News 2020
12/19/2020 - Tanvi graduates and accepts a position at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Huge shoutout to Dr. Tanvi Ajantiwalay! We are looking forward to your future accomplishments and wish you best of luck at PNNL!
11/10/2020 - Check out Charlyne's latest two papers on U-Mo fuels!
Charlyne has been staying busy and recently published two papers: one in Journal of Nuclear Materials on U-Mo microstructural evolution when irradiated at different powers and another one in Journal of Materials Science in which she developed a new approach to measure interconnectivity of pores!
11/9/2020 - Congratulations to Dr. Tanvi Ajantiwalay
for successfully defending her PhD thesis!
10/26/2020 - Congratulations to Ana Baca
for successfully defending her MS thesis on the use of AFM-KPFM and SSRM for measuring materials aging! Dr. A was so excited to have her first MS student defend that she forgot to take the picture of the actual defense. Ana finished her degree during the pandemic, while working full-time at Sandia and remotely taking classes.
10/13/2020 - MANATEE Group is excited to welcome new group members!
Manatee group is expanding and we are excited to welcome new group members: graduate student Aaron Rabin (MSE) two undergraduate students Nedgine Joseph (CHE) and Peter Toma (MSE). Welcome to the MANATEE group! We are excited to have you on board!
Get know them here.
8/24/2020 - Black racial justice in the nuclear community
Please join us in attending webinar "Black Racial Justice in the Nuclear Community" on September 2nd at 1 pm EST. American Nuclear Society (ANS) organized this webinar to discuss racial justice with 5 panelists, one of which is our own Charlyne! Take the time to educate yourself and learn what you can do to make change in the nuclear community.
8/21/2020 - Kory's paper is accepted and published in Physical Review B!
Check out Kory's first author manuscript "Strain modulation using defects in two-dimensional MoS2" that outlines how defects can be used to induce tensile and compressive strains in MoS2 and paves the pathway for using external stimuli to control properties of these low dimensional materials .
7/30/2020 - Congratulations to Kory Burns
for successfully passing his oral proposal defense on irradiation of MoS2. He has officially advanced into doctoral candidacy during the pandemic via Zoom!
7/18/2020 - Check out the review article Charlyne and Tanvi wrote on U-Mo fuels
It is now available online and provides a critical review of the U-Mo fuel microstructure and can be found here.
7/14/2020 - NSUF awards rapid turnaround experiment research proposals
Congratulations to Tanvi, Thaddeus, and Dr. A for receiving Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF) rapid turnaround experiment (RTE) funding! RTEs offer researchers the opportunity to perform quick analysis of a small number of samples. Tanvi's proposal "In-situ nano-tensile testing of neutron-irradiated HT-9 steel", and Thad and Dr. A's proposal "Identification of irradiation-induced phase evolution in Pu-Am-Zr fuels" have been selected from a large pool of proposals submitted by national laboratories and US universities. Well done! Full list of awarded projects can be accessed here.
6/17/2020 - Kory receives CNMS proposal award!
Congratulations to Kory for receiving his first proposal award from the Center for Nanophase Materials Science (CNMS). We are excited to perform work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory on MoS2. Learn more about CNMS here.
2/13/2020 - Casey's first author paper is now available online!
Check out Casey's first author paper on 3D reconstruction of high burnup UO2 in JNM!
1/30/2020 - NSUF features Casey and her RTEs!
Check it out, Casey is featured in the January NSUF newsletter! Get to know Casey and her success with using NSUF to advance her research here.
1/14/2020 - Congratulations to Kory on his first manuscript!
Kory's first author article on defect engineering in 2D materials has been published in Journal of Materials Research! Well done, Kory!
This manuscript is an invited feature paper in a JMR Focus Issue "Early Early Career Scholars in Materials Science".
