Enax, J.; Prymak, O.; Fabritius, H.-O.; Raabe, D.; Epple, M.: New approaches towards synthetic bio-inspired dental materials based on the characteristics of shark teeth. 9. Zsigmondy-Kolloquium der Kolloid-Gesellschaft, Essen, Germany (2013)
Enax, J.; Prymak, O.; Fabritius, H.-O.; Raabe, D.; Epple, M.: Korrelation von Strukturhierarchie, chemischer Zusammensetzung und mechanischen Eigenschaften von Haizähnen. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Biomaterialien, Hamburg, Germany (2012)
Stein, F.; Palm, M.; Voß, S.; He, C.; Dovbenko, O. I.; Prymak, O.: Experimental Investigations of Phases, Phase Equilibria, and Melting Behaviour in the Systems Fe–Al–Nb and Co–Al–Nb and Their Terminal Binary Systems. Calphad XL, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2011)
Stein, F.; Prymak, O.: Experimental Investigation of Phases and Phase Equilibria in the Ternary Fe–Al–Nb System. 5th Discussion Meeting on the Development of Innovative Iron Aluminium Alloys, Prague, Czech Republic (2009)
Stein, F.; Prymak, O.; Dovbenko, O. I.; He, C.; Palm, M.; Schuster, J. C.: Investigation of Phase Diagrams of Laves Phase Containing Binary and Ternary Nb–TM(–Al) Systems with TM=Cr,Fe,Co. 2nd Sino-German Symposium on Computational Thermodynamics and Kinetics and Their Applications to Solidification, Kornelimünster, Aachen, Germany (2009)
Prymak, O.; Stein, F.: Composition dependence of site occupancy and c/a ratio in hexagonal C14 Laves phase of the Nb–Cr–Al system. TOFA Thermodynamics of Alloys 2008, Krakow, Poland (2008)
Stein, F.; Prymak, O.; Dovbenko, O. I.; Palm, M.: Phase equilibria of Laves phases in ternary Nb–X–Al systems with X = Cr, Fe, Co. Discussion Meeting on Thermodynamics of Alloys - TOFA 2008, Krakow, Poland (2008)
Prymak, O.; Stein, F.; Frommeyer, G.; Raabe, D.: Phase equilibria in the Nb–Cr–Al system at 1150, 1300 and 1450 °C. Workshop "The Nature of Laves Phases IX", Stuttgart, Germany (2007)
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