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16 Jun 2024: Phase Transformations & Complex. Properties Research Group. Queen Mary University of London. Emeritus Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy. University of Cambridge. Ph.D. student. Rajdeep Mondal. rajdeep.mondal@qmul.ac.uk. Honorary Associates. The

16 Jun 2024: Phase Transformations & Complex. Properties Research Group. Queen Mary University of London. Emeritus Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy. University of Cambridge. Ph.D. student. Rajdeep Mondal. rajdeep.mondal@qmul.ac.uk. Honorary Associates. The

24 Jun 2024: Steels for rails. W. Solano-Alvarez and H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Abstract. Transport by rail is an efficient way of moving goods and people while managing problems such as congestion and the consequences on the environment. The relatively low energy

24 Jun 2024: "Rail Live" 2024. Pictures courtesy of Wilberth Solano who took them while at the Rail Live exhibition. Setting up for the demonstration of aluminothermit welding of rails. The yellow "Pandrol" is a preheater powered by propane. This avoids the need

16 Jun 2024: CML Reunion, South Korea. Many long-standing and recent members of the Computational Metallurgy Laboratory at GIFT, POSTECH in South Korea got together for a reunion in Pohang. The event also marked the celebration of Professor Dong Woo Suh's

20 Jun 2024: Dr Sangeeta Khare visits Cambridge. Dr Sangeeta Khare is an academic at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. She is also a PT Group member, having worked with Harry for many years, both at POSTECH in South Korea and in Cambridge. Here, we are

16 Jun 2024: Harry at the BBC. Harry was at the BBC to record the Life Scientific podcast. Heading towards the famous studios in London's Broadcasting House. The newsroom from the top. The Tardis. Published, 2023. October 8th, 2024.

3 Jun 2024: The Norwich 60 bicycle ride, 2nd June 2024. Training before the Norwich ride. Training consisted of two separate 40 mile sessions. In the beautiful Cambridgeshire countryside. Each 40.57 mile trip began in Comberton, to St Ives, and back. In St Ives,

3 Jun 2024: Rajdeep Mondal does experiments, May 2024. Rajdeep Mondal is conducting research leading to a Ph.D. qualification from Queen Mary University of London. Here, Dr Steve Ooi is helping to use the machine, very generously, over two whole days. The

3 Jun 2024: Saurabh Kundu from Tata Steel, visits Japan, May 2024. Saurabh Kundu attended the 56th TECO meeting of the World Steel Association, at Tokyo, Japan. There he had the opportunity to connect once again with colleagues who were all in the Phase

14 Apr 2024: Professor Haibin Zuo visits from USTB. Professor ZUO Haibin, Associate Director of the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallurgy, at the University of Science and Technology Beijing, visited us (Haixue Yan and Harry) at Queen Mary University of

14 Apr 2024: A collection of 280 years. Ravindra, Mukesh, Batuk and Harry (Harshad) were all at the Highway Secondary School in Nairobi, back in 1968. We all now live in the U.K. and had our first ever reunion, after some 45 years, in London. Ravindra organised

14 Apr 2024: Adventures of PT Group Members (and others). An elephant made from graphite. An asymmetrical "I-beam". Trading post in New Mexico (not the Dominican Republic), picture courtesy of Noelle Hommedieu. Pieces of steel that Faraday himself conducted

4 May 2024: Paul Shelley visits from Molycop, May 2024 2024. Molycop is an international industry supplying mining consumables. It has laboratories in Australia, Chile and Peru. Dr Paul Shelley sponsors research on steel at Queen Mary University of London, and

8 Jun 2024: One. Two. Published, 2023.

14 Feb 2020: Danyi Luo reports from China, getting married. Danyi Luo, a PT Group Member, is going to get married. Here is a picture of her with her fiancee, together with a couple of the Christmas dinner they had together. More pictures.

27 Nov 2022: Henrique Boschetti Preiria (University of Sao Paulo) visits Harry. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Henrique Boschetti Preiria from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, visits Harry. He is at the final stages of his Ph.D., working on the flash butt welding of

10 Sep 2023: Atomium. Atomium is designed by AndrX Waterkeyn - each ball in the body-centred cubic arrangement is about 18 m in size. The "bonds" are made of steel. The whole structure is more than 100 m tall. The crystal structure is supposed to represent iron

14 Feb 2020: Jae Hoon Jang and Hee Young Kim celebrating Steels. #The book of steel, received by Jae Hoon Jang (Korea Institute for Materials Science) and Hee Young Kim. Both used to be at GIFT, POSTECH in South Korea.

18 Aug 2023: Harry's induction at Indian National Science Academy. Harry was elected a Fellow in 2018 but the opportunity for a formal induction into INSA arose during a visit to New Dehli. From left to right, Professor Ashutosh Sharma (President of INSA),

17 Dec 2022: Snow, Saurabh, Sophie, Daniel and Harry. Pictures courtesy of Saurabh Kundu and Daniel Gaude Fugarolis. For about a week, a large amount of snow was followed by really cold weather with temperatures dipping to -5C. This made it impossible to cycle

8 Oct 2022: Various encounters. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Happened to be walking on the Queen Mary University of London campus, saw this person in a knight's armour. I introduced myself as a Knight of the Realm, and we shared a picture together. His outfit was

14 Feb 2020: Joo Hyun Ryu reports on the GIGA steel. Dr Joo Hyun Ryu, who graduated from GIFT POSTECH, following his research on hydrogen embrittlement of TRIP and TWIP steels, reports here on he development of "GIGA" steel, a strong steel product for the

14 Feb 2020: Daniel, Bedouin, Titan, Kundu and South Africa. Daniel Guade Fugarolas, PT Group Member, visiting Cambridge from Spain. Here at Darwin College for lunch and a natter. Wen Di (Wendy) doing her personal protective equipment demonstration at the TWI in

