Research Interests
Multicomponent phase diagram of metallic systems and ceramic systems, phase equilibria, development of alloys, optimization of heat treatment of alloys, calorimetric studies of the properties of inorganic substances, thermodynamic modeling, Calphad, phase transformations.
Field of knowledge according to the OECD classifier
Chemical thermodynamics; materials science — multidisciplinary; metallurgy and metallurgical engineering; physical chemistry.
PhD in engineering, director of SRC “Thermochemistry of materials”
2013 — present: NUST MISIS, director of SRC “Thermochemistry of materials”.
10/2010 — present: associate professor at the NUST MISIS Department of Physical Chemistry.
Main Results of Scientific Work
2020 г. Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion Editor’s Choice Award for 2020. I Fartushna, M Mardani, A. Khvan, V. Cheverikin, A. Kondratiev. J Phase Equilib. Diffus. 2020; 41(4):418-442.
2007: Russian Presidential PhD Student Award № 1922 dated 10/18/2007.
06/2006: diploma based on the results of an open competition for the best work of students in the natural, technical and humanitarian sciences in Russian universities.
2006: certificate for the best presentation entitled “Structure and features of eutectic alloys of the Al-Ca-Cu system” at the III Eurasian scientific-practical conference “Strength of inhomogeneous structures” — PROST 2006.
Scopus Hirsch Index — 13.
Number of articles on Scopus — 59.
SPIN RSCI: 2313- 1111.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1178-8019.
ResearcherID B-3726- 2014.
Significant Research Projects, Grants
- Federal Target Program “Research and development in priority areas of Russian scientific and technological complex for
2014-2020”, Activity 2.2 “Support for research in the context of cooperation with EU member states”. Project No. 14.587.21.0023 “Ab initio and calphad modelling with application to the development of new steels”,2015-2016, project supervisor. - RFBR Grant
14-08-31522
(mol_a): Construction of an improved thermodynamic database for the calculation of phase equilibria for stainless steels,2014-2015, project supervisor. - Contract with JSC Vyksa Steel Works: Investigations of the influence of the chemical composition of chromium-bearing steels on the nature of the formation of oxides during ERW welding,
2013-2014, project supervisor. - NUST MISIS grant: “Integrated experimental and theoretical development of thermodynamic data for inorganic and metallurgical systems”,
2014-2015, principal investigator of the project. - Contract with Vyksa Steel Works: Investigation of influence of non-ferrous metal impurities on the weldability and the tendency to the formation of surface defects of coiled stock of the branch of JSC OMK-Steel,
2016-2017, project supervisor. - Contract with Almalyk Mining: “Optimization of the oxygen torch melting process based on thermodynamic modeling”,
2015-2016, project supervisor. - Contract with Almalyk Mining: “Investigation of phase and chemical compositions of the resulting dump slag, as well as their changes during the crystallization process in an oxygen-melting torch”,
2015-2016, project supervisor. - Federal Target Program “Research and development in priority areas of Russian scientific and technological complex for
2014-2020”, Activity 1.4 “Carrying out applied research aimed at solving complex scientific and technological problems”, project “Creating a multilaser automated complex for the synthesis of layered polymetallic products with cellular elements”, 2015- 2017, investigator. - Federal Target Program “Research and development in priority areas of Russian scientific and technological complex for
2014-2020”, Activity 1.3 “Carrying out applied research aimed at solving complex scientific and technological problems”, project “Comparison of the casting technology and the growing direct laser technology in the production of elements of aircraft engines”, 2015- 2017, investigator. - Subsidy for the implementation of integrated projects for high-tech production in delivering Resolution № 218 “On measures of state support of the development of cooperation between Russian higher educational institutions and organizations implementing integrated projects for high-tech production”. Project “Development and use of the science-intensive technology of producing cold-resistant and corrosion-resistant rolling stock for manufacturing longitudinal gas and oil pipes as part of the infrastructural development of the Russian fuel and energy complex for the purpose of import substitution” jointly with JSC Severstal,
2016-2018, investigator. - NUST MISIS grant “Development of thermodynamic and kinetic models for the prediction of inorganic materials behavior” № К2-2018-010,
2018-2019, project supervisor. - NUST MISIS grant "Development of thermodynamic and kinetic models for the prediction of inorganic materials behavior: № К2-2019-003,
2019-2020, project supervisor.
