Supervisor’s research interests

Crystallographic texture is a collection of crystalline orientations in a polycrystalline sample. The importance of a texture lies first in its direct relationship with material properties and second as a method of fingerprinting the material history. My research interests are connected with neutron texture measurements, processing and interpretations of constructional, geological, biological and ceramic samples.

Research highlights

Neutron texture measurements are fulfilled at the SKAT diffractometer situated at beamline 7 of the pulsed reactor IBR2 in the FLNP JINR. Most of the samples are provided from German, Polish, Russian, Romanian and Czech universities.

Main publications

• Nikolaev D., Lychagina T., Pakhnevich A. Experimental neutron pole figures of minerals composing the bivalve mollusc shells // Springer Nature Appl. Sci. 2019. V. 1 № 344. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-019-0355-1
• D. Nikolayev, T. Lychagina, A.A. Zisman, E. Yashina Directly verifiable neutron diffraction technique to determine retained austenite in steel Advanced Engineering Materials, vol. 20, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.201700559
• T. Lychagina, D. Nikolayev Quantitative comparison of the measured crystallographic textures, Journal of Applied Crystallography, 2016, 49(4), 1290-1299.