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

 

Rapid and High Strengthening of Interstitial Free Steel using FeC Amorphous Thin Films and Induction Heating

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

 

 

 

 

 

 


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