Significant publications
- I. Fartushna, M. Mardani, A. Khvan, V. Cheverikin, A. Kondratiev, Experimental Investigation of Fe—Co—La System: Liquidus and Solidus Projections J Phase Equilib. Diffus. 2020; 41(4):418-442. Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion Editor’s Choice Award for 2020. DOI: 10.1007/s11669-020-00800-w https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11669-020-00800-w.
- Skripnyak N.V., Ponomareva A.V., Belov M.P., Syutkin E.A., Khvan A.V., Dinsdale A.T., Abrikosov I.A. Mixing enthalpies of alloys with dynamical instability: bcc Ti-V system, (2020) Acta Materialia, 188, pp.
145-154. DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2020.01.056. - Ezemenaka D., Phiri A., Khvan A., Cheverikin V., Fartushna I., Dinsdale A., An experimental investigation of phase transformations in the Al-rich corner of the Al—Cr—Fe system, (2019) Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 808, art. no. 151692, DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2019.151692.
- Starodub K., Wu G., Yazhenskikh E., Müller M., Khvan A., Kondratiev A, An Avramov-based viscosity model for the SiO 2 -Al 2 O 3 -Na 2 O-K 2 O system in a wide temperature range, (2019) Ceramics International, 45 (9), pp.
12169-12181, DOI: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2019.03.121 - Mardani M., Fartushna I., Khvan A., Cheverikin V., Dinsdale A., Experimental investigation of phase transformations in the La-Fe and La-Fe-C systems, (2019) Calphad: Computer Coupling of Phase Diagrams and Thermochemistry, 65, pp.
370-384, DOI: 10.1016/j.calphad.2019.04.005. - “The ternary Al-Ce-Cu phase diagram in the aluminum-rich corner”, Belov N.A., Khvan A.V., Acta Materialia, Volume 55(16), pp.
5473-5482, 2007. - “PrecHiMn-4—A thermodynamic database for high-Mn steels”, Hallstedt B., Khvan A.V., Lindahl B.B., Selleby M., Liu S., Calphad: Computer Coupling of Phase Diagrams and Thermochemistry, Volume 56, pp.
49-57, 2017. - “A thermodynamic evaluation of the Fe-Cr-C system”, Khvan A.V., Hallstedt B., Broeckmann C., Calphad: Computer Coupling of Phase Diagrams and Thermochemistry, 46, pp.
24-33, 2014.
Significant Patents
Russian patent No. 2334804 dated 09/27/2008 “Method for modifying aluminum-based alloys and a casting produced using this method”.
Scientific supervision and teaching
Supervisor of a successfully defended PhD thesis.
Teaching
- NUST MISIS, thermochemistry of materials and thermodynamic modeling, 8,604 hours, postgraduate training program, since 2015.
- NUST MISIS, applied computational thermodynamics, 108 hours, since 2015.
- NUST MISIS, advanced course of computational thermodynamics and experimental methods for the analysis of thermodynamic properties of materials, 144 hours, since 2015.
Scientific and social activities
- permanent member of the Materials Science International Team Global;
- member of the Materials Science and Technology (IOM3) editorial board;
- member of the advisory board of the ARUA CoE-MEN UKRI since 2020;
- NUST MISIS representative at the Scientific Group Thermodata Europe (SGTE);
- co-chair at the Alloy Phase Diagram International Commission World Round Robin Seminar 2016, Moscow, Russia;
- acting representative of the National Committee on Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry of RAS at APDIC (Alloy Phase Diagram International Commission);
- member of the international organizing committee of the Calphad XLII conference 2013 (computer coupling of phase diagrams and thermochemistry) (San Sebastian, Spain);
- appointed as the person responsible for the organization of Calphad 2027 conference in Russia; and
- member of the National Committee on Thermophyscial Properties of Substances of RAS.
