Alan Lindsay GreerPrincipal Investigator, Ph.D.
| Job | Principal Investigator,AIMR Professor of Materials Science and Head of Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge Fellow of Sidney Sussex College,Cambridge |
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| Group | Bulk Metallic Glasses Group |
| Laboratory | Alan Lindsay Greer Laboratory |
| Address | Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy,University of Cambridge Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, UK |
| Tel | +44-1223-334308(UK) |
| alg13@cam.ac.uk | |
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Research Interests
- Production and mechanical properties of bulk metallic glasses
- Chalcogenide phase-change materials for computer memory
- Nucleation (particularly heterogeneous) in condensed systems
- Electromigration effects on metallic interdiffusion
Main Publication List
- Making metallic glasses plastic by control of residual stress, Nature Materials 5 (2006) 857-860; Y. Zhang, W. H. Wang and A. L. Greer
- Materials science: A cloak of liquidity, Nature 464 (2010) 1137-1138;A. L. Greer
- Damage tolerance at a price, Nature Materials 10 (2011) 88-89; A. L.Greer.
- Poisson’s ratio and modern materials, Nature Materials 10 (2011) 823-837; G. N. Greaves, A. L. Greer, R. S. Lakes and T. Rouxel
- Characterization of supercooled liquid Ge2Sb2Te5 and its crystallization by ultra-fast-heating calorimetry, Nature Materials 11 (2012) 279-283;J. Orava, A. L. Greer, B. Gholipour, D. W. Hewak and C. E. Smith
Award
- Honda Kotaro Medal of Tohoku University (2004)
- The Lee Hsun Lecture Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2008)
- Griffith Medal and Prize of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (UK) (2009)
- Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (2010)
- Bruce Chalmers Award of TMS (USA) (2012)
Related Information
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