Curriculum Vitae
Directeur de Recherche – CNRS, Physics Institute, section 5
Groupe de Physique des Matériaux – UMR 6634 (University of Rouen)
Research field
Metallurgy, Ultrafine Grain Materials, Severe plastic deformation, Phase transformations
Prior activities and education
2010: « Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches », University of Rouen
2001-2002 : Post-doc at the Max-Planck-Institute of Stuttgart Germany
“HRTEM investigation of order fluctuations in Cu3Au close to the critical temperature”
1998-2001 : PhD in material science at the University of Rouen
Supervisor Prof. D. Blavette, “Phase transformations induced by SPD in steel cords and Cu/Nb nanocomposite materials”
1997: Master of Science: “Physics of materials” - University of Rouen
1996 : Agrégation de Génie Mécanique (Mechanics of materials) - ENS Cachan
1993-1996: Student of Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (France)
Publication record
More than 100 scientific papers published in peer reviewed international journals, 5 book chapters and more than 40 conference proceeding papers.
Awards
- Acta Materialia Silver medal 2019
- FEMS Young Lecturer Award 2010 (Federation of European Materials Societies)
- Médaille Jean Rist 2009 (Société Française Métallurgie et de Matériaux)
Research fields
- Severe plastic deformation of metallic alloys
- Phase transformations in metallic alloys
- Deformation mechanisms and stability of nanostructures
Experimental skills and expertise
Characterization Techniques in Material Science
- Atom Probe Tomography (APT)
- Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)
Physics of Materials
- Phase transformations, thermodynamics, diffusion, precipitation
- Mechanics of materials, relationships between microstructure and mechanical properties
- Material processing, Severe Plastic Deformation (SPD)
Publications
Selection of publications from the past 3 years
Nanostructuring of Beryllium Bronze: Contribution of Grain Boundaries Segregation and Solid Solution
Ivan Lomakin, Alfiia Nigmatullina and Xavier Sauvage
Materials Letters 357 (2024) 135632 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2023.135632
Enhanced strength-ductility combination in the aluminum-gold system by heterogeneous distribution of nanoparticles via plastic deformation and reactive interdiffusion
Abbas Mohammadi, Xavier Sauvage, Fabien Cuvilly, Kaveh Edalati
Journal of Materials Science & Technology, Volume 203, 20 December 2024, Pages 269-281 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmst.2024.03.049
Severe Plastic Deformation for Producing Superfunctional Ultrafine-Grained and Heterostructured Materials
K. Edalati and co-authors
Journal of Alloys and Compounds 1002 (2024) 174667 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2024.174667
Codeformation mechanisms in severely deformed multiphase metallic systems
Xavier Sauvage
Adv. Eng. Mater. 2024, 2400265 https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202400265
Microstructural design by combining nanograins and spinodal decomposition in a Fe-Cr alloy
Juan Macchi, Olha Nakonechna; Ronan Henry; Celia Castro; Kaveh Edalati; Frederic De Geuser; Xavier Sauvage; Williams Lefebvre
Scripta Materialia 252 (2024) 116247 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2024.116247
Compared microstructure and properties of an AlZnMgCu alloy processed by high pressure sliding and high-pressure torsion
A. Duchaussoy, X. Sauvage, A. Deschamps, F. De Geuser, G. Renou, Z. Horita
Journal of Alloys and compounds 942 (2023) 169060 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2023.169060
Influence of crystalline defects on nitrogen implantation in copper for surface hardening
Ghenwa Zaher, Xavier Sauvage, Samuel Jouen
Scripta Materialia 231 (2023) 115440 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2023.115440
Potency of Severe Plastic Deformation processes for optimizing combinations of strength and electrical conductivity of lightweight Al-based conductor alloys
Maxim Yu. Murashkin, Nariman A. Enikeev and X. Sauvage
Materials Transactions, Vol. 64, No. 8 (2023) pp. 1833 to 1843 https://doi.org/10.2320/matertrans.MT-MF2022048
Influence of chemical composition on coarsening kinetics of coherent L12 precipitates in FCC complex concentrated alloys
Thomas Rieger, Jean-Marc Joubert, Régis Poulain, Xavier Sauvage, Elie Paccou, Loïc Perrière, I. Guillot, Guy Dirras, Guillaume Laplanche, Mathilde Laurent-Brocq, Jean-Philippe Couzinié
Journal of Alloys and Compounds 967 (2023) 171711 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2023.171711
Nanomaterials by Severe Plastic Deformation: Review of Historical Developments and Recent Advances
