Awards & Committees

APDIC awards honour excellence in scientific publishing and the industrial application of phase diagrams and thermodynamic calculations.


Recipients of Best Paper Award

 

 

 

 

 

Mehdi Noori (left) and Bengt Hallstedt (centre) being presented with their award certificates by chair of the BPA committee, Rainer Schmidt-Fetzer at the banquet of the 2024 CALPHAD conference held in Mannheim, Germany.

 

 

 

 

  • 2023 - Kostyantyn Korniyenko; Konstantin Meleshevich; Anatoliy Samelyuk; Viktor Sobolev; Lyudmila Kriklya, “Phase Equilibria in the Al-Ti-Cr System During Solidification”, Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion, 43(4), 427-447 (2022), doi:10.1007/s11669-022-00983-4

        

         

 

  • 2022 - Distl, B., Walnsch, A., Mellor, R., Gomell, L., Noori, M., Gedsun, A., Stein, F., "Al-Mo-Ti Ternary Phase Diagram Evaluation", MSI Eureka, Watson, A. (Ed.), MSI, Materials Science International Services GmbH, Stuttgart, Document ID: 10.17143.3.2, https://doi.org/10.7121/msi-eureka-10.17143.3.2, (2021)





    Mehdi Noori (left) and Alexander Walnsch (right) being presented with their award certificates by chair of the BPA committee, Rainer Schmidt-Fetzer.
    (photo courtesy of Suzana G. Fries)

 

 

 

 

  • 2021 - Liangyan Hao, Wei Xiong, "An evaluation of the Mn–Ga system: Phase diagram, crystal structure, magnetism, and thermodynamic properties", Calphad, 68, 101722 (2020).

 

 

  • 2020 - Ikuo Ohnuma, Shota Shimenouchi, Toshihiro Omori, Kiyohito Ishida, Ryosuke Kainuma, " Experimental Determination and Thermodynamic Evaluation of Low-Temperature Phase Equilibria in the Fe-Ni Binary System", Calphad, 67, 101677 (2019).

 

 

  • 2019 - P. Sauerschnig, A. Grytsiv, J. Vrestal, V.V. Romaka, B. Smetana, G. Giester, E. Bauer, P. Rogl, "On the constitution and thermodynamic modelling of the system Zr-Ni-Sn", Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 742, 1058-1082 (2018).

 

 

 

 P. Sauerschnig, Peter Rogl and Jan Vřešt'ál with their award certificates.

 

 

 

 

 

  • 2018 - John E. Morral and Shuang-Lin Chen, "High Entropy Alloys, Miscibility Gaps and the Rose Geometry", J. Phase Equilibria & Diffusion, 38, 319-331 (2017).


    The award was presented at the 2018 ASM Leadership Awards Luncheon. Left to right: Raymundo Arroyave (Chair ASM Alloy Phase Diagram Committee), Ursua Kattner (Chair APDIC), John Morral (The Ohio State University), Shuanglin Chen (CompuTherm LLC), Frederick Schmidt (President ASM International).

 

 

 

 

 

  • 2017 - Y. Dahan, G. Makov and R. Z. Shneck, "Nanometric size dependent phase diagram of Bi-Sn", Calphad, 53, 136-145 (2016).

 

 

 

 

 

Presentation of the Best Paper Award at the Calphad conference in St. Malo, France

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 2016 - F. Stein, C.He, O. Prymak, S. Voß and I. Wossack, "Phase equilibria in the Fe-Al-Nb system: Solidification behaviour, liquidus surface and isothermal sections", Intermetallics, 59, 43-58 (2015).







    Presentation of the Best Paper Award taking place at MPI Dusseldorf, Germany.

 

 

 





  • 2015 - J. Wind, O. Romaniv, G. Schöllhammer, J. Bursik, H. Michor, G. Giester and P. Rogl, "The Systems Tantalum (Niobium)-Cobalt-Boron", J. Phase Equilibria & Diffusion, 35(1), 43-85 (2014).









    The award was presented at the conference CALPHAD XLIV, held in Loano, Italy. From left to right: Rainer Schmid-Fetzer (Chair APDIC BPA committee), Peter Rogl (University of Vienna, Austria).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 2014 - Martin C.J. Marker, Liliana I. Duarte, Christian Leinenbach and Klaus W. Richter, "Characterization of the Fe-rich corner of Al-Fe-Si-Ti", Intermetallics, 39, 38-49 (2013).

  • 2013 - Olga Fabrichnaya, Galina Savinykh, Tilo Zienert, Gerhard Schreiber, Hans J.Seifert, "Phase relations in the ZrO2-Sm2O3-Y2O3-Al2O3 system: experimental investigation and thermodynamic modelling",  Int. J. Mat. Res., 102(12), 1469-1487 (2012).

  • 2012 - V.T. Witusiewicz, A.A. Bondar, U. Hecht and T.Y. Velikanova, "Phase Equilibria in Binary and Ternary Systems with Chemical and Magnetic Ordering", J. Phase Equilibria & Diffusion, 32(4), 329-349 (2011).

