TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY 2016 ANNUAL REPORT · To meet the needs of our growing department, we expanded our current office space by 50 percent this . past summer. We moved five of our

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

ANNUAL REPORT 2016


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Dear Colleagues and Friends, It has been another busy, but exciting year for our young department. I am delighted to share some of the highlights from 2016 in this report.

We are excited to share that The Texas A&M University Board of Regents accepted our proposal for an undergraduate program in materials science and engineering. The proposal is currently under consideration by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, and if approved, this will be the first undergraduate materials science and engineering program at a large university in the state of Texas.

Dr. Alan Needleman, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Research Professor and member of National Academy of Engineering was selected as a University Distinguished Professor, the highest, academic accolade at Texas A&M University. The honor recognizes his substantial contributions and pre-eminent scholarship in the field of materials science and engineering.

We welcomed Dr. George M. Pharr IV, renowned for his research in nanoindentation and nanomechanical testing and a member of National Academy of Engineering, to our department this spring.

In fall 2016, we witnessed the largest student enrollment since the launch of the department in 2013. Of the 113 Ph.D. students and 23 M.S. students that enrolled, 30 percent of the total student enrollment was female. This is exciting news given our concentrated efforts in increasing diversity in our department.

Under the leadership of Dr. Homero Castaneda, associate professor, and Dr. Raymundo Case, professor of practice, the National Corrosion and Materials Reliability Center will be establishing a certificate program in corrosion science and engineering to train engineers and scientists in tackling the problem of corrosion faced by industry.

To meet the needs of our growing department, we expanded our current office space by 50 percent this past summer. We moved five of our research facilities to the new Frederick E. Giesecke Engineering Research Building, a 70,000-square-foot integrative research facility located in Texas A&M’s Research Park. To better fund our state-of-the-art research, we increased our research expenditures almost 50 percent in 2016, raising our total research expenditures to $7.5 million.

Our former student, Dr. Blake Teipel ’16, and current graduate student, Charles Brandon Sweeney, co-founded a startup company, TriFusion Devices, to develop technology for customized prosthetic devices. They won the prestigious Rice Business Plan Competition where they received almost $400,000 in prize money and rang the Nasdaq Stock Market bell. It is an honor to present the accomplishments of the materials science and engineering community in this annual report. The strength of our department lies in the excellence and selfless service to our community. Our faculty, staff and students help diversify the mission of our department to lead and innovate cutting-edge research and education in next generation of materials science and engineering.

Dr. Ibrahim Karaman Department Head and Chevron Professor I

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TABLE OF CONTENTS4 Department Overview 6 Emphasis Areas

8 Student News 10 Student Spotlight 12 Research Spotlight: Dr. Jodie Lutkenhaus 14 Research Spotlight: Dr. Miladin Radovic 16 Faculty News

18 2016 Research Publications

26 Center Spotlight: Polymer Technology Center

27 Facility Spotlight: Zachry Engineering Education Center

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Photography Igor Kraguljac

Editing Lorian HopcusStephanie Jones

On the cover: Brandon Sweeney, MSEN graduate student

Increase in graduate student applications

85%Incoming minority students

64%Incoming female students

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Commercialized technologies

Patents

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Domestic incoming students

47%

Disclosures of inventions17

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Research expenditures per year

Students enrolled in Ph.D. program113

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23 Students enrolled in M.S. program

Assistant Professors

Professor of Practice

Affiliated Faculty

Faculty holding endowed professorships

Professors

Associate Professors

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RESEARCH CENTERS• Center for Intelligent Materials and Structures• Materials Characterization Facility• Microscopy and Imaging Center• National Corrosion and Materials Reliability Center• Polymer Technology Center

AREAS OF RESEARCH • Advanced structural materials • Biomaterials• Ceramics and ceramic composites• Computational materials science and design• Corrosion and degradation of materials• Functional (electronic, magnetic, optical) materials• Materials for energy applications• Materials for extreme environments• Metals and alloys• Multifunctional materials• Polymers and composites

FACILITIES• Computational Materials Science Laboratory• High Temperature Materials Laboratory• Hybrid Multifunctional Composites Laboratory• Hydrogen Materials Laboratory• Laboratory for Advanced Ceramic Composites (LAC3)• Laboratory of Computational Engineering of Nanomaterials• Materials and Structures Laboratory• Materials Development and Characterization Laboratory• Microstructural Engineering of Structural and Active Materials Laboratory• Phase Transformation Engineering Materials Laboratory• Polymer Processing Laboratory• Severe Plastic Deformation Processing Laboratory• Surface Science Laboratory• Synthetic Multifunctional Composites Laboratory

WHERE MSEN GRADUATES GO

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Average quantitative GRE score of incoming applicants

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ADVANCING RESEARCH IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

C o m p u t a t i o n a l M a t e r i a l s S c i e n c e

A d va n c e d S t r u c t u ra l M a t e r i a l s

This research area elucidates the fundamental, multi-scale processes underlying materials behavior through computational models and exploits such models and simulations to assist in the discovery and development of materials capable of enabling new technologies.

Labs: Computational Materials Science Laboratory, ComputerEngineering of Nanomaterials and Devices Laboratory

Faculty: R. Arróyave, T. Cagin, M. Demkowicz, A. Needleman,A. Srivastava, X. Qian

This research area includes study of materials for their mechanical properties in various environments including high temperature, low temperature, various deformation rates and corrosive environments. The work at Texas A&M encompasses new material design, fabrication, thermo-mechanical processing, and multi-scale thermo-mechanical and microstructural characterization using various suits of instruments.

Labs: Microstructural Engineering of Structural and Active Materials Laboratory, Severe Plastic Deformation Processing Laboratory, Center for Intelligent Multifunctional Materials and Structures, Hydrogen Materials Laboratory, High Temperature Materials Laboratory

Faculty: A. Benzerga, M. Demkowicz, K.T. Hartwig, I. Karaman, A. Needleman,G. Pharr, M. Radovic, R. Talreja

The Department of Materials Science and Engineering has five major emphasis areas of research: advanced structural materials, computational materials science, materials for extreme environments, multifunctional materials, and polymers and composites. These five areas help the department develop and enhance its overall curriculum and facilities.


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M u l t i f u n c t i o n a l M a t e r i a l s

M a t e r i a l s f o r E x t r e m e E n v i r o n m e n t s

This research area combines multiple functions into a single material. Often, multifunctional materials have strong coupled responses to one or more external fields allowing for energy transduction including mechanical, magnetic, electrical, thermal and chemical fields.

Labs: Hybrid Multifunctional Composites Laboratory, Microstructural Engineering of Structural and Active Materials Laboratory, Phase Transformation Engineering Material Laboratory, Center for Intelligent Materials and Structures, Polymer Technology Center

Faculty: R. Arróyave, A. Benzerga, T. Creasy, I. Karaman, D. Lagoudas,P-T. Lin, P. Shamberger, H-J. Sue, X. Qian

This research area applies scientific knowledge and natural laws in order to design and engineer materials to combat natural phenomenon such as corrosion, erosion, and many other degradation mechanisms in extreme environments, including high temperatures, high pressures and corrosive environments.

Labs: National Corrosion and Materials Reliability Center, High Temperatures Materials Laboratory, Polymer Technology Center

Faculty: T. Cagin, H. Castaneda, R. Case, M. Demkowicz, H-J. Sue, M. Radovic

P o l y m e rs a n d C o m p o s i t e sThis research area combines the knowledge base of designing, developing and delivering high performance functional polymers and composites to develop fundamental knowledge of unique materials, as well as provide design and production insight for product development.

