department of materials science & engineering 2004-2005

http://www.materials.drexel.edu/

Department of Materials Science & Engineering

2004-2005 Annual Report

September 1, 2004 - August 31, 2005

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The mission of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering is to produce

B.S./M.S./Ph.D. graduates who can excel in leadership positions in industry and

academia at national and international levels.

Facts at a Glance

Cover photos:

Top left: Elaine Steinke, DREAM Fellow from Cedar Crest College performing research for Dr. Frank Ko; Bottom right: Matthew Hoban, DREAM Fellow from Lehigh University performing

research for Dr. Michel Barsoum; Top right: image of a silicon nanowire with hexagonal cross-section from the research of Dr. Jonathan Spanier; Bottom left: Metal whiskers (In) on the

surface of a Zr2InC sample held in air, from the recent work of Dr. Michel Barsoum

Annual report compiled, written, and edited by Dorilona Rose, Program Coordinator of Research and Publications

Faculty Editor: Dr. Antonios Zavaliangos, Associate Department Head

Tenure-Track Faculty FTE 11.2

Auxiliary Faculty FTE 1

Research Faculty FTE 3

Office Staff FTE 3

A. J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute (DNI) Staff FTE 2

Technical Staff FTE 1

Materials Characterization Facility Staff FTE 2

Total Undergraduate Students 81

Total Graduate Students 72

% Domestic Graduate Students 45%

B.S. Awarded (03-04) 9

M.S. Awarded (03-04) 4

Ph.D. Awarded (03-04) 12

New Research Awards $2.3M

Research Expenditures $4.5M

% TT Faculty with Federal Funding 89%

Books, Chapters, Editorials 9

Refereed Journal Publications 59

National Awards Won by Faculty, Staff, and Students 41

University Awards Won by Faculty, Staff, and Students 10

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Note from the Department Head This year marks the end of my fifth year as department head. In that time, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering has seen many changes and improvements. As we continue to grow as a department, we remain committed to the highest standards in education and research. I am particularly pleased to describe our outstanding outreach initiatives. At a university, summer is typically a time when things wind down. In our department, we are busy as ever introducing students, high school teachers, and the general public to materials science and engineering. We entered our second year of the NSF-sponsored Research Experience for Undergraduates Site—DREAM and Research Experience for Teachers RET-NANO programs. Our participation in the College of Engineering’s Summer Engineering Experience @ Drexel (SEED) was expanded to include a weekly materials program called “Materials Monday,” pioneered by Dr. Caroline Schauer. Dr. Schauer also worked with a group of 8th grade girls from the Camden County school district in a week-long outreach program similar to SEED. In collaboration with the ASM International Liberty Bell Chapter, the department hosted its first “Materials Camp,” teaching 21 local high school students about materials science and engineering. Our popular two-day MATE 100 introductory course received a record high 292 applications, which had to be capped to a total of 240 participants. Our faculty, staff, and students should be credited with the positive impact these programs have had on their participants. Our research enterprise continues to flourish. Departmental research expenditures are at an all-time high of $4.5M. Our Ph.D. production rate has increased dramatically. This year, 12 new Ph.D. graduates joined our alumni ranks, and is a record for the department. At the undergraduate level, there has been steady growth during the past five years in the number of undergraduate students in the MSE program.

Our department ranks in the top five MSE programs in the U.S. in the category of the number of B.S. degrees awarded per faculty member.

MSE faculty, staff, and students continue to receive national and international recognition through awards. Ph.D. student Kristopher Behler (advisor: Yury Gogotsi) is our newest NSF Graduate Research Fellow. Dr. Michel Barsoum and Dr. Yury Gogotsi were both inaugurated as Fellows of the American Ceramic Society. Further awards news is detailed within this report.

Soon our research equipment will be moving into the new Edmund D. Bossone Research Enterprise Center. The 155,000 square foot center was designed by the internationally renown architectural firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and is slated to become the focal point of research activities at Drexel. The prominence of the new location will give our research activities greater visibility. Additionally, the Materials Characterization Facility’s (MCF) new Director of Spectroscopy Dr. Zhorro Nikolov brings expertise and experience in instrumentation to our facilities.

I invite you to read the rest of this annual report to learn about all of our exciting initiatives and accomplishments from the past year. We are already well on our way to breaking new records and implementing new ideas. We welcome you to visit us on the web at www.materials.drexel.edu to learn more about our department.

Surya Kalidindi Department Head and Professor [email protected]

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Faculty & Staff • Michel Barsoum (Ph.D., MIT), Distinguished Professor • Roger Doherty (D. Phil., Oxford, UK), A. W. Grosvenor

Professor (67% reduced position) • Yury Gogotsi (Ph.D., Kiev Polytechnic, Ukraine) Professor • Surya Kalidindi (Ph.D., MIT), Department Head and Professor • Frank Ko (Ph.D., Georgia Tech.), Professor • Michele Marcolongo (Ph.D., U of Pennsylvania), Associate

Professor • Wei-Heng Shih (Ph.D., Ohio State University), Professor • T. S. Venkataraman (Ph.D., WPI), Professor (50% in physics) • Antonios Zavaliangos (Ph.D., MIT), Professor • Christopher Li (Ph.D., University of Akron), Assistant Professor • Caroline Schauer (Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook), Assistant

Professor • Jonathan Spanier (Ph.D., Columbia University), Assistant Professor • Richard Knight (Ph.D., Loughborough, UK), Auxiliary Professor • Wan Shih (Ph.D., Ohio State University), Research Associate Professor • Nina Orlovskaya (Ph.D., Ukrainian Academy of Sciences), Research Assist. Professor • Gleb Yushin (Ph.D., North Carolina State University), Research Assistant Professor • Franco Capaldi, Affiliated Faculty, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Eng. & Mechanics • Jaydev Desai, Affiliated Faculty, Associate Professor of Mechanical Eng. & Mechanics • Bakhtier Farouk, Affiliated Faculty, J. Harland Billings Prof. of Mech. Eng. & Mechanics • Adam Fontecchio, Affiliated Faculty, Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Eng. • Alexander Fridman, Affiliated Faculty, John S. Nyheim Chair Professor of Mechanical

Engineering and Mechanics • Haviva Goldman, Affiliated Faculty, Assistant Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy • Selçuk Güçeri, Affiliated Faculty, Dean of the College of Engineering • Anthony Lowman, Affiliated Faculty, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering • Bahram Nabet, Affiliated Faculty, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering • Yen Wei, Affiliated Faculty, Professor of Chemistry • Maggie Wheatley, Affiliated Faculty, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Science • Holly Burnside, Nanotechnology

Program Coordinator • Cory Delafield, DNI Program Coordinator • Dorilona Rose, Program Coordinator of

Research and Publications • Judy Trachtman, Educational Programs

and Accounts Coordinator

• Crystal White, Secretary • Dee Breger, Director of Microscopy • Treadwell Blake, Computer Specialist • Zhorro Nikolov, Director of Spectroscopy • Dustin Doss, Technical Staff

• Roger Corneliussen, Emeritus Professor • Ihab Kamel, Emeritus Professor • Jack Keverian, Emeritus Professor • Samuel K. Nash, Emeritus Professor

• Harry C. Rogers, Emeritus Professor • Alan Lawley, Emeritus Professor, Fellow

of the National Academy of Engineering

The Department of Materials Science and

Engineering faculty includes one member of the NAE;

three NSF CAREER awardees; one Whitaker Young Investigator, NIH Young Investigator, and ARO Young Investigator; two ACerS Fellows; two

ASM International Fellows; and one SAMPE Fellow.

MSE Welcomes New Staff

Dr. Zhorro Nikolov, Director of Spectroscopy, was hired full time in April 2005 to replace Tim Kelly. Nikolov has an M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from Sofia University, Bulgaria. He completed a two-year postdoctoral appointment on Raman studies of interfacial water structure at the Queen’s University of Belfast, U.K. and has been a visiting professor in the Department of Chemistry at Hiroshima University in Japan; the Department of Physics at Lund University in Sweden; and the Department of Physics at Moscow State University in Russia. Before coming to the U.S. in 2000, Nikolov was an associate professor of physics in the Department of Quantum Electronics, Sofia University, Bulgaria. Prior to joining Drexel, Dr. Nikolov was a research associate professor in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. At the University of Utah, he worked on vibrational spectroscopic and nonlinear optical studies of surfaces and interfaces. Throughout most of his career, Dr. Nikolov has been involved in Raman, FTIR, and laser spectroscopy applications to research problems. He is a co-author on more than 60 refereed publications. At Drexel, Dr. Nikolov manages the spectroscopic (Raman and FTIR), X-Ray diffraction, and nanoindenter instruments, all part of the Centralized Materials Characterization Facility (MCF) and trains students to work with the instruments and analyze their results. His strong interests in nanotechnology and surface science and his rich experience in practicing physical characterization methods of analysis will be beneficial for the education and training of students. His ambitions are to further promote the MCF as a place for cutting-edge characterization in materials science, biotechnology, and nanotechnology in the Delaware Valley and nationally.

Holly Burnside, Nanotechnology Program Coordinator, was hired full time in January 2005 to replace Katrin Cowan. Holly has a B.S. in physics from Union College, Schenectady, NY and an M.S. in communication from Drexel. She does publicity, event planning, recruiting, and coordination for educational programs in nanotechnology.

