| Nov. 22, 2011. Professor Ruslan Valiev was awarded the Blaise Pascal Medal in Materials Science at the General Assembly of the European Academy of Sciences held at the University of Milan, Italy, on 11 November, 2011. The award was presented in recognition of Ruslan’s “outstanding contribution to our understanding of the properties of bulk nanostructured materials.” Recognition was given also to Ruslan’s review article on SPD, published in Progress in Materials Science in 2000, which has so far received more than 2000 citations and is now “one of the most cited scientific publications in modern materials science.” The photo shows Ruslan (on right) receiving the award from Prof. Vicenzo Capasso, President of the European Academy of Sciences. Additional photos are available on the official website of the European Academy of Sciences (www.eurasc.org). | |
Nov. 18 , 2011. The 3rd Bi-Annual International Conference on Ultrafine Grained and Nanostructured Materials (UFGNSM-11) was held on November 2 and 3, 2011, at the University of Tehran in Tehran, Iran. The meeting was conducted under the auspices of the Center of Excellence for High Performance Materials in the School of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering at the University of Tehran. The conference attracted a large number of enthusiastic participants both from Iran and from several foreign countries. The conference included a wide range of oral presentations in two parallel sessions and many poster presentations in separate poster sessions. In the accompanying group photograph, the Chairman of the conference, Prof. Mohammad H. Parsa, is sitting in the seventh position from the right. The next conference in this series, UFGNSM-13, is scheduled for November 5-6, 2013.
Oct. 6, 2011. Prof. Terry Langdon of the University of Southern California and the University of Southampton has been selected as the recipient of the 2012 Acta Materialia Gold Medal. The award will be presented as part of the Fall Meeting of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) in Warsaw, Poland, on September 17-21, 2012. The E-MRS Fall Meeting will also include an Acta Materialia Gold Medal Symposium entitled "Recent Developments in the Processing and Properties of Ultrafine-Grained Materials." Further details will be announced in due course on the E-MRS website.
| Sept. 16, 2011. A special symposium entitled “Mechanical Properties of Nanomaterials – Experiments and Modelling” was held as part of the E-MRS Fall Meeting in Warsaw, Poland, on September 19-23, 2011. This symposium was a great success with many scientific contributions from both within and outside of Europe. The symposium organizers were Michael Zehetbauer (University of Vienna), Malgorzata Lewandowska (Warsaw University of Technology) and Gerhard Wilde (University of Munster). At a dinner held during the meeting, Michael Zehetbauer was presented with a special commemorative medal by Ruslan Valiev, Chairman of the NanoSPD International Steering Committee. The medal was presented in recognition of Michael’s success in organizing the symposium, his important scientific contributions on bulk functional nanomaterials and in celebration of his recent 60th birthday. The photo shows Michael accepting the medal from Ruslan. |  |
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The Third International Symposium on “Bulk Nanostructured Materials: from Science to Innovation” was held in the Congress Hall in Ufa, Russia, on August 22-26, 2011. This meeting included the Second Russian-French-German Workshop on “Atomic Transport in BNM and Related Unique Properties.” The meeting was an outstanding success attracting about 300 participants from more than 25 countries. The event took place in the framework of the Second Congress on Nanotechnologies that traditionally consists of an Exhibition of High Technologies and a series of round-tables and seminars on nanotechnologies under the auspices of the regional government, the Bashkortostan Academy of Sciences, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Ufa State Aviation Technical University together with NanoMeT Ltd. As in previous BNM symposia, a major emphasis was given to participation by young scientists with awards presented for the best oral and poster presentations. The second BNM Achievement Award was presented to Prof. Horst Hahn of Karlsruhe, Germany, for his outstanding contributions in the development of bulk nanostructured materials. The photo shows Prof. Hahn accepting the award (in the center) with Co-Chairmen Ruslan Valiev (left) and Terry Langdon (right).
