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Marco Salvalaglio @marcosave.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I am honored to have contributed to practically "taking care of the #thermodynamic #limit". Indeed, one of the best pastas I have ever eaten, in one of the best atmospheres ever (the glorious WG of Bautzi 27 in Dresden).

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Marco Salvalaglio @marcosave.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Extremely well-deserved for a team of brilliant young scientists and wonderful people, including some true #friends. I’m sure there’s much more to come from them. Keep an eye out!

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Marco Salvalaglio @marcosave.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Amazing news from the #IgNobel prizes! 🤩 The physics prize went to the team outlining the "Phase behavior of Cacio e Pepe sauce": improbable.com/ig/winners/ Paper here: pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/arti...)

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Luiza Angheluta @luizaangheluta.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

When crystals lose periodicity, dislocations gain complexity; Our study reveals an interesting hierarchy of defects in quasicrystals. With Marco Salvalaglio @marcosave.bsky.social and @Marcello De Donno www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Modeling dislocations in quasicrystals through amplitude equations

Quasicrystals (QCs) are a class of aperiodic ordered structures that emerge in various systems, from metallic alloys to soft matter and driven non-equ…

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TU Dresden @tudresden.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Prof. Marco Salvalaglio (@marcosave.bsky.social) & sein Team erforschen polykristalline Werkstoffe, ihre Strukturen & Eigenschaften mithilfe aufwendiger Computersimulationen. 💎 Die Erkenntnisse können genutzt werden, um z. B. leistungsfähigere Elektronik zu entwickeln. ℹ️ www.mdr.de/wissen/natur...

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Spezialwerkstoffe: Dresdner Forscher entwickeln neues Modell von Polykristallen | MDR.DE

In polykristallinen Werkstoffen werden mehrere Kristalle verschmolzen. Das ist unter anderem bei solarer Stromerzeugung wichtig. Dresdner Forscher zeigen, dass die Kristalle anders zusammenwirken als ...

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Marco Salvalaglio @marcosave.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Phase field #numerical #simulations well reproduces key features from #Molecular #Dynamics simulations and experimental GB velocity–curvature distributions.

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Marco Salvalaglio @marcosave.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Grain growth is typically modeled as driven by GB energy reduction, but recent #simulations and #experiments show this is overly simplistic, even when accounting for anisotropies in mobility and GB energy. Shear-coupled GB migration allow for reconciling recent evidence.

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Marco Salvalaglio @marcosave.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

We discuss the key role of shear deformation accompanying grain boundary (GB) migration (shear coupling) in driving #microstructure #evolution (grain growth) in single-component #polycrystals.

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · 04/06/2025

Erfolge in der Wissenschaft müssen auch gefeiert werden – und das haben wir bei der Verleihung der Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preise 2025 getan. 10 DFG-geförderte Forscher*innen haben sich in ihrem jeweiligen Fach verdient gemacht und wurden nun von DFG-Generalsekretärin Heide Ahrens in Berlin gewürdigt.

“Anerkennung als Ansporn”
Verleihung der Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preise
»Aufmerksamkeit für herausragende Forschungsleistungen in frühen Karrierephasen ist das Hauptmotiv dieses Preises, der außergewöhnliche Güte und Originalität auszeichnet und ermutigen soll, den eingeschlagenen wissenschaftlichen Weg selbstbewusst weiterzuverfolgen.«
Zitat DFG-Generalsekretärin Dr. Heide Ahrens

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Marco Salvalaglio @marcosave.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

We applied the recently developed mesoscale field theory of quasicrystals to the study dislocations in aperiodic lattices. We found relevant differences with crystalline counterparts and delivered a versatile tool to study such dislocations! ⬇️ @luizaangheluta.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social

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TU Dresden @tudresden.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Prof. @marcosave.bsky.social receives prestigious Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize from @dfg.de. 🏅 He uses applied mathematics to investigate the behavior of materials. The prize is awarded for outstanding achievements by researchers in an early stage of their careers. ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...

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Marco Salvalaglio @marcosave.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Deeply honoured for this award by the @dfg.de! Grateful to all the amazing colleagues, collaborators, and mentors who have contributed along the way. Huge thanks to my team and the unwavering support at @tudresden.bsky.social! #HML2025

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Marco Salvalaglio @marcosave.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

#Multiscale #frameworks for simulating material properties typically couple different methods or use #coarse-graining to bridge scales efficiently. Here, we blended both approaches, solving phase field crystal eqs. at defects and interfaces 🔍 while solving its coarse-grained formulation elsewhere 🌐

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Marco Salvalaglio @marcosave.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

We recently developed a new framework to perform diffusive-timescale simulations of crystals with microscopic resolution at defects and interfaces and coarse resolution elsewhere -- Paper out (open access) in #CMAME: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Hybrid-PFC: Coupling the phase-field crystal model and its amplitude-equation formulation

The phase-field crystal (PFC) model describes crystal structures on diffusive timescales through a periodic, microscopic density field. It has been pr…

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Giacomo Bartolucci (he) @gbart.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Thanks everyone for the immense interest and great feedback on our preprint! We are super happy (and a bit shocked) that a simple project developed among friends had such a resonance ending up in the New York Times and BBC! @ivanditerlizzi.bsky.social @vicioms.bsky.social @dmbusiello.bsky.social

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Quotation of the Day: The Perfect Cacio e Pepe Recipe Does Exist. Just Ask Scientists.

Quotation of the Day for Saturday, January 25, 2025.

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Marco Salvalaglio @marcosave.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

P.S. Having attended the first edition as a student, I can say it was a truly transformative experience. I'm looking forward to join it as a lecturer this time!

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Marco Salvalaglio @marcosave.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

This summer school offers: (1) Reviews of the fundamentals of phase-field modeling; (2) Applications across diverse fields (e.g. microstructure evolution, multi-phase flow, fracture, soft matter, and biophysics); (3) An inspiring academic environment in a historic alpine setting.

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Marco Salvalaglio @marcosave.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

🚨 The 4th edition of the Summer School on Phase-Field Models for the Evolution of Complex Structures will take place this year from September 15th to 26th in the picturesque village of Peyresq, southern France 🌄 For more details and to apply, visit: pmc.polytechnique.fr/~mp/PFschool...

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Peyresq (France), september 15 to 26, 2025

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Marco Salvalaglio @marcosave.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

A 'tribute to Keith Haring' (from 2021, Altana Gallery Dresden) out of hyperuniform structures (studied here doi.org/10.1103/Phys...). Copies are being shown around (GAMM 2023, Uni. Firenze, TU-Dresden) - now also under this blue sky!

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Marco Salvalaglio @marcosave.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Great collaboration between friends and colleagues at @tudresden.bsky.social , University of Oslo and @oaklandu.bsky.social !

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Marco Salvalaglio @marcosave.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Thanks to this approach, we uncovered how small-angle grain boundaries fundamentally differ from their classical crystalline counterparts. Importantly, we obtain direct access to defects! see the GIF above -- classical density-wave representation (left) and our mesoscale description (right).

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Marco Salvalaglio @marcosave.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

We published (open access) in Physical Review Research @apsphysics.bsky.social a Mesoscale field theory unifying the description of growth, elasticity, and defects in hashtag quasicrystals. Paper (code and data referenced in the text): doi.org/10.1103/Phys...

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