These include NSF-sponsored programs such as the IGERT Ph.D. fellowship, DREAM-REU, and RET-Nano. Holly does publicity and event planning for the A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute (DNI).

Cory Delafield, Nanotechnology Program Coordinator, was hired full time in January 2005 to replace Johanna Flannery. Cory has a B.S. in English and Art History from Lafayette College in Easton Pennsylvania. Cory 's responsibilities include recruitment, publicity, and administrative management for the Materials and Nanotechnology Consortium. Additionally, she handles all the finances for the DNI.

Crystal White, Secretary, was hired full time in January 2005 to replace Artheis Staten. Crystal has more than 10 years of experience in customer service and is currently pursuing her B.A in Communications at Drexel University. Crystal’s responsibilities include work order data entry, monitoring, reporting, follow-up, invoicing, and reconciliation. In addition to clerical support to faculty, staff, and students, she arranges travel itineraries and coordinates catered events for various conferences and meetings for the department.

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Departmental Educational Outreach Initiatives

DREAM Introduces a New Batch of Undergraduates to Research The DREAM (Drexel Research Experience in Advanced Materials) National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored Research Experience for Undergraduates site continues to flourish. In its second year, DREAM grew to host 13 students, introducing a new group of engineer-hopefuls to the joys of research. The participants for 2005 were selected from over seventy applicants. This year’s “DREAM team” came from Washington State University, the University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign, Carnegie Mellon University, McGill University, Duke University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania State University, and Cedar Crest College, as well as Drexel.

The DREAM students worked closely with Drexel graduate students and faculty mentors on various research projects in one of three main categories: nanomaterials and nanotechnology, biomaterials and biotechnology, and design and processing of advanced materials.

DREAM students attended a series of laboratory demonstrations and seminars designed to expose them to a range of topics and methods used in contemporary materials science. Holly Burnside, nanotechnology program coordinator, administered this summer’s program under the direction of Dr. Surya Kalidindi and Dr. Antonios Zavaliangos. In September, Burnside attended an invitation-only workshop specifically for REU grantees, featuring a poster session on Capitol Hill designed to show legislators the value of REU programs. For more information, visit http://www.materials.drexel.edu/programs/dream_reu/index.html.

(L to R) DREAM student Matthew Montgomery, MSE major at the University of Illinois–Urbana Champaign; Ph.D. student Kristopher

Behler; and RET-Nano participant Dr. Ranjini Weerasooriya, a chemistry teacher at Masterman High School, worked together on a

project to increase the electrical conductivity of PVDF by electrospinning it with multi-walled carbon nanotubes.

The following people

were exposed to the

field of materials

science

and engineering this

summer at Drexel:

253 undergraduates 200 high school students 19 high school teachers

17 8th grade girls

Image of a Pattern-Welded Damascus Steel Microstructure produced by hand forging of

the alternately arranged sheets of high (~ 1.5 % C) and low (~ 0.3 % C) carbon steels

Department Hosts First ASM International Materials Camp in Partnership with the Liberty Bell Chapter of ASM International®

The Department of Materials Science and Engineering hosted a week-long day camp, June 27 through July 1, dedicated to introducing Philadelphia and South Jersey high school students to the world of materials science and engineering, instilling excitement and curiosity about research and discovery into the 21 “campers.”

The program was comprised of short introductory lectures given by graduate students followed by hands-on activities undertaken by the participants themselves. One day of the camp was devoted to industry visits to SPS Technologies, Rohm & Haas, and Solar Atmospheres. Students’ parents were also invited to participate in a final celebratory barbecue and awards ceremony on the final day of the camp.

Largely organized and run by select graduate students in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and led by Ph.D. student Elizabeth Hoffman (advisor: Michel Barsoum), the camp had significant guidance from faculty mentor Dr. Richard Knight.

Sponsors included the ASM International Education Foundation; the Philadelphia “Liberty Bell” Chapter of ASM International; SPS Technologies; Rohm and Haas; Solar Atmospheres; Laboratory Testing, Inc., Mittal Steel USA; Boeing

Helicopter; Lockheed Martin Space Systems; Stork MMA Testing Labs; LECO Corporation; and NJ Dept Corr. Several members from the Liberty Bell chapter of ASM International attended camp activities, including Howard Cheatham, who coordinated the industry tours. The Liberty Bell Chapter also worked to raise sponsorship money from the companies listed.

“I had a great experience and it is very likely that I will study to become a materials engineer.” ~ Materials Camp Participant

Materials Camp students participating in a hands-on lab

Using the Japanese and Damascus swords as examples, Ph.D. student Milan Ivosevic (center) introduced high school

students to the importance of microstructure on properties of materials

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Reaching New Heights: Materials Introductory Course Receives Record-Breaking Number of Applicants

This year’s MatE-100 two-credit, two-day advance elective received a record number of applicants. An overwhelming 292 freshmen applied to take part in this year’s course. Of the 292 applicants, 240 students were admitted to participate in the course to keep participation to a manageable size—over 50 more participants than last year.

Students overwhelmingly enjoyed the hands-on laboratory activities, which included making slime and foam polymers, exploring novel ceramics and superconductors, learning how full and empty soda cans break in the Instron tester, and a brief introduction to the field of electron microscopy.

Not Just Another Monday: Materials Monday Comes to the SEED Program

This year’s Summer Engineering Experience @ Drexel (SEED) program, the College of Engineering’s annual summer camp for high school students, added a new twist to its weekly programming. Every Monday, a new group of high school campers got to experience the diverse and exciting world of materials science and engineering on “Materials Monday.” Conceived by Dr. Caroline Schauer, assistant professor of materials science and engineering and Amy Campbell, outreach and recruitment coordinator for the College of Engineering, “Materials Monday” combined lectures and labs to provide students with a better understanding and appreciation for the world of materials. Students participated in a variety of labs, including viscosity/silly putty, ceramics, AFM, “slime and foam,” a thermal spray lab where students made their own zinc coated pencils, SEM, and an electrospinning demo. Dr. Michel Barsoum, Distinguished Professor of materials science and engineering, entertained the students with his liquid nitrogen demo and “Stuff of Dreams” presentation on the wonders of the materials world.

Dr. Caroline Schauer was also a key participant in a four-day camp sponsored by the College of Engineering that introduced eighth grade girls from Camden County, N.J. to engineering. Modeled after SEED, the program immersed 20 middle school girls in hands-on labs and lectures about engineering, encouraging them to think about careers in science and engineering.

Dr. Caroline Schauer instructs a group of 8th grade girls in a lab. (Photo credit: Elise Wei, Drexel

Photography, Class of 2005)

Dr. Roger Doherty points out parts of a sample as a MATE 100 participant changes the magnification on the Amray tungsten

gun scanning electron microscope.

“I really enjoyed the hands-on activities, including the foam, slime, and…putty.” ~SEED student

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Teaching Teachers: RET-NANO Brings Teachers Back to School as Students

Nineteen high school teachers from the School District of Philadelphia, the suburbs of Philadelphia, and upstate New York came to Drexel and the University of Pennsylvania in the summer of 2005 to learn about nanotechnology and nanomaterials research as part of the National Science Foundation-sponsored Drexel/Penn Research Experience for Teachers in Nanotechnology (RET-Nano) program. This year’s RET-Nano participants worked on a variety of exciting research projects, including the

Generation and characterization of atmospheric pressure glow discharges and plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition, the Production of green fluorescent protein (GFP), and the Investigation of cytoskeletal protein unfolding in red blood cells. RET-Nano is directed by MSE faculty member Dr. Yury Gogotsi and Dr. Dawn Bonnell, Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s NSF-sponsored Nano-Bio Interface Center (NBIC) and administered by MSE staff member Holly Burnside and NBIC outreach coordinator James McGonigle. Additionally, all faculty in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering mentored one or more RET teachers. For more information about the RET-Nano program, please visit the web site: http://nano.materials.drexel.edu/ret/.

2005 RET-NANO participants on a field trip to Environmental Tectonics Corp

RET-NANO Fellow Sam Nyachwaya, a teacher from Simon Gratz High School,

working in Dr. Caroline Schauer’s laboratory

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2005 Graduates

The Ph.D. class of 2004-2005 is not only the largest Ph.D. class in the history of the department, but also includes some of its highest achieving students. Three students—Thomas Juliano, Nevin Naguib, and Gwenaelle Proust—are currently working in national labs, including the Army Research Laboratory, Argonne, and Los Alamos. Additionally, Jing Zhang (advisor: Dr. Antonios Zavaliangos), a two time winner of the Drexel University TA Excellence Award, was appointed assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alaska—Fairbanks. Zhang joins the ranks of MSE Ph.D. alumni who currently hold faculty positions including Dr. Sharvan Kumar, Professor of Materials Science, Brown University, (M.S. 1981, Ph.D. 1984); Dr. Anthony D. Rollett, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (Ph.D. 1987); Dr. Maher S. Amer, Associate Professor of Materials, Wright State University, (Ph.D. 1995); Dr. Christopher Pastore, Associate Professor of Textile Engineering, School of Engineering and Textiles, Philadelphia University, (Ph.D. 1988); Dr. Turgay Erturk, Emeritus Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, (Ph.D. 1975); Dr.

