News 2019
11/20/2019 - Congratulations to Lauren for winning 2019 ANS best poster award!
Alpha Nu Sigma National Honor Society and ANS Education, Training, and Workforce Development Division awarded Lauren with the Best Undergraduate Poster Award. It was Lauren's first conference and we are excited to see what else she achieves. Congrats!
11/12/2019 - Check out the video Charlyne made about fuel swelling!
11/7/2019 - Tanvi's and Casey's papers are now available online
Tanvi's first author manuscript on micro-tensile testing of structural materials has been accepted by JOM and Casey's co-authored manuscript on Pu-Zr alloys has been published in JNM. Congratulations!
10/9/2019 - National Nano Technology Day
Congratulations to Lauren who won "Best Characterization Poster" award at the NanoDay 2019-10-9! NanoDay is organized by NIMET and RSC on a yearly basis to celebrate nanoscale engineering, science, and technology.
9/17/2019 - NSUF awards rapid turnaround experiment research proposals
Congratulations to Casey 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. Casey's proposal "Three-Dimensional Characterization of the Grey Phase in FBR MOX Fuel" has 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.
8/20/2019 - MANATEE Group is excited to welcome new group members!
Manatee group is expanding and we are excited to welcome new group members who all start this Fall. Thaddeus Rahn (NE) is starting to work on Ph.D, and Clay French (NE) on M.S. degree. Welcome to the University of Florida, Materials Science and Engineering Department, Nuclear Engineering Program, and to the MANATEE group!
We are also excited to welcome back our two undergraduates, Lauren Nagel and Gordon Horance, and looking forward to work with them in the Fall. Go Gators!
Get know them here.
8/9/2019 - Riley graduates and accepts a position at Sandia National Laboratories
Congratulations to Dr. Riley Parrish! We are looking forward to your future accomplishments and wish you best of luck at SNL!
6/28/2019 - Exciting new collaboration!
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded $28.5 million to support 40 U.S. university-led nuclear energy research and development projects in 23 states. The most exciting one for us is the project 19-16549 "Thermal Conductivity Measurement of Irradiated Metallic Fuel Using TREAT" from University of Pittsburgh, because Dr. Aitkaliyeva and her students get to collaborate with Dr. Ban. This project intends to provide accurate thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity data with microstructure characterization of metallic (U-Pu-Zr) fuel as a function of burnup and attain fundamental understanding of the thermal conductivity of the irradiated fuel to inform and validate computational models. This will be accomplished using an innovative thermal wave technique in the Transient Reactor Test Facility at the Idaho National Laboratory, with the Minimal Activation Reusable Capsule Holder.
6/17/2019 - Congratulations to Dr. Riley Parrish
for successfully defending his PhD thesis!
6/10/2019 - Riley's and Casey's papers are now available online
Riley's first author manuscript on low burnup MOX fuel and Casey's manuscript on metallic fuel have been published in JNM. Congratulations!
5/20/2019 - Congratulations to Casey McKinney
for successfully passing her oral proposal defense on 3D microstructural characterization of high burnup structure in oxide fuels. She has officially advanced into doctoral candidacy!
5/14/2019 - NSUF awards rapid turnaround experiment research proposals
Congratulations to Tanvi Ajantiwalay and Charlyne Smith for receiving Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF) rapid turnaround experiment (RTE) funding! Rapid Turnaround Experiments offer researchers the opportunity to perform quick analysis of a small number of samples. Charlyne's proposal "The impact of grain orientation on the nucleation of fission gas bubbles in U-Mo fuel" and Tanvi's proposal "In-situ nanomechanical characterization of neutron irradiated HT-9 steel” 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.
2/08/2019 - NSUF awards rapid turnaround experiment research proposals
Congratulations to Charlyne Smith and Casey McKinney for receiving Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF) rapid turnaround experiment (RTE) funding! Rapid Turnaround Experiments offer researchers the opportunity to perform quick analysis of a small number of samples. Charlyne's proposal "Impact of grain boundary mobility on fission gas bubble distribution of ion-irradiated monolithic U-Mo fuel" and Casey's proposal "3D microstructure reconstruction of the peripheral region of MOX FBR fuel" 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.
2/5/2019 - Congratulations to Kory Burns for receiving CINT funding!
Kory's main PI proposal "Low-Energy Ion Implantation of freestanding MoS2" has been awarded funding from the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT)! Congratulations and well done, Kory!
1/24/2019 - Charlyne's image analysis paper is now available online
Charlyne's first author article comparing manual and automated image analysis techniques for analyzing pore size distribution in U-Mo fuels has been published in Micron! Congratulations!
1/23/2019 - Congratulations to Charlyne Smith
for successfully passing her oral proposal defense on the microstructural characterization of irradiated U-Mo fuels. She has officially advanced into doctoral candidacy!