Labs: Polymer Technology Center, Polymers Processing Laboratory

Faculty: A. Benzerga, T. Creasy, D. Lagoudas, S. Sukhishvili, H-J. Sue, R. Talreja


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Bolon awarded Outstanding Graduate Student AwardAmy Bolon ‘16, former graduate student, received the College of Engineering’s Outstanding Graduate Student Award, which recognizes graduate students who have demonstrated excellence in their field of study.

Bolon was one of two students to receive the honor. The college established the award in 2012 to recognize nominated graduate students in good academic standing, scheduled to graduate in the next year.

Since 2014, Bolon has served as president of the Materials Advantage Student Chapter at Texas A&M, and co-founder of Women in Materials Science, a student organization in the department. She served as the recruitment chair for the President’s Council of Student Advisors for the American Ceramic Society for two years and has been active in several other organizations within the College of Engineering and the College of Science.

Bolon also received the Buck Weirus Spirit Award, which recognizes Aggies who demonstrate high involvement, create positive experiences throughout the Aggie community, impact student life at Texas A&M and enhance the Aggie spirit.

Additionally, Bolon received the MSEN Excellence in Outreach Award for her community service and outreach activities in materials science and engineering.

“I have been extremely fortunate to serve as Amy’s graduate advisor,” said Dr. Miladin Radovic, associate professor and associate department head in materials science and engineering. “Not only because she has proved herself as an excellent researcher, but also as an exceptional leader who was always ready to help other graduate and undergraduate students in their professional endeavors."

Bolon has devoted her graduate research to studying the mechanical behavior of oxide ceramics for solid oxide fuel cells. She has published six peer-reviewed articles during her time at Texas A&M.

“This is such a great honor and I’m glad I’m able to represent the MSEN department,” said Bolon. “I owe a lot to the department for their support and encouragement, especially my advisor Dr. Miladin Radovic. He encouraged me to go beyond my comfort zone to start participating in these activities and eventually take on leadership roles.”

Dr. M. Katherine Banks, dean of the College of Engineering (left), with Amy Bolon


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MSEN former student accepts faculty position at The University of FloridaDr. Assel Aitkaliyeva ’12, a graduate of the materials science and engineering department, has been appointed as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The University of Florida. Aitkaliyeva received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Kazakh National University, a Master of Science in nuclear engineering and her Ph.D. in materials science and engineering, both from Texas A&M. After graduating in 2012, she joined Idaho National Laboratory (INL) as the technical lead for the Nuclear Science User Facilities. During her graduate studies, Aitkaliyeva worked under the supervision of Dr. Lin Shao, associate professor and faculty undergraduate advisor in the nuclear engineering department and affiliated faculty member in the materials science and engineering department. Aitkaliyeva has more than 20 peer-reviewed journal publications and delivered over 30 presentations at national professional meetings. She acquired more than $3.5 million in funding for her research at INL. Her research is focused on studying the effects of irradiation on materials using a range of microscopy techniques, mechanical testing techniques and computational models. Her expertise is in characterization of nuclear fuels, with particular emphasis on accident tolerant fuel concepts. In 2015, Aitkaliyeva received the INL Early Career Award for her work on understanding the equilibria and kinetics of plutonium-based fuels in contact with cladding materials. Her pioneering work focused on ion beam sample preparation methods, which has made her widely sought after by domestic and international laboratories.


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MSEN entrepreneursdevelop approach to building custom prosthetic devices

MSEN students are using an innovative 3-D printing technique to bring greater speed, economy and customization to the creation of prosthetic devices. Dr. Blake Teipel ‘16 and graduate student Charles Brandon Sweeney have made this approach the center of their startup, TriFusion Devices, which focuses on improving the way prostheses are manufactured.

Teipel and Sweeney developed a novel carbon nanotube-coated filament and a microwave welding process to fuse 3-D printed parts together. This allows them to take advantage of 3-D printing’s speed and precision while potentially achieving the mechanical strength of an injection molded or machined product. The technique enables the team to design, fabricate and fit a prosthetic device for a patient in 48 hours rather than the six to eight weeks traditionally needed for this process.

In April 2016, they competed in the Rice Business Plan Competition, the world’s largest graduate-level student startup competition. The entrepreneurs presented their work with support from Texas A&M medical student Britton Eastburn, who provided insight into the technology’s medical school applications. A jury of 275 judges chose TriFusion as the best investment opportunity of the 42 teams from around the world that competed in this year’s competition. TriFusion received nearly $400,000 in cash and prizes to further develop its technology and business.

Cutting cost and increasing speed

Approximately 2 million Americans have lost a limb due to an illness or accident, demonstrating the great need for quality limb


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TriFusion Devices rang the Nasdaq Stock Market opening bell in New York City on October 10, 2017.

The startup is a tenant at the campus business accelerator and was coached by Mays Business School professor Don Lewis with the Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship (CNVE), managing partner of Startup Aggieland.

TriFusion rings Nasdaq opening bell

prostheses. Yet these devices often cost tens of thousands of dollars and require a lengthy design and manufacturing process, prohibiting many people from obtaining these crucial devices.

TriFusion’s founders believe they can help to resolve this problem. In addition to printing prostheses with the same strength as their conventional counterparts, TriFusion’s manufacturing process allows the devices to be built and fitted in less time.

Their materials allow prosthetists to adjust the device’s fit after it has been printed, which the team believes will eliminate the need for test-fit sockets or plaster molding.

“Customization today takes a long time with expensive materials, and the device must be hand-built,” says Sweeney. “Three-dimensional printing, combined with our materials, changes the whole equation.”

Benefiting the masses

TriFusion Devices’ 3-D printed prosthetic sockets are currently in clinical trials, after which the company will pursue further testing in partnership with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The company plans to

submit a 510(k) premarket notification with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in order to make their 3-D printed prosthetic devices publicly available.

Though the company is currently focused on prosthetic and orthotic devices, its founders plan to expand their manufacturing technique to other fields as well. Future applications may include production of customized sports equipment such as football helmets, pads and shin guards. The startup also plans to 3-D print safety gear for the military, including helmets and non-ballistic soft body armor.

“There is going to be an ever-increasing need for mass customization where you’re going to have an option to get a device that was made specifically for you,” says Sweeney. “That’s going to make all the difference in the world for applications in the biomedical industry, sporting equipment and protective devices for military.”

As part of the company’s goal to increase access to quality prostheses, TriFusion is collaborating with Baylor College of Medicine to provide affordable prosthetic devices to children in Tanzania.

Pictured in front of the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square are (from left) Peter Rodriguez, dean of Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business; Brad Burke, managing director of the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, host of the annual business competition; Blake Teipel, co-founder and CEO of TriFusion Devices; Brandon Sweeney, co-founder and chief technology officer of TriFusion Devices; and Dr. Valerie Taylor, senior associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Engineering at Texas A&M.

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Imagine a cake as small as a billionth of a meter or a nanometer. You may end up with a disaster if the layers of frosting are too warm or not spread with precision. The precision, properties and fundamental structure of each layer of frosting would be difficult to measure, much less see or weigh.

Thin film coatings are the layers of frosting in industrial applications across multiple manufacturing sectors. Environmentally sustainable, water-based, solvent-free thin film

coatings are the future of high performance materials.

Dr. Jodie Lutkenhaus, associate professor and William and Ruth Neely Faculty Fellow in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering and affiliated faculty member in MSEN, has received a $405,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to research ultra-thin films of polymers containing bound ions, known as polyelectrolytes. Lutkenhaus’ Organic Thin Films and Nanostructures Lab seeks to evaluate the "glass-melt" or softening transition of these films using a suite of analytical techniques that will probe it on a molecular level. If successful, this project will shed new light on the role of water and salt in the thermal transition.