Alan R. Greenberg, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, (B.S. 1969, M.S. 1972, Ph.D. 1978); J. Walter Harrington II, Emeritus Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Villanova University, (Ph.D. 1971); Dr. Robert Kusy, Professor, Orthodontics and Dental Research, University of North Carolina, (M.S. 1971, Ph.D. 1973); and Dr. Ali Razavi, Associate Professor, Engineering and Physics, Wilkes University (Ph.D. 1982). Doctor of Philosophy in Materials Engineering Jonathan E. Ayutsede

Dissertation Title: Regeneration of Bombyx Mori Silk Nanofibers and Nanocomposite Fibrils by the Electrospinning Process

Supervising Professor: Frank Ko Current position: Infineum USA LP, Linden, N.J. Lalitkumar Bansal

Dissertation Title: Development of a Fiber Optic Chemical Sensor for Detection of Toxic Vapors Supervising Professor: Mahmoud El-Sherif Current position: Research Scientist; Altair Center; Shrewsbury, MA Steven A. Galen Dissertation Title: Path Dependence and Strength Anisotropy of Mechanical Behavior in Cold-Compacted Powders Supervising Professor: Antonios Zavaliangos Current position: Senior Research Engineer; Merck & Co., Inc. Emily Y. Ho

Dissertation Title: Engineering Bioactive Polymers for the Next Generation of Bone Repair Supervising Professor: Michele Marcolongo Current position: Senior Research Engineer; Nexgen Spine; Whippany, N.J.

Ph.D. Degrees Conferred: 2004-2005

MSE Ph.D.s 12 College of Engineering (CoE) Ph.D.s 35

MSE Ph.D.s/faculty member 1.1

Dr. Jing Zhang, Ph.D. 2005, Assistant

Professor, Department of Mechanical

Engineering, University of Alaska—Fairbanks

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Thomas Frank Juliano Dissertation Title: Inducing Phase Transformations Using Depth Sensing Indentation Supervising Professor: Yury Gogotsi

Current position: Post-Doctoral Researcher; Multifunctional Materials Branch; Army Research Laboratory; Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

Hoa Le Lam Dissertation Title: Electrospinning of Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Alinged Fibrils and Yarns Supervising Professor: Frank Ko Current position: Research Engineer; DE Technologies, Inc.; King of Prussia, PA Hongyu Luo

Dissertation Title: Free-Standing PMN-PT Thick Film with Ultrahigh Piezoelectric Coefficients Supervising Professors: Wei-Heng Shih, Wan Shih Current position: Senior Technical Professional; Halliburton; Duncan, OK Jason Michael Lyons Dissertation Title: Melt-electrospinning of Thermoplastic Polymers: An Experimental and Theoretical Analysis Supervising Professor: Frank Ko Current position: Research Engineer; NovaComp, Inc.; Willow Grove, PA Stephen A. Mastro

Dissertation Title: Optomechanical Behavior of Embedded Fiber Bragg Grating Strain Sensors Supervising Professors: Mahmoud El-Sherif, Frank Ko

Current position: Senior Research Engineer; NAVSEA Philadelphia (U.S. Navy); Philadelphia, PA Nevin N. Naguib

Dissertation Title: Filling and Chemical Modification of Carbon Nanotubes Supervising Professor: Yury Gogotsi

Current position: Enrico Fermi Scholar and Post-Doctoral Scientist; Materials Science Divison; Argonne National Laboratory; Argonne, IL

Gwenaelle Proust Dissertation Title: Identifying the Complete Space of Feasible Anisotropic Properties in

Polycrystalline Microstructures Supervising Professor: Surya Kalidindi

Current position: Post-Doctoral Researcher; Los Alamos National Laboratory; MST-8, Structure/Properties Relationships Group; Los Alamos, NM

Jing Zhang Dissertation Title: Numerical Simulation of Thermoelectric Phenomena in Field Activated Sintering

Supervising Professor: Antonios Zavaliangos Current position: Assistant Professor; Department of Mechanical Engineering; University of

Alaska, Fairbanks Master of Science in Materials Engineering • José Bermudez • Yi-Shih Chiu • Douglas Reed Dillon • Marcie Ann Reilly Bachelor of Science in Materials Engineering

• Mark A. Fiorentino • Thomas Oliver Henriksen • Thomas Paul Holzerman, Jr. • Marcie Ann Reilly • Aaron Richard Sakulich

• Daniel L. Solari • Patrick D. Stears • Kelly Lynn VandenBosche • Eva Marie Wagner

Awards and Achievements Highlighted Awards and Honors

Barsoum and Gogotsi Elected Fellows of ACerS

Dr. Michel Barsoum, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Dr. Yury Gogotsi, professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and director of the A. J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute have been elected to be Fellows of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS). Dr. Barsoum & Dr. Gogotsi have been recognized at the Honors and Awards Banquet at the ACerS 107th Annual Meeting, April 12, 2005 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Hari Duvvuru is Selected for LeaderShape Award

Ph.D. student Hari Duvvuru (advisor: Surya Kalidindi) was one of six students selected by the ASM International Materials Education Foundation Board of Trustees and the LeaderShape Selection Committee to receive an Arthur E. Focke LeaderShape Award. Hari attended ASM International’s LeaderShape Institute this summer, which helps student leaders develop valuable skills to help them both professionally and personally. According to ASM International’s website, “The LeaderShape Institute, the flagship program of LeaderShape, Inc. is designed to help young people learn to ‘lead with integrity.’ Each session is comprised of approximately 60 students, ages 17 to 25, sponsored by various organizations from diverse ethnic, religious and cultural

backgrounds.” Hari was Vice President of MAGNET, the Materials Graduate Student Network in 2004-2005 and was elected to be President for 2005-2006.

Zavaliangos Receives Rafiki Award

Associate department head and professor Dr. Antonios Zavaliangos is a recipient of the Drexel University Rafiki Award, or Friend Award. Students of black/African American descent nominate faculty, administrators, and staff for the award, regardless of ethnicity, whom they feel have made a positive impact on their experience at Drexel University. Zavaliangos was nominated by Toni Ramsay, a chemical engineering student, who took freshman design with him. The award was presented by the Black History Month Committee at a reception on February 28, 2005.

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Kristopher Behler Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Matthew Cathell Receives Honorable Mention

Ph.D. student Kristopher Behler (advisor: Yury Gogotsi) is a recipient of this year’s NSF Graduate Fellowship. Additionally, Matthew Cathell (advisor: Caroline Schauer) received Honorable Mention. These highly competitive national fellowships offer recognition and three years of support for advanced study to approximately 1,000 outstanding graduate students in the mathematical, physical, biological, engineering, and behavioral and social sciences, including the history of science and the philosophy of science, and to research-based Ph.D. degrees in science education.

Siddhartha Pathak Receives SURA ORNL Grant

Ph.D. student Siddhartha Pathak (advisors: Dr. Nina Orlovskaya and Dr. Surya Kalidindi) received a Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) grant to perform research at ORNL during the summer

of 2005. The grant provided $5000 to cover his stipend and supplies from June 1st to August 26th. The research project he worked on is entitled “Non-linear deformation behavior of multifunctional MIEC perovskites for SOFC applications.” Elizabeth Hoffman Receives Sapphire ACerS GEMS Award

Ph.D. student Elizabeth Hoffman (advisor: Michel Barsoum) is a sapphire award winner of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) Basic Science Graduate Excellence in Materials Science (GEMS) Awards. As a finalist for the award, Hoffman presented a talk entitled, “Driving Force and Mechanism for Spontaneous Metal Whisker Formation” at the ACerS annual meeting, April 10th-13th in Baltimore, MD. She received a certificate and a check from the American Ceramic Society for the award.

A colored image of the layered steps formed inside closed pores of

La0.8Ca0.2CoO3, revealed due to fracture of the

material (image courtesy of Siddhartha Pathak)

Surface steps

1 μm

Nanofibrous materials electrospun from a solution of polymer and

carbon nanotubes forms a polymeric mat (SEM image credit:

Davide Mattia and Kris Behler)

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National and International_____________________________________________

Scholarships 2005 National Science Foundation Graduate Resesarch Fellowship

• Kristopher Behler (Advisor: Yury Gogotsi) • Matthew Cathell (Honorable Mention) (Advisor:

Caroline Schauer)

NSF-IGERT Fellowship • Kristopher Behler (Advisor: Yury Gogotsi) • Michael Birnkrant (Advisor: Christopher Li) • Elizabeth Hoffman (Advisor: Michel Barsoum) • Stephen Nonnenmann (Advisor: Jonathan

Spanier) • Jamie Ostroha (Advisor: Tony Lowman—

Chemical & Biological Engineering)

GAANN Fellowship; Department of Education • Joseph Capobianco (Advisor: Wei-Heng Shih) • Matthew Cathell (Advisor: Caroline Schauer) • John Chmiola (Advisor: Yury Gogotsi) • Donia Said El-Khamy (Advisor: Frank Ko) • Christopher Hovanec (Advisor: Surya Kalidindi

and Roger Doherty) • John Paul McGovern (Advisor: Wei-Heng Shih)

Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

grant; $5000 • Siddhartha Pathak (Advisors: Nina Orlovskaya

and Surya Kalidindi)

Dragomir Nicolitch Charitable Trust Scholarship; Studenica Foundation; $3000 • Dejan Stojakovic (Advisor: Roger Doherty and

Surya Kalidindi)

H. H. Harris Foundation Scholarship; $2000 • Christopher Hovanec (Advisor: Surya Kalidindi

and Roger Doherty)

Grant-in-Aid of Research; Sigma Xi; $1000 • Linyou Cao (Advisor: Jonathan Spanier)

Travel Awards

NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) Carbon Nanotubes: From Basic Research to

