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20549
World Ranking
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National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1999 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 1998 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)

Overview

Brian Cantor is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and specializes in engineering, with a focus on mechanical and aerospace engineering. Their research extensively covers several subfields including materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, and electrical and electronic engineering. The core topics of their work involve high entropy alloys studies, high-temperature coating behaviors, and aluminum alloys composites and microstructure properties.

Significant topics in Brian Cantor's research include:

  • High Entropy Alloys Studies
  • High-Temperature Coating Behaviors
  • Aluminum Alloys Composites Properties
  • Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties
  • Microstructure and mechanical properties
  • Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes
  • Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques

Brian Cantor has published primarily in venues such as Progress in Materials Science and High Entropy Alloys & Materials, with additional publications appearing in Scripta Materialia, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, and Metals.

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Progress in Materials Science
  • High Entropy Alloys & Materials
  • Scripta Materialia
  • Journal of Alloys and Compounds
  • Metals

Their collaboration network features researchers including Changming Fang, I.T.H. Chang, Qing Cai, C.L. Mendis, and Ewan Lordan.

Frequent co-authors are:

  • Changming Fang
  • I.T.H. Chang
  • Qing Cai
  • C.L. Mendis
  • Ewan Lordan

Notable recent papers published by Brian Cantor consist of:

  • Multicomponent high-entropy Cantor alloys, 2020, Progress in Materials Science
  • Local Nanostructure in Multicomponent High-Entropy Materials, 2024, High Entropy Alloys & Materials

Other papers associated with the research group or frequent collaborators include:

  • A novel Al-Si-Ni-Fe near-eutectic alloy for elevated temperature applications, 2023, Scripta Materialia
  • Thermal behaviour and microstructure evolution of new ternary eutectic alloy in Al-Cu-Si-Ni system, 2023, Journal of Alloys and Compounds
  • Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Ultrafine Quaternary Al-Cu-Si-Mg Eutectic Alloy, 2021, Metals

Throughout their career, Brian Cantor has been recognized by prestigious institutions, becoming a Member of Academia Europaea in 1999 and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) in 1998.

Best Publications

  • Microstructural development in equiatomic multicomponent alloys

    B. Cantor;B. Cantor;I.T.H. Chang;I.T.H. Chang;P. Knight;P. Knight;A.J.B. Vincent;A.J.B. Vincent

  • Stability of microstructure in metallic systems

    J. W. Martin;R. D. Doherty;B. Cantor

  • Multicomponent high-entropy Cantor alloys

    B. Cantor;B. Cantor

  • Multicomponent and High Entropy Alloys

    Brian Cantor

  • Intermetallic phase selection in 1XXX Al alloys

    C.M. Allen;K.A.Q. O'Reilly;B. Cantor;P.V. Evans

  • Modelling of droplet dynamic and thermal histories during spray forming—I. individual droplet behaviour

    P.S. Grant;B. Cantor;L. Katgerman

  • Heterogeneous nucleation of solidification of Si IN Al-Si and Al-Si-P alloys

    C.R. Ho;B. Cantor

  • Characterization of Reinforcement Distribution in Cast Al-Alloy/SiCp Composites

    P.A. Karnezis;G. Durrant;B. Cantor

  • The kinetics and mechanism of interfacial reaction in sigma fibre-reinforced Ti MMCs

    Z. Fan;Z.X. Guo;B. Cantor

  • Solidification of Pb particles embedded in Al

    K.I. Moore;D.L. Zhang;B. Cantor

  • Isothermal grain coarsening of spray formed alloys in the semi-solid state

    E.D. Manson-Whitton;I.C. Stone;J.R. Jones;P.S. Grant

  • Melting behaviour of In and Pb particles embedded in an Al matrix

    D.L. Zhang;B. Cantor

  • Automotive Engineering : Lightweight, Functional, and Novel Materials

    Brian Cantor;Patrick Grant;Colin Johnston

  • Metastable alloy phases by co-sputtering

    B. Cantor;R.W. Cahn

  • Photocalorimetric cooling rate measurements on a Ni-5 wt% A1 alloy rapidly solidified by melt spinning

    A.G. Gillen;B. Cantor

  • Nanoquasicrystalline Al–Fe–Cr-based alloys. Part I: Phase transformations

    M. Galano;F. Audebert;F. Audebert;I.C. Stone;B. Cantor

  • Heterogeneous nucleation in solidifying alloys

    B. Cantor;R.D. Doherty

  • Dendritic solidification and fluid flow

    B. Cantor;A. Vogel

  • Nucleation of solidification in liquid droplets

    W. T. Kim;D. L. Zhang;B. Cantor

  • Growth related metastable phase selection in a 6xxx series wrought Al alloy

    Gang Sha;Keyna O’Reilly;Brian Cantor;John Worth

  • Free volume theories of the glass transition and the special case of metallic glasses

    P. Ramachandrarao;B. Cantor;R. W. Cahn

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick S. Grant
Patrick S. Grant University of Oxford
Ki Buem Kim
Ki Buem Kim Sejong University
Kamanio Chattopadhyay
Kamanio Chattopadhyay Indian Institute of Science
Fionn P.E. Dunne
Fionn P.E. Dunne Imperial College London
Peter J. Dobson
Peter J. Dobson University of Oxford
Mohammad Hossein Enayati
Mohammad Hossein Enayati Isfahan University of Technology
Jürgen Eckert
Jürgen Eckert University of Leoben
Gang Sha
Gang Sha Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Zhengxiao Guo
Zhengxiao Guo University of Hong Kong
Laurens Katgerman
Laurens Katgerman Delft University of Technology

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