The nanocomposite coating is a thin film of polyelectrolyte multilayers or “layer-by-layer assembly” of the desired material. Such coatings are commonly used in solar cells, optics and antibacterial, biomedical and temperature responsive materials. Common layer-by-layer assemblies are made by processing through immersion, spinning, spraying, electromagnetic or fluidic deposition of desired materials on a variety of application surfaces.

Taking a new tack on thin film structure

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“Any application you can dream of for these coatings, I assure you someone has tried it,” said Lutkenhaus. “At one point, researchers were talking about depositing it into hair as a beauty product.”

Although thin films have been developed for sometime, their exact structure is still not known. This project places a unique emphasis on salt type, where a broad range of salts with varying size, charge and water interactions are examined. Lutkenhaus seeks to investigate the unified relationship between temperature, water and salt as it governs the transition of the thin films.

“This will be of significant importance because this new knowledge will allow fine-tuning of the transition temperature and the physical properties associated with these materials, ultimately leading to possible new advanced applications,” said Lutkenhaus.

She explained the phenomenon of thin film glass transitions on a macroscopic scale with an example of a rubber ball. She demonstrated how the ball when dipped in liquid nitrogen solidifies and cracks when dropped on the ground. In real-world applications, it is important to know if the film is rubbery or glassy. Continued fundamental research on the structure of the coatings will help Lutkenhaus engineer thin film coatings that adapts to the material to be coated.

Dr. Maria Sammalkorpi, professor of polymer chemistry from Aalto University in Finland, actively collaborates

with Lutkenhaus’ lab. Her molecular models explain some of the properties in thin films. Yangpu Zhang,

a doctoral student in the chemical engineering department, will be visiting Sammalkorpi for a month in Finland to conduct related research in

polyelectrolyte complexes, a cousin of layer-by-layer assemblies.

Four undergraduate students in Lutkenhaus’ research group are assisting with the

research. Lutkenhaus said this research is a good platform to introduce them to lab

research as the process is water-based and therefore, safe.

“You can pretty much use any material to create a thin film

coating which is adaptable, environmentally safe and stimuli-responsive,” Lutkenhaus

said. “These coatings are so versatile, the consumer

wouldn’t and shouldn’t know they’re there.”

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Recent advancements in automotive, aerospace and power generation industries have inspired materials scientists to engineer innovative materials. Ceramic metal composites, or cermets, are an example of a new and improved class of materials that can enhance transportation and energy conversion technologies.

Cermets combine useful properties from each of their primary constituent materials such as high temperature stability of ceramics and machinability and ductility of metals. However, cermets are effective only if their constituent materials do not react with each other during their processing.

Researchers at Texas A&M have developed a rapid and efficient technology that enables processing ceramics and metals together into cermets with little to no reaction between constituent materials. This breakthrough opens the possibilities for development of new and superior composite materials.

Most ceramics and metals are unstable when combined at high temperatures and are known to react with each other, leaving the final composite materials with undesirable properties such as brittleness or low temperature resistance.

“This severely limits the number of new composite materials that can be developed for our growing needs,” said Dr. Miladin Radovic, associate professor and associate department head in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

Rapid ceramic metal processing for superior composites

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Radovic along with Dr. Ibrahim Karaman, Chevron Professor I and head of the materials science and engineering department, and former doctoral students Dr. Liangfa Hu and Dr. Ankush Kothalkar, and Morgan O’Neil, an undergraduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, have developed the current-activated pressure-assisted infiltration (CAPAI) method to combine ceramics and metals, resulting in stable, high-performance composites.

In only 10 seconds, the CAPAI method combines ceramics and metals with little to no reaction between constituent materials. It uses electric current to instantly heat the metal, and applies pressure to drive the molten metal into foam made of ceramic.

In their initial study, researchers selected aluminum for its light weight, corrosion resistance and popularity in automotive and aerospace industries, and ceramic foams of titanium aluminum carbide (Ti2AlC) for their good fracture toughness, electrical and thermal conductivity, and combined them into lightweight cermets with high strength and good temperature stability.

“The electric current and the pressure together provided simultaneous heating and pressure that actively drove the molten metals into the ceramic preform,” said Radovic. “The fast and controllable heating rate, which was as high as 200 degrees Celsius, offered an easy and efficient way to avoid reactions between ceramics and molten metal.”

The researchers discovered that the resulting composite (Ti3AlC3/Al) was lightweight with competitive mechanical properties at both ambient (room) temperatures and elevated temperatures. It was 10 times stronger at room temperature and 14 times stronger at 400 degrees Celsius than aluminum alloys, and was less prone to severe degradation after exposure to high temperatures.

“Both aluminum and titanium aluminum carbides challenged the conventional methods for producing desirable composite materials because they react to each other at a temperature that is well below that needed to combine them in the composite material,” said Radovic. “The CAPAI method allowed processing novel ceramic-metal composites which could not otherwise be obtained using powder metallurgy and conventional infiltration techniques.”

Radovic is optimistic about the limitless opportunities that new and advanced composite materials will offer for both economical and sustainable manufacturing on an industrial scale.

The research was supported by a grant awarded to Texas A&M researchers through the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative.

Radovic is optimistic about

the limitless opportunities that

new and advanced composite

materials will offer.

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Dr. Karl T. Hartwig, professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, in collaboration with Dr. Xinghang Zhang of Purdue University, was recently awarded an NSF grant to study mechanisms enabling manufacturing martensitic steels with enhanced ductility. He will study the impact of alloy chemistry, microstructure, and thermo-mechanical treatment including severe plastic deformation processing, on the properties and microstructure of martensitic steels. The researchers hope to accomplish high strength (with ultimate tensile strength of 1,500 MPa or greater) and high tensile ductility (with uniform elongation of 15 percent or greater) in ferritic/martensitic (F/M) steels. Such a combination of strength and ductility, if accomplished will exceed the properties of most steel products in the market today, and is likely to create abundant manufacturing related opportunities.

Studying martensitic steels for enhanced strength and ductility

Dr. Patrick Shamberger, assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, is conducting fundamental research on magnetic cooling technology that can heat up when magnetized and cool down when the magnetic field is removed.

High-efficiency magnetic refrigerants could potentially consume much less electricity than traditional vapor-compression refrigerators and heat pumps. However, every time the magnetic field is changed, abrupt energy loss or hysteresis occurs.

Shamberger has received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the microscopic mechanism causing the energy loss to understand how to design high-efficiency near-room temperature magnetic refrigerants.

Shamberger to study energy efficient cooling technology

The proposal, “Understanding Mechanisms in Magneto-Structural Transformations,” received $382,000 from NSF. Shamberger’s research seeks to investigate the phase transformation mechanisms in the iron phosphide class of alloys (Fe2P). It is known that the Fe2P alloys exhibit magnetocaloric effect, which is the thermal response of a magnetic material to the change of an external magnetic field that results in temperature change.

The research will explore the mechanisms responsible for low-hysteresis transformation in Fe2P alloys and, additionally, may provide insights into hysteresis engineering in other functional materials such as shape memory alloys.

Hartwig is currently working on projects to develop corrosion controlled magnesium alloys for biomedical implants, develop stronger corrosion resistant aluminum alloys for down-hole oil field applications, understand mechanisms for improved ductility in pure tungsten, and improve microstructure uniformity and deformation characteristics in bulk niobium and tantalum for low temperature superconductor applications.


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A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) has partnered with higher education institutions from across the southern United States to form the Transportation Consortium of South-Central States (Tran-SET), a research consortium funded by the Department of Transportation (DOT).