Nanotechnology; $2000 • Kristopher Behler (Advisor: Yury Gogotsi)

2005 SAMPE University Research Symposium

International Competition Finalists • Jonathan Ayutsede (Advisor: Frank Ko) • Nicholas Titchenal (Advisor: Frank Ko)

Student Travel Grant for North American

Membrane Society (NAMS) 2005; Providence, RI; $500 • Ranjan Dash (Advisor: Yury Gogotsi) • Elizabeth Hoffman (Advisor: Michel Barsoum)

Student Travel and Professional Development Award; 30th Annual Meeting and Exhibition of

the Society for Biomaterials; Memphis, TN; $450 • Emily Ho (Advisor: Michele Marcolongo)

7th New Jersey Symposium on Biomaterials

Science Travel Award • Emily Ho (Advisor: Michele Marcolongo) • María Pía Rossi (Advisor: Yury Gogotsi)

Lawrence Livermore Travel Award Grant; 2005 North American Thermal Analysis Society (NATAS) Conference; Universal City, CA; $500

• Lingyu Li (Advisor: Christopher Li)

Center for Powder Metallurgy Technology/Axel Madsen Award; $1200 • Andrew Marx (Advisor: Antonios Zavaliangos)

Paper/Poster

Best Poster Award; Student Poster

Competition; Electrochemical Society Meeting; Quebec • John Chmiola (Advisor: Yury Gogotsi)

Best Poster Award; Poster Contest; North American Membrane Society (NAMS) 2005; Providence, RI • Ranjan Dash (Advisor: Yury Gogotsi)

First Prize; Poster Contest; American Society for Composites; 20th Annual Technical Conference; Philadelphia, PA

• Varun Gupta (Advisor: Richard Knight)

Best Poster Award; 32nd Annual Conference of the North American Thermal Analysis Society

(NATAS); Williamsburg, VA • Kishore Tenneti (Advisor: Christopher Li)

Second Prize; Best Poster Awards Competition;

Engineering Ceramics Division (ECD) of the American Ceramic Society; 29th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites; $300

• Sandip Basu (Advisor: Michel Barsoum)

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Achievement

American Ceramic Society Fellow

• Michel Barsoum • Yury Gogotsi

Roland B. Snow Award; American Ceramic

Society • Z. Goknur Cambaz (Advisor: Yury Gogotsi)

and Gleb Yushin

American Ceramic Society Basic Science Graduate Excellence in Materials Science

(GEMS) Awards; Sapphire Award Winner • Elizabeth Hoffman (Advisor: Michel Barsoum)

Arthur E. Focke LeaderShape Award; ASM International Materials Education Foundation

• Hari Duvvuru (Advisor: Surya Kalidindi)

American Society for Composites (ASC) Award in Composites 2004

• Frank Ko

Regional___________________________________________________________

Scholarships

ASM International Liberty Bell Chapter A. W.

Grosvenor Scholarship, $1500 • Stephen Niezgoda (Advisor: Richard Knight)

ASM International Liberty Bell Chapter Joseph

J. Weisser Memorial Scholarship, $1500 • Anthony Coratolo (Advisors: Nina Orlovskaya


2005 Delaware Valley Engineers Week Council Undergraduate Scholarship; $1000 • Jennifer Vondran (Advisor: Caroline Schauer)

2005 Philadelphia SWE section scholarship;

Rohm and Haas; $1000 • Jennifer Vondran (Advisor: Caroline Schauer)

Paper/Poster ASM International Liberty Bell Chapter

Graduate Student Poster Contest • Dejan Stojakovic (First Place; $500) (Advisor:

Roger Doherty and Surya Kalidindi) • Hui Li (Second Place; $300) (Advisor: Wei-

Heng Shih) • Davide Mattia (Third Place; $200) (Advisor:

Yury Gogotsi)

Achievement

2005 Young Member Award; Liberty Bell

Chapter/ASM International • Elizabeth Hoffman (Advisor: Michel Barsoum)

President’s Award; Liberty Bell Chapter/ASM International

• Richard Knight

Drexel University_____________________________________________________

Paper/Poster

Research Day Award/Emerging Technology:

Graduate • Davide Mattia (Advisor: Yury Gogotsi)

Research Day Award/Business Research

Initiative: Graduate • John Chmiola and Ranjan Dash (Advisor: Yury

Gogotsi)

Research Day Award/Basic/Applied Science: Graduate • Christopher Hovanec (Advisor: Surya Kalidindi

and Roger Doherty)

Research Day Award/Dean's Graduate Award • Michael Birnkrant (Advisor: Christopher Li)

• Hakki Yegingil (Advisor: Wei-Heng Shih) Research Day Award/Emerging Technology:

Undergraduate • Adrian Gurga (Advisor: Yury Gogotsi)

Achievement

Rafiki Award • Antonios Zavaliangos

Best Dissertation Award in Engineering and Science • Thomas Juliano (Advisor: Yury Gogotsi)

Drexel University TA Excellence Award • Matthew Cathell (Advisor: Caroline Schauer) • Kishore Tenneti (Advisor: Christopher Li)

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College of Engineering_________________________________________________

Scholarships

Dean’s Fellowship • Kristopher Behler (Advisor: Yury Gogotsi) • Joseph Capobianco (Advisor: Wei-Heng Shih) • Matthew Cathell (Advisor: Caroline Schauer) • John Chmiola (Advisor: Yury Gogotsi) • Donia Said El-Khamy (Advisor: Frank Ko) • Emily Ho (Advisor: Michele Marcolongo) • Elizabeth Hoffman (Advisor: Michel Barsoum) • Joshua Houskamp (Advisor: Surya Kalidindi) • Hoa Lam (Advisor: Frank Ko) • John Paul McGovern (Advisor: Wei-Heng Shih) • Brandon McWilliams (Advisor: Antonios

Zavaliangos) • Stephen Nonnenmann (Advisor: Jonathan

Spanier) • María Pía Rossi (Advisor: Yury Gogotsi) • Jonathan Thomas (Advisor: Michele

Marcolongo)

Koerner Fellowship • Joshua Houskamp (Advisor: Surya Kalidindi)

Hill Fellowship • Emily Ho (Advisor: Michele Marcolongo)

Arnold H. Kaplan Scholarship; $1000 • Anthony Coratolo (Advisors: Nina Orlovskaya

and Surya Kalidindi) • David Steinmetz (Advisors: Nina Orlovskaya


Kevin J. O’Hara Endowed Scholarship; $1174 • John Murphy

Achievement

Research Accomplishment Award

• Yury Gogotsi

Technical Support Staff Achievement Award • Dee Breger

Honorable Mention; College of Engineering Senior Design Competition • Aaron Sakulich (Advisor: Michel Barsoum)

Materials Science and Engineering_______________________________________

Scholarships

Arkema Fellowship • Kristopher Behler (Advisor: Yury Gogotsi)

A. W. & Dorothy Grosvenor Scholarship, ~$1000 • Ronald Martin (Advisor: Jonathan Spanier) • Andrew Marx (Advisor: Antonios Zavaliangos) • Melanie Patel (Advisor: Surya Kalidindi) • Kelly Vanden-Bosche

Michael J. Koczak Scholarship, $658 • John Murphy

Achievement

Graduate Student Research Award • Adam Procopio (Advisor: Antonios

Zavaliangos)

Undergraduate Student Research Award • David Steinmetz (Advisors: Nina Orlovskaya


First Place, MSE Senior Design Competition • Aaron Sakulich (Advisor: Michel Barsoum)

Materials Science and Engineering Outstanding Research Award • Yury Gogotsi

Materials Science and Engineering Outstanding Service Award • Surya Kalidindi

Materials Science and Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award • Michel Barsoum

Materials Science and Engineering Outstanding Staff Award • Dorilona Rose

Materials Science and Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Award • Elizabeth Hoffman (Advisor: Michel Barsoum) • Kishore Tenneti (Advisor: Christopher Li)

Materials Science and Engineering Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award

• William Yackabonis

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Major Research Activities

Barsoum’s, et. al. Work on Metal Whiskers Mentioned in Physics Today

The work of Dr. Michel Barsoum and his collaborators, Ph.D. student Elizabeth Hoffman, Dr. Roger Doherty, Ph.D. student Surojit Gupta, and Dr. Antonios Zavaliangos, was featured in the “Physics Update” section of the February 2005 issue of Physics Today. The mention describes how their work solved a 50+ year-old problem on the growth of spontaneous “whiskers” on some metals with low melting points, such as tin. Whiskers of this type typically cause electrical shorts in electronic components and have been implicated in the failure of heart pacemakers, which have led to recalls, grounding/shorting in avionics radar and relays, and 7 satellite failures. The researchers compared the whisker formation of two identical surfaces—one was exposed to air and the other was stored in an evacuated sealed glass tube for a few months. Since only the one exposed to air resulted in significant whisker growth, it was concluded that the driving force for whiskers growth was essentially an oxidation reaction where the volume increase due to the formation of the oxide resulted in the extrusion of the whiskers. Their results were published in a paper in Physical Review Letters in November of 2004.