25 May 2023: Steve Ooi, Adreil Wong, Namaste, Squash, Harry. Adreil Wong has successfully finished his Ph.D. at Cambridge and before he left for his new job in Redditch, we had a nice lunch at the Namaste Restaurant. A few days later, Adreil, for the first time,

14 Feb 2020: Bhadeshia123 YouTube Channel: age, gender, location, content, 20 Oct-17 Nov. The channel, during the period September to December has a huge viewer focus on crystallography, particularly amongst the young. This coincides with the first academic

14 Feb 2020: Dr Tanaka visits Cambridge from Daido Steel in Japan.

14 Feb 2020: Steve Ooi, Hala Salman Hasan, Andy Howe, Greg Olson, Impact factor. Hala Salman Hasan visits Cambridge, here with Steve Ooi in the Coffee room. Andy Howe retires again, this time as Editor of Materials Science and Technology. Looks too young to me

21 Sep 2023: Visit to China Steel, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Harry visited China Steel (September, 2023) to deliver a talk on entitled machine learning - steels - artificial intelligence?, and then have a holiday at the southernmost tip of Taiwan. Professor Jer Ren

22 Jul 2022: John Wilcox, Thomas Sourmail, Chinnapat Panwisawas, Tomihoko Hojo. John Wilcox and Harry were Ph.D. students at the same time, in the Steel Group at Cambridge. John has for some time, been based in Glasgow, but was visiting Cambridge for a 50 year

14 Feb 2020: Peter Girling learns to forge iron. Peter attended a course on how to forge iron. The managed to create some quite intricate objects at his first go. The inevitable dirty hands. Anvil, with the objects that Peter made. The hearth.

23 Dec 2020: Kazutoshi Ichikawa wins major award. Professor Kazutoshi Ichikawa of Tohoku University and PT Group Member with the "Director General of Japanese Patent Office Award" for his work on the highly-ductile steel plates used in the manufacture of ship

7 Jan 2022: Variety of events, December 2021 and January 2022. New cycling jacket. New cycling jacket. Derek, at Darwin College, staff Christmas Dinner. Harry, at Stoyan Smoukov and Abiola's wedding. This image is generated by typing bainite into wombo. This

14 Feb 2020: Themecmastor flood, Pu Shengda, Girish Nivarti. Flood caused by detached water pipe on PT Group Thermecmastor. Nice biscuits brought by Pu Shengda following his visit to Japan. /Users/harshadbhadeshia/Pictures/iPhoto

14 Feb 2020: Steel at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Photographs courtesy of Wilberth Solano-Alvarez (PT Group Member).

14 Feb 2020: Darwin College, Graduation lunch, 22nd July 2017. #Ph.D. and Masters graduates, their families and friends enjoy a splendid lunch at Darwin College.

8 Sep 2022: Rian and Antoinette Dippenaar visit Cambridge. Rian Dippenaar did his Ph.D. in the Department of Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge, in 1968, under the supervision of Professor Robert Honeycombe. They together solved the mechanism by which

27 Nov 2020: Harry's 67th birthday. #. Lovely cake delivered at 9 a.m. to Harry's house while he was still in his pyjamas. This is a vegan cake organised by the lovely people you see. Apparao Chintha, Steve Ooi, Shaumik Lenka, Mohammed Alshafrani (whose father

18 Apr 2021: Professor Kaiming Wu and colleagues watch the "100 years of books" presentation. The Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy in Cambridge celebrated its 100 year anniversary. One of the events to mark this occasion dealt with the books

14 Feb 2020: 70th anniversary of freedom and fragmentation. # Selected images from an exhibition held at the Centre of South Asian Studies in Cambridge University. This year is the 70th year since the independence of India from British rule.

20 Jun 2020: Art by two artists, June 2020.

14 Feb 2020: Double rainbow in Cambridge. Some pictures courtesy of Apparao Chintha.

14 Feb 2020: Snow, mountains, Switzerland, Snowflake, EBSD cake. Apart from the first one, the photographs were all taken in Switzerland, about 3 hours drive from Zurich, during December 2017. The cake pictures are from South Africa. A flake of snow,

14 Feb 2020: Designing low carbon, low temperature bainite. Hong-Seok Yang and H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Abstract. The possibility of producing bainite at low temperatures by suppressing transformation using substitutional solutes has been investigated, as an

9 Oct 2022: Professor Wenwen Song (Aachen University) visits Harry. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Professor Wenwen Song, of Aachen University in Germany, visits Harry at Queen Mary University of London. She is renowned for her work on steels and recently was awarded

30 Aug 2022: Baking hot, bicycles, additive manufacturing, Russia, Malaysia, Queen Mary University of London. The pond in Comberton, completely barren with all water evaporated due to the heat wave and lack of rain. This is the Comberton pond in 2001 when we had

9 Feb 2021: More events during lockdown. Flooded river in Toft, Cambridge, UK. New, twisted building in Taipei, Taiwan. Photograph courtesy of Professor Jer-Ren Yang. The Tata Steel team on a hike near Jamshedpur. Ice dendrites photographed by Andy Howe near

14 Feb 2020: Mohammed Alshahrani visits Zanzibar to help construct a school. #Click a picture to see a larger view.

14 Feb 2020: November 2017 - bike ride to St Ives. #Photographs and videos courtesy of Richard Gymer and Gebril El-Fallah.

24 May 2021: 60 mile bike ride, 23rd of May 2021. The cycling season is off to a gentle start, with pandemic precautions in place. Along the later sections of the route, we (Dominik Dziedzic, Steve Ooi, Harry Bhadeshia) battled wind and rain and felt quite