Research Projects
Current Projects
MURI: Planetary- and Geologically-Inspired Discovery of Refractory Materials (2023-2028)
with Elizabeth Opila (UVA), Patrick Hopkins (UVA), Alexandra Navrotsky (ASU), Hongwu Xu (ASU), Qi-Jun Hong (ASU)
Army Research Office
CAREER: A Novel Computational Thermodynamics Framework with Intrinsic Chemical Short-Range Order (2021-2026)
DMREF/Collaborative Research: Low Cost, High Strength and Ductile Mg Alloys (2020-2024)
ARPA-E: ULTIMATE Integrated Coating Team (Phase II: 2024-2026)
with JC Zhao (UConn), David Clarke (Harvard), Yunhui Gong (HighT–Tech), Liangbing Hu (Yale), Carlos Levi (UCSB), Elizabeth Opila (UVA), David Poerschke (UMN), Tresa Pollock (UCSB), Carolina Tallon (VaTech)
DOE ARPA-E ULTIMATE PROGRAM
Concluded Projects
Design of UHTC for Oxidation Resistance (2019-2023)
with Elizabeth Opila (UVA)
Office of Naval Research
Prediction of Solidification Morphology and Solute Redistribution of Refractory Metals Produced by Additive Manufacturing (2022-2023)
with Sean Agnew (UVA)
Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM) Innovation Award
Development of Integrated Process and Microstructural Models for Laser-Based Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing (2019-2020)
with Rich Martukanitz, Leonid Zhigilei, and Chris Li
Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM) Innovation Award
Development of Industrial Scale Rare Earth Master Alloys from Their Native Oxides for Magnet Production (2021-2024)
with Chris Li (UVA)
DOE/EERE/AMO Critical Materials Program
ARPA-E: High Entropy Rare-earth Oxide (HERO) Coatings for Refractory Alloys (Phase I: 2021-2023)
with Elizabeth Opila (UVA), Patrick Hopkins (UVA), Prasanna Balachandran (UVA), Jonathan Laurer (CCAM), Carolina Tallon (VT), Robert Golden (Rolls-Royce)
DOE ARPA-E ULTIMATE PROGRAM