MSE Fall 2015 Newsletter

Fall 2015

Five years since the MSE-PTFE merger, the School of Materials Science and Engineering is educating students with a solid core while specializing in the broadest range of concentrations, and continuing to lead advances in materials research that address societal challenges of today and tomorrow.

Biomaterials Environment Fibers Transportation Ceramics Infrastructure Nanostructures Energy Polymers Composites Textiles Health & Human Welfare Metals Security

Dear Alumni and Friends,

From the Chair

Greetings! It has been five years since the merger of the Schools of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) and Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering (PTFE). Today MSE at Georgia Tech is educating undergraduate and graduate students with a curriculum that transcends all forms of materials, and gives them the opportunity to specialize with concentrations that make them most sought-after in all sectors of advanced and traditional materials industries. In pursuit of their research interests, the students are developing skill-sets in areas of materials synthesis and processing, characterization and testing, measurements and diagnostics, and computational modeling and simulations. They are building on the process-structure-property-performance paradigm to design, innovate, and create materials, addressing societal grand challenges in energy, environment, health and human welfare, infrastructure, security, and transportation.

The honor of being the chair of one of the most interdisciplinary MSE programs is the privilege to learn about the diverse materials-related research being pursued by our distinguished faculty and outstanding students. The interactions with the faculty and students allow me not only to learn the vocabulary but also to build an expertise in the many fundamental issues unique to each material system. Being a metallurgist by training, I am only now beginning to appreciate the similarities and distinguishing aspects among metals, ceramics, and polymers. That, I believe, is the unique strength of MSE at Georgia Tech.

Our students see first-hand the nature of interactions among different classes and forms of materials. Our faculty are also benefiting from each other’s work, often at the interfaces of different materials. We are able to integrate cross-cutting concepts to create materials with novel/multiple functionalities, or materials customized for performance-specific functions and applications.

We are taking major strides to enhance our partnerships with industry. We were proud to host Dr. Douglas Muzyka, Senior Vice President and Chief Science Technology Officer at DuPont, as the inaugural speaker for our Industry Executive Seminar Series.

His visit led to the development of a road map for a partnership with enhanced engagement between DuPont and Georgia Tech, which we hope will catalyze similar relationships with other industries. To engage with industry further, we are setting up state-of-the-art processing equipment for instructional laboratory experiments, research, and capstone design projects.

“Innovation neighborhoods” and “collaborative laboratories” are being built in and around the campus to enable small and large corporations to benefit from the talent, creativity, service, and leadership of our people, while also directly supporting the educational and research activities of our students.

I see the true impact that the people of MSE are making during meetings with our alumni at various gatherings, industry visits, conferences, and individual one-on-one sessions. I enjoy meeting with our alumni and learning about their personal and professional accomplishments. I am humbled by their stories and their appreciation of the value of their Georgia Tech education. It is that passion and sense of responsibility that drives me and my faculty colleagues to move forward with the mission of being the model MSE program that will define the future of our discipline.

Please do come by and visit with us when you are in Atlanta so that you can see the way MSE at Georgia Tech is evolving in its pursuit of excellence. Thank you for your continued support of the School and for everything that you do in your careers to bring recognition for MSE and for Georgia Tech.

Naresh Thadhani, Professor and Chair, MSE

In this Issue: • From the Chair

• Internal and External Awards

• Innovation in MSE

• Faculty Promotions

• MSE Research Scholars

• New Faculty

• Recognizing Student Excellence

• 2015 CoE Alumni Awards

• What I Did on My Summer Break

• MSE Industry Executive Seminar Series

• Capstone Design Projects

• Why I Support MSE, Alumni Perspective • Brumley D. Pritchett Lecture Series • Interdisciplinary Research and Materials Characterization Facility • Research Snapshots

Innovation in MSE

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nnovation is the catalyst to growth. It is also the key to solving the societal challenges we face today, and will continue to face in the future. Here in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, our focus is always on innovation. We see it, and cultivate it, in a variety of ways in both our faculty and students, and continue to look for new opportunities to tap into that creative spirit.

This year, MSE established a new Student Innovation Fund. This fund provides the school with the means to offer our students key opportunities to develop innovative problemsolving and entrepreneurial skills, while allowing for maximum flexibility and opportunity.

Programs covered by the Student Innovation Fund include the MSE Research Scholarship Program, Capstone Design course and expo, annual MSE poster competition, and Student Entrepreneurship Competition. We have many people and companies to thank for their support of these programs, including Solvay, Premier Sponsor of the MSE Poster Competition and sponsor of three Undergraduate Research Scholars. Others include 3M Worldwide, Alcoa, Caterpillar, Ginn Mineral, Imerys USA, Kimberly-Clark, Michelin, Novelis, TenCate, and Vertera.

Many of you are aware of the Georgia Tech Invention Studio, a 3,000 square foot, milliondollar industry-sponsored, student-run space that allows Tech students to move from creative thinkers to hands-on makers.

While this studio focuses on the manufacturing of products, MSE is establishing its own, complementary, Invention Studio / laboratory that will include equipment for the characterization and development of materials, rather than devices. Creating new materials, and new uses for existing materials, is key to the evolutionary process of technology. MSE is particularly grateful to the 3M Foundation for its gift in support of equipment for this facility.

MSE faculty continue to be recognized for the excellence of their work, and we are appreciative of Kolon Industries for renewing the Kolon Term Professorship, currently held by Sundaresan Jayaraman, and to 3M for their support of Dong Qin with the 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award. Additionally, many companies provided financial support to fund the ongoing research of faculty, including ArcelorMittal Steel, Desco, Dingsheng Silk, Persian Community Center, PhosphorTech, Space Solar Power Institute, Universal Alloys, and Zenf Enterprises.

As always, we are grateful to the many people and companies who provide scholarship and fellowship support for our students. We are incredibly lucky to have five generations of Hightowers attending Georgia Tech, with many of those alumni receiving Textiles or Textile Engineering degrees, and the family continues to pay it forward for other young men and women working toward their MSE degree. In addition to their scholarship support, they have, through their family foundation, also funded two Chaired faculty positions in MSE, and others across campus. The Georgia Association of Manufacturers also deserves recognition for its many years of support, as do the 3M Foundation, the Boeing Company, Parmeet and Preeti Grover, Fran Brantley, Jennifer Pepper Bailey, and Sheila Snyder.

