A paper based on my thesis work was recently accepted to the journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. I helped researchers at the IMDEA Materials Institute in Madrid, Spain apply the phase-field model from my thesis to the NiAl-Cr ternary eutectic superalloy. They connected my model to a database of thermodynamic properties and were able to simulate the growth of the complicated microstructure in this system. Superalloys are a special class of metals that are used to make jet turbine blades because they are very strong and resistant to deformation at high temperatures.

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