Prof. David Fuks
 | Prof. David Fuks |
| Materials Engineering Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Beer Sheva, Israel | |
Controlling the figure of merit in TiNiSn half-Heusler alloy: DFT study  | |
1971- MSc- Odessa State University - Department of Theoretical Physics - Odessa, USSR 1975- Ph.D.-Tomsk State University - Department of Solid State Physics - Tomsk, USSR Dr of Sc./Dr. Habil.-1984-Moscow State University - Department of Solid State Physics - Moscow, USSR Currently Professor in Department of Materials Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel; Stephen and Edith Berger Chair in Physical Metallurgy. Author of monograph and more than 250 papers in scientific journals. Research is devoted to the study of different aspects of application of quantum mechanical and statistical thermodynamics approaches to the analysis of the properties of solid bulk materials, surfaces and the interfaces. The research is based mainly on the Density Functional Theory (DFT) which is considered nowadays as one of the most powerful tools in the study of the nature of bonding in materials. The topics that are intensively investigated nowadays are: a) Structure and properties of the interfaces; b) Stability of intermetallic compounds; c)Thermodynamics and kinetics of phase transitions in metallic alloys and perovskites; d) theoretical aspects of wetting phenomena; e) adsorption in catalysis; f) growth of thin metallic films; g) refining of the structure and understanding the nature of new uranium-based multi-component compounds. |