Z.; Bajpai, A.; Zhang, H.: Active learning strategies for the design of sustainable alloys. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 382 (2284), 20230242 (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)

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)

Orbay, Y.; Rao, Z.; Çakır, A.; Tavşanoğlu, T.; Farle, M.; Acet, M.: Magnetic properties of the FCC and BCC phases of (MnFeCoNi)₈₀Cu_20-xZ_x (Z: Al, Ga) high-entropy alloys. Acta Materialia 259, 119240 (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)

Gabriel, P.; Liu, J.; Staab, F.; Oyedeji, T.; Yang, Y.; Hantke, N.; Scheibel, F.; Adabifiroozjaei, E.; Recalde, O.; Molina-Luna, L. et al.; Rao, Z.; Gault, B.; Sehrt, J.; Sokolov, K.; Xu, B.-X.; Durst, K.; Gutfleisch, O.; Barcikowski, S.; Ziefuss, A. R.: Influence of silver nanoparticle additivation on Nd–Fe–B permanent magnets produced by Laser Powder Bed Fusion. ChemRxiv: the Preprint Server for Chemistry (2023)

Pyczak, F.; Liang, Z.; Neumeier, S.; Rao, Z.: Stability and Physical Properties of the L1₂-γ' Phase in the CoNiAlTi-System. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A 54 (5), pp. 1661 - 1670 (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)

Liang, Z.; Neumeier, S.; Rao, Z.; Göken, M.; Pyczak, F.: CALPHAD informed design of multicomponent CoNiCr-based superalloys exhibiting large lattice misfit and high yield stress. Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing 854, 143798 (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)

Rao, Z.; Springer, H.; Ponge, D.; Li, Z.: Combinatorial development of multicomponent Invar alloys via rapid alloy prototyping. Materialia 21, 101326 (2022)

Zhu, Z.; Ng, F. L.; Seet, H. L.; Lu, W.; Liebscher, C.; Rao, Z.; Raabe, D.; Nai, S. M. L.: Superior mechanical properties of a selective-laser-melted AlZnMgCuScZr alloy enabled by a tunable hierarchical microstructure and dual-nanoprecipitation. Materials Today 52, pp. 90 - 101 (2022)