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Engineering and Technology
Sweden
2026

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Engineering and Technology

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67
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1265
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11

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  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Bo Sundman is affiliated with the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on engineering and materials science, with extensive work in materials chemistry and mechanical engineering as well as aerospace engineering, inorganic chemistry, and catalysis.

Their main topics of study include:

  • Nuclear Materials and Properties
  • Nuclear reactor physics and engineering
  • Radioactive element chemistry and processing
  • High Temperature Alloys and Creep
  • Metallurgical Processes and Thermodynamics
  • Solidification and crystal growth phenomena
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science

Bo Sundman has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • "A method for handling the extrapolation of solid crystalline phases to temperatures far above their melting point," 2020, Calphad
  • "Modeling precipitation kinetics for multi-phase and multi-component systems using particle size distributions via a moving grid technique," 2021, Acta Materialia
  • "Simulation of the chemical state of high burnup (U, Pu)O2 fuel in fast reactors based on thermodynamic calculations," 2020, Journal of Nuclear Materials
  • "Modeling the thermodynamics of the FeTi hydrogenation under para-equilibrium: An ab-initio and experimental study," 2023, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • "Development of a robust, accurate and efficient coupling between PLEIADES/ALCYONE 2.1 fuel performance code and the OpenCalphad thermo-chemical solver," 2020, Nuclear Engineering and Design

The venues where their work is frequently published include:

  • Calphad (5 publications)
  • Journal of Nuclear Materials (2 publications)
  • Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion (1 publication)
  • Acta Materialia (1 publication)
  • Scripta Materialia (1 publication)

Bo Sundman collaborates often with a number of researchers, notably:

  • Bengt Hallstedt
  • Malin Selleby
  • Christine Guéneau
  • Ursula R. Kattner
  • Richard Otis

Best Publications

  • Thermo-Calc & DICTRA, computational tools for materials science

    J.-O. Andersson;Thomas Helander;Lars Höglund;Pingfang Shi

  • The Thermo-Calc databank system☆

    Bo Sundman;Bo Jansson;Jan-Olof Andersson

  • Computational Thermodynamics: The Calphad Method

    Hans Lukas;Suzana G. Fries;Bo Sundman

  • A regular solution model for phases with several components and sublattices, suitable for computer applications

    Bo Sundman;John Ågren

  • Computational Thermodynamics

    Unknown

  • Thermodynamic assessment of the Al-Ni system

    Ibrahim Ansara;Nathalie Dupin;Hans Leo Lukas;Bo Sundman

  • A two-sublattice model for molten solutions with different tendency for ionization

    Mats Hillert;Bo Jansson;Bo Sundman;John ågren

  • Thermodynamic properties of the CrFe system

    Jan-Olof Andersson;Bo Sundman

  • A treatment of the solute drag on moving grain boundaries and phase interfaces in binary alloys

    Mats Hillert;Bo Sundman

  • Thermodynamic re-assessment of the ternary system Al-Cr-Ni

    N. Dupin;I. Ansara;Bo Sundman

  • An Assessment of the Fe-C-Si System

    Jacques Lacaze;Bo Sundman

  • Phase equilibria in the Fe-Co binary system

    Ikuo Ohnuma;Hirotoshi Enoki;Osamu Ikeda;Ryosuke Kainuma

  • New modelling of the B2 phase and its associated martensitic transformation in the Ti-Ni system

    W. Tang;B. Sundman;R. Sandström;C. Qiu

  • An assessment of the entire Al-Fe system including D03 ordering

    Bo Sundman;Ikuo Ohnuma;Nathalie Dupin;Ursula R. Kattner

  • An assessment of the Fe-O system

    B Sundman

  • A compound-energy model of ordering in a phase with sites of different coordination numbers

    J.-O. Andersson;A.Fernandez Guillermet;M. Hillert;B. Jansson

  • Thermodynamic modelling of advanced oxide and carbide nuclear fuels: Description of the U–Pu–O–C systems

    Christine Guéneau;Nathalie Dupin;Bo Sundman;Chantal Martial

  • A binary database for III–V compound semiconductor systems

    I. Ansara;C. Chatillon;H.L. Lukas;T. Nishizawa

  • Thermodynamic modeling of ordered phases in the NiAl system

    I. Ansara;B. Sundman;P. Willemin

  • Thermodynamic assessment of the uranium–oxygen system

    C. Gueneau;M. Baichi;D. Labroche;C. Chatillon

  • Modification of the two-sublattice model for liquids

    Bo Sundman

  • A two-sublattice model for molten solutions with different tendency for ionization

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Mats Hillert
Mats Hillert Royal Institute of Technology
John Ågren
John Ågren Royal Institute of Technology
Yong Du
Yong Du Central South University
Ursula R. Kattner
Ursula R. Kattner National Institute of Standards and Technology
Surendra K. Saxena
Surendra K. Saxena Florida International University
Qing Chen
Qing Chen Peking University
Rainer Schmid-Fetzer
Rainer Schmid-Fetzer Clausthal University of Technology
Ikuo Ohnuma
Ikuo Ohnuma National Institute for Materials Science
Fritz Aldinger
Fritz Aldinger Max Planck Society
Natalia Dubrovinskaia
Natalia Dubrovinskaia University of Bayreuth

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