Sept. 14, 2011. NanoSPD6 Venue Selected - The International NanoSPD Steering Committee has the pleasure to announce the results of the NanoSPD6 venue vote!
The 6th International Conference on Nanomaterials by Severe Plastic Deformation (NanoSPD6) will take place in 2014 in Metz, France, at the Laboratory for the Study of Microstructures and Mechanics of Materials. The Paul Verlaine University will be the organizing Institute. (http://www.lem3.fr). Congratulations to Metz and Prof. Laszlo Toth!
The Committee would like to also thank other candidates for their contributions. We hope to see everybody in Metz in 2014.
July 4, 2011. Prof. Jay Narayan is the winner of 2011 Acta Materialia Gold Medal and Prize. A special symposium is to be held to celebrate this event at the MS&T 2011 Meeting in Columbus, Ohio, USA, Oct. 16-20, 2011. This international symposium is dedicated to seminal research contributions of Professor Jagdish (Jay) Narayan (winner of 2011 Acta Materialia Gold Medal) in the field of materials science and engineering and to his leadership in materials science worldwide through professional societies and the National Science Foundation. Professor Narayan is the John C. C. Fan Family Distinguished Chair Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University. He also has appointment of Distinguished Visiting Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. More details can be found by clicking here.
March 28, 2011. The NanoSPD Achievement Award was introduced in 2008 in order to recognize outstanding achievements within the field of nanomaterials. This award will be presented every three years at the NanoSPD International Conferences. The first award was presented to Prof. Herbert Gleiter at NanoSPD4 in Goslar, Germany, in August 2008. The second award was presented to Prof. Terry Langdon at NanoSPD5 in Nanjing, China, on March 24, 2011. The citation reads “in recognition of his pioneering role in advancing research in nanomaterials and his life-long achievements in materials science and engineering.” The photo shows Prof. Ruslan Valiev (Chairman of the International NanoSPD Steering Committee) presenting Terry with a framed certificate and a commemorative plaque. Professor Jing Tao Wang is standing on the left and Mady Langdon on the right.
March 28, 2011. The 5th International Conference on Nanomaterials by Severe Plastic Deformation (NanoSPD5) was held on the campus of Nanjing University of Science and Technology in Nanjing, China, on March 21-25, 2011. The conference was an outstanding success with about 300 participants from 29 different countries. The conference proceedings are already available in Materials Science Forum, vol. 667-669 (2011). The group photo shows the participants on the morning of the first day of the conference: the Co-Chairmen of NanoSPD5, Prof. Jing Tao Wang (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China) and Prof. Terry Langdon (University of Southern California, USA, and University of Southampton, UK), are sitting in the front row on the right. Additional photos from NanoSPD5 are available at:
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March 1, 2011. The first annual MSEA Award was presented to Prof. Ruslan Valiev at a special reception organized by Elsevier Publishing at the TMS Annual Meeting in San Diego, California. The photo shows Ruslan (right) receiving the award from Prof. Enrique Lavernia (center), editor of Materials Science and Engineering A. Prof. Terry Langdon is standing on the left.
December 3, 2010. An International Symposium on Giant Straining Process for Advanced Materials (GSAM2010) was held at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, on November 19-22, 2010. The symposium was organized by Prof. Zenji Horita of Kyushu University and the primary focus was on the production of multifunctional materials using severe plastic deformation. The symposium included an introductory lecture by Prof. Nobuhiro Tsuji of Kyoto University on the new Japanese national project on “Bulk Nanostructured Metals.”
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December 1, 2010. Prof. Ruslan Z. Valiev, Chairman of the International NanoSPD Steering Committee, has been selected to receive the first MSEA Prize. This award was introduced this year by Elsevier to recognize outstanding scientific achievements in authors publishing in their journal Materials Science and Engineering A. Ruslan was selected to receive the award because of his many important contributions in the field of NanoSPD. The award was announced this week during the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, MA, and the formal presentation will be made at the TMS Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA, in February 2011.