The researchers from TEES will focus on projects associated with the use of multifunctional materials in new component construction, remote sensing of signals potentially generated by these materials, development of new environmentally friendly cement alternatives, and the understanding and investigation of corrosion in aging infrastructure components.

TEES researchers join Department of Transportation consortium

Dr. Ibrahim Karaman, Chevron Professor I and department head in materials science and engineering, will lead the TEES team.

Dr. Darren Hartl, assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, will work with Karaman to design optimization and development of embedded smart material sensors.

Dr. Aydin Karsilayan, associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, will develop new methods for broadcasting sensor signals at low powers.

Dr. Miladin Radovic, associate professor and associate department head in materials science and engineering, will develop new polymer-based concrete substitutes for reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

Dr. Homero Castenada, associate professor in materials science and engineering, will be involved in addressing new methods for corrosion control and mitigation in existing transportation structures.

Dr. Marwa Hassan of Louisiana State University will lead Tran-SET, which will address novel materials and innovative construction methodologies as applied throughout the transportation infrastructure. It will also include economic limitations by considering research topics with strong potential for transition to implementation. The DOT will support the consortium with $2.5 million for the first year and determine future funding based on research success.

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Dr. Raymundo ArróyaveAssociate Professor

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004

Arróyave specializes in computational thermodynamics and kinetics of

materials. His research focuses on thermodynamics of materials, kinetics of

phase transformations and thin film thermodynamics.

Selected 2016 Publications

• Arróyave R; Talapatra A; Duong T; Son W; Gao H; Radovic M; “Does aluminum play well with others? Intrinsic Al-A alloying behavior in 211/312 MAX phases,” Materials Research Letters, pp. 1-9, 2016.• Johnson L; Arróyave R; “An inverse design framework for prescribing precipitation heat treatments from a target microstructure,” Materials & Design, Vol. 107, pp. 7-17, 2016.• Duong T.C; Hackenberg R.E; Landa A; Honarmandi P; Talapatra A; Volz H.M; Llobet A; Smith A.I; King G; Ruban A; Vitos L; Turchi P; Arróyave R; “Revisiting thermodynamics and kinetic diffusivities of uranium–niobium with Bayesian uncertainty analysis,” Calphad, Vol. 55, pp. 219-230, 2016.• Talapatra A; Duong T; Son W; Gao H; Radovic M; Arróyave R; “High-throughput combinatorial study of the effect of M site alloying on the solid solution behavior of M2AlC MAX phases,” Physical Review B, Vol. 94(10), pp. 104-106, 2016.• Arróyave R; Gibbons S; Galvan E; Malak R.J.; “The Inverse Phase Stability Problem as a Constraint Satisfaction Problem: Application to Materials Design,” JOM, Vol. 68(5), pp. 1385-1396, 2016.• Singh N; Talapatra A; Junkaew A; Duong T; Gibbons S; Li S; Thawabi H; Olivos E; Arróyave R. “Effect of ternary additions to structural properties of NiTi alloys,” Computational Materials Science, Vol. 112, pp. 347-355, 2016.• Monroe, J; Gehring, D; Karaman I; Arróyave R; Brown D; Clausen B; “Tailored thermal expansion alloys,” Acta Materialia, Vol. 102(33), pp. 333-341, 2016.• Son W; Duong T; Talapatra A; Gao H: Arróyave R; Radovic M; “Ab-initio investigation of the finite- temperatures structural, elastic, and thermodynamic properties of Ti3AlC2 and Ti3SiC2,” Computational Materials Science, Vol. 124, pp. 420-427, 2016.• Gao H; Benitez R; Son W; Arróyave R; Radovic M. “Structural, physical and mechanical properties of Ti3(Al1− x Six)C 2 solid solution with x= 0–1,” Materials Science and Engineering: A, Vol. 676, pp. 197-208, 2016.• Attari V; Arróyave R. “Phase Field Modeling of Joint Formation During Isothermal Solidification in 3DIC Micro Packaging,” Vol. 37(4), pp. 469-480, 2016.• Cáceres-Díaz L.A; Alvarado-Orozco J.M; Ruiz-Luna H; García-Herrera J.E; Mora-García A.G; Trapaga-Martínez G; Arróyave R; Munoz-Saldana J; “Study of the Isothermal Oxidation Process and Phase Transformations in B2-(Ni, Pt) Al/RENE-N5 System,” Metals, Vol. 6(9), 2016.

Dr. Amine BenzergaProfessor

Director, Center for IntelligentMaterials and Structures (CiMMS)


• Thomas N; Basu S; Benzerga A.A; “On fracture loci of ductile materials under non-proportional loading,” International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, Vol. 117, pp. 135-151, 2016.• Kewon S; Sagsoy B; Benzerga A.A; “Constitutive relations and their time integration for anisotropic elasto-plastic porous materials,” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 310, pp. 495-534, 2016.• Selvarajou B; Kondori B; Benzerga A.A; Joshi S.P; “On plastic flow in notched hexagonal close packed single crystals,” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Vol. 94, pp. 273-297, 2016.• Rodriguez A.K; Ayoub G.A; Mansoor B; Benzerga A.A; “Effect of strain rate and temperature on fracture of magnesium alloy AZ31B,” Acta Materialia, Vol. 112, pp. 194-208, 2016.• Kondori B; Benzerga A.A; Needleman A; “Discrete shear transformation zone plasticity,” Extreme Mechanics Letters, Vol. 9, pp. 21-29, 2016.• Pineau A; Benzerga A.A; Pardoen T; “Failure of metals I: Brittle and ductile fracture,” Acta Materialia, Vol. 107, pp. 424-483, 2016.• Pineau A; Benzerga A.A; Pardoen T; “Failure of metals III: Fracture and fatigue of nanostructured metallic materials,” Acta Materialia, Vol. 107, pp. 508-544, 2016.• Soare S.C; Benzerga A.A; “On the modeling of asymmetric yield functions,” International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 80, pp. 486-500, 2016.• Morin L; Leblond J.B; Benzerga A.A; Kondo D; “A unified criterion for the growth and coalescence of microvoids,” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Vol. 97, pp. 19-36, 2016.• Benzerga A.A; Leblond JB; Needleman A; Tvergaard V. “Ductile Failure Modeling,” International Journal of Fracture, Vol. 201 (1), pp. 29-80, 2016.Ph.D., Ecole des Mines de Paris, France, 2000

Benzerga’s research interests include mechanics of materials, high-performance computing,

anisotropy in plasticity and fracture, ductile fracture, discrete dislocation plasticity and

dislocation mechanics, and macromolecular mechanics of polymers and their composites.

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Dr. Tahir CaginProfessor


• Carvajal-Diaz J.A; Cagin T; “Electrophoretic Transport of Na+ and K+ Ions Within Cyclic Peptide Nanotubes,” The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 120 (32), pp. 78720-7879, 2016.• Atilhan M; Atilhan S; Ullah R; Anaya B; Cagin T; Yavuz C.T; Aparicio, S; “High-Pressure Methane, Carbon Dioxide, and Nitrogen Adsorption on Amine-Impregnated Porous Montmorillonite Nanoclays,” Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, Vol. 61(8), pp. 2749-2760, 2016.• Sarikurt S; Ozden A.; Kandemir A; Sevik C; Kinaci A; Haskins JB; Cagin T; “Tailoring thermal conductivity of silicon/germanium nanowires utilizing core-shell architecture,” Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 119(15), pp. 155101, 2016.• Kandemir A; Yapicioglu H; Kinaci A; Cagin T; Sevik C; “Thermal transport properties of MoS2 and MoSe2 monolayers,” Nanotechnology, Vol. 27(5), pp. 055703, 2016.• Calışkan M; Oztoprak A; Gunay S.D; Cagin T; Tasseven C; “Effect of Cu Atoms on the Band Structure of CdTe,” Materials Science Forum, Vol. 856, pp. 153-156, 2016.• Njoroge J; Chakrabarty A; Cagin T; “Shockwave Response of Polymer and Polymer Nanocomposites,” Materials Science Forum, Vol. 856, pp. 64-69, 2016.

