Author Archives: Michel

Summer MAX Phase Researchers

Meet the summer researchers! Continue reading

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New papers

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!

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Darin at SRNL

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

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Nina at ICME 2011

PhD student Nina Lane attended the 1st World Congress on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME), which was held at Seven Springs Mountain Resort July 10-14, 2011 in Seven Springs, PA. She presented a poster (below) at the conference. For more … Continue reading

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Nina’s Thesis Proposal

Nina Lane successfully proposed and defended her PhD thesis Monday, July 11th! See her proposal abstract here.

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Alex leads the Thai Harvest Initiative

PhD student Alex Moseson is currently implementing a patent-pending rice planting device in rural Thailand – the culmination of two years of work led by Alex and with the invaluable support of a senior design team, a church, an NGO, … Continue reading

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Supercomputers for MAX phases

Dr. Michel Barsoum (PI), in collaboration with Linkoping University, has been awarded a Research Allocation for supercomputer units through Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC)! The computer time is for Ranger and Lonestar, which are clusters on TACC’s High Performance Computing … Continue reading

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MAX Phases and Li-Ion Batteries

PhD student Michael Abdelmalak got a training on the synthesis and characterization of Li-ion batteries from Prof. Patrice Simon’s group at Université Paul Sabatier in France. The training took place May 16-20. For more information on Li-ion batteries go to … Continue reading

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Babak Anasori’s invited talk at the Board of Trustees Meeting

MAX the nano composite Dragon: Babak gave an invited talk in Drexel’s Board of Trustees meeting on May 18th about his research and the award winning MAX Dragon image. His talk was entitled “MAX, the nano composite Dragon.”

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ASME Applied Mechanics and Materials Conference

PhD student Babak Anasori will be giving a talk at the ASME Applied Mechanics and Materials Conference,

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