  • 2011 - Clemens Schmetterer and Herbert Ipser, "Ni-Rich Part of the System Ni-P-Sn: Thermal Behavior", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 41A, 43-56 (2010).




    The award was presented at the conference CALPHAD XL, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. From left to right: Rainer Schmid-Fetzer (Chair APDIC BPA committee) and Herbert Ipser (University of Vienna).

 

 

 

 

 

  • 2010 - A. Janz, J. Gröbner and R. Schmid-Fetzer, "Thermodynamics and constitution of Mg-Al-Ca-Sr-Mn alloys- Part II - Procedure for multicomponent key sample selection and application to the Mg-Al-Ca-Sr and Mg-Al-Ca-Sr-Mn systems", J. Phase Equilibria & Diffusion, 30, 157-175 (2009), and A. Janz, R. Schmid-Fetzer, "Thermodynamics and constitution of Mg-Al-Ca-Sr-Mn alloys - Part I -  Experimental investigation and thermodynamic modeling of subsystems Mg-Ca-Sr and Al-Ca-Sr", J. Phase Equilibria & Diffusion, 30, 146-156 (2009).









    The award was presented at the conference CALPHAD XXXIX, held in Jeju, Korea. Rainer Schmid-Fetzer (right, T.U. Clausthal), receives the award from André Costa e Silva (left, Chair APDIC).



 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 2009 - Markus Eumann, Gerhard Sauthoff, Martin Palm, "Phase equilibria in the Fe–Al–Mo system – Part I: Stability of the Laves phase Fe2Mo and isothermal section at 800 °C, and  Phase equilibria in the Fe–Al–Mo system – Part II: Isothermal  sections at 1000 and 1150 °C",  Intermetallics, 16(5),  706-716 (2008) and 16(6), 834-846 (2008).

  • 2008 - Julius C. Schuster, Zhu Pan, Shuhong Liu, Franz Weitzer, Yong Du, On the constitution of the ternary system Al-Ni-Ti, Intermetallics, 15, 1257-1267 (2007).

  • 2007 - Jozef Balun, Gerhard Inden, "Phase equilibria in the binary Rh–Ti system", Intermetallics14 260–271 (2006).

  • 2006 - Michael C., Gao, Necip Ünlü, Gary J. Shiflet, Marek Mihalkovic and Michael Widom Reassessment of Al-Ce and Al-Nd Binary Systems Supported by Critical Experiments and First-Principles Energy Calculations, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 36A, 3269-3279 (2005).

  • 2005 - X.J. Liu, C.P. Wang, I. Ohnuma, R. Kainuma, K. Ishida Experimental Investigation and Thermodynamic Calculation of the Phase Equilibria in the Cu-Sn and Cu-Sn-Mn Systems, Metall. Mater. Trans. A. 35A(6) 1641-1654 (2004).

  • 2004 - A.Grytsiv, P. Rogl, H. Schmidt, G. Giester, "Constitution of the Ternary System Al-Ru-Ti (Aluminum-Ruthenium-Titanium) Journal of Phase Equilibria 24(6), 511-527 (2003)

  • 2003 - M Zinkevich, N Mattern, I Bächer, "Experimental and thermodynamic assessment of the Fe-Gd-Zr system", Zeitschrift fur Metallkunde93(3), 186-198 (2002).

  • 2002 - R Ferro, Four papers on "Ternary Rare Earth Germanium Systems with Cu and Ag,  The Al-Er-Mg System and The Ni-Yb System" by R Ferro with G Balducci, G Borzone, S Brutti, G Cacciamani, A Ciccioli, G Gigli S De Negri, R Marazza,  D Mazzone, R Raggio, P Riani, A Saccone and G Zanicchi, Journal of Phase Equilibria  23(1), 7-56 (2002).

  • 2001 - A Davydov, U R Kattner  "Thermodynamic assessment of the Co-Mo system", Journal of Phase Equilibria, 20(1), 5-16 (1999).

  • 2000 - No award

  • 1999 - M Selleby "An assessment of the Fe-O-Si system and an assessment of the Ca-Fe-O-Si system" Metallurgical and Materials Transactions28B, 563-596. (Actually two consecutive papers, pp 563-576 and 577-596) (1997).

  • 1998 - W Huang, Y A Chang,  "A thermodynamic analysis of the Al-Re system", Journal of Phase Equilibria19(4), 361-366 (1998).

  • 1997 - H Bittermann, P Rogl, "Critical assessment and thermodynamic calculation of the ternary system boron-hafnium-titanium", Journal of Phase Equilibria, 18(1), 24 (1997).

  • 1996 - Y Feutelais, M Majid, B Legendre, S G Fries "Phase diagram investigation and proposition of a thermodynamic evaluation of the tin-selenium system", Journal of Phase Equilibria17(1), 40-49 (1996).