Ph.D., Clemson University, 1988

Cagin’s research interests include computational materials science and nanotechnology, characterization and

development of multifunctional nano-structured materials, materials for thermal

management, power generation and energy harvesting, and development and application of

multiscale simulation methods.

Dr. Homero CastanedaAssociate Professor

Director, National Corrosion and Materials Reliability Center

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2001

Casteneda’s research interests include multiscale tools for corrosion analysis and mitigation in oil and gas systems, dynamic electrochemical characterization and monitoring of operating batteries and damage evolution of coatings /

steel and coatings / aluminum interfaces.


• Cubides Y; Su S.S; Castaneda H; “Influence of Zinc Content and Chloride Concentration on the Corrosion Protection Performance of Zinc-Rich Epoxy Coatings Containing Carbon Nanotubes on Carbon Steel in Simulated Concrete Pore Environments,” Corrosion, Vol. 72 (11), pp. 1397-1423, 2016. • Cubides Y; Castaneda H; “Corrosion protection mechanisms of carbon nanotube and zinc-rich epoxy primers on carbon steel in simulated concrete pore solutions in the presence of chloride ions,” Corrosion Science, Vol. 109, pp. 145-161, 2016• Karayan A.I; Jata K; Velez M; Castaneda H; “On exfoliation corrosion of alloy 2060 T8E30 in an aggressive acid environment,” Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Vol. 657, pp. 546-558, 2016.• Miran S.A; Huang Q; Castaneda H; “Time-Dependent Reliability Analysis of Corroded Buried Pipelines Considering External Defects,” Journal of Infrastructure Systems, Vol. 22 (3), pp. 04016019, 2016. • Chen Y; Torres J; Castaneda H; Ju L.K; “Quantitative comparison of anaerobic pitting patterns and damage risks by chloride versus Desulfovibrio vulgaris using a fast pitting-characterization method,” International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation, Vol. 109, pp. 119-131, 2016.• Li XM; Rosas O; Castaneda H; “Deterministic modeling of API5L X52 steel in a coal-tar-coating/cathodic-protection system in soil”, International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping, Vol. 146, pp. 161-170, 2016.• Cabrera-Sierra R; Cosmes-Lòpez L; Castaneda-Lòpez H; Calderòn J.T; Lòpez J.H; “Corrosion studies of Carbon Steel Immersed in NACE Brine by Weight Loss, EIS and XRD Techniques,” Int. J. Electrochem. Sci,” Vol. 11, pp. 10185-10198, 2016.• Wang H; Tajima A; Liang R.Y; Castaneda H; “Reliagility-based temporal and spatial maintenance strategy for integrity management of corroded underground pipelines,” Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, Vol. 12, pp. 1281-1294, 2016.

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Dr. Michael J. DemkowiczAssociate Professor


• Lin K.J; Ding H; Demkowicz M.J; “Formation, migration, and clustering energies of interstitial He in α-quartz and β-cristobalite,” Journal of Nuclear Materials, Vol. 479, pp. 224-231, 2016.• Coenen J.W; Berger M; Demkowicz M.J; Matveev D; Manhard A; Neu R; Riesch J; Unterberg B; Wirtz M; Linsmeier C. “Plasma-wall interaction of advanced materials,” Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2016.• Seita M; Volpi M; Patala S; McCue I; Schuh C.A; Diamanti M.V; Erlebacher J; Demkowicz M.J; “A high-throughput technique for determining grain boundary character non-destructively in microstructures with through-thickness grains,” Computational Materials, Vol. 2, pp. 16016, 2016.• Abdolrahim N; Demkowicz M.J; “Determining coherent reference states of general semicoherent interfaces,” Computational Materials Science, Vol. 118, pp. 297-308, 2016.• Godet J; Furgeaud C; Pizzagalli L; Demkowicz M.J; “Uniform tensile elongation in Au–Si core–shell nanowires,” Extreme Mechanics Letters, Vol. 8, pp. 208-212, 2016.• Li N; Demkowicz M.J; Mara N; Wang Y; Misra A; “Hardening due to Interfacial He Bubbles in Nanolayered Composites,” Materials Research Letters, Vol. 4 (2), pp. 75-82, 2016.• Xu G; Demkowicz M.J; “Crack healing in nanocrystalline palladium,” Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2016.• Vattre A; Jourdan T; Ding H; Marinica M.C; Demkowicz M.J; “Non-random walk diffusion enhances the sink strength of semicoherent interfaces,” Nature Communications, Vol. 7, pp. 10424, 2016.• Demkowicz M.J; Majewski J; “Probing Interfaces in Metals Using Neutron Reflectometry,” Metals, Vol. 6 (1), pp. 20, 2016.• Aggarwal R; Demkowicz M.J; Marzouk Y.M; “Information-Driven Experimental Design in Materials Science,” Information Science for Materials Discovery and Design, Vol. 225, pp. 13-44, 2016.• Chen-Wiegart Y.C.K; Williams G; Zhao C.H; Jiang H; Li L; Demkowicz M.J; Seita M; Short M; Wada T; Kato H; Chou K.W; Petrash S; Catalano J; Yao Y; Murphy A; Zumbulyadis N; Centeno S.A; Dybowski C; Thieme J; "Early Science Commissioning Results of the Sub-micron Resolution S-ray Spectroscopy Beamline (SRX) in the Field of Materials Science and Engineering," 23rd International Congress on X-ray Optics and Microanalysis, AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1764, pp. 030004, 2016.

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, 2005

Demkowicz specializes in computational materials design, fundamental physics of material behavior mechanical behavior, and radiation response of

materials.

Dr. Ibrahim KaramanDepartment Head, Professor,

Chevron Professorship I Holder

Ph.D., University of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign, 2000

Karaman’s research interests include processing-microstructure-mechanical/

functional property relationships in metallic materials exhibiting simultaneous dislocation slip

and twinning deformation, and slip-twinning- martensitic transformation; twinning and

martensitic phase transformation in metallic materials; and magnetic, thermal and mechanical

activation of martensitic phase transformation.