We have so much for which to be grateful here in MSE, and we appreciate the support that each and every one of our donors, who, no matter how large or small their gift, have helped to make our success possible.

Mary Z. McEneaney, Director of Development

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Student News

MSE Research Scholars, Summer 2015 MSE Research scholars receive $6000 for a 10-week immersion in summer research following completion of freshman year.

Katarina Adstedt Syntheses and Mechanical Testing of Hybrid Protein-Oxide Thin Films Jonas Braun Blade-and Spray-Coating of Conjugated and Redox and Active Materials for Organic Electronics Jennifer Burkhardt Partial Depolymerization of Waste PET and Processing into Value-Added Products Keith Coffman High-temperature Mechanical Behavior of an Ultra-high-melting Ceramic/ metal Composite Dillan Cothran Modeling Cilia-inspired PNIPAM Gel Morphologies with a Spiky Ferrofluid Anthony Esteves DNA-mediated Precipitation of Nanogold Particles

Jamie Freeland Atomic Design of Electrode Surface for Energy Conversion and Energy Storage Devices Derek Henry Controlled Free-Radical Synthesis of Copolymers for Templated Hybrid Materials Hayden McLeod Utilizing Neural Networks to Develop Process-Structure Relationships in 7050 Aluminum Nora Mencinger The Effect of pH, Temperature, and Salts on Stability of Hydrophobin Dispersion Jon Peraza Amplification of Random Libraries Modified Oligonucleotides

Katie Siegel, 2013 Research Scholar, discusses her research with alumnus George Steinbach.

Benjamin Scheff Production of High-Strength Protein Fibers from Renewable Resources Robert Taylor 2D Materials for Biosensors Luke Votaw Surface Porous PEEK Polymers for Spinal Reconstruction Daniel Yin Temperature-Dependent Thermal Transport at Molecular Interfaces

Recognizing Student Excellence Janine Feirer American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorist Award

Nassir Mokarram Commencement speaker, Spring 2015

Emily Fitzharris Senior Scholar Award in Polymer Fiber and Engineering

Simiao Niu Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Silver Award, GRDC Best Poster Award

Colin Grancher Georgia Tech Internship Student of the Year, Henry Ford II Scholar Award

Kirsten Parratt National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship

James Arthur Iocozzia National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship

Gordon Waller Best in Show, MSE Poster Competition

Corey Joiner Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award Nicole Kennard MSE Chapman/Pentecost Scholarship Karen Mertins Commencement speaker, Fall 2014 2

Nassir Mokarram presenting the student reflection speech at the Spring 2015 Ph.D. Commencement Ceremony.

Sihong Wang Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Silver Award

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More than just sunning on the beach.

I visited the Pantheon and researched the use of pozzolanic concrete in its construction

What I did on my summer break....

This summer I worked for Boeing on its Commercial Crew Program, the CST-100 Starliner at Kennedy Space Center. My work centered on analyzing landing site conditions and weather patterns to determine if the vehicle would be capable of safely landing there.

Much of the work required using MATLAB to process large data files, but luckily, I had just finished a course in which Dr. Speyer had heavily emphasized using MATLAB as a tool. I was able to finish the work faster than they could give it to me. It was an incredible summer experience!

- Erin Flynn, third year

I studied abroad in Metz, France, at Georgia Tech Lorraine. It was an incredible 12 weeks filled with travel and summer classes abroad. I met Professor Sanders and was able to get his help with I worked at Vertera Spine, Professor Gall’s startup company. I was a project in my HTS class on Pozzolanic concrete used specifically able to use many different large and expensive pieces of equipment in Rome. For this project, I visited the Pantheon and researched the to run experiments on a new device used in the medical field for use of pozzolanic concrete in its construction - a material that was spine implants. It exposed me to how life would be like after school used in ancient Rome. I had the experience of a lifetime studying if I chose a research path. abroad and it opened my eyes to a lot of new fields for MSE! - Luke Votaw, second year

- Lindsey Thomson, third year

I interned this summer at Corning, Incorporated in Corning, NY. I worked in a Corning Environmental Technologies plant as a process engineer tasked with reducing defects and streamlining operations.

I had the opportunity to work for 11 weeks at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as a Summer Student Fellow, under my advisor, Dr. Malcolm Scully. I worked on a project centered on trying to back test the amount of hypoxic water present in Chesapeake Bay due to physical factors such as wind and river discharge. I did a lot of work in MATLAB. I also did field work on the Research Vessel Savannah for a week working with buoys and sensors.

- Jamie Curtis, second year I worked at the Savannah River National Lab and did research with carbon nanotubes. It made me realize that I like to do research, so I’m going to grad school.

- Katie Siegel, fifth year

- Mary Townsend, fifth year

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Fall 2015 Graduate Enrollment

Male 78% Female 22%

Ph.D. 90% M.S. 10%

AY 2015 Total Degrees Awarded

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Fall 2015 Undergraduate Enrollment Male 64% / Female 36%

Bachelor ‘s U.S. National 59%

International 41% Other 3%

Soft Materials 32%

Hard Materials 68%

Research Areas

Federal Scholarships 10%

Sponsored Research 87%

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Doctoral Student Support

In-State 57%

Out- of State 35%

International 8%

Declared Concentrations Polymers / Fibers 25% Biomaterials 25% Structural / Functional 50%

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The Capstone Design Expo

Capping It Off

has become the largest academic event on the campus calendar and sums up what Georgia Tech is all about: students using their knowledge to tackle real-world problems. The spring 2015 expo took place on April 23 in McCamish Pavilion and included 198 projects designed by 1,040 students.

They came from 11 disciplines across three colleges: the College of Engineering, the College of Architecture, and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. More than 75 sponsors funded projects, with Coca-Cola generously sponsoring the expo itself.

Twelve MSE teams participated in the Spring event.

