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Our Publications 

The FAST research group currently has two connected 500 sqft lab spaces in the East Engineering Building of Virginia Commonwealth University. The 1st lab space is fitted with two water lines, a compressed air line, and multiple 220V 1-phase and 3-phase circuits/outlets and contains the MSETF-1 flow loop.

Archive

1. N. Williams, A. Duong, M. Patel, K. Snyder, and R. Barua, “The First Layer: Single-Track Insights into DED-Processed Cu-Ni Thermoelectric Alloys”, Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processes (In Press)

3. S. Sarker, M. M. Rajib, R. Barua, and J. Atulasimha, "Theoretical limits for energy density of aligned ferromagnetic nanoparticles in a nonmagnetic matrix for rare-earth-free permanent magnets." Appl. Phys. Lett. 126(9), 2025.

5. J. P. Nunez, V. Sharma, J. V. Rojas, R. Barua, and R. L. Hadimani, “Effect of x-ray irradiation on magnetocaloric materials,(MnNiSi) 1-x (Fe2Ge)x and LaFe13-x-yMnxSiyHz”. Materials Research Express, 11(9), 096102, 2024

7. S. Gupta, J.  Zhang, G. Ngige, M. Dey, M. Malusky, B. Samanta, D. Çakır, and R. Barua. "Synthesis and characterization of a remarkable ternary boride: Mo2NiB2." Open Ceramics 100556, 2024

9. V. Sharma, M. Dey, A. Duong, S. Gupta, and R. Barua. "Magnetofunctional response of AlFe2B2 powders synthesized in open air via molten salt shielded/sintering method." MRS Communications 13(4), 564-580, 2023

11. S. Wojesiak**, B. Wodajo**, A. Duong**, R. Hadimani and R. Barua*, “Review of Corrosion Studies on Magnetocaloric Compounds”, JOM, 1, 11 (2022)

13. A. Biswas, S. Gupta, D. Clifford, Y. Mudryk, R. Barua*, and V. K. Pecharsky, * “Bulk-like magnetostructural transition in FeRh nanoparticles”, J. Alloys and Comp., 921, 165993 (2022)

15. T. Hartnett, V. Sharma**, S. Garg, R. Barua, and P. Balachandran*, “Accelerated design of MTX multicaloric alloys with targeted magnetostructural properties through interpretable machine learning”, Acta Mater. 231, 117891 (2022)

17. M. Dey, S. Javaid, D. Clifford**, V. Sharma**, R. Barua and S. Gupta*, “Synthesis of Nanolayered Ternary Borides Powders (MAB Phases) by Sustainable Molten Salt Infiltration and Encapsulation Method”, J. of Mat. 57, 2436 (2022)

19. B. Lejeuene, R. Barua, Y. Mudruk, M. J. Kramer, V. Pecharksy and L.H. Lewis*, “Borderline first-order magnetic phase transition in AlFe2B2”, J. Alloys and Comp. 865,  161150 (2021)

21. B. Lejeune, R. Barua, R. Ott, E. Simsek, M. J. Kramer and L.H. Lewis*, “Towards additive manufacturing of magnetocaloric working materials”, Materialia 16, 101071 (2021)

23. N. Maât, I. McDonald, R. Barua, B. Lejeune, X. Zhang, G.M. Stephen, A. Fisher, D. Heiman, I. V. Soldatov, R. Schäfer and L. H. Lewis*, “Creating, probing and confirming tetragonality in bulk FeNi alloys” Acta Materialia, 196, 776 (2020)

25. X. Zhang, B. Lejeune, R. Barua, R.W. McCallum, and L.H. Lewis*, “Estimating the in-operando stabilities of AlFe2B2-Based compounds for magnetic refrigeration”, J. Alloys and Comp. 823,  153693 (2020)

27. C. S. Hunt**, R. Barua and E.E. Carpenter*, “Influence of A-Site cation size-disorder on the magnetocaloric response of La0.6CaxSr0.4-xMnO3 nanoparticles”, AIP Advances 10(1), 015228 (2020)

29. B. Lejeune, R. Barua, M. J. Kramer and L.H. Lewis*, “Lattice-driven magnetic transitions in AlT2B2 compounds”, J. Magn. And Mag. Matl., 481, 262, 2019

2. A. Duong, I. Smith, O. Bishop, K. Snyder and R. Barua, “Process-structure-property correlations in additively manufactured Alnico alloys”, JOM (In Press)

4. V. Sharma, K. Bhandari, and R. Barua. "Sustainable Cooling, Layer by Layer, Shaping Magnetic Regenerators via Additive Manufacturing" J. of Comp. Sci. 9(3), 114, 2025

6. V. Sharma, and R. Barua. "Synthesis, Characterization, and Magnetocaloric Properties of the Ternary Boride Fe2AlB2 for Caloric Applications." Materials 17.16 (2024): 3886.