• Monroe J.A; Gehring D; Karaman I; Arroyave R; Brown D.W; Clausen B; “Tailored thermal expansion alloys,” Acta Materialia, Vol. 102, pp. 333-341, 2016.• Hu L; O’Neil M; Erturun V; Benitez R; Proust G; Karaman I; Radovic M; “High-Performance Metal/Carbide Composites with Far-From-Equilibrium Compositions and Controlled Microstructures,” Scientific Reports, Vol. 6, p. 35523, 2016.• Chen J.H; Bruno N.M; Karaman I; Huang Y; Li J; Ross J.H; “Direct measure of giant magnetocaloric entropy contributions in Ni–Mn–In,” Acta Materialia, Vol. 105, pp. 176-181, 2016.• Coppola A.M; Hu L; Thakre P.R; Radovic M; Karaman I; Sottos N.R; White S.R; “Active Cooling of a Microvascular Shape Memory Alloy‐Polymer Matrix Composite Hybrid Material,” Advanced Engineering Materials, Vol. 18, pp. 1145-1153, 2016.• Vollmer M; Kriegel M.K; Klemm V; Somsen C; Ozcan H; Karaman I; Weidner A; Rafaja D. Biermann H; Niendorf T; “Cyclic degradation in bamboo-like Fe–Mn–Al–Ni shape memory alloys—The role of grain orientation,” Scripta Materialia, Vol. 114, pp. 156-160, 2016.• Tseng L.W; Ma J; Wang S.J; Karaman I; Chumlyakov Y.I; “Effects of crystallographic orientation on the superelastic response of FeMnAlNi single crystals,” Scripta Materialia, Vol. 116, pp. 147-151, 2016.• Tseng L.W; Ma J; Vollmer M; Niendorf T; Karaman I; “Effect of grain size on the superelastic response of a FeMnAlNi polycrystalline shape memory alloy,” Scripta Materialia, Vol. 125, pp. 68-72, 2016.• Chumlyakov Y.I; Kireeva I.V; Kutz O.A; Turabi A.S; Karaca H.E; Karaman I; “Unusual reversible twinning modes and giant superelastic strains in FeNiCoAlNb single crystals,” Scripta Materialia, Vol. 119, pp. 43-46, 2016• Bruno N.M; Huang Y.J; Dennis C.L; Li J.G; Shull R.D; Ross Jr J.H; Chumlyakov Y.I; Karaman I. “Effect of grain constraint on the field requirements for magnetocaloric effect in Ni45Co5Mn40Sn10 melt-spun ribbons,” Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 120, p. 075101, 2016.• Dogan E; Wang S; Vaughan M.W; Karaman I; “Dynamic precipitation in Mg-3Al-1Zn alloy during different plastic deformation modes,” Acta Materialia, Vol. 116, pp. 1-13, 2016.• Pérez-Sierra A.M; Pons J; Santamarta R; Karaman I; Noebe R.D; “Stability of a Ni-rich Ni-Ti-Zr high temperature shape memory alloy upon low temperature aging and thermal cycling,” Scripta Materialia, Vol. 124, pp. 47-50, 2016.

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Dr. Pao-Tai LinAssistant Professor


• Lin P.T; Lin H.G; Han Z; Jin T; Millender R; Kimerling L.C; Agarwal A; “Label‐Free Glucose Sensing Using Chip‐Scale Mid‐Infrared Integrated Photonics,” Advanced Optical Materials, Vol. 4(11), pp. 1755-1759, 2016.• Novak S; Lin P.T; Li C; Borodinov N; Han Z; Monmeyran C; Patel N; Du Q; Malinowski M; Fathpour S; Lumdee C; Xu C; Kik P.G; Deng W; Hu J; Agarwal A; Luzinov I; Richardson K; “Electrospray Deposition of Uniform Thickness Ge23Sb7S70 and As40S60 Chalcogenide Glass Films,” Journal of Visualized Experiments, pp. e54379-e54379, 2016.• Han Z; Lin P.T; Singh V; Kimerling L; Hu J; Richardson K; Agarwal A; Tan D; “On-chip mid-infrared gas detection using chalcogenide glass waveguide,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 108(14), pp. 141106, 2016.• Lin P.T; "Integrated mid-infrared photonic circuits for label-free biochemical sensing," SPIE Defense+ Security, Vol. 9824, pp. 982403-982403-4, 2016.• Lin P.T; Russin W.A; Joshi-Imre A: Ocola L.E; Wessels B.W; “Investigation of the optical response of photonic crystal nanocavities in ferroelectric oxide thin film,” Journal of Optics, Vol. 17 (10), pp. 105402, 2016.• Su P; Han Z; Kita D; Singh V; Du Q; Kimerling L; Hu J; Agarwal A; Lin P.T; Richardson K; Tan D.T.H; "Irradiation of on-chip chalcogenide glass waveguide mid-infrared gas sensor" Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 108(14), pp. 141106, 2016.

Ph.D., Northwestern University,2009

Lin’s research is focused on mid-infrared integrated photonics, biomedical

sensors on a chip, multiscale fabrication technologies, reconfigurable materials,

nanophotonics and meta-materials. He has a joint appointment with the Department of Electrical

and Computer Engineering.

Dr. Dimitris LagoudasUniversity Distinguished ProfessorSenior Associate Dean for Research


• Peraza-Hernandez E.A; Hartl D.J; Lagoudas D.C; “Kinematics of Origami Structures With Smooth Folds,” Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, Vol. 8 (6), pp. 061019, 2016.• Gardea F; Glaz B; Riddick J; Lagoudas D.C; Naraghi M; “Thermally activated energy dissipation in semi-crystalline polymer nanocomposites,” Composites Science and Technology, Vol. 134, pp. 275-286, 2016.• Baxevanis T; Parrinello A.F; Lagoudas D.C; “On the driving force for crack growth during thermal actuation of shape memory alloys,” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Vol. 89, pp. 255-271, 2016.• Saunders R.N; Boyd J.G; Hartl D.J; Brown J.K; Calkins F.T; Lagoudas D.C; “A validated model for induction heating of shape memory alloy actuators,” Smart Materials and Structures, Vol. 25 (4), pp. 0445022, 2016.• Jape S; Baxevanis T; Lagoudas D.C; “Stable crack growth during thermal actuation of shape memory alloys,” Shape Memory and Superelasticity, Vol. 2(1), pp. 104-113, 2016.• Solomou A.G; Machairas T.T; Saravanos D.A; Hartl D.J; Lagoudas D.C; “A coupled layered thermomechanical shape memory alloy beam element with enhanced higher order temperature field approximations,” Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Vol. 27 (17), pp. 2359-2384, 2016.• Gardea F; Glaz B; Riddick J; Lagoudas D.C; Naraghi M; “Identification of energy dissipation mechanisms in CNT-reinforced nanocomposites,” Nanotechnology, Vol. 27 (10), pp. 105707, 2016.• Gardea F; Lagoudas D.C; Naraghi M; “Active Damping in Polymer-Based Nanocomposites,” Mechanics of Composite and Multi-functional Materials, Vol. 7, pp. 235-239, 2016.Ph.D., Lehigh University, 1986

Lagoudas specializes in micromechanics of active materials and smart structures in addition to phase

transformations in shape memory alloys (SMA), thermoelectric heat transfer in SMA

actuators, SMA elastomeric composite dampers, and oxidation and damage in metal

matrix composites. He has a joint appointment with the Department of Aerospace Engineering.

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Dr. Alan NeedlemanProfessor

TEES Distinguished Research Professorship Holder


• Khan D; Singh S; Needleman A; “Finite deformation analysis of crack tip fields in plastically compressible hardening–softening–hardening solids,” Acta Mechanica Sinica, Vol. 33 (1), pp. 148-158, 2016.• Kondori B; Benzerga A.A; Needleman A; “Discrete shear transformation zone plasticity,” Extreme Mechanics Letters, Vol. 9, pp. 21-29, 2016.• Lebensohn R.A; Needleman A; “Numerical implementation of non-local polycrystal plasticity using fast Fourier Transforms,” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Vol. 97, pp. 333-351, 2016.• Tvergaard T; Needleman A; “Indentation of pressurized viscoplastic polymer spherical shells,” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Vol. 93, pp. 16-33, 2016.• Benzerga A.A; Leblond J.B; Needleman A; Tvergaard V; “Ductile Failure Modeling,” International Journal of Fracture, Vol. 201(1), pp. 29-80, 2016.

Ph.D. Harvard University, 1971

Needleman is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. His research interests

include computational modeling of deformation, fracture processes in structural materials. A general objective is to provide quantitative

relations between the measurable features of the materials’ micro-scale structure and its

macroscopic mechanical behavior.