Spring 2014 MSE Capstone Design Projects and Sponsors MSE Capstone winner, Team GIW Reinforcers

Mattress Foundation Team Mattress Foundation – Kevahra Daniel, Logan Blackstad, Anna Demidova, Johnathan Riggins, Maggie McKenney Investigation of DMLM Nickel Based Superalloy Team Superalloys – David Wu, Hao Tang, Shuchen Zhang, Carmen Deng, Sable Reid Lens Element for Ultra Thin Cameras Team sLENder – Morgan Watt, Adela Cho, Jae Wan Ahn, Chris Hauser, Avinash Garbaran Permanent Magnet Processing and Property Relationship Team Magnets – Lane Letson, Emily Jones, Mara Azzouz, Mary Townsend, Emily Boyer & Titanium Hardening by Innovative Atomic Diffusion Process Team Surface Hardening – Fu Hung Shiu, Paveena Ghatpande, Anna Hoffman, Jordan Senken, Malvina Kowalik Caterpillar Forestry Machines Team Shield – Sally Ahlrich, Christine Scarborough, Tanya Su, Sean Tighe, Emily Lettrell Effects of Calcium Carbonate Proportion on Viscosity of Blends Team Blending the Difference – Jan-Simon Toro, Matt Waples, Corbin Tudor, Ben Reck Kimberly Clark Surface Design Team Surface Finish Friction Design – Jason Baron, Richard Flowers, Thomas Wheatly, Albert Le, Marc Williams, Isaiah Simpson Surface Treating Calcium Carbonate to Reduce Hydrophilicity Team Closing The Loop – Robert Sprouse, Nicholas Zahn, Tyler McCrary, Samantha Wilson, Nicole Garcia Pump Reinforcement with Preform Structure and Binder System Team GIW Reinforcers – Arturo Salmeron, Brenda Beckler, Michelle Wu, Marika Manuud, Sabria Struthers Designing a More Recyclable Carpet Backing Team Interface – Adam Maffe, Sean DeBuys, Sam Dove, Matthew Drexler, Blake Weber Cochlear Implant Insertion Device – Interdisciplinary Team InnovoTone – Sara Ferritti (bio-med), Eric Eisner (biomed), Pooja Mohapatra (biomed), Zachary Siegel, (ME), Kara Strasser (MSE), Benjamin Sullivan (MSE) Become a Capstone Design Project Sponsor!

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Noteworthy

Internal Awards Susan Bowman was awarded Georgia Tech’s Inaugural Outstanding Graduate Academic Advisor Award for remarkable achievement in graduate advisement.

Vladimir Tsukruk received the Georgia Tech Outstanding Faculty Research Author Award and College of Engineering Dean’s Professorship.

Tsukruk has made distinguished contributions to the science, engineering, and technology of bioinspired and green soft nanomaterials.

External Awards Hamid Garmestani ASM International Fellow

Dong Qin 3M 2015 Nontenured Faculty Award and CETL/ BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award

Zhiqun Lin Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow

John Reynolds American Chemical Society Fellow

Zhong Lin Wang World Technology Award, International Science and Technology Cooperation Award, and Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate nominee for 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics

Promotions Rosario Gerhardt was appointed the Goizueta Foundation Faculty Chair for excellence in research, teaching, and leadership in the campus Hispanic community and beyond.

Meisha Shofner was appointed as an Associate Director of the Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI).

Shofner will be responsible for increasing research engagements in RBI and Georgia Tech by government agencies and industry.

Gleb Yushin was promoted to full professor. Yushin has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Roland B. Snow Award from the American Ceramic Society.

Meilin Liu, Regents Professor and Associate Chair, was appointed as the B. Mifflin Hood Professor of Ceramic Engineering.

Established in 1954, Liu is the fourth recipient of this professorship.

Preet Singh accepted the position of Associate Chair for the MSE graduate program. Singh also serves on the paper science and engineering graduate program committee.

Eric Vogel was appointed Director of the newly created Materials Characterization Facility.

Vogel’s research interests relate to devices and materials for future electronics.

Josh Kacher joins MSE as an assistant professor.

His research interests include understanding the dislocation mechanisms responsible for the Portevin-Le Chatelier effect in Al-Mg alloys as well as working with computational groups to develop and characterize novel dilute rhenium alloys.

Matthew McDowell returns to Georgia Tech as an assistant professor with a joint appointment in ME and MSE. His research focuses on materials for electrochemical energy conversion and storage, in situ nanoscale characterization of energy materials, phase transformations and reaction mechanisms, batteries, solar fuels devices, mesoscale dynamics, and chemomechanics.

New Faculty Amanda Gable joined MSE in January. She serves as the Communications Specialist for MSE, providing written, oral, and visual communication instruction integrated within the undergraduate and graduate engineering curriculum.

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Industry / Alumni Spotlight

2015 College of Engineering Alumni Awards

Matthew and Morgana Trexler, 2015 Outstanding Young Alumni.

v Geoffrey P. Morris, Distinguished Engineering Alumnus, B.S. CerE ’82, Scientific Affairs Manager, 3M ESPE Dental Products v Matthew David Trexler, Outstanding Young Alumnus, Ph.D. MSE ’07, Technical Researcher, Under Armour, Inc. v Morgana Martin Trexler, Outstanding Young Alumnus, M.S. MSE ‘05, Ph.D. MSE ’08, Group Supervisor, Multifunctional Materials and Nanostructures Group, The Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory Geoffrey P. Morris, 2015 Distinguished Engineering Alumnus

MSE Industry Executive Seminar Series The newly established MSE Industry Executive Seminar Series was kicked off this past Spring with a talk

by Dr. Douglas Muzyka, Senior VP and Chief Science & Technology Officer of DuPont. The title of the presentation was “Leading with Innovation – The Role of DuPont Science in Meeting Global Demands for Food, Energy, and Protection.” Muzyka discussed DuPont’s targeted focus on innovation and cutting edge technology as the key growth factor for the company.

