John and Shuyang’s another Acta Materialia paper (superelastic CaFe2As2: Part II) is published! Congratulations!

This work was primarily done by Ian Bakst and Prof. Chris Weinberger at Colorado State University. John and Shuyang participated in this paper as an experimental contribution. Sriram (the former PhD student at UConn MSE) and Prof. Mark Aindow also contributed to this work by providing the TEM data.

Ian N. Bakst, John T. Sypek, Sriram Vijayan, Shuyang Xiao, Mark Aindow, Seok-Woo Lee, Christopher R. Weinberger ,”Uniaxial compression of CaFe2As2 single crystals: the effects of microstructure and temperature on superplasticity – Part II: Modeling” Acta Materialia, 203, 116462 (2021) [web][pdf]

Zhongyuan attended the NSF poster presentation competition at IMECE 2020 and receives the award for Best Data Analysis/Presentation! This award is given for a student who shows the excellence in data representation, professionalism in presentation, and research summary. Many congratulations!

His poster title is “Ultra-High Elastic Energy Storage in Metal-Oxide-Infiltrated Hybrid Polymer Nanocomposite“, which is supported by NSF-MoMS (Mechanics of Materials and Structures). This poster discusses how to develop a polymer nanocomposites that exhibit near-theoretical limit of elastic energy absorption capability.

 

John and Shuyang’s Acta Materialia paper is published. I deeply appreciate his hard work even after graduation! 🙂 I hope he makes a great career at Collins Aerospace!

John T. Sypek, Sriram Vijayan, Shuyang Xiao, Matthew J. Kramer, Paul C. Canfield,  Mark Aindow, Christopher R. Weinberger, Seok-Woo Lee, “Uniaxial compression of CaFe2As2 single crystals: the effects of microstructure and temperature on superplasticity – Part I: Experimental Observation” Acta Materialia, 203, 116464 (2020) [web][pdf]

(Note: Part II will also appear very soon at Acta Materialia!)

Jessica continues to receive her GE fellowship in Spring semester. Congratulations and Thank you so much for your excellent leadership for UConn Materials Science Communities!