Dr. Zhou will participate in a research team to develop a High-Entropy Rare-Earth Oxides (HERO) coating for protecting refractory alloys used in turbine engines. The team is funded by the ULTIMATE program in Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).

Du Cheng and Chu-Liang Fu have successfully passed the PhD qualifying exams. Both of them got clean passes. Congratulations!

Rahim received the UVA Engineering Distinguished Fellowship, an award made available only to the top applicants of UVA Engineering program in their first year. Congratulations Rahim!

Rahim Zaman and Yuan-Chen Gao joined our group as new PhD students. Welcome!

The first paper led by Kang from our group "First-principles investigation of the phase stability and early stages of precipitation in Mg-Sn alloys" was published in Physical Review Materials and was selected as the Editors' Suggestions. Congratulations!

Dr. Zhou received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) "DMREF/Collaborative Research: Low Cost, High Strength and Ductile Mg Alloys". He will be collaborating with fellow MSE and Cornell faculty on an investigation into alloy design strategies involving Guinier-Preston zones, which are nanoscale precipitates in alloys. Our group will be responsible for leading the modeling components investigating the Guinier-Preston zone structure and thermodynamic properties in Mg alloys.

Dr. Zhou received his first grant from Office of Naval Research (ONR) with Dr. Beth Opila on "Design of UHTC for oxidation resistance".

Postdoc Dr. Kang Wang, PhD students Du Cheng and Chu-Liang Fu have joined the group as the first starting members. Welcome!

Dr. Zhou officially started the Computational Thermodynamics and Kinetics group at UVA MSE!