Douglas Muzyka, DuPont

Alumna and External Advisory Board Member, Emeritus - Why I Support MSE “Tech has been very influential in my life, from the first football game I attended with my dad while I was in high school, to being accepted in 1965 (an incredible honor for a "girl"), graduation, graduate school, and my first job. Many people supported and helped me when things were tough. Dr. Lane Mitchell, Dr. A.T. Chapman, and Tom Mackrovitch were CerE (now MSE) staff members who believed in me and encouraged me. My graduation day was a proud day for many people.

MSE has a legacy of encouraging promising students, and, through my support, I want to be part of that. I’ve had a successful career and now feel privileged to be able to encourage future students as part of my legacy.”

Jennifer Pepper Bailey, CerE “70, MS CerE ‘71

The Brumley D. Pritchett Lecture Series The Brumley D. Pritchett Lecture Series was established in the School of Polymer, Textile & Fiber Engineering (now Materials Science and Engineering) in 2006 as a memorial to the late Col. Brumley D. Pritchett. He received his bachelor's degree in textile engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1930, graduating with an award for superior achievement in his major. While at Georgia Tech, he was instrumental in founding the Phi Psi Textile Honors Fraternity and was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa. After graduation he worked briefly at Dundee Mills, then Eagle and Phoenix Mills in Columbus, Georgia.

He joined the United States Army in 1940 and served in the Pacific during World War II. Following his service in the Army, he returned to Eagle and Phoenix Mills as superintendent. Later, he joined Steel Heddle Manufacturing Company as a sales engineer and consultant, retiring in 1972. He was elected to membership in the College of Engineering Hall of Fame at Georgia Tech in 2002.

David Clarke, Extended Tarr Family Professor of Materials, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 2015 Pritchett Lecture Speaker, “Novel electromechanical devices based on the Compliant Capacitor.”

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Past Presenters: 2014 Jennifer A. Lewis, Harvard University 2013 Enrique J. Lavernia, University of California, Davis 2012 Chad A. Mirkin, Northwestern University 2011 Sandra Magnus, Astronaut, NASA 2010 Molly Stevens, Imperial College, London 2008 David Kaplan, Tufts University 2007 Alan Windle, Cambridge University

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Interdisciplinary Research Interdisciplinary Research Materials Characterization Facility

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Research in Materials Science and Engineering is inherently interdisciplinary. The breadth of interdisciplinary research and collaborations across disciplines is no better evident than at an institution such as Georgia Tech. In addition to having six colleges, each with multiple academic degree-granting disciplines, there are ten interdisciplinary research institutes (IRIs) which serve as matrix organizations in promoting collaborative research and supporting shared access laboratories.

Materials-related research is being performed in practically every school in the colleges of engineering and science, and even computing. Six of the ten IRIs, including the Institute for Materials (IMAT), Institute for Electronics and Technology (IEN), Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute (GTMI), Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI), Strategic Energy Institute (SEI), and the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), have “materials” as one of their predominant thrust areas. IMAT, led by Dave McDowell (ME/MSE), provides the leadership in interdisciplinary research in the discovery and development of materials. IEN, led by Oliver Brand (ECE), supports research in the areas of biomedicine, materials, electronics, and nanotechnology through advanced laboratories with state-of-the-art equipment. GTMI, led by Ben Wang (ISYE/MSE), has laboratories that enable research, education, and technology transfer in support of the manufacturing needs of industry and government.

RBI, led by Norman Marsalov, focuses on the use of renewable raw materials in biochemicals, specialty paper products, food and beverage packaging, biofuels, health and hygiene, pharmaceuticals, automotive, electronics, and advanced materials. SEI, led by Tim Lieuwen (AE), supports and coordinates collaborative research efforts across Georgia Tech and with external partners from industry, government, and academia to address global concerns surrounding energy supply and environmental impact. GTRI, led by Andrew Gerber, is the applied research wing of Georgia Tech that works with the government and industry on a wide range of challenges.

The Georgia Tech Materials Characterization Facility (MCF) was recently established as a centralized institution-wide shared resource, combining the capabilities of the School of Materials Science and Engineering, GTRI, IEN, and IMAT. The MCF, led by Eric Vogel (MSE), brings together several characterization laboratories on campus under a single umbrella to offer shared access to a wide variety of microscopy and analysis tools, as well as skilled research staff. The MCF includes five transmission electron microscopes, including the Hitachi HD2700 aberration-corrected 200kV STEM which is the newest acquisition, and the FEI Technai F30 300 kV TEM. Six scanning electron microscopes are available, including the FEI Nova 200 NanoLab Dual beam FIB-SEM with integrated focused ion beam. The fully integrated Panalytical XRD system is available with the Empyrean multipurpose XRD platform for MPD, MRD, and SAXS measurements, along with various X’Pert software packages for data analysis. In addition, various surface science, thermal analysis, and scanning probe microscopes are available. Today, the fully integrated materials characterization facility at Georgia Tech serves more than 100 principal investigators and 400 individual users.

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Research Snapshots

The state-of-the-art research in MSE today takes advantage of unique functionalities and properties

of various materials, such as metals, ceramics, polymers, and composites, to improve systems, devices, and components. Materials are synthesized as nanoparticles, nanofibers, or nano-layered structures, or assembled in the form of laminate structures, or processed as bulk monolithic, single or polycrystalline, glassy, cellular or porous forms. Properties of materials are measured using time-resolved diagnostics, and structural characterization is performed across atomic- to macro-scopic length scales. Multi-scale modeling and computations are used to design processes for obtaining desired structures and predicting performance-specific properties.

In our feature story, we profile snapshots of research being performed by our FTE faculty – research aimed at stretching the limits of performance of existing materials, or creating new materials with improved properties, or identifying unique functionalities for known materials, with the goal of addressing the societal challenges of today and tomorrow.

Research in Faisal Alamgir’s group investigates materials for energy storage and harvesting. Using synchrotron-based techniques, his group characterizes the atomic and topological structure of surfaces and the local atomic/electronic structure of materials.

His group is also developing synchrotronlike capabilities in the transmission electron microscope (TEM). In addition, combinatorial approaches are used to discover new materials for energy applications.

