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  • 2013 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Engineering Sciences

Overview

Dierk Raabe is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields including engineering and materials science, with particular emphasis on mechanical engineering, materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, aerospace engineering, and metals and alloys.

Their work addresses several key topics within materials science and engineering:

  • Microstructure and mechanical properties
  • High entropy alloys studies
  • Microstructure and mechanical properties of steels
  • Hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals
  • Advanced materials characterization techniques
  • Iron and steelmaking processes
  • High-temperature coating behaviors

Several frequent co-authors collaborate with Raabe, including:

  • Baptiste Gault (79 publications)
  • Dirk Ponge (59 publications)
  • Jaber Rezaei Mianroodi (33 publications)
  • Zhiming Li (29 publications)
  • Isnaldi Rodrigues de Souza Filho (29 publications)

Their research has been published extensively in prominent scientific venues. Among the top frequent publication outlets are:

  • Acta Materialia (43 publications)
  • Nature Communications (25 publications)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (17 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (12 publications)
  • Nature (8 publications)

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Hierarchical crack buffering triples ductility in eutectic herringbone high-entropy alloys," 2021, Science
  • "Machine learning-enabled high-entropy alloy discovery," 2022, Science
  • "Making sustainable aluminum by recycling scrap: The science of "dirty" alloys," 2022, Progress in Materials Science
  • "High-strength Damascus steel by additive manufacturing," 2020, Nature
  • "The Materials Science behind Sustainable Metals and Alloys," 2023, Chemical Reviews

Raabe's research contributions have received notable recognition, including selection as a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften in 2013 within the field of engineering sciences.

Best Publications

  • High-entropy alloys

    Easo P. George;Easo P. George;Dierk Raabe;Robert O. Ritchie;Robert O. Ritchie

  • Metastable high-entropy dual-phase alloys overcome the strength–ductility trade-off

    Zhiming Li;Konda Gokuldoss Pradeep;Yun Deng;Dierk Raabe

  • Overview of constitutive laws, kinematics, homogenization and multiscale methods in crystal plasticity finite-element modeling: Theory, experiments, applications

    Franz Roters;Philip Eisenlohr;Luc Hantcherli;Denny Dharmawan Tjahjanto

  • Orientation gradients and geometrically necessary dislocations in ultrafine grained dual-phase steels studied by 2D and 3D EBSD

    Marion Calcagnotto;Dirk Ponge;Eralp Demir;Dierk Raabe

  • Enhanced strength and ductility in a high-entropy alloy via ordered oxygen complexes

    Zhifeng Lei;Xiongjun Liu;Yuan Wu;Hui Wang

  • Ultrastrong steel via minimal lattice misfit and high-density nanoprecipitation

    Suihe Jiang;Hui Wang;Yuan Wu;Xiongjun Liu

  • Steels in additive manufacturing: A review of their microstructure and properties

    Priyanshu Bajaj;Avinash Hariharan;Anoop Kini;Philipp Kürnsteiner

  • Dislocation and twin substructure evolution during strain hardening of an Fe-22 wt.% Mn-0.6 wt.% C TWIP steel observed by electron channeling contrast imaging

    I. Gutierrez-Urrutia;D. Raabe

  • Decomposition of the single-phase high-entropy alloy CrMnFeCoNi after prolonged anneals at intermediate temperatures

    Frederik Otto;Antonín Dlouhý;Konda Gokuldoss Pradeep;Monika Kuběnová

  • Design of a twinning-induced plasticity high entropy alloy

    Yun Deng;Yun Deng;Cemal Cem Tasan;Konda Gokuldoss Pradeep;Konda Gokuldoss Pradeep;Hauke Springer

  • Deformation and fracture mechanisms in fine- and ultrafine-grained ferrite/martensite dual-phase steels and the effect of aging

    Marion Calcagnotto;Yoshitaka Adachi;Dirk Ponge;Dierk Raabe

  • DAMASK – The Düsseldorf Advanced Material Simulation Kit for modeling multi-physics crystal plasticity, thermal, and damage phenomena from the single crystal up to the component scale

    F. Roters;M. Diehl;P. Shanthraj;P. Shanthraj;P. Eisenlohr

  • The effect of grain size and grain orientation on deformation twinning in a Fe-22 wt.% Mn-0.6 wt.% C TWIP steel

    I. Gutierrez-Urrutia;S. Zaefferer;D. Raabe

  • A TRIP-assisted dual-phase high-entropy alloy: Grain size and phase fraction effects on deformation behavior

    Zhiming Li;Cemal Cem Tasan;Konda Gokuldoss Pradeep;Konda Gokuldoss Pradeep;Dierk Raabe

  • Corrosion behavior of an equiatomic CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloy compared with 304 stainless steel in sulfuric acid solution

    Hong Luo;Zhiming Li;Andrea Maria Mingers;Dierk Raabe

  • Grain boundary segregation engineering in metallic alloys: A pathway to the design of interfaces

    Dierk Raabe;Michael Herbig;Stefanie Sandlöbes;Yujiao Li

  • Overview of processing, microstructure and mechanical properties of ultrafine grained bcc steels

    R. Song;D. Ponge;D. Raabe;J. G. Speer

  • A novel, single phase, non-equiatomic FeMnNiCoCr high-entropy alloy with exceptional phase stability and tensile ductility

    Mengji Yao;Konda Gokuldoss Pradeep;Cemal Cem Tasan;Dierk Raabe

  • An Overview of Dual-Phase Steels: Advances in Microstructure-Oriented Processing and Micromechanically Guided Design

    Cemal Cem Tasan;Martin Diehl;Dingshun Yan;Marion Bechtold

  • The crustacean exoskeleton as an example of a structurally and mechanically graded biological nanocomposite material

    D. Raabe;C. Sachs;P. Romano

  • The relation between ductility and stacking fault energies in Mg and Mg–Y alloys

    S. Sandlöbes;M. Friák;S. Zaefferer;A. Dick

Frequent Co-Authors

Baptiste Gault
Baptiste Gault Max Planck Institute for Iron Research
Dirk Ponge
Dirk Ponge Max Planck Society
Franz Roters
Franz Roters Max Planck Institute for Iron Research
Pyuck-Pa Choi
Pyuck-Pa Choi Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Stefan Zaefferer
Stefan Zaefferer Max Planck Society
Jörg Neugebauer
Jörg Neugebauer Max Planck Institute for Iron Research
Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin
Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin University of Freiburg
Zhiming Li
Zhiming Li Central South University
Aleksander Kostka
Aleksander Kostka Ruhr University Bochum

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