H Gleiter

Biography

Gleiter’s work in the late 1960s (at Harvard and MIT) resulted in the discovery of the existence of dislocations in inter-crystalline interfaces and in the “structural unit model” of grain boundaries which is today’s accepted model of the atomic structure of grain boundaries. In the 1980s, he pioneered a new class of materials with comparable volume fractions of interfaces and crystallites. Materials of this kind – produced by consolidating nanometer-sized crystallites – were called nanocrystalline materials. Today more than 800 papers are published annually in this area. Gleiter’s contributions have been cited almost 20,000 times since 1988 and he has received numerous national as well as international awards. He is rated as one of the HIGHLY CITED RESEARCHER by ISI Web of Knowledge and his is current h-index is 58. Recently he developed a new kind of glasses containing a high density of interfaces resulting in spectacular properties such as transforming paramagnetic materials into strong ferromagnets.

Research Interest

Nano materials, Solid State Physics, Materials Science