The Wenshan Cai group is advancing the state of the art in the design and implementation of nanophotonic structures and materials. In recent work, the group has contributed several research firsts. They provided an experimental demonstration of the first plasmonic nanodevice that enables electrically controlled nonlinear generation of light. They succeeded in the first experimental proof of backward phase matching in negative index materials – a long-standing theoretical prediction in nonlinear optical metamaterials. And, finally, they have realized chiral metamaterials with giant circular dichroism and optical activity in both the linear and nonlinear regimes.

A pattern of the GT mascot, “Buzz,” that consists of both enantiomers of a chiral metamaterial. The pattern is visible under circularly polarized light, and the polarity of the image is sensitive of the illumination condition.

Research in Fred Cook’s group lies in the fields of textile and polymer chemistry. More specifically, he is investigating crown ethers in anionic polymerizations and resin supports; carbon fiber conversion processes; energy-conserving textile chemical processes; and polymer syntheses.

Discarded automotive tires are ground into granulated crumb rubber that fits between the tufts of synthetic turf fields.

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Hamid Garmestani and his group are investigating microstructure/property relationships in textured polycrystalline materials, composites, superplastic, magnetic, and thin film layered structures. They employ phenomenological and statistical mechanics models in a computational framework to investigate microstructure and microtexture evolution during processing and to predict effective properties (mechanical, transport, and magnetic) as a function of the structural characteristics. His group is also interested in the processing of fuel cell materials and the modeling of their transport and mechanical properties.

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Research in Rosario Gerhardt’s group focuses on developing structureproperty-processing relationships in materials and devices at all length scales (from the nanoscale to the macroscale). Electromagnetic methods (e.g., dielectric and impedance spectroscopy measurements and simulations) are supplemented by microscopy and scattering methods in order to determine linkages between the underlying structure of the material and key responses that may be used for microstructural characterization, enhanced electrical conductivity, enhanced charge storage, or for chemical sensing or mechanical degradation detection. Her group has fabricated and characterized a wide range of ceramics and polymer composites as well as metallic and carbon nanotube samples in bulk, thin-film, and nanostructure forms. The group’s research illustrates the importance of feature size, orientation, and homogeneity of samples for applications in microelectronics, energy, transportation, and security.

The research interest in Arun Gokhale’s group is in quantitative fractography, damage evolution in composites, and microstructural evolution during deformation and fracture, with the primary focus on quantitative description of 3D microstructure and its evolution during materials processing. The work has particularly involved quantitative characterization of materials used in the automotive industry such as light-weight aluminum alloys and advanced high-strength and high-toughness steels. His group generates mathematical representations of the 3D microstructure and their variance due to different processing conditions, and correlates those with properties to generate the process-structure-property paradigms needed in the design of alloy 3D microstructure for desired performance.

Research activities in Karl Jacob’s group include computations, characterization, and synthesis of various polymers. Specifically, his group is involved in the following research areas: stress-induced crystallization in polymers and general phase transformations; synthesis and utilization of nanoparticles particularly for drug delivery; decorating carbon-nanotubes for specific functionality; transdermal drug delivery systems; molecular modeling of polymer systems; development and characterization of polymeric membranes for fuel cells and water desalination; fiber formation; shape memory polymers; and protective fiber assemblies.

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Research Snapshots The Computational NanoBio Technology group led by Seung Soon Jang is investigating the structure-property relationship in materials at various scales from sub-nanometer to micrometer using first-principles atomistic modeling. The focus is on 1) transport of ions and molecules through nanostructured systems such as micelles for nano-reactor and electrolyte membranes for fuel cells; 2) reduction-oxidation and corresponding redox potential of electrochemical cells such as in batteries and super-capacitors; 3) structural transition of lipid bilayer membranes for drug delivery; 4) transport of solvents through biomaterials such as proteins and man-made biocompatible polymers.

Sewing is an information processing operation that also binds physical parts to produce a garment. This disruptive paradigm is being investigated in the CRAFT With Pride project by Sundaresan Jayaraman and his team to transform today’s apparel value chain through innovation and technology.

Under a $2M grant from the Walmart U.S. Manufacturing Innovation Fund, advanced machine vision systems, robotics, and computing technologies are being utilized to build on this breakthrough paradigm and enable costeffective automation of sewn products, creating a Seamstress-Less Sewing Machine. The transformational impact on the industry will be in the form of smaller lot sizes, shorter delivery times, higher inventory turnover, enhanced product flexibility, and an advanced skilled workforce earning higher wages within the United States. The work is being carried out in close collaboration with SoftWear Automation, Inc., a start-up company that will commercialize the technology and bring it to market.

Denim Fabric Part being lifted by the Bernoulli Grippers: End-of-Arm Tooling for Automatic Fabric Handling and Transport.

Josh Kacher’s research group is interested in understanding the mechanical behavior of materials in extreme environments. This includes understanding material deformation and failure under common loading conditions and then observing how this behavior changes with additional environmental factors such as irradiation and liquid metal embrittlement. A common approach in his group is to characterize deformation modes at the mesoscale using EBSDbased techniques and then find novel ways to recreate extreme environments in situ in the transmission electron microscope where defects and chemical processes can be observed directly. His current research focus includes fatigue crack initiation and growth, liquid metal embrittlement, irradiation-induced embrittlement, and dislocation/grain boundary interactions in coarse and ultrafine-grained materials.

Defect accumulation characterization by EBSD, TEM, and electron tomography for detection of hot spots and failure initiation.

Satish Kumar and his research team have developed a novel technique that sets a new milestone for the strength and modulus of carbon fibers. The gelspun carbon fibers produced by Kumar’s team have a tensile modulus in the 354-375 GPa range, and tensile strength measured as high as 12.1 GPa, which is the highest value ever reported for a PAN-based carbon fiber. Their alternative approach is based on an innovative technique for spinning polyacrylonitrile (PAN), an organic polymer resin used to make carbon fibers. Composite materials based on carbon-fiber-reinforced polymers are being used in an expanding range of aerospace, automotive, and other applications – including major sections of the Boeing 787 aircraft. It is widely believed that carbon-fiber technology has the potential to produce composites at least 10 times stronger than those in use today.