Kaveh Edalati, Andrea Bachmaier, Victor A. Beloshenko, Yan Beygelzimer, Vladimir D. Blank, Walter J. Botta, Krzysztof Bryła, Jakub Čížek, Sergiy Divinski, Nariman A. Enikeev, Yuri Estrin, Ghader Faraji, Roberto B. Figueiredo, Masayoshi Fuji, Tadahiko Furuta, Thierry Grosdidier, Jenő Gubicza, Anton Hohenwarter, Zenji Horita, Jacques Huot, Yoshifumi Ikoma, Miloš Janeček, Megumi Kawasaki, Petr Krǎl, Shigeru Kuramoto, Terence G. Langdon, Daniel R. Leiva, Valery I. Levitas, Andrey Mazilkin, Masaki Mito, Hiroyuki Miyamoto, Terukazu Nishizaki, Reinhard Pippan, Vladimir V. Popov, Elena N. Popova, Gencaga Purcek, Oliver Renk, Ádám Révész, Xavier Sauvage, Hadi Sena, Vaclav Sklenicka, Werner Skrotzki, Boris B. Straumal, Satyam Suwas, Laszlo S. Toth, Nobuhiro Tsuji, Ruslan Z. Valiev, Gerhard Wilde, Michael J. Zehetbauer, Xinkun Zhu,
Materials Research Letters (2022) vol 10, issue 4, pp 163-256 https://doi.org/10.1080/21663831.2022.2029779
Influence of hydrogen vacancy interactions on natural and artificial ageing of an AlMgSi alloy
G. Hachet and X. Sauvage
Journal of Alloys and Compounds 905 (2022) 164251 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2022.164251
Elisa Cantergiani, Xavier Sauvage, Ben Lawrence, Colin P. Scott, Arnaud Weck
Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance (2022) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-022-06902-5
Hydrogen delaying the formation of Guinier-Preston zones in aluminium alloys
Guillaume Hachet, Xavier Sauvage
Acta Materialia 241 (2022) 118373 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2022.118373
Influence of morphology of intermetallic particles on the microstructure and properties evolution in severely deformed Al-Fe alloys
A.E. Medvedev, M.Yu. Murashkin, N.A. Enikeev, E.B. Medvedev, X. Sauvage
Metals 2021, 11, 815. https://doi.org/10.3390/met11050815
Influence of Sulfur And Water Vapor On High Temperature Oxidation Resistance Of An Alumina-Forming Austenitic steel
Justine Allo, Samuel Jouen, Manuel Roussel, David Gibouin, Xavier Sauvage
Oxidation of Metals (2021) 95:359–376 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11085-021-10028-9
Plasticity of an extra-strong nanocrystalline stainless steel controlled by the “dislocation-segregation” interaction
N.A. Enikeev, M.M. Abramova, I.V. Lomakin, A.M. Mavlyutov, A.A. Lukyanchuk, A.S. Shutov, X. Sauvage
Materials Letters 301 (2021) 130235 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2021.130235
Investigations on of powder recycling influence on microstructureal and mechanical properties of Inconel 718 obtained by additive manufacturing
Elie Paccou, Morgane Mokhtari, Cl´ement Keller, Josiane Nguejio, Williams Lefebvre, Xavier Sauvage, S. Boileau, P. Babillot, Pierre Bernard, Eric Bauster
Materials Science & Engineering A 828 (2021) 142113 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2021.142113
Mechanisms of large strain accommodation assisted by shear banding in a precipitation hardened CuBe alloy
Ivan Lomakin, Alfiia Nigmatullina and Xavier Sauvage
Materials Science & Engineering A 823 (2021) 141760 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2021.141760
Multiscale investigation of the crystallization mechanisms and solute redistribution during annealing of a Fe64B24Y4Nb6Al0.4 metallic glass
M.-N. Avettand-Fènoël, X. Sauvage, M. Marinova, A. Addad
Journal of Alloys and Compounds 887 (2021) 161264 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2021.161264
Influence of HPT processing conditions and tin in solid solution on the UFG structure and hardness of copper
Ghenwa Zaher, Samuel Jouen, Ivan Lomakin, Nariman Enikeev, Xavier Sauvage
Materials Today Communications (2021) 101746 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2020.101746
Microstructure and mechanical properties characterization of architectured copper aluminum composites manufactured by cold-drawing
C. Keller, F. Moisy, N. Nguyen, S. Eve, A. Dashti, B. Vieille, A. Guillet, X. Sauvage, E. Hug
Materials Characterization 172 (2021) 110824 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2020.110824
Complex interactions between precipitation, grain growth and recrystallization in a severely deformed Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloy and consequences on the mechanical behavior
A. Duchaussoy, X. Sauvage, A. Deschamps, F. De Geuser, G. Renou, Z. Horita
Materialia 15 (2021) 101028 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtla.2021.101028
Nanoscale crystallization mechanisms in a GeSSbCsCl glass ceramic and relationships with mechanical and optical properties
A. Morvan, E. Lavanant, L. Arnoldi, X. Sauvage, L. Calvez, A. Vella, A. Saiter-Fourcin
J. Phys. Chem. C 2021, 125, 7, 4196–4204 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c09889