Keith passed his PhD proposal defense successfully! Many Congratulations!!!

John received the graduate student poster award at the ECI conference.

He earned 200 euro!

Keith, John and Seok-Woo attended the ECI “Nanomechanical testing in materials research and development IV” at Croatia.

Keith gave a poster presentation entitled “Ultra-high Elastic Strain Energy Storage in Hybrid Metal-oxide Infiltrated Polymer Nanocomposites.”

John gave a poster presentation entitled “Superelasticity and micaceous plasticity of the novel intermetallic compound CaFe2As2 at small length scales.”

Seok-Woo gave an oral presentation entitled “A new type of superelastic and shape memory materials: ThCr2Si2-structured novel intermetallic compounds at small length scales.”

Also, please enjoy beautiful pictures at our group gallery!

 

Gyuho’s research is highlighted at our Department website! His picture looks awesome!

Here is the link!

Graduate Student Turns Early Interest Into a Career in MSE

 

Jessica received NSF LSAMP-BD (Bridge to Doctorate) fellowship! Many congratulations!

Her funding supports her research on mechanical behavior of amorphous boron. This material is highly interesting in that it is a monatomic metallic glass, which is extremely rare. We expect dynamic structural change of this metastable (barely unstable) material under significant mechanical deformation at the micrometer scale.

Program information is available below.

https://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13646

 

Jessica Maita joined our research group. Welcome!

She is going to study crystallization kinetics and micro-mechanical behavior of amorphous boron! How exciting!