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Walter Steurer

Walter Steurer

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Materials Science

D-Index
42
Citations
8824
World Ranking
12503
National Ranking
166

Overview

Walter Steurer is a researcher affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland, with a portfolio focused primarily on materials science and engineering disciplines. Their contributions span several key subfields including materials chemistry, mechanical engineering, and geochemistry and petrology.

Their research centers around topics such as quasicrystal structures and properties, mineralogy and gemology studies, and high entropy alloys. Additional areas of focus include high-temperature coating behaviors, intermetallics and advanced alloy properties, advanced materials and composites, and the use of X-ray diffraction in crystallography.

Steurer's publication record includes papers in several notable academic venues. These include multiple publications in Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, as well as contributions to Materials Characterization, Materials Science and Engineering A, Nature Communications, and Cell Reports Physical Science.

Key recent papers by Steurer are:

  • Single-phase high-entropy alloys - A critical update (2020), Materials Characterization
  • Gummelt versus Lück decagon covering and beyond. Implications for decagonal quasicrystals (2020), Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Steurer include Zhanbing He, Haikun Ma, Tiantian Zhang, Yanguo Wang, and Xiuliang Ma.

Steurer's work navigates intersecting disciplines such as materials science, engineering, and earth and planetary sciences, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach. Their research topics demonstrate a balanced engagement with theoretical aspects of crystallography as well as applied material properties relevant to advanced alloy systems and quasicrystalline order.

Best Publications

  • Transition Metal Borides: Superhard versus Ultra-incompressible†

    Qinfen Gu;Günter Krauss;Walter Steurer

  • Size-dependent plasticity in an Nb25Mo25Ta25W25 refractory high-entropy alloy

    Yu Zou;Soumyadipta Maiti;Walter Steurer;Ralph Spolenak

  • Discovery of a superconducting high-entropy alloy.

    P. Koželj;S. Vrtnik;A. Jelen;S. Jazbec

  • Twenty years of structure research on quasicrystals. Part I. Pentagonal, octagonal, decagonal and dodecagonal quasicrystals

    Walter Steurer

  • Photonic and phononic quasicrystals

    Walter Steurer;Daniel Sutter-Widmer

  • Crystallography of Quasicrystals: Concepts, Methods and Structures

    Walter Steurer;Sofia Deloudi

  • Structural-disorder and its effect on mechanical properties in single-phase TaNbHfZr high-entropy alloy

    Soumyadipta Maiti;Walter Steurer

  • Structure of Nanocrystalline TiO2 Powders and Precursor to Their Highly Efficient Photosensitizer

    V. Shklover;M.-K. Nazeeruddin;S. M. Zakeeruddin;C. Barbe

  • Colloidal quasicrystals with 12-fold and 18-fold diffraction symmetry

    Steffen Fischer;Alexander Exner;Kathrin Zielske;Jan Perlich

  • The structure of decagonal Al70Ni15Co15

    W. Steurer;T. Haibach;B. Zhang;S. Kek

  • Phase Evolution in Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Thermal Barrier Coatings Studied by Rietveld Refinement of X-Ray Powder Diffraction Patterns

    Grégoire Witz;Valery Shklover;Walter Steurer;Sharath Bachegowda

  • Five-dimensional structure analysis of decagonal Al65Cu20Co15

    W. Steurer;K. H. Kuo

  • Single-phase high-entropy alloys – A critical update

    Walter Steurer

  • Single-phase high-entropy alloys - an overview

    Roksolana Kozak;Alla Sologubenko;Walter Steurer

  • The Structure of Quasicrystals

    Walter Steurer

  • The Samson phase, β-Mg2Al3, revisited

    Michael Feuerbacher;Carsten Thomas;Julien P.A. Makongo;Stefan Hoffmann

  • Superconductivity in thermally annealed Ta-Nb-Hf-Zr-Ti high-entropy alloys

    S. Vrtnik;P. Koželj;A. Meden;S. Maiti

  • The structure of quasicrystals

    Walter Steurer

  • Unexpected high stiffness of Ag and Au nanoparticles.

    Q. F. Gu;G. Krauss;W. Steurer;F. Gramm

  • Hybrid Monte Carlo/Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a Refractory Metal High Entropy Alloy

    Michael Widom;William Paul Huhn;S. Maiti;W. Steurer

  • Quasicrystals: What do we know? What do we want to know? What can we know?

    Walter Steurer

  • Structure solution of the basic decagonal Al-Co-Ni phase by the atomic surfaces modelling method.

    Antonio Cervellino;Torsten Haibach;Walter Steurer

  • Fracture properties of a refractory high-entropy alloy: In situ micro-cantilever and atom probe tomography studies

    Y. Zou;Y. Zou;P. Okle;H. Yu;H. Yu;T. Sumigawa

  • Structural-disorder and its effect on the mechanical properties in single-phase TaNbHfZr high-entropy alloys

    Soumyadipta Maiti;Walter Steurer

Frequent Co-Authors

Qinfen Gu
Qinfen Gu Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
Ralph Spolenak
Ralph Spolenak ETH Zurich
Oliver Gröning
Oliver Gröning Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Takayuki Kitamura
Takayuki Kitamura Osaka University
Artem R. Oganov
Artem R. Oganov Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Thomas A. Lograsso
Thomas A. Lograsso Ames Laboratory
Xiuliang Ma
Xiuliang Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences
Patricia A. Thiel
Patricia A. Thiel Iowa State University
Marc Heggen
Marc Heggen Forschungszentrum Jülich
Michael Grätzel
Michael Grätzel École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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