Selected Publications

Selected Publications by Research Area

    Solidification dynamics and microstructures

  • I. Sargin, A. L. Genau, and R. E. Napolitano, Post-solidification effects in directionally grown Al-Ag2Al-Al2Cu eutectics, J. Phase Equilibrium and Diffusion, 37 (2016) 75-85.
  • R. E. Napolitano and Melis Serefoglu, “Control and interpretation of finite-size effects and initial morphology in directional solidification of a rod-type eutectic transparent metal-analog,” Journal of Metals 64 (2012) 68-75. DOI: 10.1007/s11837-011-0214-z.
  • Melis Serefoglu, R.E. Napolitano, Mathis Plapp, “Phase-field investigation of rod eutectic morphologies under geometrical confinement,” Physical Review E 84(1) (2011) 011614. URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.84.011614, [doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.84.011614].
  • Melis Serefoglu and R.E. Napolitano, “On the role of initial conditions in the selection of eutectic onset mechanisms in directional growth,” Acta Materialia 59 (2011) 1048-1057. [doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2010.10.035]
  • Melis Serefoglu and R.E. Napolitano, “On the selection of rod-type eutectic morphologies: Geometrical constraint and array orientation”, Acta Materialia 56 (2008) 3862-3873. [doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2008.02.050]
  • T. Hosch and R.E. Napolitano, “The effect of the flake-fiber transition in silicon morphology on the tensile properties of Al-Si eutectic alloys,” Mater. Sci. Eng. A 528 (2010) 226-232. [doi:10.10.1016/j.msea.2010.09.008]
  • T. Hosch, L.G. England, and R.E. Napolitano, Analysis of the high growth-rate transition in Al-Si eutectic solidification, J. Mat. Sci. 44 (2009) 4892-4899. [doi:10.1007/s10853-009-3747-6]
  • R.E. Napolitano and D.R. Black, “Array ordering in dendritic crystals and the influence on crystal perfection”, J. Mat. Science 39 (2004) 1-9.

    • Crystal-melt interfaces and mechanisms

  • R.E. Napolitano and S. Liu, “Three-dimensional crystal-melt Wulff-shape and interfacial stiffness in the Al-Sn binary system”, Phys. Rev. B 70 (2004) 2141031.
  • R.E. Napolitano, H. Meco, C. Jung, “Faceted solidification morphologies in Al-Si eutectics at low growth rates”, J. Metals 56(4) (2004) 16-21.
  • R.E. Napolitano, S. Liu, and R. Trivedi, “Experimental measurement of anisotropy in crystal-melt interfacial energy”, Interface Science 10 (2002) 217-232.
  • M.J. Kramer, M.I. Mendelev and R.E. Napolitano, “In situ observation of antisite defect formation during crystal growth,” Physical Review Letters, 105 (2010) 245501 (2010). [doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.245501].

    • Alloy thermodynamics and phase transformations

  • R. E. Napolitano, S.H. Zhou, X. Yang, F.Q. Meng; Experimental determination of the allotropic transition temperature between tetragonal and orthorhombic Al4Sm metastable phases, Met. Mat. Trans. A, 50 (2019) 1130-1136.
  • Ye. Z, Zhang, F., Sun, Y., Nguyen, M.C., Zhou, S.H., Zhou, L., Meng, F., Ott, R.T. Park, E. Besser, M.F., Kramer, M.J., Ding, Z.J., Mendelev, M.I., Wang, C.Z., Napolitano, R.E., Ho. K.M., Structural hierarchy as a key to complex phase selection in Al-Sm, Phys. Rev. Materials 1 (2017) 055601
  • Zhou, Shihuai; Tackes, Carl; Napolitano, Ralph; Enthalpy of mixing in Al-Tb liquid, Entropy, 19 (6), (2017) 290. DOI: 10.3390/e19060290.
  • S.H. Zhou, Y. Huo, and Ralph E. Napolitano, Phase stability for the Pd-Si system: First principles, experiments, and solution-based modeling, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 47A (2016) 194-208. DOI: 10.1007/s11661-015-3206-8.
  • S. H. Zhou and R. E. Napolitano, Energetics of nonequilibrium solidification in Al-Sm, Phys. Rev. B 78 (2008) 184111. [doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.184111]

    • Amorphous alloys and devitrification processes

  • L. Zhou, F.Q. Meng, S.H. Zhou, K.W. Sun, T. Kim, R. Ott, R. E. Napolitano, M.J. Kramer, An abnormal metastable nanoscale eutectic reaction revealed by in-situ observation, Acta Materialia, 164 (2019) 697-703.
  • Ilkay Kalay, Matthew J. Kramer, Ralph E. Napolitano; Crystallization kinetics and phase transformation mechanisms in Cu56Z44 glassy alloy, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, 46A (2015) 3356-3364. DOI: 10.1007/s11661-015-2921-5.
  • T. Wang, F. Zhang, L. Yang, X.W. Fang, S.H. Zhou, M.J. Kramer, C.Z. Wang, K.M. Ho, R. E. Napolitano; A computational study of diffusion in a glass-forming metallic liquid, Scientific Reports, 5:10956 (2015) 1-9. DOI:10.1038/srep10956.
  • Wang T. and Napolitano R. E., “A phase-field model for phase transformations in glass-forming alloys”, Metall. Mater. Trans. A 43A (2012) 2662-2668. DOI 10.1007/s11661-012-1136-2.

    • Novel materials, processes, and methods

  • Ravi Tutika, S.H. Zhou, R.E. Napolitano, M.D. Bartlett, Mechanical and functional tradeoffs in multiphase liquid metal, solid particle soft composites, Adv. Functional Materials (2018) 1804336, pp. 1-13.
  • Tao Wang, T.E. Cullinan, R.E. Napolitano, A new method for measuring the thermodynamic properties of undercooled liquid and amorphous Cu-Zr alloys, Acta Materialia 62 (2014) 188-196. DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2013.09.047.
  • Z.L. Royer, C. Tackes, R. LeSar, and R.E. Napolitano, “Coil optimization for electromagnetic levitation using a genetic like algorithm,” J. Appl. Physics, 113 (2013) 214901. DOI: 10.1063/1.4807788.