• Liu Z; Yin Z; Cox C; Bosman M; Qian X; Li N; Zhao H; Du Y; Li J; Nocera D.G; “Room temperature stable COx-free H2 production from methanol with magnesium oxide nanophotocatalysts,” Science Advances, Vol. 2, pp. e1501425, 2016.• Qi J; Li X; Qian X; “Electrically controlled band gap and topological phase transition in two-dimensional multilayer germanane,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 108(25), pp. 253107, 2016

Dr. Xiaofeng QianAssistant Professor

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008

Qian’s research is in materials theory, discovery, and design for energy applications and device design aided

by high throughout computing. He is involved in two-dimensional materials and their coupled multi-

physical properties with applications in optoelectronics, photovoltaics, catalysis, sensing and energy storage.

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• Clarke H; Brown T; Hu J; Ganguli R; Reed A; Voevodin A; Shamberger P; “Microstructure dependent filament forming kinetics in HfO2 programmable metallization cells” Nanotechnology, Vol. 27(42), pp. 425709, 2016.• Brown T; Karaman I; Shamberger P; “Impact of cycle-hysteresis interactions on the performance of giant magnetocaloric effect refrigerants” Materials Research Express, Vol. 3(7), pp. 074001, 2016.• Shamberger P; Wohlwend J; Roy A; Voevodin A; “Investigating Grain Boundary Structures and Energetics of Rutile with Reactive Molecular Dynamics” The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 120(24), pp. 13049-13062, 2016.• Shamberger P; “Cooling capacity figure of merit for phase change materials,” Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 138(2), pp. 024502 1-7, 2016.

Dr. Patrick ShambergerAssistant Professor

Undergraduate Degree Program DirectorPh.D., University of Washington, 2010

Shamberger’s research interests include engineering of phase transitions with tailored properties, thermal

storage materials for energy storage and thermal management applications, theory and methodology of diffraction-based materials analysis, and materials

informatics.

Dr. Miladin RadovicAssociate Professor

Associate Department Head

Ph.D., Drexel University, Philadelphia, 2001

Radovic’s research interests include processing of advanced ceramics and ceramics composites, high

temperature materials for energy applications, characterization and modeling of mechanical

properties of ceramic and ceramic composites, and resonant ultrasound spectroscopy.


• Hu, L O’Neil M; Erturun V; Benitez R; Proust G; Karaman I; Radovic M; “High-Performance Metal/Carbide Composites with Far-From-Equilibrium Compositions and Controlled Microstructures” Scientific Reports, Vol. 6, 35523, 2016.

• Benitez R; Kan W.H; Gao H; O’Neal M; Proust, G; Radovic M; “Room Temperature Stress-Strain Hysteresis in Ti2AlC Revisited” Acta Materialia, Vol. 105, pp. 294-305, 2016.

• Talapatra A; Duong T; Son W; Gao H Arroyave R; Radovic M; “A high throughput combinatorial study of the effect of M site alloying on the solid solution behavior of M2AlC MAX phases” Physical Review B, B 94 (10) pp. 104106, 2016.

• Gao H; Benitez B; Son W; Arroyave R; Radovic M; “Structural, Physical and Mechanical Properties of Ti3(Al1-

xSix)C2 Solid Solution with x=0-1” Materials Science and Engineering A, Vol. 676 (31) pp. 197-208, 2016.• Lara-Curzio E; Radovic M; Luttrell C.R; “On the Applicability of Probabilistic Analyses to Assess the

Structural Reliability of Materials and Components for Solid-Oxide Fuel Cells”, in Engineering Ceramics: Current Status and Future Prospects, Eds: T. Ohji and M. Singh, Wiley, 2016, pp. 46-58.

• Parrikara P.N; Benitez R; Gao H; Radovic M; Shukla A; “Mechanical Response of Fine Grained Ti2AlC under Extreme Thermo-mechanical Loading Conditions” Materials Science and Engineering A, Vol. 658, pp. 176–184, 2016.

• Arroyave R; Talapatra A; Duong T; Son W; Gao H; Radovic M; “Does Aluminum Play Well with Others? Intrinsic Al-A behavior in 211 and 312 MAX Phases” Materials Research Letters, pp. 1-9, 2016

• Xing J; Radovic M; Muliana A; “Thermal Properties of BaTiO3/Ag Composites at Different Temperatures” Composites Part B: Engineering, Vol. 90, pp.287-301, 2016.

• Stadelmann R; Lugovy M; Orlovskaya N; Mchaffey P; Radovic M; Sglavo V.M; Grasso S.M; Reece M.J; “Mechanical Properties and Residual Stresses in ZrB2-SiC Spark Plasma Sintered Ceramic Composites” Journal of the European Ceramic Society, Vol. 36 (7), pp. 1527–1537, 2016.

• Hanaor D.A.H; Hu L; Kan W.H; Proust G; Foley M; Karaman I; Radovic M; “Compressive performance and crack propagation in Al alloy/Ti2AlC composites” Materials Science and Engineering A, Vol. 672, pp. 247–256, 2016.

• Coppola A.M; Hu L; Thakre P.R; Radovic M; Karaman I; Sottos, N.R; White S.R; “Active Cooling of a Microvascular Shape Memory Alloy-polymer Matrix Composite Hybrid Material” Advanced Engineering Materials, Vol. 18 (7), pp. 1145-1153, 2016.

• Jović B.M; Jović V.D; Lačnjevac U.Č; Stevanović S.I; Kovač J; Gao H; Radovic M; Krstajić N.V; “Thin Layers of Ru Electrodeposited onto Highly Stable Ti2AlC Substrates as Cathodes for Hydrogen Evolution in Sulfuric Acid Solutions” Journal of Electrochemical Society, Vol. 766, pp. 78-86, 2016.

• Son W; Duong T; Talapatra A; Gao H; Arroyave R; Radovic M; “Ab-initio investigation of the finite-temperatures structural, elastic, and thermodynamic properties of Ti3AlC2 and Ti3SiC2” Computational Materials Science, Vol. 124, pp. 420-427, 2016.

• Brankovic Z; Lukovic-Golic D; Radojkovic A; Cirkovic J; Pajic D; Marinkovic-Stanojevic Z; Xing J; Radovic M; Brankovic G; “Spark Plasma Sintering of Hydrothermally Synthesized BiFeO3” Processing and Application of Ceramics, Vol. 10, pp. 257-264, 2016.

• Agne M.T; Radovic M; Bentzel G; Barsoum M.W; “Stability of V2AlC with Al in 800-1000 oC Temperature Range and in situ Synthesis of V2AlC/Al Composites” Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Vol. 66, pp. 279–286, 2016.