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Photograph shows a high strength and high modulus carbon fiber processed at Georgia Tech. (photo: Gary Meek)

The work in Mo Li’s research group focuses on algorithm development, simulations, and theoretical analysis. The group seeks to understand fundamental mechanical properties, predict the mechanical behavior of materials, and articulate the statistical mechanics of non-equilibrium processes and phase transformations. His group’s on-going research projects are addressing these fundamental issues in (1) nanoscale materials, (2) metallic glasses, (3) equilibrium and metastable liquids, and (4) materials under irradiation environments. These materials systems are characterized by metastability, small scales, and lack of long-range order. The unique difficulties presented in these materials challenge the conventional approaches developed for systems at equilibrium, with long-range order or nearly perfect or free of defects. To address the difficulties, his group employs theoretical and, in particular, computational methods that seek information about the basic processes, mechanisms, and properties that are difficult or impossible to get by experiments alone, and to test and validate ideas and concepts for theoretical models. The approaches used in his research are a blend of those from statistical physics, solid state physics, materials science, metallurgy, mechanics, and computational methods.

Research in Zhiqun Lin’s lab focuses on nanostructured functional materials for energy conversion and energy storage; wholly-soft polymeric materials synthesis for novel nanocomposites design; wholly-hard inorganic materials synthesis for novel nanocomposites design; novel hybrid (hard/soft) nanocomposite materials design and synthesis; and nanoscale assembly. The goal of his research is to understand the fundamentals of these nanostructured materials for potential applications in solar cells, photocatalysis, hydrogen generation, batteries, electronics, optics, optoelectronics, magnetic materials and devices, nanotechnology, and biotechnology.

The highlights of Meilin Liu and his group’s investigations on nanostructured materials for energy storage and harvesting include new materials for use in supercapacitors and fuel cells. Currently, they are developing a robust (3D) N-doped graphene (R-3DNG) cross-linked by covalent bonds, which has a hierarchical porous architecture, robust mechanical stability, and excellent electrical conductivity. When used as an electrode for supercapacitors, the mechanically robust 3D N-doped graphene demonstrates an unprecedented specific capacitance, a high rate capability, and an excellent long-term cycle stability.

Liu’s group is also investigating high-performance hollow nanofiber cathodes for intermediate-temperature fuel cells tailored for efficient utilization of methane. Intermediate temperature (<500oC) fuel cells (ITFCs) are the cleanest and most efficient system for the conversion to electricity of a wide variety of fuels, from hydrocarbons to coal gas and renewable fuels. They offer reduced capital cost ($/kW), extended stack lifetime, and shorter response times for energy demand. Recently, they have integrated nanoionics effects into all cell components to dramatically enhance the rate of charge and mass transfer.

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Research Snapshots Mark Losego’s group focuses on the understanding of materials systems that interface organic and inorganic constituents for a wide range of applications including solar fuels, capacitive energy storage, waste heat recovery, and technical textiles. The group is developing extensive expertise in materials synthesis, using novel combinations of processing techniques to precisely control the surface chemistry and bulk structure of materials at the nanoscale.

A vapor phase process chamber custom built by the Losego Lab and designed to incorporate inorganic constituents into polymeric films and textiles is pictured. The image’s inset shows a cotton ball that was chemically modified in this reactor to transform its surface behavior from hydrophilic (water-absorbing) to hydrophobic (water-repellant).

The focus of research in Dave McDowell’s group is in computational mechanics including methods for multi-scale modeling of the mechanical behavior of heterogeneous materials, response of crystals and polycrystals under multiaxial loading, microstructuresensitive assessment of fatigue resistance of alloys and small crack propagation laws for multiaxial fatigue, large deformation, quasistatic and dynamic elasticplastic deformation of metals, structure and influence of grain boundaries in deformation of nanocrystals and polycrystals, and coarse grained atomistic simulations of the response of interfaces to applied loading and defects. An underlying theme is modeling of material behavior at multiple time and length scales, supporting decision-based design of hierarchical materials. An example is shown for Ni-base superalloys for aircraft gas turbine engines.

Matthew McDowell’s group develops improved systems to convert and store energy. In particular, his group seeks to understand exactly how materials change and evolve inside electrochemical devices (such as batteries or fuel cells) during operation. The group uses in situ transmission electron microscopy to investigate chemical reactions that occur in lithium-ion batteries at the atomic scale; such experiments can reveal degradation mechanisms that limit the lifetime of batteries. This research is important for applications such as batteries for electric vehicles and portable electronics, new devices for sunlight-driven generation of liquid fuels, and nanoionic systems for next generation computing.

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Research in Valeria Milam’s group is focused on oligonucleotides as an enabling tool for materials. In particular, the group is exploring “biocolloids” or colloidal particles for applications ranging from therapeutics and sensing to energy applications. Both natural and modified oligonucleotides are used as macromolecular agents that enable colloidal assembly and disassembly under isothermal conditions mimicking physiological and other harsh environments.

Oligonucleotides are also used as synthetic ligands called aptamers that bind in a strong, but noncovalent manner to non-nucleotide targets. The aptamer research specifically involves (1) screening large sequence libraries to identify new aptamer sequences for a given non-nucleotide target; (2) implementing aptamers as “recognition-based” binding and release agents on the surface of materials; and (3) using aptamers as precursor reagents to mediate the formation of new materials.

Chris Muhlstein’s research group is focused on experimental studies of deformation, degradation, and failure of flexible forms of materials such as thin sheets, fibers, and even paper. The research is driven by the engineering demand for flexible electronics, biomedical devices, and advanced structural materials. In most cases the materials are so thin and fragile that noncontact techniques must be used to measure the strains that develop during deformation. For example, paper strained during tensile testing can show localized strain hot-spots and deformation bands as revealed in axial strain maps shown in the diagram.

Axial strain map during tensile testing of copy paper.

Millimeter-scale, localized strain hot spots and deformation bands develop.