Example of spontaneous whisker (In) growth on Hf2InC

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Kalidindi, et. al. Make Inroads in the field of Microstructure Sensitive Design for

Performance Optimization

The connection between material microstructure and properties and the ability to manipulate them through processing has been the corner stone of materials science and engineering. An understanding of such relationships has not yet been integrated with modern design tools and methodologies. Dr. Surya Kalidindi and his collaborators have recently established a rigorous mathematical framework for Materials Design that makes major inroads in this direction. Called Microstructure Sensitive Design (MSD), this novel methodology is comprised of efficient mathematical representation of the statistics of the material internal structure, their invertible linkage to the associated effective properties, and the linkage between microstructure evolution and the available manufacturing paths. MSD provides a rigorous mathematical framework for the identification of the optimized material microstructures capable of meeting the multi-functional objectives and constraints stipulated by the designer and quantitative descriptions of processing paths whereby examples of these microstructures may be manufactured.

This pioneering effort has attracted a substantial amount of funding over the last 2 years. Dr. Kalidindi’s research is currently being supported by a number of grants, including two grants from the Office of Naval Research for developing research tools for studying three-dimensional digital microstructures (collaboration with Dr. Hamish Fraser, OSU) and for studying microstructure evolution in friction stir welding (collaboration with Dr. Tracy Nelson, BYU), an Army of Research Office grant for extending MSD to 2-point correlation functions (collaboration with Dr. Brent Adams, BYU), an Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant for producing high strength and high toughness Al alloys by equi-channel angular pressing (collaboration with Dr. Roger Doherty, DU), a National Science Foundation grant for microstructure-property-processing relationships in Ti alloys (collaboration with Dr. Roger Doherty, DU), and an NSF-REU Site grant (with Dr. Antonios Zavaliangos). The total funding from these grants exceeds $2M. Dr. Kalidindi has published over eighty archival journal papers and two book chapters, and is currently writing a book on MSD with Dr. Brent Adams from BYU. For more information on Dr. Kalidindi’s research, please visit: http://www.materials.drexel.edu/mmg/.

Schematic description of the MSD framework

Microstructure Hull

Design

Property Closure

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Studying the Electronic and Optical Properties of Nanostructures:

Dr. Jonathan Spanier and the MesoMaterials Laboratory at Drexel

The shape and hierarchal organization of a crystalline nanostructured material can influence its properties as much as its finite size. Dr. Jonathan Spanier and his group are studying the electronic and optical properties of semiconductor and functional oxide nanostructures, which can be prepared with control of shape and hierarchal complexity. Recently, his group has developed a vapor-phase method for synthesizing tapered nanostructured polyhedra, composed of either silicon or germanium—“nanocones.” These nanocones possess a number of unique structural and property characteristics. Though the typical nanocone base diameter is 1-2 m, and its length is ~5-10 m, its tip radius has nearly atomic

sharpness—a mere 1-2 nm. These shape-tunable nanostructures may find application in field emission, static or scanning probes, and in single-molecule sensing. The process being used by Spanier’s group produces nanostructures with control of taper angle; such control of taper angle enables them to study, for example, the effects of conical shape and variation of diameter on local electric field. Significantly, the silicon and germanium nanocones with which they are working are not of the expected diamond-cubic (DC) phase, but consist rather of the diamond-hexagonal (DH) phase, an ambient-pressure metastable phase. This DH phase is expected to possess interesting properties distinct from the DC phase. Spanier and his group are currently involved in studying the electronic transport and optical property characterizations using a variety of experimental capabilities in the lab, including scanning probe microscopy and laser spectroscopy. His group is also modeling the growth, structure, and properties of these and other structures using a variety of computational tools. This work, including contributions from an undergraduate researcher and co-author Lee Laim, was recently reported in the J. Amer. Chem. Soc. Communications, and is funded in part by an ARO Young Investigator Award and by an Innovation Grant from the Nano-Bio Interface Center, a Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC) awarded to the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University. For more information, please visit http://www.materials.drexel.edu/mml.

SEM image of an array of silicon nanocones reproduced from L. Cao, L. Laim, C. Ni, B. Nabet, and J. E. Spanier. J.

Amer. Chem. Soc., 127, 13782-3 (2005).

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New Research Grants

Li Receives DuPont Young Professor Award

Dr. Christopher Li has received a DuPont Young Professor Award for $75,000 at $25,000 per year for three years. The grant will support the use of polymer/carbon nanotube hybrid materials for carbon nanotube separation and energy harvesting applications. Li is one of twelve award recipients worldwide. Additionally, Ph.D. student Lingyu Li will be supported as a DuPont Graduate Fellow on this grant.

The following is a list of new awards received during the fiscal year July 1, 2004-June 30, 2005:

PI (Co-PI) Sponsor Project Title Amount

Gogotsi, Yury Atofina Chemicals, Inc. Nanoporous Carbide-Derived Carbon with Tunable Pore Size

$120,000

Gogotsi, Yury (Choi, Mun; Ko, Frank)

National Science Foundation

Fellowships in the Area of Nanoscale Engineering and Science

$128,520

Kalidindi, Surya ONR through Ohio State University

Experimental and Computational Tools for the Digital Representation and Prediction

$650,000

Kalidindi, Surya ARO through Brigham Young University

Microstructure Sensitive Design: Topology, Processing & Design Integration

$150,781

Kamel, Ihab Mach 1, Incorporated Iron Nanofibers as Infrared Obscurant $34,690

Knight, Richard Albany International Research Company

Feasibility Study: Thermally Sprayed Polymer-Ceramic/Polymer-Metallic Coatings

$19,933

Knight, Richard DuPont Thermal Spray Release Coating Samples Prod. and Thermal Spray Coating of Optical Sensor Probe Tips

$19,012

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Knight, Richard Osram Sylvania HVOF spraying of WC-10% Co-3%Cr onto Bond Test slugs, 1"x3" coupons, Almen

$3,710

Knight, Richard NASA (Dryden Flight Research Center)

Thermal Spray Attachment of High Temperature Optical Sensors

$42,379

Ko, Frank (Gogotsi, Yury; Palmese, Giuseppe)

Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Request for Support for the 2005 American Society of Composites Conference

$5,000

Ko, Frank Battelle Memorial Institute

Feasibility of the Formation of Bulky Electrospun Fiber Battings

$25,001

Ko, Frank Materials Sciences Corporation (MSC)

High Strength Nanomaterials Fiber for Lightweight Composite Missle Cases

$15,000

Ko, Frank Ben Franklin Technology Center and BF Industry Match

Mechanical Testing of Reactive Composites and BF Industry Match

$16,000

Li, Christopher AT&T Government Solutions

Novel Switchable Grating Structures $71,195

Li, Christopher National Science Foundation

CAREER: Complex Hierarachical Self-Assembly Templated by Block Copolymers Supplement

$5,000

Li, Christopher American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fdn.

Explore the Phase Structure and Morphology of Liquid Crystalline Rod-Coil Diblock Copolymer

$80,000

Li, Christopher National Science Foundation

NER: Patterning on Carbon Nanotubes: Towards Ordered Multifunctional Nona Hy

$100,000

Orlovskaya, Nina National Energy Technology Laboratory

Thin Perkovskites Coating for the Interconnect Materials-SOFC Interconnect and TSK41876200101- Advanced Fuel Cells

$40,451

Orlovskaya, Nina North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)

Solid Oxide Fuel Cells for Energy Security

$29,617

Shih, Wei-Heng (Shih, Wan Y.)


Portable, Reusable Array Piezoelectric Microcantilever Sensors for Chemical Terro

$200,000

Spanier, Jonathan Army Research Office Smart Core-Shell Nanowire Architectures for Multifunctional Nanscale Decives

$149,930

Spanier, Jonathan Army Research Office Acquisition of An Electron Beam Nanolithography Attachment System for Regional

$86,650

Spanier, Jonathan University of Pennsylvania

NSEC on Molecular Function at the NanolBio Interface

$35,375

Twardowski, Thomas


Collaborative Research: Thermal Spray of Multiscale Polymer/Ceramic Composit

$41,948

Zavaliangos, Antonios


Manufacturing of Nanocrystalline Bulk Materials by Field Activated Sintering

$187,244

Materials Science and Engineering 29 Awards $2,257,436

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Partnerships with Industry

A. J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute (DNI) Launches Materials & Nanotechnology Consortium

The A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute (DNI), under Director Yury Gogotsi, professor of materials science & engineering, announces the establishment of the Materials and Nanotechnology Consortium. The objective of the Consortium is to identify, promote, and engage in strategic areas of research and education in advanced materials, including nanotechnology, biotechnology, and bio-nanotechnology. The Consortium has been founded to meet the needs of industry, government, and academia through interdisciplinary collaborations, partnerships, dedicated expertise, access to leading-edge materials characterization facilities, and innovative educational programs. In conjunction with the Drexel College of Engineering and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, the Materials and Nanotechnology Consortium invites companies from across the country to become members of an elite group, offering members a number of exclusive benefits, including priority access to Drexel’s world-class materials characterization facilities, access to Drexel faculty, surveys of Drexel intellectual property portfolios, invitations to meetings and events, access to Drexel students for individually directed projects, and much more. By becoming a member of the Consortium, companies will enhance their visibility on campus and will have increased access to cutting-edge ideas and technology. Current members include Nanoblox, Arkema, Kulicke & Soffa, Greene Tweed, and iCeutica (list current as of September 2005). “This is the best way for companies to gain access to university resources and a first step towards establishing sponsored research agreements with individual researchers or units,” says Gogotsi. “Four membership levels ranging from $5,000 to $50,000 allow us to accommodate any company or institution. The myriad benefits provide an opportunity for companies interested in building strategic partnerships with the university.” The Materials and Nanotechnology Consortium is managed by Consortium Director and materials faculty member Dr. Richard Knight, who is responsible for the day-to-day operations, as well as administrative details. The Advisory Board, comprised of Drexel faculty, members of the Drexel University Office of Research, Consortium industrial members, and one external agency, advises the Consortium Director and guides the educational and outreach activities of the Consortium. For more information, please visit: http://mcf.materials.drexel.edu/

