פרופ' יוג'ין רבקין

Prof. Eugen Rabkin
+972-4-829-4579
Erabkin@technion.ac.il
https://rabkinlab.net.technion.ac.il/
After receiving his doctorate in the group of Prof. Shvindlerman at the Institute of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Prof. Rabkin worked in the group of Prof. Gust at the Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung and Institut für Metallkunde of the University of Stuttgart, firstly as a Postdoctoral Humboldt Fellow and then as a University Assistant. In 1997 he joined the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering at the Technion. He was also a visiting scientist at the University of Western Australia in Perth, the University of Aix-Marseille III in Marseille (France), Tohoku University in Sendai (Japan), Princeton University (USA), and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany). In 1994 he was awarded the Otto-Hahn-Medal of the Max-Planck Society for his pioneering work on grain boundary phase diagrams, and in 1999 he was selected as a Federation of European Materials Research Societies (FEMS) Lecturer. In 2004, Prof. Rabkin was honored by the Science Prize of the German Technion Society.

https://rabkinlab.net.technion.ac.il/files/2020/08/Publication_list.pdf 

Most important publications prior to 2015:

  1. E.I. Rabkin, V.N. Semenov, L.S. Shvindlerman, B.B. Straumal, Penetration of tin and zinc along a 43° [100] tilt grain boundaries in Fe-5 at.%Si alloy: premelting phase transition?, Acta metall.mater. 39 (1991) 627-639
  2. L.-S. Chang, E. Rabkin, B.B. Straumal, B. Baretzky, W. Gust, Thermodynamic aspects of the grain boundary segregation in Cu(Bi) alloys, Acta mater. 47 (1999) 4041-4046
  3. V.M. Skripnyuk, E. Rabkin, Y. Estrin, and R. Lapovok, The effect of ball milling and equal channel angular pressing on the hydrogen absorption/desorption properties of alloy ZK60, Acta mater. 52 (2004) 405-414
  4. E. Rabkin, D.J. Srolovitz, Onset of plasticity in gold nanopillar compression, Nanoletters 7 (2007) 101-107
  5. Y. Amouyal, S.V. Divinski, Y. Estrin, E. Rabkin, Short-circuit diffusion in ultrafine grain copper-zirconium alloy produced by equal channel angular pressing, Acta mater. 55 (2007) 5968-5979
  6. D. Mordehai, S.-W. Lee, B. Backes, D.J. Srolovitz, W.D. Nix, E. Rabkin, Size effect in compression of single-crystal gold microparticles, Acta mater. 59 (2011) 5202-5215
  7. D. Mordehai, E. Rabkin, D.J. Srolovitz, Pseudoelastic deformation during nanoscale adhesive contact formation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107 (2011) 096101 (1-4)
  8. D. Amram, E. Rabkin, Core (Fe) – Shell (Au) nanoparticles obtained from thin Fe/Au bilayers employing surface segregation, ACS Nano 8 (2014) 10687-10693

 

Since 2015:

