Prof. Arvaidas Galdikas

Arvaidas Galdikas is full professor in Kaunas University of Technology and in Lithuanian Health Sciences University. He was born in 1963 Lithuania. PhD in physics he obtained at 1994 and doctor habilitus degree in Materials Engineering at 2000. He did research work in Thessaloniki Aristotle University, Greece, Poitiers University, France. He published over 60 scientific papers in ISI referred journals, two scientific monographs published in Lithuania and USA, and 6 textbooks for university students. His research interest is the modeling of mass transport processes on the surfaces of solids under interaction of atomic and molecular beams. Recently his research is focusing into three main fields:

1. analysis of mass transport processes taking place during plasma nitriding of stainless steels and cobalt chromium alloys (it was proposed novel mechanism and model based in barrodiffusion phenomenon);
2. modeling of phase separation and encapsulation processes in growing films (formation of nanoclusters during plasma deposition);
3. modeling of mass transport processes in nanostructured powder catalysts for automotive exhaust gas (three way automotive catalysts).

Recently, the novel model which involvs grain boundary diffusion process in polycrystalline particles of powder was proposed and verified for perovkite catalyst.