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Lorenzo Malerba is affiliated with the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain. Their research focuses primarily on materials science and engineering, with notable contributions in materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, aerospace engineering, metals and alloys, and computational mechanics. The scientist's work centers around the study of nuclear materials and their behaviors under various conditions, spanning fusion materials and technologies, nuclear materials and properties, and nuclear reactor physics and engineering.

Their recent publications include:

  • The dominant mechanisms for the formation of solute-rich clusters in low-Cu steels under irradiation, 2020, Materials Today Energy
  • Materials for Sustainable Nuclear Energy: A European Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda for All Reactor Generations, 2022, Energies
  • Nano-hardening features in high-dose neutron irradiated Eurofer97 revealed by atom-probe tomography, 2020, Journal of Nuclear Materials
  • Multiscale modelling for fusion and fission materials: The M4F project, 2021, Nuclear Materials and Energy
  • Physical mechanisms and parameters for models of microstructure evolution under irradiation in Fe alloys - Part I: Pure Fe, 2021, Nuclear Materials and Energy

Lorenzo Malerba frequently collaborates with several researchers, including G. Bonny, M.J. Konstantinović, N. Castin, N. Anento, and F. Bergner. These co-authors have appeared multiple times in partnership across various studies, reflecting ongoing cooperation in advancing research in nuclear materials.

The scientist has published extensively in journals dedicated to nuclear materials, with prominent venues including:

  • Journal of Nuclear Materials
  • Nuclear Materials and Energy
  • EPJ Nuclear Sciences & Technologies
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Materials Today Energy

Their main fields of study span Materials Science and Engineering, with a specialization in subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Metals and Alloys, and Computational Mechanics. Major topics of their research include:

  • Fusion materials and technologies
  • Nuclear Materials and Properties
  • Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques
  • Nuclear reactor physics and engineering
  • Graphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies
  • Hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals
  • Ion-surface interactions and analysis

Best Publications

  • Primary radiation damage: A review of current understanding and models

    Kai Nordlund;Steven J. Zinkle;Steven J. Zinkle;Andrea E. Sand;Fredric Granberg

  • Simulation of radiation damage in Fe alloys: an object kinetic Monte Carlo approach

    C. Domain;C.S. Becquart;L. Malerba

  • Improving atomic displacement and replacement calculations with physically realistic damage models

    Kai Nordlund;Steven J. Zinkle;Steven J. Zinkle;Andrea E. Sand;Fredric Granberg

  • Ternary Fe-Cu-Ni many-body potential to model reactor pressure vessel steels: First validation by simulated thermal annealing

    Giovanni Bonny;Roberto C Pasianot;Nicolas Castin;Lorenzo Malerba

  • Comparison of empirical interatomic potentials for iron applied to radiation damage studies

    L. Malerba;M. C. Marinica;N. Anento;C. Björkas

  • Two-band modeling of α -prime phase formation in Fe-Cr

    Pär Olsson;Janne Wallenius;Janne Wallenius;Christophe Domain;Kai Nordlund

  • Characterization of neutron-irradiated ferritic model alloys and a RPV steel from combined APT, SANS, TEM and PAS analyses

    E. Meslin;M. Lambrecht;M. Hernández-Mayoral;F. Bergner

  • Molecular dynamics simulation of displacement cascades in α-Fe: A critical review

    L. Malerba

  • Molecular dynamics simulations of threshold displacement energies in Fe

    K. Nordlund;Janne Wallenius;Janne Wallenius;L. Malerba

  • On the α–α′ miscibility gap of Fe–Cr alloys

    Giovanni Bonny;D Terentyev;L Malerba

  • Fe?Ni many-body potential for metallurgical applications

    Giovanni Bonny;Roberto Pasianot;Lorenzo Malerba

  • Multiscale modelling of radiation damage and phase transformations: The challenge of FeCr alloys

    Lorenzo Malerba;Alfredo Caro;Janne Wallenius

  • Dimensionality of interstitial cluster motion in bcc-Fe

    D. Terentyev;Lorenzo Malerba;Marc Hou

  • Displacement cascades in Fe–Cr: A molecular dynamics study

    Dimitri Terentyev;Lorenzo Malerba;Rumjana Chakarova;Kai Nordlund

  • On the correlation between irradiation-induced microstructural features and the hardening of reactor pressure vessel steels

    M. Lambrecht;E. Meslin;L. Malerba;M. Hernández-Mayoral

  • Application of a three-feature dispersed-barrier hardening model to neutron-irradiated Fe–Cr model alloys

    F. Bergner;C. Pareige;M. Hernández-Mayoral;L. Malerba

  • Iron chromium potential to model high-chromium ferritic alloys

    Giovanni Bonny;Roberto C Pasianot;Dmitry Terentyev;Lorenzo Malerba

  • Self-trapped interstitial-type defects in iron.

    D. A. Terentyev;T. P. C. Klaver;Pär Olsson;M. C. Marinica

  • Object kinetic Monte Carlo study of sink strengths

    Lorenzo Malerba;Charlotte S. Becquart;Christophe Domain

  • Strengthening due to coherent Cr precipitates in Fe-Cr alloys: Atomistic simulations and theoretical models

    Da Terentyev;Giovanni Bonny;L Malerba

  • Interatomic potentials consistent with thermodynamics: The Fe–Cu system

    R.C. Pasianot;L. Malerba

Frequent Co-Authors

Charlotte Becquart
Charlotte Becquart University of Lille
Christophe Domain
Christophe Domain Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Kai Nordlund
Kai Nordlund University of Helsinki
Francois Willaime
Francois Willaime University of Paris-Saclay
Roger E. Stoller
Roger E. Stoller Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Sergei L. Dudarev
Sergei L. Dudarev Culham Centre for Fusion Energy
Roumen Petrov
Roumen Petrov Ghent University
Jilt Sietsma
Jilt Sietsma Delft University of Technology
William J. Weber
William J. Weber University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Steven J. Zinkle
Steven J. Zinkle University of Tennessee at Knoxville

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