March 4 , 2010. The Sixth International Symposium on Ultrafine Grained Materials (UFG-VI) was held in Seattle, WA, as part of the TMS Annual Meeting on February 15-17, 2010. The meeting was an outstanding success with a total of 175 abstracts received (an all-time record for a TMS symposium). The photo shows some of the award winners for the poster and oral presentations: (from left) Ji Hoon Yoo of POSTECH, Korea (Gold Poster Award), Kaveh Edalati of Kyushu University, Japan (Silver Oral Award), Yang Cao of the University of Sydney, Australia (Silver Oral Award), Matthias Hockauf of Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany (Silver Oral Award), Dr. Suveen Mathaudhu (UFG-VI primary orgaizer), Christopher Saldana of Purdue University (Gold Oral Award) and Emily Huskins of the Johns Hopkins University (Gold Oral Award). Not pictured are Anton Hohenwarter of the Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science, Austria (Silver Poster Award), Ying Li of UC Davis (Silver Poster Award), Yang Guo of Purdue University (Silver Poster Award) and Troy Topping of UC Davis (Silver Poster Award). We are grateful to the Materials Science Division of the U.S. Army Research Office for sponsoring these awards to encourage the younger scientists.
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March 4 , 2010. Prof. Yuntian Zhu, a member of the International NanoSPD Steering Committee, received a special honor at the TMS Annual Meeting in Seattle on February 16, 2010. Yuntian received the Materials Processing and Manufacturing Division Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award for 2010 where this award is given to an individual who has made a long lasting contribution to the design, synthesis, processing, and performance of engineering materials with significant industrial applications. The citation for the award recognized Yuntian “for his significant contributions to the deformation physics and ductility of nanocrystalline and ultrafine-grained (UFG) materials as well as nanotechnologies developed by his group for producing such materials. More inforamtion can be found at TMS website. |
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Jan. 5 , 2010. The review article “Principles of Equal-Channel Angular Pressing as a Processing Tool for Grain Refinement” by Ruslan Z. Valiev and Terence G. Langdon was published in Progress in Materials Science in 2006 (Vol. 51, pages 881-981). This paper is now receiving more than 150 citations each year and it is the most cited paper to appear in the journal in 2006. Based on this record, ISI/Thomson Reuters conducted an interview with Prof. Terry Langdon and the interview was added as a podcast to the Science Watch website in January 2010 (click on the Pod cast Icon below). The interview in mp3 is available at http://www.in-cites.com/media/podcasts/Langdon.mp3
Nov. 24 , 2009. The 2nd International Conference on Ultrafine Grained and Nanostructured Materials (UFGNSM-09) was held on November 14 and 15, 2009, at the University of Tehran, Iran. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Center of Excellence for High Performance Materials in the School of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering of the University of Tehran. The conference attracted more than 200 participants and there was a wide range of oral and poster presentations. In the accompanying group photograph, the Chairman of the conference, Prof. M.H. Sohi, is sitting in the sixth position from the right.
Sept. 28, 2009. The 2nd international symposium “Bulk nanostructured materials: from fundamentals to innovations. BNM-2009” was held in Ufa on September 22-26, 2009, through the organization of the Ufa State Aviation Technical University (USATU) and NanoMeT Ltd. 275 scientists took part in the symposium. They represented 26 countries: Russia, Germany, USA, Japan, China, Austria, Turkey, Brazil, Poland, Czech Republic, Iran, UK, Ukraine, India, Hungary, Slovakia, Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland, Australia, Belgium, Norway, Canada, Taiwan, and Portugal. Russia was represented by 198 participants. The symposium demonstrates that research in the field of bulk nanomaterials (BNM), which started twenty years ago in Ufa, has now achieved wide international recognition and development.
