MAX Phases: Properties of Machinable Ternary Carbides and Nitrides

Michel Barsoum is Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University, USA. His research group was the first to fabricate and fully characterize the MAX phases, an important new class of machinable ternary carbides and nitrides on which he and his collaborators have published more than 150 papers. He is also the author of a textbook on the fundamentals of ceramics. Michel Barsoum was awarded a Humboldt Max Planck Research Award in 2000 and spent one year at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany. He is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and the World Academy of Ceramics. In 2008-2009 he spent a sabbatical year at Los Alamos National Lab as the prestigious Wheatley Scholar. In addition, Michel Barsoum is visiting professor at the Linkoping University in Sweden.