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Paul F. Becher is affiliated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans medicine and agricultural and biological sciences with a focus on several subfields, including agronomy and crop science, infectious diseases, epidemiology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and animal science and zoology.

Their scientific contributions include studies in animal disease management and epidemiology, vector-borne animal diseases, animal virus infections, viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, viral infections and immunology research, respiratory viral infections research, and influenza virus research studies.

Notable recent publications by Paul F. Becher include:

  • Classical swine fever virus: the past, present and future (2020), Virus Research
  • Infections with highly pathogenic avian influenza A virus (HPAIV) H5N8 in harbor seals at the German North Sea coast, 2021 (2022), Emerging Microbes & Infections
  • Proposed Update to the Taxonomy of Pestiviruses: Eight Additional Species within the Genus Pestivirus, Family Flaviviridae (2021), Viruses
  • Disease control tools to secure animal and public health in a densely populated world (2022), The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Blast injury on harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) from the Baltic Sea after explosions of deposits of World War II ammunition (2021), Environment International

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Paul F. Becher include Alexander Postel, Denise Meyer, Ursula Siebert, Christine Baechlein, and Ang Su.

The scientist regularly publishes in venues such as Emerging Microbes & Infections, Viruses, Microbiology Spectrum, Tierärztliche Praxis Ausgabe K Kleintiere / Heimtiere, and Virus Research.

Best Publications

  • Microstructural design of toughened ceramics

    Paul F. Becher

  • Toughening Behavior in Whisker-Reinforced Ceramic Matrix Composites

    Paul F. Becher;Chun-Hway Hsueh;Peter Angelini;Terry N. Tiegs

  • Microstructural Design of Silicon Nitride with Improved Fracture Toughness: I, Effects of Grain Shape and Size

    Paul F. Becher;Ellen Y. Sun;Kevin P. Plucknett;Kathleen B. Alexander

  • Toughening Behavior in Sic-Whisker-Reinforced Alumina

    Paul F. Becher;George C. Wei

  • Nanoscale effects on the ionic conductivity in highly textured YSZ thin films

    Igor Kosacki;Christopher M. Rouleau;Paul F. Becher;James Bentley

  • Microstructural design of silicon nitride with improved fracture toughness: II. Effects of yttria and alumina additives

    Ellen Y. Sun;Paul F. Becher;Kevin P. Plucknett;Chun-Hway Hsueh

  • Observation of rare-earth segregation in silicon nitride ceramics at subnanometre dimensions

    Naoya Shibata;Stephen J. Pennycook;Tim R. Gosnell;Gayle S. Painter

  • Effect of oxygen contamination on densification of TiB2

    Sunggi Baik;Paul F. Becher

  • Improvements in mechanical properties in SiC by the addition of TiC particles

    G.C. Wei;P.F. Becher

  • Grain-Size-Dependent Transformation Behavior in Polycrystalline Tetragonal Zirconia

    Paul F. Becher;Michael V. Swain

  • Grain‐Size Dependence of Fracture Energy in Ceramics: I, Experiment

    R. W. Rice;S. W. Freiman;P. F. Becher

  • Grain Growth Kinetics in Alumina–Zirconia (CeZTA) Composites

    Kathleen B. Alexander;Paul F. Becher;Shirley B. Waters;Alan Bleier

  • Effect of Microstructure on the Properties of TiB2 Ceramics

    Matt K. Ferber;Paul F. Becher;Cabell B. Finch

  • Toughening Behavior Involving Multiple Mechanisms: Whisker Reinforcement and Zirconia Toughening

    P. F. Becher;T. N. Tiegs

  • Effects of Rare-Earth (RE) Intergranular Adsorption on the Phase Transformation, Microstructure Evolution, and Mechanical Properties in Silicon Nitride with RE2O3+MgO Additives: RE=La, Gd, and Lu

    Paul F. Becher;Gayle S. Painter;Naoya Shibata;Shirley B. Waters

  • Compositional Effects on the Properties of Si-Al-RE-Based Oxynitride Glasses (RE = La, Nd, Gd, Y, or Lu)

    Paul F. Becher;Shirley B. Waters;C. Gary Westmoreland;Laura Riester

  • Debonding of interfaces between beta-silicon nitride whiskers and SiAlY oxynitride glasses

    P.F. Becher;E.Y. Sun;Chun-Hway Hsueh;K.B. Alexander

  • Influence of ZrO2 Grain Size and Content on the Transformation Response in the Al2O3─ZrO2 (12 mol% CeO2) System

    Paul F. Becher;Kathleen B. Alexander;Alan Bleier;Shirley B. Waters

  • Ceramic composites with a ductile Ni3Al binder phase

    T.N. Tiegs;K.B. Alexander;K.P. Plucknett;P.A. Menchhofer

  • Effects of Interface Roughness on Residual Stresses in Thermal Barrier Coatings

    Chun-Hway Hsueh;James A. Haynes;Michael J. Lance;Michael J. Lance;Paul F. Becher

Frequent Co-Authors

Chun-Hway Hsueh
Chun-Hway Hsueh National Taiwan University
Michael J. Hoffmann
Michael J. Hoffmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Naoya Shibata
Naoya Shibata University of Tokyo
Stephen J. Pennycook
Stephen J. Pennycook University of Tennessee at Knoxville
George M. Pharr
George M. Pharr Texas A&M University
Hongbin Bei
Hongbin Bei Zhejiang University
Xun-Li Wang
Xun-Li Wang City University of Hong Kong
C.T. Liu
C.T. Liu City University of Hong Kong
Christopher M. Rouleau
Christopher M. Rouleau Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Albina Y. Borisevich
Albina Y. Borisevich Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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