The symposium was co-organized by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the Academy of Sciences of the Bashkortostan Republic, the International Science and Technology Center (Moscow) and the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies RUSNANO. The international conference for young scientists with the elements of scientific school “Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies in Metallurgy and Materials Science” was co-organized by the Federal Agency for Science and Innovations.
June 10, 2009. A Workshop on New Advances in SPD Processing and Properties of Ductile Nanostructured Materials was held at the University of Melbourne on June 1-4, 2009, under the Chairmanship of Profs Kenong Xia and Terry Langdon. This meeting was the first SPD activity in Australia and it brought together a small group of foreign scientists and representatives from five different Australian universities. A highlight of the meeting was a presentation at the Workshop Dinner of a special certificate and award to Dr. Rimma Lapovok of Monash University in recognition of her pioneering efforts in establishing and promoting SPD research in Australia. The photo shows Rimma accepting the award from Prof. Langdon: seated are Mady Langdon (left) and Prof. Zenji Horita (right).
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April 23, 2009. Prof. Nobuhiro TSUJI moved from Osaka University to Kyoto University on March 1st, 2009. He is currently a full professor for physical and mechanical metallurgy of structural metallic materials. My new contact address is:
Nobuhiro TSUJI
Professor
Dept. Materials Science & Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering
Kyoto University
Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan
TEL +81-75-753-5462
FAX +81-75-753-4978
nobuhiro.tsuji@ky5.ecs.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Web: http://www.tsujilab.mtl.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
April 7, 2009. Professor Terry Langdon was presented with the Lee Hsun Award by the Institute for Metal Research (IMR), Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shenyang, China. The photo shows Prof. Langdon (on right) with Professr Hui-ming Cheng of IMR. The award is presented to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of materials science and engineering. The award also included a lecture on the processing of ultrafine-grained metals through the application of severe plastic deformation. The Lee Hsun Award is named in honor of Professor Lee Hsun who was the Director of IMR from 1951 until 1983. Professor Lee is best known for his discovery of the hydrogen embrittlement of steels during his stay at the University of Sheffield in England in the 1940's. For your information, you can see an old 1986 photo at the following website: http://ame-www.usc.edu/news/LeeHsun09/
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March 11, 2009: Professors Marc Meyers, and his colleagues, Dr. Mishra and Prof. Bensen, have recently received an award from the publishing company Elsevier for Most Cited Author in the period 2005-2008, for their paper titled "Mechanical Behavior of Nanocrystalline Materials" publshed in Progress in Materials Science, Volume 51, Issue 4, May 2006, Pages 427-556. This paper has received a total of 267 citations to date. |
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Feb. 5, 2009. Bulk Nanostructured Materials, a book edited by Dr. Michael Zehetbauer and Yuntian Zhu, is now available 
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Description of the book: The processing and mechanical behaviour of bulk nanostructured materials are one of the most interesting new fields of research on advanced metallic systems. Many nanocrystalline materials possess near theoretical strength and exhibit high values for fracture toughness, resilience, and fatigue resistance. There continues to be interest in these nanomaterials for use in biomedical, structural, and mechanical applications, and there now are a high number of research programs worldwide, too. The book focusses on techniques and the outstanding properties of materials with ultrafine grained structure, and also considers the basic understanding behind. Only since recently such materials can be produced in massive shape which opens their use in commercial and industrial applications.
Feb. 4, 2009. Nanostructured Materials, a book edited by Dr. Gerhard Wilde, is now available for order.
This book focuses on functional aspects of nanostructured materials that have a high relevance to immediate applications, such as catalysis, energy harvesting, energy storage, optical properties and surface functionalization via self-assembly. Additionally, there are chapters devoted to massive nanostructured materials and composites and covering basic properties and requirements of this new class of engineering materials. Especially the issues concerning stability, reliability and mechanical performance are mandatory aspects that need to be regarded carefully for any nanostructured engineering material.
