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May 2009
November 2008
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11/14/08 - Fred was invited by the Materials Science & Engineering graduate program of Texas A&M University to give a seminar on "Nanoscale Plasticity from Atomistic Simulations".
September 2008
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09/05/08 - Virginie Dupont is the first graduate student in the group to earn a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. Virginie's doctoral thesis is entitled "Multiscale modeling of contact plasticity and nanoindentation in nanostructured FCC metals ". Congratulations, Dr. Dupont!
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09/01/08 - A review paper by Fred Sansoz and colleagues, Hanchen Huang of RPI and Derek Warner of Cornell, is published in the September issue of JOM. The title is "An atomistic perspective on twinning phenomena in nano-enhanced FCC metals" .
May 2008
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05/07/08 - Zack Burchman, undergraduate student of mechanical engineering, has successfully defended his honors thesis on his research entitled "Growth, structure and mechanical properties of single-crystal and polycrystalline nickel nanowires". Congratulations, Zack!
April 2008
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04/23/08 - Another article in The View about the special episode on nanotechnology to be aired in Vermont Public Television's "Emerging Science" TV series on April 30, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. This episode features the Sansoz group's research on metallic nanowires.
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04/16/08 - An article in The View featuring the research of senior undergraduate student Zack Burchman on the mechanical properties on electrodeposited Ni nanowires.
February 2008
January 2008
November 2007
July 2007
June 2007
April 2007
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04/03/2007 - Konstantin Afanasyev successfully defended his M.S. thesis on "Atomistic Simulation of The Effects of Twin Boundaries on Deformation in Gold Nanobeams and Nanopiilars". Congratulations, Konstantin!
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04/02/2007 - Dulcie Languerand successfully defended her M.S. thesis on "Multiscale Study of Deformation and Fracture in High-Strength Polymeric Fibers". Congratulations, Dulcie!
Jan. - Feb. 2007
Nov. - Dec .2006
September 2006
June - May, 2006
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05/15/06 - Konstantin Afanasyev, graduate teaching fellow for the Physics Department, will conduct his research in our group. The research topics is on the atomistic simulation of deformation of metal nanopillars containing twin interfaces. Welcome, Konstantin!
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06/02/06 - Fred gives an oral presentation in Symposium A (current trends in nanoscience - From materials to applications) at the E-MRS conference, Nice, France.
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05/16/06 - Fred is invited by the Center for Nanomaterials at Dartmouth College, NH to give a seminar on "Nanocrystalline Metal Indentation".
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05/10/06 - Poster presentation entitled "Nanocrystalline Metal Indentation: Direct Insight from Atomic Contact Simulation" at the 2006 Nanotech conference in Boston, MA.
April, 2006
March, 2006
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03/12/06 - 03/16/06 - Several members of the group are presenting their work at the TMS 2006 Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX. Congratulations to Kevin for his very first talk in a national conference in the symposium "Surface and Interface in Nanostructured Materials ". Virginie presented a poster at the Student Poster Contest and gave an oral presentation in the symposium "Deformation and Fracture from the Nano to Macro - A symposium celebrating the 70th Birthday of W. Gerberich". Frederic gave a talk in the symposium dedicated to the memory of Dr. Martin Blackburn " Titanium Alloys for High Temperature Applications ".
Virginie, Kevin, Frederic and The Alamo at the TMS 2006 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX |
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January-February, 2006
November-December, 2005
October, 2005
June,2005
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06/27/05 - The lab is hosting students, Lucy and Ethan, and teacher, Shelley, from Mt Abraham High School in Bristol, VT for the 2005 Helix/EPSCoR High School Outreach program. Their year-long project will involve high-resolution imaging technique (AFM, SEM, Stereoscope) of nanostructured materials. Welcome to UVM!
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06/20/05 - The new webpage!
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06/17/05 - Virginie Dupont received a graduate teaching fellowship in the Department of Mechanical Engineering for FY2005-2006. Her Ph.D. research will be to investigate the underlying deformation mechanisms in nanocrystalline metals for thin films and nanowires.
April, 2005
- 04/04/05 - Virginie Dupont, visiting engineering student from ENSMA, France, will work with us for 5 months on the plasticity of nanostructures using atomistic simulations and AFM. Welcome Virginie!
March, 2005
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| The "Nano Teddy Bear" by F. Sansoz, S. Fusare and W. Varhue won the second prize of the "Science as Art" competition at the Materials Research Society 2005 Spring Meeting in San Francisco, CA. Read the article published in the view here. |
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February, 2005
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02/14/05 - Two presentations by Frederic Sansoz at the TMS conference in San Francisco, CA on the quasicontinuum simulations of grain boundary sliding and nanoindentation.
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02/01/05 - Two papers to appear in Acta Materialia this month: paper #1 (with R. Ott, J.F. Molinari, J. Almer, K.T. Ramesh, and T.C. Hufnagel ): Micromechanics of Deformation of Metallic-Glass-Matrix Composites from in-situ Synchrotron Strain Measurements and Finite Element Modeling. Paper#2 (with J.F. Molinari): Mechanical Behavior of Sigma Tilt Grain Boundary in Nanoscale Cu and Al: a Quasicontinuum Study.
December, 2004
- 12/1/04 - Grant Gary, junior ME student, has won the 2005 Undergraduate Research Endeavors Competitive Award (URECA) for his research project entitled "Nanoporous Polymeric Membranes: Molecular Templating and Testing".
Grant's intent is to create polymer membranes, which will serve the selective transport of single molecules through nanopores. He will conduct his research in the Materials Nanomechanics laboratory. Welcome Grant!
November, 2004
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11/01/04 - Carl Wolf has joined the Materials Nanomechanics Group as a Ph.D. candidate. Carl will study the selective transport and nanoscale flow of molecules through nanoporous membranes using molecular dynamics. Welcome Carl!
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11/01/04 - We have received a heating stage for our Quesant universal scanning probe microscope. This stage will provide us with the ability to study in-situ grain growth at high temperature of nanocrystalline materials.
October, 2004
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10/04/04 - Dulcie Languerand, MS candidate, will work in the Materials Nanomechanics Group on the atomic force microscopy of nanostructured Kevlar and Spectra polymer fibers. Welcome Dulcie!
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10/ 03/04 - Prof. Ron Miller from Carleton University, one of the developers of the Quasicontinuum Method, has been invited to visit us and give a presentation at the Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series on October 22, 2004.
September, 2004
- 09/09/04 - Xi workstation cluster has been set up. LAMMPS 2004 is currently tested on this platform and, so far, works fine on multiple processors using MPI.
August, 2004
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08/16/04 - Eric Buchovecky, who served this year as a Teaching Graduate Fellow in the Mechanical Engineering department at UVM and performed his research on quasicontinuum method in our group, will move within few weeks to Providence, RI where he will be a Ph.D. candidate in the Solid Mechanics Group at Brown University. Congratulations and good luck, Eric!
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08/02/04 - We have received our brand-new scanning electron microscope JSM6060 from JEOL. This equipment has been installed in the microfabrication and MEMS facility (121A Votey) in the College of Engineering and Mathematics at UVM.
July, 2004
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07/20/04 - We have received our new scanning probe microscope from Quesant Instruments. This equipment will add to the high-resolution imaging capabilities in the laboratory involving scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopy.
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07/01/04 - Kevin Stevenson is a new graduate student in the group. Kevin's research will be focused on electrodeposition on thin nanocrystalline films, MEMS fabrication, and fracture processes at the nanoscale. Welcome Kevin!
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