B.S. and Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Structure-property-processing relationships in metals, intermetallics and composites. Advanced characterization techniques including analytical and high resolution electron microscopy.

M.L. Weaver and M.J. Kaufman, "Phase Relationships and Transformations in the Ternary Aluminum-Titanium-Tantalum System," Acta Met. 43 (1995) 2625-2640. M.L. Weaver, M.J. Kaufman, and R.D. Noebe, "Kinetics of Static Strain Aging in Polycrystalline NiAl-Based Alloys," Intermetallics 4 (1996) 121-129. A. Costa e Silva and M.J. Kaufman, "Applications of In-Situ Reactions to MoSi2-Based Materials," Mats. Sci. & Engr. , A195 (1995) 75-88. X.D. Zhang, Y.G. Li, M.J. Kaufman, and M.H. Loretto, "The Structure and Origin of Boundaries Between Antiphase Regions in L10 Intermetallics," Acta Metall. et Mater., 44 (1996) 3735-3747. X.D. Zhang, S. Godfrey, M.L. Weaver, M. Strangwood, P. Threadgill, M.J. Kaufman, and M.H. Loretto, "The Massive Transformation in Intermediate Ti-Al Alloys: Mechanistic Observations," Acta Metall. et Mater., 44 (1996) 3723-3734. M.L. Weaver, M.J. Kaufman, and R.D. Noebe, "Manifestations of Dynamic Strain Aging in Soft-Oriented NiAl Single Crystals," Metall. Trans. A, 27A (1996) 3542-3557. M.L. Weaver, R.D. Noebe, and M.J. Kaufman, "Observations of Static Strain Aging in Polycrystalline NiAl," Intermetallics, 4 (1996) 533-542. V.I. Levit, I.A. Bul, J. Hu, and M.J. Kaufman, "High Tensile Elongation of -NiAl Single Crystals at 293 K" Scripta Materialia, 34 (1996) 1925-1930. T.T. Cheng, X.D. Zhang, Y.G. Li, M.J. Kaufman, I.P. Jones, and M.H. Loretto, "The Structure of Boundaries Between Antiphase Regions in TiAl-Based Alloys," Phil. Mag. Letts.,74 (1996) 51-56. R.E. Reed-Hill, C.V. Iswaran, and M.J. Kaufman, "An Analysis of the Flow Stress of a Two-Phase Alloy System," Metall. and Mater. Trans. A, 47 (1996) 1-6. S. Jayashankar and M.J. Kaufman, "Effect of Oxygen Content on the Superplastic Behavior of MoSi2/SiC Composites," Advanced Synthesis and Processing of Composites and Advanced Ceramics II, published in Ceramics Transactions, 79, 163-173, 1996. A.L. Costa e Silva and M.J. Kaufman, "Synthesis of MoSi2-Boride Composites Through In-Situ Displacement Reactions," Intermetallics, 5 (1997) 1-15. R.E. Reed-Hill, C.V. Iswaran, and M.J. Kaufman, "Influence of Interstitials on the Mechanical Properties of Metallic Materials," Metall. and Mater. Trans. A, 27A (1996) 3524-3529. A.L. Costa e Silva and M.J. Kaufman, "The Application of Thermodynamics to the In-situ Processing of Aluminum-modified MoSi2 Composites," Z. Metallkd. 88 (1997) 854-865. J.B. LeBleu, Jr., P.R. Mei, V.I. Levit, and M.J. Kaufman, "Tensile Properties of NiAl Bicrystals," Scripta Materialia 38 (1998) 415-422. Yu. N. Gornostyrev, V.V. Marchenkov, V.I. Levit, M. Kaufman and H.W. Weber, "Effect of Plastic Deformation on the Resistivity and Point-Defect Distribution in the Intermetallic Compound NiAl," Physics of Metals and Metallography, 86 (1998) 371-376. X.D. Zhang, J.M.K. Wiezorek, M.J. Kaufman, M.H. Loretto and H.L. Fraser, "Planar Defects in Massively Transformed Ti-Al Alloys," Phil. Mag. Letters, 79 (1999) 519-530. N. Bassim, C.S. Kiminami and M.J. Kaufman, "Phases Formed During Crystallization of Amorphous Al84Y9Ni5Co2 Alloy" J. Non-Crystalline Solids, 273 (2000) 271-276. E.D. Wachsman, S. Boyapati and M.J. Kaufman, "Modeling of Ordered Structures of Phase-Stabilized Cubic Bismuth Oxides," J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 83 (2000) 1964-1968. N. Bassim, C.S. Kiminami, M.J. Kaufman, M.F. Oliveira, M.N.R.V. Perdigao, W.J. Botta Filho, "Crystallization Behavior of Amorphous Al84Y9Ni5Co2 Alloy," Mat. Sci. Eng. A304-306 (2001) pp. 332-337. C.R.M. Afonso, C. Bolfarini, C.S. Kiminami, M.J. Kaufman, M.F, Amateau, T.J. Eden, and J.M. Galbraith, "Amorphous Phase Formation During Spray Forming of Al84Y3Ni8Co4Zr1 Alloy, J. Non-Crystalline Solids, 284 (2001) 134-138. M.F. de Oliveira, W.J. Botta, M.J. Kaufman and C.S. Kiminami, "Phases Formed During Crystallization of Zr55Al10Ni5Cu30 Metallic Glass Containing Oxygen", J. Non-Crystalline Solids, 304 (2002) 51-55. Y.W. Heo, V. Varadarajan, M.J. Kaufman, K. Kim, D.P. Norton, F. Ren and P.H. Fleming, "Site-Specific Growth of ZnO Nanorods Using Catalysis-Driven Molecular Beam Epitaxy", Applied Physics Letters, 81 (2002) 3046-3048. Otubo, J.; Nascimento, F.C.; Mei, P.R.; Cardoso, L.P. and Kaufman, M. "Influence of Austenite Grain Size on Mechanical Properties of Stainless Shape Memory Alloy". Materials Transactions, 43 (2002) 916-919. H. Kim, M.J. Kaufman, W.M. Sigmund, D. Jacques and R. Andrews, "Observation and Formation Mechanism of Stable Face-Centered-Cubic Nanorods in Carbon Nanotubes", J. Materials Research, 18 (2003) 1104-1108.