Dong Qin’s group performs fundamental research in photonics, sensing, and imaging. Her group has demonstrated a facile synthesis of Ag@Pd-Ag nanocubes. They discovered that the Pd and Ag atoms were initially deposited on the edges, followed by surface diffusion to the corners and side faces of nanocubes. By simply controlling the composition ratio of Pd to Ag, they were able to integrate the optimal SERS and catalytic properties into a single nanocube for highly sensitive monitoring of Pd-catalytic reactions by SERS.

Mary Lynn Realff and her group have made significant contributions to the understanding of the mechanical behavior of woven fabrics. Their current work is focused on modeling the mechanical behavior of textile structures utilizing both theoretical and experimental approaches; analysis and design of fibers containing carbon nanotubes; simultaneous design of textile production systems and textile products; development of quantitative descriptions of textile structures; evaluation of production processes using image processing technology; and design of woven fabrics for the tufting process.

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The research interests in John Reynold’s group have involved electrically conducting and electroactive conjugated polymers focused on the development of new polymers by manipulating the fundamental organic structure in order to control their optoelectronic and redox properties. His group has been heavily involved in developing new polyheterocycles, visible and infrared light electrochromism, along with light emission from polymer and composite LEDs (both visible and near-infrared), and light emitting electrochemical cells (LECs). The group’s further work is directed to using organic polymers and oligomers in photovoltaic cells.

Samples show some of the colors researchers have produced in electrochromic polymers. The materials can be used for applications such as sunglasses and window tinting that can be turned on and off through the application of an electrical potential. (photo: Rob Felt)

Beautiful and functional materials are the focus of research in Paul Russo’s laboratory. His group has five major areas of investigation: 1) liquid crystals for applications requiring control of light or directed strength; 2) gels and hydrogels for scaffolding and delivery of drugs and other functional molecules; 3) semiconducting polymers and their interactions with biopolymers such as proteins or polysaccharides that promise higher energy efficiency; 4) particle-polypeptide composite materials for optical applications and bioemulation; and, 5) viruses and virus-like materials.

Tom Sanders and the members of his research group are actively engaged in various aspects of the physical metallurgy of aluminum alloys, focusing primarily on precipitation hardening aluminum alloys. He and his graduate students have worked in the areas of phase transformations, corrosion, stress corrosion cracking, fatigue and fatigue crack growth, fracture toughness, computer modeling of the development of microstructure during aging in Al-Li alloys, and the kinetics of recrystallization. They are currently studying the relationships between microstructure and solidification parameters, and the kinetics of the homogenization process in cast aluminum alloys.

His group has also been involved in calculations of phase diagrams in glass oxide systems and in precipitation kinetics in nickel-base super-alloys.

Designing hierarchically-structured polymeric materials for structural and functional applications is the focus of research in Meisha Shofner’s group. The materials with prescribed structure that are being studied are filled polymers with microstructures resembling tensegrity structures as well as auxetic structures constructed from fibrous networks, including paper and nonwovens for improved mechanical response.

Polymer matrix composites containing cellulosic nanomaterials are also being investigated to understand how processing protocols may be designed to effectively incorporate these emerging materials into a wide variety of polymers for improved mechanical and barrier properties.

Image of cellulose nanocrystal/epoxy composite films (left and middle) and neat epoxy (right). Image from Xu, Girouard, Schueneman, Shofner, Meredith, Polymer (2013).

Erosion corrosion of a carbon steel rakeshaft in an alkaline storage tank.

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Research in Preet Singh’s group is focused on the fundamental understanding of the environmental degradation of material properties, especially for metals and alloys, and their protection. Research areas of interest include monitoring and control of aqueous corrosion, stress corrosion cracking (SCC), corrosion fatigue (CF), high temperature corrosion of engineering materials, and microstructure property relations in metallic materials. His current topics of investigation include corrosion of new fuel-cladding materials for Integral Inherently Safe Light Water Reactor (I2S-LWR), corrosion of alloys for Fluoride Salt-Cooled High Temperature Reactor (FHR), corrosion and stress corrosion cracking (SCC) of new lean duplex stainless steels, alloys for recovery boiler superheaters, and the role of strain and flow on corrosion of steels.

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In the quest for lighter and more efficient armor for the military, Robert Speyer and his research group have been working on innovative ratecontrolled sintering approaches for processing boron carbide and silicon carbide ceramics as light-weight armor materials. The approaches are based on fundamental knowledge of thermodynamics, thermal analysis, and high-temperature characterization, which has enabled otherwise difficult-to-sinter ceramics to be fabricated free from defects, with high densities and record-high properties. The sintering process has also been reformulated for scale-up and reduced cost to produce boron carbide for armor applications. In current work, the group has developed, refined, and integrated technologies and multi-component assembly techniques to reduce the cost and fabricate an advanced light-weight and more effective body armor. The same techniques are also extended to fabrication of other ceramics such as Ytterbia-doped Lutitia ceramics for laser-host applications.

Boron carbide modular helmet armor

Boron carbide flexible armor

Research in Mohan Srinivasaraoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s group is focused on physical chemistry of polymers.

More specifically, the group is investigating the optics and physics of nematic liquid crystals; rheology and rheo-optics of polymeric fluids and liquid crystals; and polymer/liquid crystal dispersions. Various forms of light microscopy techniques including confocal microscopy and photon tunneling microscopy are employed to study color science and nano-optics in the biological world (for example, the color of butterfly wings, beetles, moths, and bird feathers).

The research in Naresh Thadhaniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s group is focused on physical, chemical, and mechanical changes for processing and probing of materials under extreme conditions of dynamic high pressure and high-strain-rate deformation. His group is investigating the shock compression of powders for fabrication of bulk components as well as for studying shock-wave interactions in highly heterogeneous granular materials. They are also investigating the design, processing, characterization, and evaluation of structural energetic materials based on intermetallic, ceramic, thermite, and polymer-composites systems. Dynamic high-pressure induced phase transitions and high-strain-rate mechanical behavior of pure metals and alloys, bulk metallic glasses, composites, and polymers are also being studied in his group. In recent collaborative work, the group is exploring advanced time-resolved diagnostics employing optomechanical sensors such as quantum dots and photonic crystals for Microstructure-based simulations showing shock-induced lateral flow probing the meso-scale response of materials under dynamic shock of flake-nickel and spherical aluminum particles resulting in generation loading conditions. of vortex structures and intense mixing prior to reaction initiation.

