Seok-Woo receives the DOE-BES fund ($400,000) for the next three years! Seok-Woo’s group will work on the effects of sample dimension on tensile ductility of single crystalline niobium, tantalum, and tungsten at cryogenic temperatures using in-situ cryogenic nano mechanical testing. This work will also use the advanced computer simulations of dislocations (Discrete Dislocation Dynamics and Molecular Dynamics) to understand how dislocations behave in a confined volume. This project will give us a new insight into fundamental understanding of tensile ductility at the micrometer scale!
