Prof. Izabela Szlufarska’s group identified new ways for making nominally brittle materials tough through the formation of amorphous shear bands. The criteria for the design of tougher materials have been published in the journal Nature …
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Prof. Szlufarska awarded TMS Brimacombe Medal
Congratulations to Prof. Izabela Szlufarska for being named 2023 Brimacombe Medalist by the The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society.
How Machine Learning is Revolutionizing Materials Science – Futurum, 2023
A pedagogical nontechnical article on machine learning in materials for elementary and high school students, with activities guidelines and fun biographical information.
Predicting reactor pressure vessel behaviour for light-water reactors
Researchers at the Universities of Wisconsin and California are integrating physics and Machine Learning to predict materials degradation in nuclear reactors.
Dr. Jun Meng wins best poster award at 2022 MRS Fall meeting
Congratulations to Dr. Jun Meng for winning the best poster award at the 2022 MRS fall meeting. The poster is entitled “Experimentally informed structure optimization of amorphous TiO2 films grown by atomic layer deposition ”. …