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Xubo Liu

Ames Laboratory Scientist I

Division of Critical Materials

Email: liux@ameslab.gov
Office: 37 Wilhelm
Websites:
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Credentials

Areas of Expertise

  • Synthesis, Processing and Characterization of Metallic Materials
  • Multi-Scale Simulation on Magnetic Materials, Micromagnetic Simulation, Atomic Scale Simulation.
  • Mechanical Properties Modeling, Crystal Plasticity FEM, Phase Field Fracture Modeling.

Research

Research Projects

  • CMI Project 3.3.13: Recovery of critical materials from dilute electronic waste streams

Research Interests

  • Magnetism and Magnetic Materials

  • Crystallography and Chemical Bond

Publications

X. B. Liu I. C. Nlebedim

Segregation of Al and its effect on coercivity in Nd-Fe-B

AIP Advances, 2024
X B Liu I C Nlebedim

Robustness of magnetocrystalline anisotropy and coercivity in Fe–Co–B

Physica B: Condensed Matter, 2024
Xubo Liu Kinjal Gandha Ikenna C Nlebedim Mariappan Parans Paranthaman

Recycling of additively printed anisotropic Nd-Fe-B bonded magnets

Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 2024
XB Liu DH Ryan Z Altounian

Constituent contribution to the magnetocrystalline anisotropy in Mn (Al1− xGax)

AIP Advances, 2023
Xubo Liu Z Altounian

The partitioning of Dy and Tb in NdFeB magnets: A first-principles study

Journal of Applied Physics, 2012

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