January 24, 2009: "Progress in Materials Science" is a journal specializing in lengthy review articles on various aspects of materials science. The journal has an Impact Factor of 20.846 which is the highest of any journal publishing exclusively in the field of materials science. Professors Ruslan Valiev and Terence Langdon, two members of the International NanoSPD Steering Committee, have recently received an award from the publishing company Elsevier for Most Cited Author in the period 2005-2008. Their paper entitled "Principles of Equal-Channel Angular Pressing as a Processing Tool for Grain Refinement," published in Progress in Materials Science, volume 51, pages 991-981, September 2006, has received to date a total of 238 citations. |
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December 19, 2008. Professor Terry Langdon has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The citation reads "for distinguished contrbutions to the field of materials science, especially in pioneering the processing and properties of ultrafine-grained and nanostructured materials." The AAAS was founded in 1848 and is the world's largest general scientific society.
November 28, 2008. The International Symposium on Giant Straining Process for Advanced Materials was held in Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan on Nov. 21-24, 2008. This symposium focused on the microstructural refinement by severe plastic deformation (SPD) processes and on the attainment of unique mechanical properties such as high strength and high ductility in SPD-processed materials. Special attention is paid for the roles of high-density lattice defects produced by SPD. More photos can be downloaded from |
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November 27, 2008. Professor Ruslan Valiev, the Chairman of the International NanoSPD Steering Committee, has been elected a member of the European Academy of Sciences. The academy was inaugurated in 1999 to promote science and technology in Europe and it was formally recognized by Royal Decree in 2003 by King Albert II of Belgium. Election to membership is based solely on scientific merit and the membership includes many Nobel laureates. Ruslan Valiev was elected for his pioneering work in developing and promoting the application of severe plastic deformation in the processing of nanostructured metals.
| November 7, 2008. Professor Terry Langdon received the 2008 Blaise Pascal Medal in Material Science at the General Assembly of the European Academy of Sciences in the Palais des Academies in Brussels. The award was presented for his work in the area of severe plastic deformation and nanostructured materials. The photo shows Mady and Terry Langdon shortly after the award ceremony. They are standing in front of a portrait of Empress Maria Theresia of Austria, the founder of the Imperial and Royal Academy of Science and Literature in Brussels in 1772. |  |
Sept. 6 , 2008, 4th International Conference on Nanomaterials by Severe Plastic Deformation, 18-22 August 2008, Goslar, Germany . The most recent in the series of the NanoSPD conferences took place from 18-22 August 2008 in Goslar, Germany under the chairmanship of Professor Yuri Estrin of Monash University and CSIRO, Australia. (Co-chairman: Professor Hans-Jürgen Maier, University of Paderborn, Germany). The conference, with its 250 participants from 26 countries and 175 papers presented, has been a convincing demonstration of the attractiveness of the area of bulk ultrafine grained and nanostructured materials produced by severe plastic deformation to a large community of researchers and engineers. Significant progress in this field has been made since the last NanoSPD conference. This refers to all aspects of NanoSPD, including our understanding of the mechanisms underlying grain refinement by severe plastic deformation, characterisation of the properties of SPD-processed materials, improvement of processing techniques, and, finally, their applications. All these aspects are reflected in the structure of the Proceedings that have been published in Materials Science Forum. In a round table discussion on the last day of the conference, which was moderated by Professor Terry Langdon (University of Southern California and University of Southampton) and Professor Ruslan Valiev (Ufa State Aviation Technical University, Russia), recent achievements in the area of NanoSPD materials were discussed, and an outlook for nearing applications in industry were presented.
In a meeting held during the Conference, the NanoSPD International Steering Committee decided that the NanoSPD5 conference will be held in Nanjing, China in March 2011 under the Chairmanship of Professor Jing Tao Wang.
The Chairman of NanoSPD4, Professor Yuri Estrin, opens the conference.
