I am honored to have contributed to practically "taking care of the #thermodynamic #limit". Indeed, one of the best pastas I have ever eaten, in one of the best atmospheres ever (the glorious WG of Bautzi 27 in Dresden).

Extremely well-deserved for a team of brilliant young scientists and wonderful people, including some true #friends. I’m sure there’s much more to come from them. Keep an eye out!

Phase field #numerical #simulations well reproduces key features from #Molecular #Dynamics simulations and experimental GB velocity–curvature distributions.

To show this point, we extended a shear-coupled interface migration model www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) to full microstructures with the aid of a #multi-phase-field approach.

Grain growth is typically modeled as driven by GB energy reduction, but recent #simulations and #experiments show this is overly simplistic, even when accounting for anisotropies in mobility and GB energy. Shear-coupled GB migration allow for reconciling recent evidence.

We discuss the key role of shear deformation accompanying grain boundary (GB) migration (shear coupling) in driving #microstructure #evolution (grain growth) in single-component #polycrystals.

Many thanks for all your support @humboldt-foundation.de!

#Multiscale #frameworks for simulating material properties typically couple different methods or use #coarse-graining to bridge scales efficiently. Here, we blended both approaches, solving phase field crystal eqs. at defects and interfaces 🔍 while solving its coarse-grained formulation elsewhere 🌐

P.S. Having attended the first edition as a student, I can say it was a truly transformative experience. I'm looking forward to join it as a lecturer this time!

This summer school offers: (1) Reviews of the fundamentals of phase-field modeling; (2) Applications across diverse fields (e.g. microstructure evolution, multi-phase flow, fracture, soft matter, and biophysics); (3) An inspiring academic environment in a historic alpine setting.

Great collaboration between friends and colleagues at
@tudresden.bsky.social , University of Oslo and @oaklandu.bsky.social !

Thanks to this approach, we uncovered how small-angle grain boundaries fundamentally differ from their classical crystalline counterparts.

Importantly, we obtain direct access to defects! see the GIF above -- classical density-wave representation (left) and our mesoscale description (right).