Keith and John’s work is highlighted in “Scientific Highlight” of MRS Fall meeting! – Click Here.

Keith and John are working on Superelasticity and Cryogenic Shape Memory Intermetallic Compounds.

Lee’s group attend 2016 MRS Fall Meeting at Boston!

Enjoy photos in our Gallery!

Oral Presentation

• Strong, Ductile, Thermally Stable Cu-Based Metal-Intermetallic Nanostructure Composites
  Keith Dusoe, Sriram Vijayan, Thomas Bissell, Jie Chen, Avinash Dongare, Mark Aindow, Seok-Woo Lee
• A New Class of Superelastic Material – ThCr2Si2-type Novel Intermetallic Compounds At Small Length Scales
  Keith Dusoe, Ian Bakst, John Sypek, Christopher Weinberger, Paul Canfield, Seok-Woo Lee
• Superelasticity, Micaceous Plasticity and Size Effects of Novel Intermetallic Compound CaFe ₂As ₂ at Small Length Scales
  John Sypek, Christopher Weinberger, Paul Canfield, Sergey Bud’ko, Seok-Woo Lee
• Synthesis of Bulk Single-Crystalline Quasicrystal Approximant YCd6 and Its SmallScale Mechanical Properties
  Gyuho Song, Tai Kong, Paul Canfield, Seok-Woo Lee
• Modelling The Superelastic Behavior In Small Scale ThCr2Si2-Type Crystal
  Christopher Weinberger, Ian Bakst, John Sypek, Keith Dusoe, Hang Yu, Paul Canfield, Seok-Woo Lee
• Particle Impact Phenomena in Cold Spray of Gas Atomized Aluminum Alloy Powders
  Mark Aindow, Benjamin Bedard, Harold Body, Victor Champagne, Avinash Dongare, Tyler Flanagan, Seok-Woo Lee, Sumit Suresh, Xuemei Wang

Poster

Amanda Giroux, Hetal Patel, and Leopoldo Valencia Jr. attended 2016 MS&T meeting at Utah. Amanda gave a poster presentation about her summer research on Superplasticity of ThCr2Si2-structured intermetallic compounds (This work was supported by NSF-REU program). Hetal participated in Mug Cup Drop contest. Leo participated in Geodome contest.

Leo is currently working on the development of Cu-based nanostructured alloys with enhanced strength and ductility with Jack Morley. Hetal is currently working on the measurement of temperature-dependent theoretical strength of metal using spherical nanoindentation. Amanda studied “Superplasticity of ThCr2Si2-structured intermetallic compounds” during the last summer.

Amanda met Chef Gordon Ramsay!!! Awesome!!!

Also, read the department news!

John Sypek won the first place in the poster competition of the SES (Society of Engineering Science) 2016 – 53^rd Annual Technical Meeting at University of Maryland, College Park, MD. The SES meeting is one of the biggest ‘Mechanics’ conferences in USA.

John Sypek gave a poster presentation entitled “Superelasticity and one-dimensional cryogenic shape memory effects of novel intermetallic compound CaFe₂As₂ at small length scales,” on October 4^th. Many Congratulations!

Keith, John, and Seok-Woo attended the SES 2016 (Society of Engineering Science) – 53rd annual technical meeting at University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

Keith Dusoe presented a talk entitled “Ultra-high elastic strain energy storage in AlO_x-infiltrated SU-8 photoresist nanopillars,” on October 3^rd, and a talk and poster presentation entitled “In-situ compression of solution-grown crystalline superelastic materials: ThCr₂Si₂-structured novel intermetallic compounds,” on October 4^th.

John Sypek presented a talk and poster presentation entitled “Superelasticity and one-dimensional cryogenic shape memory effects of novel intermetallic compound CaFe₂As₂ at small length scales,” on October 3^rd and 4^th, respectively.

Seok-Woo receives 2016 NASA Early Career Faculty Award!

The official announcement is available at the NASA website, and the brief project description is available here.

This news is featured at ExecutiveBiz, and UConn MSE homepage.

Seok-Woo attended WCCM 2016 at Seoul, Korea on July 24-29. Seok-Woo chaired the session of “Computational Modeling of Dislocation Behaviors”, and gave a talk entitled “Cold-Temperature Deformation of Nano-Sized Tungsten and Niobium as Revealed by Dislocation Dynamics”.

Seok-Woo Lee, Yingtong Cheng, Julia R. Greer,”Cold-Temperature Deformation of Nano-Sized Tungsten and Niobium as Revealed by Dislocation Dynamics”

Lee’s group attended the Gordon Research Conference – Thin Films and Small Scale Mechanical Behavior at Bates College, ME (July 24-29, 2016). Four posters were presented by PhD students (Keith, John, Gyuho, and Tyler).

Keith J. Dusoe,  Aaron Stein, Chang-Yong Nam, Seok-Woo Lee – “Ultra-high elastic energy storage in AlOx-infiltrated SU-8 nanopillars”

John T. Sypek, Hang Yu, Hetal Patal, Paul C. Canfield, Sergey Bud’ko, Christopher R. Weinberger,  Seok-Woo Lee – “Superelasticity and one-dimensional cryogenic shape memory effects of novel intermetallic compound CaFe2As2 at small length scales”

Gyuho Song, Tai Kong, Paul C. Canfield, Seok-Woo Lee – “Synthesis of bulk single-crystalline quasicrystal approximant YCd6 and its small scale mechanical behavior”

Tyler J. Flanagan, Oleg Kovalenko, Eugen Rabkin, Seok-Woo Lee – “Controlling the strength of mobile-dislocation-free gold microparticles via microstructure and surface-structure modification”

Seok-Woo receives UConn Research Excellence Program Award. The proposal title is “Giant Pseudo-elasticity of High Temperature Superconductor CaFe2As2”