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Lars Hultman

Professor

Publications

2026

Marcus Lorentzon, Naoki Takata, Diederik Depla, Tianqi Zhu, Grzegorz Greczynski, Rainer Hahn, Anton Zubayer, Justinas Palisaitis, Helmut Riedl, Dasom Kim, Lars Hultman, Jens Birch, Naureen Ghafoor (2026) Growth mechanisms and mechanical response of 3D superstructured cubic and hexagonal Hf1-xAlxN thin films Acta Materialia, Vol. 302, Article 121680 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2025

Shuyao Lin, Zhuo Chen, Rebecca Janknecht, Zaoli Zhang, Lars Hultman, Paul H. Mayrhofer, Nikola Koutna, Davide Sangiovanni (2025) Machine-learning potentials predict orientation-and mode-dependent fracture in refractory diborides Acta Materialia, Vol. 301, Article 121568 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Shuyao Lin, David Holec, Davide Sangiovanni, Thomas Leiner, Lars Hultman, Paul H. Mayrhofer, Nikola Koutna (2025) Shear-activated phase transformations of diborides via machine-learning potential molecular dynamics Acta Materialia, Vol. 301, Article 121606 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Bartosz Wicher, Justinas Palisaitis, Vladyslav Rogoz, Mauricio A. Sortica, Peter Polcik, Szilard Kolozsvari, Lars Hultman, Grzegorz Greczynski (2025) Synthesis of Hard Boron Thin Films by Low Frequency Magnetron Sputtering Materials & design, Vol. 257, Article 114404 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Nikola Koutna, Shuyao Lin, Lars Hultman, Davide Sangiovanni, Paul H. Mayrhofer (2025) Machine-learning potentials for structurally and chemically complex MAB phases: Strain hardening and ripplocation-mediated plasticity Materials & design, Vol. 256, Article 114307 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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