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Publication Newsletter

March 2026

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Welcome to the March Publication Newsletter! This month’s edition highlights new research demonstrating how Thermo‑Calc tools are used across the materials community. You’ll find staff‑authored papers that support product development, along with user publications on topics such as additive manufacturing, sustainable metallurgy, and work involving steels, nickel alloys, and high‑entropy alloys.

We hope you find this selection useful for your research and development activities.

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Employee Publications

In this section, you will find papers authored or co‑authored by Thermo-Calc Software staff. These publications highlight how our researchers contribute to the broader scientific community while advancing our own products. Their work supports database development, validates our methodologies, extends Thermo‑Calc into emerging materials fields, and provides new examples and datasets that benefit our users.

 

A third-generation Calphad description of pure Nb

Felicia Larsson, Lorenzo Fenocchio, Qing Chen, Gabriele Cacciamani, and Malin Selleby

Calphad

 

Thermophysical Properties of Molten Salts: Insights from the TCSALT Database

Rui Zhang, Lina Kjellqvist, Huahai Mao, Andreas Markström, Reza Naraghi, and Qing Chen

International Journal of Thermophysics

Products Used: Molten Salts Databases

 

Processing and performance of HVAF-sprayed Fe-based bulk metallic glass coatings: A sustainable alternative

Rahul Jude Alroy, Stefan Björklund, David Linder, Savya Sachi, Vasanth Gopal, František Lukáč, Edouard Mignot, Radek Mušálek, and Shrikant Joshi

Materials & Design

 

Strengthening and deformation mechanisms in CoCrFeMnNi-based medium- and high-entropy alloys at room and cryogenic temperatures

David D.S. Silva, Francisco G. Coury, Levente Vitos, Wei Li, Shuo Huang, Norbert Schell, Paul Mason, Amy J. Clarke, Michael J. Kaufman, and Claudemiro Bolfarini 

Acta Materialia

 

On the rapid cooling cast solidification microstructures of Mg–Ca–Zn alloys

Yanheng Xie, Magnus Anderson, Claire Utton, Dikai Guan, Matthew Murphy, and Hector Basoalto

Journal of Materials Science

Products Used: Magnesium-based Alloys Databases, TQ Fortran

Sustainable Metallurgy

Low-waste, single-step, sustainable extraction of critical metals from deep-sea polymetallic nodules

Ubaid Manzoor, Thomas Lüttke, Dierk Raabe, and Isnaldi R. Souza Filho

Science Advances

Products Used: Metal Slag and Oxides Database

Additive Manufacturing

A combined experimental and numerical assessment of the role of microsegregation and phase formation on hot cracking susceptibility in laser powder bed fusion processed CM247LC

Philipp Stich, Markus Apel, Mustafa Megahed, Ludo Bautmans, Pere Barriobero Vila, Marcus Hans, Thomas Weirich E., Klaus Büßenschütt, Johannes Henrich Schleifenbaum, and Christian Haase

Journal of Materials Research and Technology

Products Used: Nickel-based Superalloys Databases, MICRESS

 

Microstructure and thermal stability of oxidized copper produced by electron beam powder bed fusion

Prithwish Tarafder, Justinas Palisaitis, Lingyin Meng, Jinghao Xu, Mohammadreza Jandaghi, and Johan Moverare

Journal of Materials Research and Technology

Products Used: Copper-based Alloys Databases, Additive Manufacturing Module

 

Liquid-state miscibility gap enabled crack suppression in functionally graded additively manufactured Ni-Cu alloy systems

Ali Zardoshtian, Mohsen K. Keshavarz, Ali Rezaei, Jakub Preis, Tatevik Minasyan, Somayeh Pasebani, Hamid Jahed, and Ehsan Toyserkani

Journal of Alloys and Compounds

Products Used: Copper-based Alloys Databases, Nickel-based Superalloys Databases

Solidification Microstructure Research

Multiscale understanding of microstructural evolution during directional solidification of magnetostrictive Tb-Dy-Fe alloys

Jiangping Xin, Siyuan Zhang, Jiheng Li, Xiaoqian Bao, and Xuexu Gao

Journal of Alloys and Compounds

Products Used: Permanent Magnetic Materials Database, Scheil Solidfication Calculator

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Nickel

Development of super-solidus heat treatments for the second-generation single-crystal Ni-based superalloy ERBO/1: Experiments and 1D kinetic simulations

Inmaculada López-Galilea and Sebastian Weber

Journal of Materials Research and Technology

Products Used: Nickel-based Superalloys Databases, Diffusion Module (DICTRA)

 

Investigation of Corrosion Behavior of Carbide Phase Strengthened Nickel-Based Alloy in Molten Fluoride Salt

Ryan Gordon, Kasturi Sasidhar, Ryan Thier, Rishi Pillai, Evan Willing, Adrien Couet, Jay Tiley, Steve Zinkle, and Kumar Sridharan

Materials and Corrosion

Products Used: Nickel-based Superalloys Databases

Steel

A 3-GPa ductile martensitic alloy enabled by interface complexes and dislocations

Rong Lv, Jia Li, Yunzhu Shi, Shuai Dai, Shuo Wang, Xinren Chen, Xiaoye Zhou, Fei Zhang, Meiyuan Jiao, Chao Ma, Alexander Schökel, Shaolou Wei, Yan Ma, Claudio Pistidda, Zhifeng Lei, and Zhaoping Lu

Nature Materials

Products Used: Steel and Fe-Alloys Databases

 

Solution annealing of PBF-LB manufactured 2507 super duplex stainless steel: a computational thermodynamics approach

Akash Dileep Gandhi, Magnus Neikter, Björn Axelsson, Sten Wessman, and Maria Asuncion Valiente Bermejo 

Welding in the World

Products Used: Steel and Fe-Alloys Databases

 

CALPHAD-based alloy design and strength prediction of high-performance steels under QLT processing

Wenhao Zhou, Xinyu Zhang, Ming Fan, Zhongwen Wu, Qing Peng, Haitao Zhao, Junheng Gao, Honghui Wu, Chaolei Zhang, and Shuize Wang

Journal of Materials Research and Technology

Products Used: Steel and Fe-Alloys Databases

Other Materials

Local Activity and Selectivity Hotspots in Cu-Pt Model Thin-Film Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction

Lewin V. Deville, Rico Zehl, Luca Saluta, Qingdian Liao, Peter M. Schneider, Tobias Piotrowiak, Benedikt Kohnen, Ellen Suhr, Alfred Ludwig, and Aliaksandr S. Bandarenka

Small Methods

Products Used: Noble Metal Alloys Databases

 

Novel WC-based cemented carbides with Fe-Cr-V binders with improved fracture toughness for neutron shielding applications

D. Müller, I. Konyashin, B. Ries, J. Pötschke, and A. Michaelis

International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials

Products Used: Cemented Carbides Database

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