Monthly Archives: August 2011

Members of the MAX phase group, the Drexel Nanotechnology Institute, and The Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology at Linköping University have published a new article in Advanced Materials on their high impact research in the area of Two-Dimensional Nanocrystals. … Continue reading →

Babak Anasori’s “MAX Dragon” image is now one of the rotating images on the American Physcial Society homepage, www.aps.org! Click the image above to be directed to the MAX Dragon page on the APS website.

Congratulations to Michael Naguib! He successfully passed his PhD Candidacy August 18, 2011. See his abstract here.

PhD students Babak Anasori and Michael Naguib win second place for their poster entitled “Scanning Electron Microscopy of Two Dimensional Ti3C2 Layers” in the International Metallographic contest 2011! Second Place Class 4: Electron Microscopy Scanning “Scanning Electron Microscopy of Two … Continue reading →

PhD student Babak Anasori won in two categories in the International Metallographic contest 2011! His artistic images “Cave,” which was microscopy performed on Michael Naguib’s work, and the famous “MAX Dragon” both won first place in their class. The winning … Continue reading →

Summer REU student Natalie Klotz won first place among all the Sensors posters in the REU poster contest Thursday, August 12! Her poster is entitled “Property Changes of Polymer Composites Reinforced with Ti3SiC2.” The co-authors are PhD student Shan Chen … Continue reading →

PhD student Nina Lane attended the International Conference on Processing and Manufacturing of Advanced Materials (THERMEC) in Québec City, Canada, August 1-5, 2011. Thanks to an International Travel Award through the Office of International Programs as well as a student … Continue reading →

Meet the summer researchers! Continue reading →

Some new 2011 publications are now available on the publications page. See the latest paper by PhD student Mohamed Shamma et al. that was just published in Scripta Materialia here!

PhD student Darin Tallman is spending his summer at Savannah River National Lab characterizing post-irradiation MAX phases! High-resolution TEM of Ti2AlC in the -2110 zone axis projection, pre-radiation. Darin is currently working toward characterizing post-irradiation samples to see how they … Continue reading →