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Materials Sciences Division
Metal and Ceramic Sciences Program
- Synthesis and Processing Science
- High rate metal forming and superplastic forming of metals and ceramics
- Welding and joining processes for metals, ceramics, and dissimilar materials
- Assisted processes for controlled formation of thin films, modified surfaces, and
interfaces
- Effects of processing on molecular structure, network topology, pore formation,
crystallite growth, and sintering
- Predictive Theory, Simulation, and Modelling for
cost-effective experimental guidance, design of experiments, alloy compositions, and
materials processing
- Structural Characterization on Angstrom Scale of localized
geometry of atomic structure, lattice defects, elemental composition, bond character,
charge distribution, magnetic domain configurations, interfaces and boundaries in solids
- Mechanical and Physical Behavior
- Solid state diffusion and transport mechanisms
- Irradiation damage mechanisms, modelling, and minimization
- Surface reactivity including aqueous, galvanic, hot gaseous corrosion
- Superconducting behavior with focus on role of structure, defects, grain boundaries
- Magnetic energy loss mechanisms in hard and soft magnets
- Photovoltaic behavior with focus on recombination centers and interfaces
- Ordering, high temperature, and mechanical behavior of ordered intermetallic alloys
- Characterization of internal stress, crack nucleation, crack growth, and crack tip
shielding
- Time-dependent high-temperature mechanical reliability, fracture toughness, interfacial
adhesion, and grain boundary sliding in structural ceramic composites
- Alloy theory, thermodynamics, diffusion, viscosity, elastic constant, and glass
transition in bulk metallic glasses
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