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New Bossone Resesarch Enterprise Center

Zeiss Supra 50 SEM (image courtesy of www.htiweb.com)

Drexel University Centralized Materials Characterization Facility Moving to Bossone Research Enterprise Center

The Drexel University centralized Materials Characterization Facility (MCF), under the direction of facilities coordinator Dr. Richard Knight, is scheduled to move to the newly opened Bossone Research Enterprise Center. The MCF will be housed in approximately 3,500 square feet of dedicated, vibration-isolated space located on the ground floor of Bossone. Formally organized almost two years ago, the MCF groups together key materials characterization instruments as a “recharge center” operated in compliance with federal guidelines. Under the guidance of Dr. Richard Knight, the MCF also includes staff members Ms. Dee Breger, Director of Microscopy and Dr. Zhorro Nikolov, Director of Spectroscopy, assisted by Nanotechnology Program Coordinator Cory Delafield. Since its founding, MCF usage has continued to grow. Analysis of the MCF usage over a six month period from December 2004 through May 2005 shows a total of 143 unique users, of which 81 were from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 33 from other College of Engineering departments, 12 from elsewhere at Drexel University, and 17 external users.

MCF Operations are becoming more streamlined and efficient through the implementation of an improved web-based instrument logon for the tracking and billing of equipment usage on all MCF equipment implemented by undergraduate student Andrew Marx.

Looking ahead, the MCF anticipates the addition of a new Zeiss variable pressure field emission scanning electron microscope plus several attachments, such as energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) and wavelength dispersive spectroscopy (WDS) in late 2005. The current FEI XL30 scanning electron microscope (SEM) is an approximately four year old top-of-the-line instrument capable of ultra high resolution in structural and compositional imaging in variable pressure and wet modes (for non-conductive and moist samples), as well as traditional high vacuum mode, semi-quantitative elemental analysis and element mapping, and crystal orientation imaging. There is a plan in place to add a tensile stage and the development of fluid nano-injection capability for this instrument. The new Zeiss Supra 50 SEM is a state-of-the-art SEM

instrument capable of ultra high resolution in structural and compositional imaging in both high vacuum and variable pressure modes, with attachments for semi-quantitative element analysis, element mapping, and fully quantitative elemental analysis. In the future, Raman spectroscopy will be added to the instrument. In addition to these improvements, the move to Bossone will give the facility more visibility in a high profile high-tech space.

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Journal cover reprinted with permission of John Wiley & Sons,

Inc. Copyright 2005. All rights reserved.

www.wiley.com

Major Publications

The journal papers published by the faculty members of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University from 1994 through 2004 were cited 30% more frequently than those of competing materials departments, as noted in a recent Thompson ISI comparative study of the impact of materials science scientific journal papers from 1994 to 2004. Additionally, those papers received 2.4 times the citations of the average journal paper published in the discipline of materials in that time period. Among them, the most frequently cited paper overall, with 279 citations (as of 5/7/05), is one by Dr. Michel Barsoum and his former Ph.D. student, Dr. Tamer El-Raghy (MSE, Ph.D. 1997) entitled, “Synthesis and Characterization of Ti3SiC2 : A Remarkable Ceramic” and published in the Journal of the American Ceramic Society [79(7), 1953-1956, 1996], also the most cited paper in the journal during the last 10 years. Incidentally, El Raghy was the highest cited author in the same journal with Barsoum second and Dr. Surya Kalidindi and Dr. Antonios Zavaliangos in 19th and 20th place respectively. There were 5,732 articles published in the journal between 1994 and 2004 by several thousand different authors. Additionally, “Electrospun Nanofibrous Structure: A Novel Scaffold for Bioengineering,” a paper coauthored by Department of Materials Science and Engineering Professor Frank Ko (Li, W.J., Laurencin, C.T., Caterson, E.J, Tuan, R.S., and Ko, F.K.) was the most downloaded paper of the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research in 2004. For more information, please visit: http://www.materials.drexel.edu/news/2005_spring/materials_publications.html

Citation Information Researchers: Peggy Dominy and Tim Siftar, Information Services Librarians

Li, et al. as Cover Article in Advanced Materials

The recent work of Dr. Christopher Li and his collaborators appeared as the cover article in the May 2, 2005 (Vol. 17, Issue 9) issue of Advanced Materials. In the article, the team, led by Dr. Li, reported a unique means to periodically pattern polymeric materials on individual carbon nanotubes (CNTs) using controlled polymer crystallization. One-dimensional (1D) CNTs were periodically decorated with polymer lamellar crystals, resulting in nano hybrid shish-kebab (NHSK) structures. The periodicity of the polymer lamellae varies from 20 - 100 nm. The kebabs are approximately 5 nm thick (along CNT direction) with a lateral size of ~ 20 nm to micrometers, which can be readily

controlled by varying the crystallization condition. Since the polymer kebabs can be easily removed, using 1D lithographic technique, these unique NHSKs can serve as templates to fabricate a variety of CNTs-containing hybrid materials with controlled patterns on the CNT surface. This method thus opens a gateway to periodically patterning on CNTs or similar 1D nanowires in an ordered and controlled manner, an attractive research field that is yet to be explored.

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Books, Chapters, Editorials

1. M. W. Barsoum, “Physical Properties of the MAX Phases”, Encyclopedia of Materials Science and Technology, Eds. Buschow, Cahn, Flemings, Kramer, Mahajan and Veyssiere, Elsevier Science, 2006.

2. M. W. Barsoum, “Nanolayered Kinking Nonlinear Elastic Solids”, Handbook of Nano Materials, Ed. Y. Gogotsi, CRC Press, 2005. 3. S. N. Basu, J. E. Krzanowski, J. Patscheider, Y. Gogotsi, Surface Engineering 2004 –

Fundamentals and Applications, Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, vol. 843 (MRS, Warrendale, PA, 2005).

4. J. Lyons and F. K. Ko, “Nanofibers,” Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Edited by H. S. Nalwa, Vol. 6, pp 727-738 (2004).

5. F. K. Ko, A. El-Aufy, H. Lam, and A. MacDiarmid, “Electrostatically Generated Nanofibers for Wearable Electronics”, Wearable Electronics, Edited by X.M. Tao, Woodhead (2005).

6. F. K. Ko, “Fabrics” Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Edited by G. Wnek and G. Bowlin, Marcel Dekker (2004).

7. F. K. Ko, “Electrospinning”, Edited by G. Wnek, McGraw-Hill Year Book (September 2004). 8. T. S. Venkataraman and D. H. Thomas, Engineering Applications and Resource Textbook

for Physical Foundations of Engineering I, II and III, Revised and modified Seventh Edition, John Wiley and Sons (September 2005)

9. T. S. Venkataraman, C. Lane, and J. DiNardo, Undergraduate Physics laboratory Manual, Revised and added additional experiments in Physics I, John Wiley and Sons (September 2005).

Refereed Journal Publications 1. Z. M. Sun, S. Gupta, H. Ye, and M. W. Barsoum, “Spontaneous Growth of Free-standing

Ga Nanoribbons from Cr2GaC Surfaces,” J. Mater. Res., 20, 2618-2621 (2005) 2. Z. M. Sun, A. Murugaiah, T. Zhen, A. Zhou, and M. W. Barsoum, “Microstructure and

Mechanical Properties of Porous Ti3SiC2,” Acta Mater., 53, 4359-4366 (2005). 3. N. Keawprak, Z. M. Sun, H. Hashimoto, and M. W. Barsoum, “Effect of Sintering

Temperature on the Thermoelectric Properties of Pulse Discharge Sintered (Bi0.24Sb0.76)Te3 Alloy,” J. Alloy Compds., 397, 236-244 (2005).

4. Z. M. Sun, H. Hashimoto, N. Keawprak, A. B. Ma, L. F. Li, and M. W. Barsoum, “Effect of Rotary-die Equal Channel Angular Pressing on the Thermoelectric Properties of a (Bi,Sb)22Te3 Alloy,” J. Mater. Res., 20, 895-903 (2005).

5. T. Zhen, M. W. Barsoum and S. R. Kalidindi, “Effects of Temperature, Strain Rate and Grain Size on the Compressive Properties of Ti3SiC2,” Acta Mater. 53 4163–4171 (2005).

6. J. Chmiola, G. Yushin, R. K. Dash, E. Hoffman, J. E. Fischer, M. W. Barsoum, & Y.

Gogotsi, “Double-Layer Capacitance of Carbide Derived Carbons,” Electrochem. Solid State Lettrs. 8, A357-A360 (2005).

7. B. Manoun, S. K. Saxena, and M. W. Barsoum, “High Pressure Study of Ti4AlN3 to 55 GPa,” Appl. Phys. Letts., 86, 101906, 2005.

