We've got a new paper out in Advanced Engineering Materials on the internal damage mechanisms in syntactic metal foams. Shear band formation and pore collapse is traced by X-ray tomography under in-situ compression. Experiments done at beamline P21.2 at DESY.

The paper: doi.org/10.1002/adem...

pyPFC: A new paper accompanying the latest code release! Here is a possibility for anyone interested in Phase Field Crystal (PFC) modeling and who wants to run GPU-accelerated 3D PFC simulations in Python.
The Paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
The Code: pypi.org/project/pypfc/

🎖️ The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis!

The laureates used a series of experiments to demonstrate that the bizarre properties of the quantum world can be made concrete in a system big enough to be held in the hand.

www.kva.se/nobelphysics2025

🚨 The 4th edition of the Summer School on Phase-Field Models for the Evolution of Complex Structures will take place this year from September 15th to 26th in the picturesque village of Peyresq, southern France 🌄

For more details and to apply, visit: pmc.polytechnique.fr/~mp/PFschool...

Together with A. Menzel (TU Dortmund) and B. Appolaire (U. Lorraine), I am arranging the symposium “S17: Advanced modelling techniques: Mechanics of interfaces and phase transformations”, at EMMC20 next year. Abstract submission is open, so join with your contribution!
www.dicea.unifi.it/p865.html

A new paper, titled Phase Field Crystal Modeling of Grain Boundary Migration: Mobility, Energy and Structural Variability, was recently published in Acta Materialia: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...