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Dr. Hung-Jue SueProfessor

TEES Professorship HolderDirector, Polymer Technology Center


• Hawkins S; Yao H; Wang H; Sue H.J; “Tensile properties and electrical conductivity of epoxy composite thin films containing zinc oxide quantum dots and multi-walled carbon nanotubes,” Carbon, 2016.• Hamdi M; Puopolo M; Pham H; Sue H.J; “Experimental and FEM analysis of scratch behavior on polypropylene thin films: Effect of film orientation and ethylene monomer content,” Tribology International, Vol. 103, pp. 412-422, 2016.• Laux K; Sue H.J; Hossain, M; Bremner, T; “Influence of wet contact conditions on the multidirectional fretting behavior of polyetheretherketone and composites,” Polymer, Vol. 103, pp. 397-404, 2016.• Laux K; Jean-Fulcrand A; Sue H.J; Bremner T; Wong J; “The influence of surface properties on sliding contact temperature and friction for polyetheretherketone (PEEK),” Polymer, Vol. 103, pp. 397-404, 2016.• Hossain M; Jahnke E; Boeckmann P; Guriyanova S; Minkwitz R; Sue H.J; “Effect of thermal history on scratch behavior of multi-phase styrenic-based copolymers,” Tribology International, Vol. 99, pp. 248-257, 2016.• Hossain M; Lee C; Fiscus D; Sue H.J; “Physical assessment of essential work of fracture parameters based on m-LLDPE blown films,” Polymer, Vol. 96, pp. 104-111, 2016.• Liu P; Mullins M; Bremner T; Browne J.A; Sue H.J; “Hygrothermal behavior of polybenzimidazole,” Polymer, Vol. 93, pp. 88-98, 2016.• Choi W; Yang G; Kim S.L; Liu P; Sue H.J; Yu C; “One-step synthesis of nitrogen-iron coordinated carbon nanotube catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction,” Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 313, pp. 128-133, 2016• Rodriguez R.E; Guiza-Arguello V; Ochoa O.O; Gharat T; Sue H.J; Lafdi K; Hahn M.S; “Development of a hydroxyapatite-poly (d, l-lactide-co-glycolide) infiltrated carbon foam for orthopedic applications,” Carbon, Vol. 98, pp. 106-114, 2016.• White K.L; Yao H; Zhang X; Sue H.J; “Rheology of electrostatically tethered nanoplatelets and multi-walled carbon nanotubes in epoxy,” Polymer, Vol. 84, pp. 223-233, 2016• Zhao C; Li P; He D; Li Y; Lei F; Sue H.J; “Flame retardation behavior of polybenzoxazine/α-ZrP nanocomposites,” RSC Advances, Vol. 6(77), pp. 73485-73495, 2016.

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1988

Sue's research interests include high-performance functional materials, structure-property

relationships, and utilization of processing tools to enhance physical and mechanical properties of

polymers.

Dr. Ankit SrivastavaAssistant Professor


• Mogonye J; Srivastava A; Gopagoni S; Banerjee R; Scharf T; “Solid/Self-Lubrication Mechanisms of an Additively Manufactured Ni–Ti–C Metal Matrix Composite” Tribology Letters, Vol. 64(3), pp. 37, 2016.• Devaraj A; Joshi V; Srivastava A; Manandhar S; Moxson V; Duz V; Lavender C; “A low-cost hierarchical nanostructured beta-titanium alloy with high strength” Nature Communications, Vol. 7, 2016.• Srivastava A; Bower A; Hector Jr L; Carsley J; Zhang L; Abu-Farha F; “A multiscale approach to modeling formability of dual-phase steels” Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. 24(2), pp. 025011, 2016.

Ph.D., University of North Texas, 2013

Srivastava’s research interests include micromechanical modeling of heterogeneous

materials, microstructure-based crystal plasticity finite element modeling, phase transformations,

statistical fracture modeling, quantifying constitutive behavior of materials by small-scale experiments, in-situ mechanical testing, failure

analysis and microstructure design.

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Dr. Ramesh TalrejaProfessor

Tenneco Professorship Holder


• Talreja, R; “Physical modelling of failure in composites,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, Vol. 374 (2071), pp. 165-170, 2016.• Sengab A; Talreja R; “A numerical study of failure of an adhesive joint influenced by a void in the adhesive,” Composite Structures, Vol. 156, pp. 165-170, 2016.• Talreja R; “On Failure Theories for Composite Materials” Advanced Methods of Continuum Mechanics for Materials and Structures," Vol. 60, pp. 379-388, 2016.• Talreja R; Varna J; “Modeling Damage, Fatigue and Failure of Composite Materials” Woodhead Publishing Series in Composites Science and Engineering," Vol. 65, pp. 1-472, 2016• Zhuang L; Talreja R; Varna J; “Tensile Failure of Unidirectional Composite from a Local Fracture Plane,” Composites Science and Technology, Vol. 133, pp. 119-127, 2016.• Talreja R; “Multiscale Modeling of Failure in Composites,” Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, Vol. 82, pp. 173-181, 2016.• Singh C.V; Talreja R; “A Multi-scale Approach to Modeling of Composite Damage,” Modeling Damage, Fatigue and Failure of Composite Materials, Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, UK, pp. 329-345, 2016.• Talreja R; Varna J; “Fatigue Damage Mechanisms,” Modeling Damage, Fatigue and Failure of Composite Materials, Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, UK, pp. 25-40, 2016.• Talreja R; Varna J; “Incorporating Manufacturing Defects in Damage and Failure Analysis,” Modeling Damage, Fatigue and Failure of Composite Materials, Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, UK, pp. 377-390, 2016.• Talreja R; Varna J; “Matrix and Fiber-Matrix Interface Cracking in Composite Materials,” Modeling Damage, Fatigue and Failure of Composite Materials," Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, UK, pp. 87-96, 2016.• Talreja R; Varna J; “Multiscale Failure Assessment of Composite Laminates," Modeling Damage, Fatigue and Failure of Composite Materials, Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, UK, pp. 349-355, 2016.

Dr. Svetlana A. SukhishviliProfessor


• Wang Y; Sukhishvili S. “Hydrogen-bonded polymer complexes and nanocages of weak polyacids templated by a Pluronic® block copolymer,” Soft Matter, Vol. 12(42), pp. 8744-8754, 2016.• Wang Y; Chou T; Sukhishvili S.A; “Spontaneous, One-Pot Assembly of pH-Responsive Hydrogen-Bonded Polymer Capsules,” ACS Macro Letters, Vol. 5, pp. 35–39, 2016.

Ph.D., Moscow State University, Russia, 1989

Sukhishvili’s research interests include stimuli-responsive all-polymer and polymer

nanocomposite assemblies, structure and dynamics of polyelectrolyte assemblies, and

materials with controllable optical, swelling and drug-release responses. remote manipulation

of material shape, smart antibacterial materials, surface modification for controlling wettability,

adhesion and adsorption

Ph.D., The Technical University of Denmark, 1974

Talreja specializes in fatigue and failure of composites, effects of manufacturing defects, aging

aircrafts and sustainability of aerospace vehicles. He has a joint appointment with the Department

of Aerospace Engineering.

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The Polymer Technology Center (PTC) is a research organization with the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) led by Dr. H.J. Sue, TEES Professor. For more than two decades, it has successfully provided new technology and insight to the polymers industry through a focused and synergistic multidisciplinary approach.

The center hosts semi-annual meetings for the Consortium for Advancing Performance Polymers in Energy AppLications, Polymer Technology Industrial Consortium and Scratch Behavior of Polymers Consortium supporting education, research and training in the specific area of polymer science and technology.

In addition, the PTC offers a Polymer Specialty Certificate Program, the first professional development program of its kind in the state of Texas, for undergraduate the and graduate students at Texas A&M.

The center awards two scholarships every spring and fall, the Society of Plastics Engineers Scholarship and Kaneka Student Scholarship, to students who display excellence both academically and in their respective research fields.

The center includes more than 27 faculty members from aerospace engineering, biological and agricultural engineering, biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, chemistry, electrical and computer engineering, engineering technology, materials science and engineering, and mechanical engineering.

Visit ptc.tamu.edu for more information.

Polymer Technology

Center

Facilitating industry and university collaboration in polymer research

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The Zachry Engineering Education Complex, a new modern educational center dedicated to undergraduate students, will be opening its doors to students in 2018. This facility will be unlike any other in the country and is designed and equipped with technology to spark creativity and innovation.

Zachry Engineering Education ComplexTransforming Engineering Education

• Interdisciplinary laboratories

• Extensive makerspace

• Multi-level tutoring and advising center

• Technology support services

• Informal meeting and study areas

• Student career center

• Green roof/terrace

• Largest Starbucks® on campus with extended menu

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