8. J. E. Spanier, S. Gupta, M. Amer, and M. W. Barsoum, “First-Order Raman Scattering

From the Mn+1AXn Phases,” Phys. Rev. B, 71, 12103, (2005). 9. Z. Wang, S. Zha, and M. W. Barsoum, “Compressibility and Pressure induced Phase Transformation in Ti3GeC3,” Appl. Phys. Letters, 85, 3453-3455 (2004). 10. M. W. Barsoum, M. Radovic, T. Zhen, and P. Finkel, “Dynamic Elastic Hysteretic Solids

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and Dislocations,” Phys. Rev. Lett., 94, 085501, 2005. 11. M. K. Drulis, A. Czopnik, H. Drulis, J. E. Spanier, A. Ganguly, and M. W. Barsoum, “On the Heat Capacities of Ti3GeC2 and Ti3SiC3,” Mater. Sci. & Engin. B, 119, 159-163, 2005. 12. Z. M. Sun and M. W. Barsoum, “Spontaneous Room Temperature Extrusion of Pb Nano-

Whiskers from Leaded Brass Surfaces,” J. Mater. Res., 20, 1087-1089 (2005). 13. R. S. Kumar, S. Rekhi, A. L. Cornelius, and M. W. Barsoum, “Compressibility of Nb2AsC to

41 GPa,” Appl. Phys. Lett., 86, 111904 (2005). 14. G. Hug, M. Jaoun, and M. W. Barsoum, “XAS, EELS and Full-Potential Augmented Plane Wave Study of the Electronic Structures of Ti2AlC, Ti2AlN, Nb2AlC and (Ti0.5,Nb0.5)2AlC,” Phys. Rev. B, 71, 24105 (2005). 15. M. W. Barsoum, T. Zhen, A. Zhou, S. Basu, and S. R. Kalidindi, “Microscale Modeling of Kinking Nonlinear Elastic Solids,” Phys. Rev. B., 71, 134101 (2005). 16. G. Yushin, E. Hoffman, A. Nikitin, H. Ye, M. W. Barsoum, and Y. Gogotsi, “Synthesis of Nanoporous Carbide-Derived Carbon by Chlorination of Titanium Silicon Carbide,” Carbon, 43, 2075-82 (2005). 17. A. Ganguly, M. W. Barsoum, and J. Schuster, “The 1300°C Isothermal Section in the Ti

In-C Ternary Phase Diagram,” J. Amer. Cer. Soc., 88, 1290-1296 (2005). 18. E. N. Hoffman, G. Yushin, M. W. Barsoum, and Y. Gogotsi, “Synthesis of Carbide- Derived Carbon by Chlorination of Ti2AlC,” Chem. Mater., 17, 2317-2322 (2005). 19. A. Souchet, J. Fontaine, M. Belin, T. Le Mogne, J.-L. Loubet, and M. W. Barsoum,

“Ti3SiC2:Tribological Duality,” Tribology Letters, 18, 341-352 (2005). 20. M. W. Barsoum, E. Hoffman, R. D. Doherty, S. Gupta, and A. Zavaliangos, “Driving

Force & Mechanism of Spontaneous Metal Whisker Formation,” Phys. Rev. Letts., 93, 206104 (2004).

21. C. Gundlach, W. Pantleon, E. M. Lauridsen, L. Margulies, R. D. Doherty, and H. F. Poulsen, “In Depth Observation of Microstructure Evolution During Recovery,” Scripta Materialia, 50, 477-481 (2004).

22. S. L. Semiatin, N. Stefansson, and R. D. Doherty, “Prediction of the Kinetics of Static Globularization of Ti-6Al-4V,” Metal and Materials Trans., 36A 1372-1376 (2005).

23. G. Couturier, R. D. Doherty, C. Maurice, and R. Fortunier, “3D finite element simulation of the inhibition of normal grain growth by particles,” Acta Materialia, 53 977-989 (2005).

24. G. Yushin, S. Osswald, V. I. Padalko, G. P. Bogatyreva, Y. Gogotsi, “Effect of sintering on structure of nanodiamond,” Diamond and Related Materials, 14 (10) 1721-

1729 (2005). 25. R. K. Dash, G. Yushin, and Y. Gogotsi, “Synthesis, Structure and Porosity Analysis of

Microporous and Mesoporous Carbon Derived from Zirconium Carbide,” Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 86, 50-57 (2005).

26. S. Babu, P. Ndungu, J.-C. Bradley, M. P. Rossi, Y. Gogotsi, “Guiding water into carbon nanopipes with the aid of bipolar electrochemistry,” Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 1, 284-288 (2005).

27. A. L. Yarin, A. G. Yazicioglu, C. M. Megaridis, M. P. Rossi, Y. Gogotsi, “Theoretical and experimental investigation of aqueous liquids contained in carbon nanotubes,” Journal of Applied Physics, 97, 124309 (2005). Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, July 4, 2005.

28. H. Ye, N. Titchenal, Y. Gogotsi, F. Ko, “SiC Nanowires Synthesized from Electrospun Nanofiber Templates,” Advanced Materials, 17, 1535-1539 (2005).

29. G. Korneva, H. Ye, Y. Gogotsi, D. Halverson, G. Friedman, J.-C. Bradley, K. G. Kornev, “Carbon nanotubes loaded with magnetic particles,” Nano Letters, 5 (5) 879-884 (2005).

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30. D. Mattia, M. Desmaison-Brut, S. Dimovski, Y. Gogotsi, J. Desmaison, “Oxidation Behavior of an Aluminum Nitride-Hafnium Diboride Ceramic Composite,” J. Europ. Ceram. Soc., 25, 1789-1796 (2005).

31. A. G. Yazicioglu, C. M. Megaridis, A. Nicholls, Y. Gogotsi, “Electron Microscope Visualization of Multiphase Fluids Contained in Closed Carbon Nanotubes,” Journal of Visualization, 8 (2) 137-144 (2005).

32. N. N. Naguib, Y. M. Mueller, P. M. Bojczuk, M. P. Rossi, P. D. Katsikis, Y. Gogotsi, “Effect of Carbon Nanofiber Structure on Binding of Antibodies,” Nanotechnology 16, 567-571 (2005).

33. S. Osswald, E. Flahaut, H. Ye, Y. Gogotsi, “Elimination of D-Band in Raman spectra of double-wall carbon nanotubes by oxidation,” Chem. Phys. Lett., 402 (4-6), 422-427 (2005).

34. K. Cowan and Y. Gogotsi, “The Drexel/UPenn IGERT: Creating a new model for graduate education in nanotechnology,” J. Mater. Education, 26 (1-3) 147-152 (2004).

35. K. L. Vyshnyakova, L. N. Pereselentseva, Z. G. Cambaz, G. N. Yushin, Y. Gogotsi, “Whiskerisation of polycrystalline SiC fibres during synthesis,” British Ceramic Transactions, 103 (5) 193-196 (2004).

36. H. Ye, N. Naguib, Y. Gogotsi, “TEM Study of Water in Carbon Nanotubes,” JEOL News, 39 (2) 38-43 (2004).

37. N. Naguib, H. Ye, Y. Gogotsi, A. G. Yazicioglu, C. M. Megaridis, M. Yoshimura, “Observation of water confined in nanometer channels of closed carbon nanotubes,” Nano Letters, 4 (11) 2237-2243 (2004).

38. V. Kayastha, Y. K. Yap, S. Dimovski, Y. Gogotsi, “Controlling Dissociative Adsorption for Effective Growth of Carbon Nanotubes,” Applied Physics Letters, 85 (15) 3265-3267 (2004).

39. S. R. Kalidindi and H. Duvvuru, “Spectral Methods for Capturing Crystallographic Texture Evolution During Large Plastic Strains in Metals,” Acta Materialia, 53 3613-3623 (2005).

40. A. Salem, S. R. Kalidindi, and S. L. Semiatin, “Strain hardening due to deformation twinning in a-titanium: Constitutive relations and crystal-plasticity modeling,” Acta Materialia, 53 3495-3502 (2005).

41. M. Ivosevic, R. Knight, S. R. Kalidindi, G. R. Palmese, and J. K. Sutter, “Adhesive/Cohesive Properties of Thermally Sprayed Functionally Graded Coatings for Polymer Matrix Composites,” Journal of Thermal Spray Technology, 14, No. 1, 45-51, (March 2005).

42. S. Sukigara, M. Gandhi, J. Ayutsede, M. Micklus, and F. Ko, “Regeneration of Bombyx mori silk by electrospinning- Part 2: Processing optimization and empirical modeling using response surface methodology,” Polymer 45, 3701-3708 (2004).

43. D. Katti, K. Robinson, F. K. Ko, and C. T. Laurencin, “Bioresorbable Nanofiber-based Systems for Wound Healing and Drug Delivery: Optimization of Fabrication Parameters,” J. Biomed. Mat. Res. 70B: 286-296 (2004).

44. F. K. Ko and J. Jovicic, “Modeling of mechanical properties and structural design of spider web,” Biomacromolecules, 5, No. 3 (2004).

45. J. Ayutsede, M. Gandhi, S. Sukigara, M. Micklus, C. Hung-En, and F. K. Ko, “Regeneration of Bombyx mori silk by electrospinning – Part 3: Characterization of electrospun nonwoven mat,” Polymer 46 1625-1634 (2005).

46. C. Y. Li, L. Li, W. Cai, S. L. Kodjie, and K. K. Tenneti, “Nano-Hybrid Shish-kebab: Polymer decorated carbon Nanotubes,” Adv. Mater. 17, 1198-1202 (2005). (Cover Article, Cited

by “Faraday Technology Alert-Smart Materials”).

