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Papers

(The H4-Index of Acta Materialia is 76. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Acta Journals’ Outstanding Reviewers in 2020	298
Suppressing embrittlement and enhancing thermal resistance of bulk superlattice alloys by controllable grain-boundary segregation	267
Corrigendum to ‘In situ laser-ultrasonic monitoring of Poisson's ratio and bulk sound velocities of steel plates during thermal processes’ [Acta Materialia (2022) 118097]	232
Corrigendum to Emmanuel Clouet Articles	210
Restructuring of emergent grain boundaries at free surfaces – An interplay between core stabilization and elastic stress generation	199
Coarsening of metal/ceramics bicontinuous structures enhanced by stress-induced instability under cyclic thermal stress	195
Super-defects in superatomic crystals	195
Thermodynamics and Ferroelectric Properties of Pb1-xSrxTiO3 Solid Solutions	188
Architected materials informatics: Construction and application to cellular-structured heat sink optimization	181
Hydrogen-assisted spinodal decomposition in a TiNbZrHfTa complex concentrated alloy	168
Simultaneous dependent transformations nucleated at vertices and faces of 3D Poisson-Voronoi tessellations	168
Passivating oxidation behavior of Ti0.12Al0.21B0.67 coatings investigated by scanning transmission electron microscopy and chemical environment dependent density functional theory simulations	163
Solute clustering in polycrystals: Unveiling the interplay of grain boundary junction and long-range solute attraction effects	158
Effect of external stress on hydride reorientation in zirconium	157
Discovery of Guinier-Preston zone hardening in refractory nitride ceramics	150
Magnetic properties and microstructure of Sm5Fe17-based composite magnets	148
A spall and diffraction study of nanosecond pressure release across the iron ε-α phase boundary	148
Strong interfaces: the key to high strength in nano metallic laminates	139
Scalar permeability microstructure model considering crystallographic texture and grain size for magnetic evaluation of anisotropy in steel	138
Revealing the impact of acceptor dopant type on the electrical conductivity of sodium bismuth titanate	130
Ultrastrong and stress corrosion cracking-resistant martensitic steels	128
Brittle and ductile deformations in uniaxial compression of Si micropillars	128
Temperature-insensitive PMN-PZ-PT ferroelectric ceramics for actuator applications	125
Effect of CMAS infiltration on the optical properties of thermal barrier coatings: Study of the mechanisms supported by FDTD simulations and ALD	116
A data science approach for analysis and reconstruction of spinodal-like composition fields in irradiated FeCrAl alloys	115

The origin of graphite morphology in cast iron	114
Room temperature plasticity in amorphous SiO2 and amorphous Al	113
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Superhardness Induced by Grain Boundary Vertical Sliding in (001)-textured ZrB2	106
Microstructure evolution in ultra-high purity Fe-Cr alloys under low-PKA proton irradiation	105
Achieving superior lithium storage performances of CoMoO4 anode for lithium-ion batteries by Si-doping dual vacancies engineering	104
Bimodal structured chromium-tungsten composite as plasma-facing materials: Sinterability, mechanical properties, and deuterium retention assessment	102
Predicting path-dependent diffusion barrier spectra in vast compositional space of multi-principal element alloys via convolutional neural networks	102
Convective effects on columnar dendritic solidification – A multiscale dendritic needle network study	102
Ternary diagrams of phase, stability, and optical properties of cesium lead mixed-halide perovskites	101
Mechanical properties, failure mechanisms, and scaling laws of bicontinuous nanoporous metallic glasses	100
Extraction of reversible hydrogen trapped on prior austenite grain boundaries and promoting intergranular fracture in the elastic region of tempered martensitic steel by utilizing frozen-in hydrogen d	99
Uncovering deformation twins in intermetallic AuSn and Au5Sn	99
Formation and self-organisation of nano-porosity in swift heavy ion irradiated amorphous Ge	97
Kawin: An open source Kampmann–Wagner Numerical (KWN) phase precipitation and coarsening model	97
Ion kinetic energy- and ion flux-dependent mechanical properties and thermal stability of (Ti,Al)N thin films	96
Constrained sintering of alumina micro-ring films on stiff and compliant substrates: Constriction or dilation?	95
Formation and switching of chiral magnetic field textures in three-dimensional gyroid nanostructures	95
High-throughput microstructure and composition characterisation of microplatelet reinforced composites using directional reflectance microscopy	94
The effects of diffusional couplings on compositional trajectories and interfacial free energies during phase separation in a quaternary Ni-Al-Cr-Re model superalloy	93
Precipitate dissolution during deformation induced twin thickening in a CoNi-base superalloy subject to creep	93
Demonstration of Helide formation for fusion structural materials as natural lattice sinks for helium	92
Short-range order and its impacts on the BCC MoNbTaW multi-principal element alloy by the machine-learning potential	91
A phase field crystal model for real-time grain boundary formation and motion in complex concentration alloy	91
Chemical core-shell metastability-induced large ductility in medium-entropy maraging and reversion alloys	90
Deformation twin interactions with grain boundary particles in multi-phase magnesium alloys	85
Martensitic transformation during electrochemical polishing of metastable austenitic stainless steel	85
On microstructure development during laser melting and resolidification: An experimentally validated simulation study	85
Ultra-fine-grained and gradient FeCrAl alloys with outstanding work hardening capability	84
First-principles insights into complex interplays among nano-phases in an Al-Cu-Li-Zr alloy	84
In situ laser-ultrasonic monitoring of Poisson’s ratio and bulk sound velocities of steel plates during thermal processes	84
Revealing the mechanism of grain refinement and anti Si-poisoning induced by (Nb, Ti)B2 with a sandwich-like structure	84
Hydrogen concentration and hydrides in Zircaloy-4 during cyclic thermomechanical loading	83
Sudoku-inspired high-Shannon-entropy alloys	83
From irregular to regular eutectic growth in the Al-Al3Ni system: In situ observations during directional solidification	80
Bilayer period and ratio dependent structure and mechanical properties of TiN/MoN superlattices	80
Atomistic simulations of pipe diffusion in bcc transition metals	80
Defect accumulation in β-Ga2O3 implanted with Yb	80
Influence of substrate polarity on thermal stability, grain growth and atomic interface structure of Au thin films on ZnO surfaces	80
Substituting Ce with La and Nd in Al11Ce3: Effect on microstructure and mechanical properties	79
Intra-grain orientation distributions in deformed aluminium: Synchrotron X-ray diffraction experiment and crystal-plasticity finite-element simulation	79
Enhancing strengthening effect of topologically close-packed superlattices in medium-entropy alloys via enabling imperfect atomic packing	79
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Electronic effects on the radiation damage in high-entropy alloys	78
Solid solution softening and hardening in binary BCC alloys	78
Ni coarsening in Ni-yttria stabilized zirconia electrodes: Three-dimensional quantitative phase-field simulations supported by ex-situ ptychographic nano-tomography	77
Atomistically informed mesoscale modelling of deformation behavior of bulk metallic glasses	77
Solid solution and precipitation strengthening effects in basal slip, extension twinning and pyramidal slip in Mg-Zn alloys	77
The Effect of Grain Boundary Facet Junctions on Segregation and Embrittlement	77
Phase-field modelling of anisotropic solid-state dewetting on patterned substrates	76

Grain boundaries modification of the spinel LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 ceramic cathode towards low interfacial resistance for lithium-ion batteries with ultrahigh areal energy density	76
Effect of thermal ageing on the deformation behaviour of ferrite and austenite in a duplex stainless steel: Micropillar characterisation and dislocation density modelling	76