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Nanocrystalline Alloys and Grain Boundary Engineering

Nanocrystalline Alloys and Grain Boundary Engineering

Nanocrystalline alloys exhibit a wide range of both mechanical and functional properties that often exceed what is achievable at the microscale. However, they are often in unstable, nonequilibrium states due to a high concentration of grain boundaries that contribute to a large driving force for grain growth at the nanoscale.

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Microparticle Impact

Microparticle Impact

A wide range of interesting phenomena can occur when metallic particles impact metal surfaces at supersonic speeds, including adhesion, melting, cratering, erosion, and hydrodynamic shock-induced jetting. The Schuh group is systematically investigating high-speed microparticle impacts using a new real-time observation method that allows for direct nanosecond scale observation of the moment of impact, as well as finite-element modelling.

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Shape Memory Materials

Shape Memory Materials

As a new emerging class of shape memory materials, shape memory ceramics offer unique properties that may not be achievable with their metallic counterparts; higher martensitic transformation temperatures with excellent oxidation resistance, higher transformation stresses, and higher work outputs than all currently existing actuators.

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News

Postdoctoral Research Opportunity – Improving LIPIT platform in the Schuh Group

We are seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher with a strong background in optics tojoin the Schuh Group at the Department of Materials Science...

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Yannick Naunheim defends PhD thesis

Congratulations Yannick Naunheim on defending his doctoral thesis on Alloys designed for rapid solid-state sintering!

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Thomas Matson defends PhD thesis

Congratulations Thomas Matson on defending his doctoral thesis on Phase-and-Defect Diagrams for Polycrystalline Grain Boundary Segregation!

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The Boss is named Dean of Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science!

Renowned researcher, entrepreneur, educator and alumnus will join Northwestern from MIT.

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Nuthh Tuchinda defends PhD thesis

Congratulations Nutth Tuchinda on defending his doctoral thesis on Polycrystalline Grain Boundary Solute Segregation at Finite Sizes and Temperatures!

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