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A group photo of the conference participants to the backdrop of the Imperial Palace in Goslar. |
The recipient of the NanoSPD Award, Professor Herbert Gleiter, with Professor Ruslan Valiev (Chairman of the NanoSPD Steering Committee) and Professor Hans Jürgen Maier (Co-Chairman of NanoSPD4) |
More pictures in high resolution from NanoSPD4 can be found at http://www.nanospd4.org/main.php?modId=nanospd4pictures
Aug. 19 , 2008, a special issue of Material Science Forum on nanoSPD and nanostrutured/ultrafine grained materials processed by SPD has been published. This issue. volume 584-586, collects 175 papers presented at the NanoSPD4 held in Goslar, Germany, August 18-22, 2008. July 11 , 2008, Prof. Terence Langdon recently received the Lee Hsun Award honoring outstanding accomplishments by worldwide scientists in the fields of materials science and engineering and will deliver next year's Lee Hsun Lecture at the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shenyang, China. This award is named after the first director of the Institute of Metal Research. |
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June 16 , 2008, A new book on Bulk Nanostructured Materials, with chapters contributed by many colleagues in our nanoSPD community, is in press and now ready for order. Click here for the order form.
May 22 , 2008, Up to six Blaise Pascal Medals for Science and Technology are given annually by the European Academy of Sciences to recognise an outstanding and demonstrated personal contribution to science and technology and the promotion of excellence in research and education. The 2008 Blaise Pascal Medal in Material Science will be awarded to Prof. Terry Langdon for his research on the processing and properties of ultrafine-grained metals. The award will be presented at a special ceremony to be held at the Palace of the Academies in Brussels in November 2008. Prof. Langdon has also been elected a member of the European Academy of Sciences.
March 22 , 2008, The Hael Mughrabi Honorary Symposium: Plasticity, Failure and Fatigue in Structural Materials - from Macro to Nano, on the occasion of Prof. Mugrabi's 70th birthday, held successfully on in New Orleans, LA, March 10-13 at the 2008 TMS Spring meeting. At the meeting, Hael is honored for his major contributions to the plasticity, failure and fatigue in structural materials. The photos below were taken at the banquet in Hael's honor by Prof. Wayne Jones of U. Michigan.
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| Hael receiving the TMS honorary plaque at a dinner in his honor from Dr. Moody | Hael speaking at the dinner in his honor | Hael with friends: Jimmy Hsia (Left 1), Mathias Goeken (Left 2), Neville Moody (right 3), Tresa Pollock (right 2), & Pedro D. Portella (right 1). |
March 13, 2008, The Fifth International Symposium on Ultrafine Grained Materials, held in New Orleans, LA, March 10-12, awarded 1 Gold Medal for poster presentation to Byungmin Ahn (left 1), and 3 Silver Medals for poster presentations to Roberto Figueiredo (left 2), Troy Topping (right 2), Irina Topic (right 1). The Gold and Silver Medal winners receive $200 and $100, respectively. The awards are sponsored by Hysitron.
March 11, 2008, Professor Terence G. Langdon's recent work with graduate student Roberto Figueiredo has been selected for inclusion in the March issue of "Materials Views" which reports new "hot topics" in the Materials Science area. For more information, click Here.
Jan. 27, 2008, The members of the NanoSPD International Steering Committee have pleasure in congratulating one of our members, Professor Yuri Estrin, on the award of an Honorary Doctorate (Doctor honoris causa) from the Russian Academy of Sciences. Professor Terry Langdon received this same award in 2003 and this means there are now two members of our Committee on whom this prestigious honorary degree has been conferred. Honorary doctorates are a rare distinction as only a small number are given each year across the nine divisions of the Academy. We congratulate Yuri on this very great honor that recognizes his many contributions to the field of materials science and we are pleased to record that this award demonstrates the high international visibility of our discipline.
Jan. 16, 2008, an April 2006 JOM paper, “Producing Bulk Ultrafine-Grained Materials by Severe Plastic Deformation,” changes the format of future JOM articles. For more information, read this Editorial from JOM for January 2008 issue.
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