News

2024

January

2023

December

Prof. Gwalani received the Young Achievers Award 2023 from his alma mater, NIT Jaipur, India.

Additional capabilities added to Nanomechanical suite!

Novermber

 Prof Gwalani took the MSE 440/540 class on another field trip to the Kymera International.

October

Enjoyed our first field trip with the class of MSE440/540 to Protolabs!

Second field trip to the Hallman Foundry in North Carolina!

September

The United States Department of Defense has awarded an $8.5 million grant to support the establishment of a cutting-edge center focused on designing materials with extreme properties.

Prof. Gwalani was invited for a talk at iCANX on “Deformation-Induced Modification of Phase Transformation Pathways in Metallic Systems”

August

The state-of-the-art Pico indenter PI-89 has been installed and tested for nanoindentation!

July

Group picnic at Lake Johnson Park!

June

Our group hosted the summer camp for high school students!

May

Installed our latest and most awaited piece of equipment: the friction stir machine!

Prof. Gwalani Received the Young Investigator Award 2023 from Materials MDPI
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/materials/awards/1899

April

Seminar on the basics of APT and its widespread applications by CAMECA!


March

Prof. Gwalani and his grad student (Michael Lastovich) had a great one-day trip to Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL)!

February

Prof. Gwalani and grad student (Farhan Ishrak) visited Enabled Engineering located at Blacksburg, VA to explore future collaboration opportunities in applying deformation processing techniques for alloy development.

January

Prof. Gwalani will be talking on “Deformation-Induced Modification of Phase Transformation Pathways in Metallic Systems” at the Metallurgical and Materials Science Department of Colorado School of Mines on Jan 26

Special issue on “Microstructural Design, Properties and Biomedical Applications of Alloys” goes live.

Farhan joined the group as a graduate research assistant fellow.

2022

December

Research on Phase Stability and Kinetics of Topotactic Dual Ca2+–Na+ Ion Electrochemistry in NaSICON NaV2 (PO4) 3 is published in Chemistry of Materials which is led by Prof. Linda Nazar’s group.

November

The first paper in the series of development of micro-shear testing and analysis capabilities is submitted – Shear Localization in single-phase Cu and Cu/Nb Nanolaminates using Micromechanical Framework.

October

Research on “Temperature-dependent formation of gradient structures with anomalous hardening in an Al–Si alloy”  is accepted in Materials Science and Engineering A

Research on “Circumventing Strength-Ductility Paradox in High Entropy Alloys through Deformation Processing” is accepted in Journal of Alloys and Compounds

September

Welcomed Kai, Charles and Aidan in the group joining as undergrad researchers.

August