Flexible polymeric nanocomposites with outstanding mechanical characteristics, organic-inorganic surfaces and interfaces, directed and self-assembly phenomena, natural and synthetic biopolymers such as silk and silk-based nanocomposites, biological receptors, and responsive or adaptive polymers are some of the research areas being investigated by Vladimir Tsukrukâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s group. One of the main approaches being used for characterization of biological materials is atomic force microscopy such as investigation of mechanotransducing sensory system in wandering spiders or lateral line as fluidic receptors on gold fish and blind cave fish.

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(a) Cross-sectional high-resolution scanning transmission electron microscope image of synthesized trilayer MoS2 revealing good stacking of the 3 layers (Mo layers are darker than S). (b) Raman spectra from 15 different areas of the wafer aligned perfectly on top of each other. c) The Raman peak separation (A1g-E12g ≈ 23.53 ± .04) corresponds to 3 layers of MoS2. The thickness uniformity is ~0.1 monolayers (or ~0.07 nm) across the whole wafer.

Eric Vogel’s group is performing research related to the synthesis, characterization, and application of 2D materials.

These 2D materials, such as graphene, hexagonal boron nitride, and transition metal dichalcogenides (e.g., MoS2, WSe2), have strong in-plane covalent bonding and weak out-of-plane van der Waals bonding that leads to atomic monolayers with unique properties. 2D materials are extremely strong and flexible, and have the potential for electronic properties equivalent to conventional metals, insulators, and semiconductors. While considerable efforts have been made to synthesize largearea MoS2 thin films using different methods, controlling the thickness over a large-area has proven to be a challenge. Vogel’s group has developed a synthesis route for MoS2 that achieves monolayer thickness uniformity across large area substrates with electrical properties equivalent to geological MoS2. These results represent a significant step toward application of MoS2 in devices, sensors, and in flexible electronics.

Research, development, and prototype manufacturing in low-cost, high-performance, and portable electronic packages consistent with industry needs is the focus of the work in Rao Tummala’s group.

The major thrusts of their research activities include package design and modeling; a low-cost micro-chip module (MCM) based on novel materials, processing, and large area planarization; MCMs with integrated passive and active devices as well as those with integrated optoelectronic components; novel interconnect materials and processing tools and their assembly, testing, thermal management, and large-area prototype manufacturing.

Creating models to study the effect of varying binding yarn volume fraction on mechanical properties is one of the areas of research in Youjiang Wang’s group. In addition, Wang’s group investigates the processing, mechanics, and recycling of fibers, polymers, textiles, and Yarn volume composites. His group has developed 4.35% 3.46% 1.56% .78% 0.00% fraction effective reinforcement fabric structures for composites and has analyzed their properties. They are 3D also pursuing how epoxy resin can mesobe formulated to meet processing model requirements for composites.

Zhong Lin (Z.L.) Wang and his group are working on the synthesis, discovery, characterization and understanding of fundamental physical properties of oxide nanobelts and nanowires, and their applications in energy sciences, sensors, electronics, and optoelectronics. Their work on nanogenerators has helped establish the principle and technological road map for harvesting mechanical energy from environment and biological systems for powering mobile sensors. The group has pioneered the fields of piezotronics and piezo-phototronics for applications in smart MEMS/ NEMS, nanorobotics, humanelectronics interface, and sensors.

The performance of triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) made in Wang’s group since it was invented has seen an area power density increase of 500w/m2 and a total energy conversion efficiency of up to 85%.

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C.P. Wong and his research group have discovered a chemical process that may make 3D packaging development more productive with lower overall costs. Using a technique the lab developed based on the fundamental physicochemical behavior of semiconductor materials in a simple chemical bath, the team was able to fabricate high quality vias needed for component communication. The new electronics processing technique, named metal-assisted chemical etching, or MaCE, not only allowed for production at the necessary level of quality, but was also able to be scaled up to process multiple components in a singular batch. The new MaCE process is approximately two to three times less expensive than the traditional plasma etching technique and can increase manufacturing output by one to two orders of magnitude.

The team is now working with industry partners to make the technology applicable for 3D packaging for high-volume production of next-generation microelectronic systems.

The research interest in Donggang Yaoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s group lies in polymer/fiber/composites processing, and constitutive and process modeling. In recent years they have developed a novel twist-gel spinning process for the cost effective production of super-strong polymer fibers. They have formulated a new non-Newtonian fluid model with objective vorticity and finite stretch, and have developed meltprocessing methods for manufacturing single polymer composites. They are developing methods for rapid vacuum infusion of composites and for making fire resistant polymeric syntactic foams.

Development of novel nanostructured materials for energy storage devices and structural composites is the focus of research in Gleb Yushinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s group. His group is one of the few in the country that is working with flexible, lightweight multifunctional batteries that can store energy and also bear a very high mechanical load. Recent innovations of his group include a carbon nanotube-based non-woven fabric (shown in the picture) that is coated with high capacity ionstoring materials for lithium-ion batteries, which have been demonstrated to have specific strength higher than titanium, copper, and even structural steel. Other major topics include advanced materials for high energy Li ion batteries, low-cost nonflammable rechargeable alkaline batteries and aqueous Li ion batteries, supercapacitors and supercapacitor-battery hybrid devices, as well as ultra-safe all-solid high energy Li batteries. One of his latest research directions includes low-cost synthesis of nanowires and their applications in metal-matrix, ceramicmatrix, glass-matrix, and polymer-matrix nanocomposites.

Cover photo: Left, Professor Valeria Milam with Ph.D. student Rick Sullivan and former Ph.D. student Maeling Tapp; top right, Professor Vladimir Tsukruk with Ph.D. student Seth Young (photos: Gary Meek); middle right, Professor Meisha Shofner with former Ph.D. student Caitlin E. Meree; bottom right, Professor Satish Kumar with Senior Research Engineer Han Gi Chae. (photos: Rob Felt)

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