We briefly review the state-of-the-art in phase-field modeling of microstructure evolution. The
focus is placed on recent applications of phase-field simulations of solid-state microstructure …

* Introducing a unique method to study the atomic structure of nano-materials* Award
winning research. Takeshi Egami received the 2003 Eugene Bertram Warren Diffraction …

Strong electronic nanoscale disorder is present in all cuprate high-temperature
superconductors, interwoven with the microscopic mechanisms responsible for both the high …

A three-dimensional Landau theory of stress-induced martensitic phase transformations is
presented. It describes transformations between austenite and martensitic variants and …

This contribution begins with a discussion of the homogeneous Landau theory for bulk
ferroelectrics with spatially uniform polarizations, reviewing firstand second-order transitions …

The limit of elastic deformation in conventional metals and alloys is usually within 0.1%.
When deformed further, these materials show plastic deformation effects, which are a …

Analytical solutions for diffuse interface propagation are found for two recently developed
Landau potentials that account for the phenomenology of stress-induced martensitic phase …

In this paper, the three-dimensional Landau model of austenite-martensite transformations
constructed in Part I is generalized to include transformations between an arbitrary number …

We study the influence of elastic anisotropy on nanoscale precursor textures that exist in
some shape-memory alloys and show that tweed occurs in the limit of high elastic anisotropy …

We derive underdamped evolution equations for the order-parameter (OP) strains of a
proper ferroelastic material undergoing a structural transition, using Lagrangian variations …