8. V. Sharma, E. Goldsworthy, R. L. Hadimani, H. Zhao, and R. Barua. "Influence of powder feedstock characteristics on extrusion-based 3D printing of magnetocaloric structures." Mat. Res. Exp. 11(4), 046101, 2024

10. B. Wilfong, V. Sharma**, O. Bishop**, A. Federko, D. Heiman, R. Barua*, and M. E. Jamer*, The effect of vanadium substitution on the structural and magnetic properties of (Fe1-xVx)3Ga4, J. Magn. Mag. Matl., 169964 (2022)

12. W. Wilfong, A. Fedorko, X. Zhou, G. M. Stephen, A. L. Friedman, V. Sharma**, O. Bishop**, R. Barua, S. Bennet, D. Heiman and M. E. Jamer*, "Helical spin ordering in room-temperature metallic antiferromagnet Fe3Ga4.", J. Alloys and Comp., 917, 165532 (2022)

14. V. Sharma**, L. Balderson, A. Duong**, H. Zhao*, R. Hadimani and R. Barua*, “Extrusion-based 3D printing of magnetocaloric regenerators”, J. Alloys and Comp., 920, 165891 (2022)

16. M. Rais, M. Ahsan, V. Sharma**, R. Barua, R. Prins and I. Ahmed*,  “Low-magnitude Infill Structure Manipulation Attacks on FFF-based 3D Printers”, International Conference on Critical Infrastructure Protection (2022)

18. B. Wilfong, V. Sharma**, J. Naphy, O. Bishop**, S. P. Bennett, J. Prestigiacomo, R. Barua, and M. E. Jamer*, "Altering the magnetic ordering of Fe3Ga4 via thermal annealing and hydrostatic pressure." J. Alloys and Comp. 894, 162421 (2021)

20. T. Q. Harnett, V. Sharma**, R. Barua and P. Balachandran*, “Density Functional Theory Study of Chemical Pressure in MTX-like Compounds”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 118(21), 212408 (2021)

22. D. Clifford**, V. Sharma**, D. Kamble, R. V. Ramanujan and R. Barua*, “Multicaloric effects in MnNiSi-Fe2Ge systems”, IEEE Mag. Trans 57(2), 1-5 (2021)

24. Y. Cao, Y. Yuan, V. I. Zverev, R. Barua, R. L. Hadimani and Hao Fu*. "Phase transition and magnetocaloric effect in particulate Fe-Rh alloys." J. of Mat. Sci. 55 (27), 13363 (2020)

26. K. Al-Milaji, S. Gupta, V. K. Pecharsky, R. Barua, H. Zhao, and R. L. Hadimani*, “Differential Effect of Magnetic Alignment on Additive Manufacturing of Magnetocaloric Particles”, AIP Adv. 10(1), 015052 (2020)

28. Y. Min J. Runjun, Z. Wang, J. Liu, R. Barua and M. Zhang*, “Enhancement in interfacial exchange coupling of composite ferrites by the introduction of ultrasonic into chemical co-precipitation,” J. Alloys and Comp. 820, 153429 (2020)

30. R. Barua, B. Lejeune, B. Jensen, R. W. McCallum, M. J. Kramer and L.H. Lewis*, “Enhanced magnetocaloric effect and tunable magnetic properties in Ga- and Ge-substituted compositional variants of AlFe2B2 alloys”, J. Alloys and Comp. 777, 1030, 2019.

About AMP

We are the Advanced Materials Processing(AMP) Lab at the Virginia Commonwealth University(VCU).

Engineering East Hall, E3221
401 W Main St.
Richmond, VA 23284 

Lab: (804)-828-2570

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