  1. S. Baylan, G. Richter, M. Beregovsky, D. Amram, E. Rabkin, The kinetics of hollowing of Ag-Au core-shell nanowhiskers controlled by short-circuit diffusion, Acta mater. 82 (2015) 145-154
  2. A. Kosinova, O. Kovalenko, L. Klinger, E. Rabkin, Mechanisms of solid-state dewetting of thin Au films in different annealing atmospheres, Acta mater. 83 (2015) 91-101
  3. L. Klinger, O. Kraft, E. Rabkin, A model of Kirkendall hollowing of core-shell nanowires and nanoparticles controlled by short-circuit diffusion, Acta mater. 83 (2015) 180-186
  4. D. Prokoshkina, L. Klinger, A. Moros, G. Wilde, E. Rabkin, S.V. Divinski, Persistence of ultrafast atomic diffusion paths in recrystallizing ultrafine-grained Ni, Scripta mater. 101 (2015) 91-94
  5. L. Klinger, D.V. Shtansky, E.A. Levashov, E. Rabkin, Kinetic model of co-deposition of thin multicomponent films, Mater. Lett. 156 (2015) 118-120
  6. M. Shepelenko, L. Klinger, E. Rabkin, A. Berner, D. Prokoshkina, G. Reglitz, J. Fiebig, G. Wilde, S.V. Divinski, Recovery, recrystallization and diffusion in cold-rolled Ni, Internatl. J. of Materials Research 106 (2015) 554-564
  7. O. Kovalenko, E. Rabkin, Mechano-stimulated equilibration of gold nanoparticles on sapphire, Scripta mater. 107 (2015) 149-152
  8. D. Amram, O. Kovalenko, L. Klinger, E. Rabkin, Capillary-driven growth of metallic nanowires, Scripta mater. 109 (2015) 44-47
  9. D. Amram, O. Kovalenko, E. Rabkin, The a-g transformation in Fe and Fe-Au thin films, micro- and nanoparticles – an in situ study, Acta mater. 98 (2015) 343-354
  10. L. Klinger, E. Rabkin, On the nucleation of pores during the nanoscale Kirkendall effect, Mater. Lett. 161 (2015) 508-510
  11. A. Kosinova, D. Wang, P. Schaaf, O. Kovalenko, L. Klinger, E. Rabkin, Fabrication of hollow gold nanoparticles by dewetting, dealloying and coarsening, Acta mater. 102 (2016) 108-115
  12. D. Amram, Y. Amouyal, E. Rabkin, Encapsulation by segregation – a multifaceted approach to gold segregation in iron particles on sapphire, Acta mater. 102 (2016) 342-351
  13. E. Ruse, S. Pevsner, I. Pri Bar, R. Nadiv, V.M. Skripnyuk, E. Rabkin, O. Regev, Hydrogen storage and spillover kinetics in carbon nanotube-Mg composites, Int. J. of Hydrogen Energy 41 (2016) 2814-2819
  14. D. Amram, E. Rabkin, Phase transformations in Au-Fe particles and thin films: size effects at the micro- and nanoscales, JOM 68 (2016) 1335-1342
  15. D. Amram, D. Barlam, E. Rabkin, R.Z. Shneck, Coherency strain reduction in particles on a substrate as a driving force for solute segregation, Scripta mater. 122 (2016) 89-92
  16. O. Kovalenko, F.O. Chikli, E. Rabkin, The equilibrium crystal shape of iron, Scripta mater. 123 (2016) 109-112
  17. R. Kositski, O. Kovalenko, S.-W. Lee, J.R. Greer, E. Rabkin, D. Mordehai, Cross-split of dislocations: an athermal and rapid plasticity mechanism, Scientific Reports 6 (2016) 25966
  18. N. Gazit, L. Klinger, G. Richter, E. Rabkin, Formation of hollow gold-silver nanoparticles through the surface diffusion induced bulk intermixing, Acta mater. 117 (2016) 188-196
  19. L. Popilevsky, V.M. Skripnyuk, M. Beregovsky, M. Sezen, Y. Amouyal, E. Rabkin, Hydrogen storage and thermal transport properties of pelletized porous Mg-2 wt.% multiwall carbon nanotubes and Mg-2 wt.% graphite composites, Int. J. of Hydrogen Energy 41 (2016) 14461-14474

Review paper:

  1. L. Mishnaevsky Jr., E. Levashov, R. Z. Valiev, J. Segurado, I. Sabirov, N. Enikeev, S. Prokoshkin, A. V. Solov’yov, A. Korotitskiy, E. Gutmanas, I. Gotman, E. Rabkin, S. Psakh’e, L. Dluhoš, M. Seefeldt, A. Smolin, Nanostructured titanium-based materials for medical implants: modelling and development, Materials Science and Engineering R 81 (2014) 1-19

 

The research interests of our group are focused on the thermal stability and microstructure evolution of thin metal films and metal nanoparticles, on the nanoscale mechanical properties of materials, on diffusion along the grain- and interphase boundaries, and on the hydrogen storage in nanostructured metal hydrides. Current goals are to apply the mature concepts of Physical Metallurgy to the thermo-mechanical processing of metal nanostructures. In our studies we combine the measurements of nano-mechanical properties with microstructure characterization, mesoscopic modeling, and atomistic computer simulations. Recent achievements include the discovery of the extraordinary high strength of metal nanoparticles (Au and Fe) and its dependence on particle size, the new synthesis method of thermodynamically stable core-shell metal nanoparticles, and the new methods of fabrication of hollow metal nanostructures based on short-circuit diffusion. In the field of hydrogen storage we uncovered, for the first time, that nanostructuring with the aid of severe plastic deformation considerably improves the kinetics of hydrogen desorption from Mg-based alloys.
  • Diffusion along the grain boundaries and interfaces between dissimilar materials
  • Synthesis and properties of hollow and porous metal nanostructures
  • Diffusion processes in materials at the nanoscale
  • Nanoscale thermomechanical processing of metal nanoparticles and thin films
  • Mechanical properties of metal nanoparticles
  • Microstructure evolution in nanocrystalline solids and thin films
  • Hydrogen storage in metal hydrides