Jessica Maita joined our research group. Welcome!

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

MSE e-Bulletin 2017 is now available online, and our research is highlighted as the first news!

https://issuu.com/materialsscienceengineering/docs/mse_fall2017-8-21

John Lacy (Sophomore, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University) successfully finished his NSF-REU program at our research laboratory. He studied nanoindentation properties of nanocrystalline ceramics as a collaborative work with US Naval Research Laboratory. I really appreciate his great contributions he made in this summer!

< NSF-REU poster presentation at UConn >

 

John and Gyuho attended 2017 Gordon Research Conference – Physical Metallurgy.

John gave a poster presentation entitled “Superelastic and Micaceous Deformation in Novel Interemtallic Compound CaFe2As2 at Small Length Scales.”

Gyuho gave a poster presentation entitled “Molecular Dynamics Study on Temperature-Dependent Screw Dislocation Behavior in BCC Metal Nanopillars.”

Tyler and Seok-Woo attended 2017 SES Meeting at Northeastern Universtiy, MA (July, 25-28).

Tyler gave a presentation entitled “Mechanical Characterization of Cold-Sprayed Aluminum Alloy Particles via Micropillar Compression”

John’s research was highlighted at the MSE department news!

The link of this news is the following.

Ph.D. Student’s Research into Novel Intermetallic Compound Gains Traction

 

 

Tyler gave a poster presentation at CSAT 2017 about his work on micro-compression and micro-tension on cold sprayed Al 6061 powders. (Northeastern University, MA, 06/15/2017)

The title of his poster was “Mechanical Characterization of Cold-Sprayed Aluminum Alloy Powders Via In-situ Micropillar Compression and Tension.”

 

Keara Frawley and John Lacy (Mech Eng, Northeastern University) join our lab for summer research.

They are going to study ‘Nanoindentation on superelastic materials and nanocrystalline ceramics.’

Keara Frawley is UConn MSE senior undergraduate student.

John Lacy is from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northeastern University. He works as a part of a NSF-REU program.

Seok-Woo gave an invited talk at Brookhaven National Lab on May. 17, 2017.

The title of presentation was “A new-type of superelastic and shape memory material: ThCr2Si2-structurd intermetallic compounds.”

Seok-Woo gave two presentations at MRS 2017 Spring Meeting at Phoenix, AZ on April 19, 2017.

(1) A new-type of superelastic and shape memory material: ThCr2Si2-structurd intermetallic compounds

(2) Ultra-high elastic energy storage material; sequentially infiltrated SU-8 negative photoresist nanocomposites