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TMS 2023
Read NowProf. Zhou and Yuan-Chen participated in the TMS 2023 conference in San Diego, CA. Prof. Zhou was involved in the organization of an honorary symposium and a dinner party for his PhD advisor Prof. Zi-Kui Liu. We had great fun meeting old and new friends there!
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MURI Project Awarded!
Read NowProf. Zhou is part of the winning team of the DoD Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Program in 2023. The title of the awarded project is "Planetary- and Geologically-Inspired Discovery of Refractory Materials". He and other five PIs from UVA and ASU aim to use planetary-inspired and geomimetic processes to design refractory materials that will outperform existing ones.
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Chu-Liang wins STT Scholarship
Read NowCongratulations to Chu-Liang for winning the STT (Stiftelsen för Tillämpad Termodynamik) scholarship from the Foundation for Applied Thermodynamics in Sweden! The scholarship will cover Chu-Liang's registration and travel costs for attending the CALPHAD 2023 conference to be held at MIT in Boston.
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Du Cheng successfully defended her PhD thesis
Read NowCongratulations to Du for successfully defend her PhD thesis today! The committee is impressed by the well-put-together thesis, which is titled "First-Principles Investigation of Crystal Structures and Stabilities of Precipitates in GP Zones-Strengthened Mg Alloys". Job well done, Dr. Cheng! Du is the first PhD graduated from the CTK group.
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TMS Magnesium best paper award
Read NowDu, Kang, and Bi-Cheng have been chosen as the recipients of the "TMS Light Metals Division Magnesium Technology Best Paper Award - Fundamental Research" for their conference paper contribution. Congratulations! Formal presentation of the award was made at the Magnesium Keynote Session on Monday, March 20 during TMS 2023 in San Diego, California.
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First Acta Materialia paper
Read NowCongratulations to Du on her first-author paper published on Acta Materialia, a top journal in metallurgy and materials science! The paper is titled "Crystal structure and stability of phases in Mg-Zn alloys: A comprehensive first-principles study". This marked a milestone as this is the first Acta Mat paper which is completely led by our group.
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Rahim and Yuan-Chen passed qualifying exams
Read NowRahim and Yuan-Chen passed their qualifying exams with flying colors! Congratulations! The PhD students from our group keep a proud record of one-time clean passes in all of their qualifying exams. The group celebrated by having dinner at the Mellow Mushroom.
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Damilola graduated
Read NowDamilola Lawal, an MS student co-advised by Prof. Rich Martukanitz and Prof. Zhou, successfully defended her thesis titled "Investigation of Phase Field Modeling for the Simulation of Solidification during Additive Manufacture of High-Temperature Alloys". Congratulations! She will move to University of Pennsylvania to pursue a PhD degree in MSE. We wish her all the best!
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Rahim received VSGC Fellowship
Read NowRahim Zaman has received the highly competitive Virginia Space Grant Consortium (VSGC) Graduate Research Fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year. He received the award based on the strength of his research proposal, its relevance to NASA, and his academic achievements. The proposal titled “Design of Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics for Oxidation Resistance” seeks to use computational thermodynamics and kinetics to study the oxidation mechanisms in ultra-high temperature ceramics.
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NSF CAREER Award!
Read NowDr. Zhou has won the prestigious 2021 NSF CAREER Award! The title of his CAREER proposal is "CAREER: A Novel Computational Thermodynamics Framework with Intrinsic Chemical Short-Range Order". This CAREER Award is jointly sponsored by two NSF programs, Condensed Matter and Materials Theory (CMMT) and Metals and Metal Nanostructure (MMN). We thank program managers Dr. Daryl Hess (CMMT) and Dr. Judith Yang (MMN) for their kind support. We also thank the help from colleagues at UVA MSE and SEAS.