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47. C. Y. Li, M. J. Birnkrant, L. V. Natarajan, V. P. Tondiglia, R. L. Pamela F. Lloyd, Sutherland, and T. J. Bunning, “Holographically patterned, thermally switchable Bragg reflectors,” Soft Matter, 1, 238-242 (2005). (Highlighted in Royal Society of

Chemistry, Chemical Technology News, Sept. 2005, 2, T33). 48. M. Lugovy, V. Sljunyaev, N. Orlovskaya, G. Blugan, J. Kuebler, and M. Lewis, “Apparent

fracture toughness of Si3N4 based laminates with residual compressive or tensile stresses in surface layers,” Acta Mater., 53, 289-296, (2005).

49. N. Orlovskaya, A. Coratolo, C. Johnson, and R. Gemmen, “Characterization of LaCrO3 perovskite coating deposited by magnetron sputtering on an iron based chromium containing alloy,” J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 87, 10, 1981-1987, (2004).

50. G. Blugan, R. Dobedoe, I. Gee, N. Orlovskaya, J. Kuebler, “Failure behavior of high toughness multilayer Si3N4 and Si3N4-TiN based laminates,” Key Engineering Materials, 290, 175-182, (2005).

51. N. Orlovskaya, D. Steinmetz, S. Yarmolenko, D. Pai, J. Sankar, and J. Goodenough, “Detection of temperature and stress induced modifications of LaCoO3 by micro-Raman spectroscopy,” Phys. Rev. B, 72, 014122-1-7, (2005).

52. G. Blugan, N. Orlovskaya, M. Lewis, J. Kuebler, “Multilayer silicon nitride laminates exhibiting high fracture toughness and crack deflection,” Key Engineering Materials, 280-

283, 1863-1868, 2004. 53. P. T. Charles, E. R. Goldman, J. G. Rangasammy, C. L. Schauer, M. Chen & C. R. Taitt,

“Fabrication and Characterization of 3D hydrogel microarrays to measure antigenicity and antibody functionality for biosensor applications,” Biosensor Bioelectronics, 20, 753-764 (2004).

54. H. Gu, W. Y. Shih, and W.-H. Shih, “Low-Temperature, Single Step, Reactive Sintering of Lead Magnesium Niobate Using Mg(OH)2-Coated Nb2O5 Powders,” J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 88[6] 1435-1443 (2005).

55. A. Markidou, W. Y. Shih, and W.-H. Shih, “Soft-Materials Elastic and Shear Moduli Measurement Using Piezoelectric Cantilevers,” Rev. Sci. Instrum., 76, 064302 (2005).

56. G.N. Yushin, A.V. Kvit, Z. Sitar, “Transmission electron microscopy studies of the bonded SiC-SiC interface,” Journal of Materials Science, 40 (16): 4369-4371 (2005).

57. G.N. Yushin, A. Aleksov, S.D. Wolter, F. Okuzumi, J.T. Prater, Z. Sitar, “Wafer bonding of highly oriented diamond to silicon,” Diamond and Related Materials 13 (10): 1816-1821 (2004).

58. A. Galen and A. Zavaliangos, “Strength Anisotropy in Cold Compacted Ductile and Brittle Powders,” Acta Materialia, 53, Issue 18, 4801-4815 (2005).

59. A. Procopio and A. Zavaliangos, “Simulation of multi-axial compaction of granular media from loose to high relative densities,” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 53, Issue 7, 1523-1551 (2005).

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Service Activities Michel Barsoum

• Manuscript Reviewer: Journal of the American Ceramics Soc., Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, Wear, J. of the Electrochemical Soc., National Science Foundation - Division of Materials Research., Phys. Rev. Letters, J. Applied Physics, Appl. Phys. Letters, Materials Science and Engineering A, Corrosion Science, J. of Alloys and Compounds

Roger Doherty • Member: International Committee for Recrystallization and Grain Growth

Yury Gogotsi • Symposium Organizer: Fall MRS Meeting, Symposium T, Surface Engineering, Dec.

2004; Symposium on Nanostructured and Biomimetic Materials, Cocoa Beach Meeting on Advanced Materials, Cocoa Beach, FL, January, 2005

• Member of the Steering Committee: Pennsylvania Nanotechnology 2005, Pittsburgh, PA, April 19-21, 2005

• Co-organizer: 20th American Society of Composite Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 2005 • Organizing Committee Member: 3rd International Conference on Materials and Coatings

for Extreme Performances: Investigations, Applications, Ecologically Safe Technologies and Their Production and Utilization, Crimea, Ukraine, 13-17 Sept. 2004

• Member of International Program Committee: International conference “Modern Materials Science: Achievements and Problems” Kiev, Ukraine, September 26—30, 2005

• Review Panel: DOE, Hydrogen Storage Proposal Review Panel, March 8, 2005 • Somiya Award Committee: International Union of Materials Research Societies • Graduate Student Award Judge: Materials Research Society, Spring 2005 Meeting

• Academician: World Academy of Ceramics • Associate Editor: Science of Sintering, since 2005; International Journal of Applied

Ceramic Technology, since 2003 • Editorial Board Member: Advances in Applied Ceramics, since 2005; British Ceramic

Transactions, 2004; Advances in Technology of Materials and Materials Processing Journal (ATM), since 1998; Reviews in Advanced Materials Science, since 1999; Materials Physics and Mechanics, since 2000; Science of Nanoscale Materials, since 2005 (Ukraine)

• Manuscript Reviewer: Book proposal for CRC Press; Book proposal for IOP; Nano Letters; Carbon; Diamond and Related Materials; Journal of the American Chemical Society; Materials Science Forum; Thin Solid Films; J. Phys. Chemistry; Canadian Journal of Chemistry; Applied Physics Letters; Physica B; Physical Review B; International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology; International Journal of Nanomedicine

• Proposal Reviewer: NSF; DOE – Hydrogen Energy Panel of of the Office of Basic Energy Sciences; AFOSR/NRC

Surya Kalidindi

• Keynote Lecture: ICOTOM 13, Belgium, “Microstructure Sensitive Design with First Order Homogenization Theories and Finite Element Codes”; proceedings to be published in Materials Science Forum, 2005

• Invited Lecture: Institute of Technological Research in Sao Paulo (IPT) and The University of Sao Paulo (USP), Sao Paulo, Brazil, Nov 22-24, 2004; University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Lecture, May 26, 2004, Rheology Seminar, Faculty of Mathematics, May 27, 2004

• Manuscript Reviewer: Acta Materialia, Materials Science and Engineering, Metallurgical Transactions A

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Richard Knight • General Conference Co-Chair: 2005 International Thermal Spray Conference (ITSC-

2005), Basel, Switzerland, May 2005 • Member of Organizing Committee: 2005 International Thermal Spray Conference (ITSC-

2005), Basel, Switzerland, May 2005 • Chair, Program Committee: ASM International, Thermal Spray Society “Sensors &

Controls 2004” Workshop Meeting, NRC Canada, Boucherville, Montreal, Canada, October 2004

• Member: ASM-TSS—Program Committee, Training Committee, Information Development and Delivery (IDD) Committee, Membership and Marketing Committee; JTST, International Editorial Board; Plasma Chemistry & Plasma Processing, Editorial Board; ASM International, Events Council

• President: ASM/TSS • Manuscript/Proposal Reviewing: Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing; Surface

Coatings and Technology (UK); Materials Science and Engineering A; Book proposal review for ASM International (“Cold Spray Technology”; planned ~300 pages + Figures)

Frank Ko • Member of Advisory Board: Institute for Textile and Clothing, Hong Kong Polytechnic

University • Member: Council of the U.S.-Japan Conference on Composite Materials • Chair: American Society for Composites, 2005 Conference organizing committee

Christopher Li • Manuscript Reviewer: Journal of American Chemical Society, Macromolecules. Polymer,

Journal of Polymer Science, Polymer Physics, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Polymer International

• Proposal Reviewer: Panel member, NSF Nano Interdisciplinary Research Team (NIRT); National Science Foundation (ad-hoc reviewer for DMR and CHE); ACS-PRF (American Chemical Foundation – Petroleum Research Fund); Cooperative research grant; United States Department of Agriculture; National Science Foundation of China

Michele Marcolongo • Conference Chair and Founder: Spine Research Symposium • Abstract Reviewer: Society for Biomaterials • Chair: Society for Biomaterials Orthopaedic Special Interest Group, 2005-2006 • Grant Reviewer: NIH NIAMS SBIR Panel, NIH NIBIB RO1 Panel Biomaterials and

Biosurfaces, GRID

Nina Orlovskaya • Member: American Ceramic Society, Materials Research Society • Proposal Reviewer: NSF and PRF • Reviewer: J. Mater. Sci., Thin Solid Films, Composites, Part B Engineering

Caroline Schauer • Manuscript Reviewer: Biomacromolecules, Analytical Chemistry, Langmuir

Wan Shih • Manuscript Reviewer: Journal of the American Ceramic Society

• Proposal Reviewer: NSF

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Wei-Heng Shih • Manuscript Reviewer: Journal of the American Ceramic Society

• Proposal Reviewer: NSF

Jonathan Spanier • Manuscript Reviewer: Applied Physics Letters, Physical Review Letters, Journal of the

Chemistry and Physics of Solids, Journal of the American Ceramic Society

T. S. Venkataraman • Undergraduate physics textbook reviewer • Member Board of Directors: Delaware Valley Science Council to promote interest in

science among students in area high schools

Antonios Zavaliangos • International Scientific Committee: Sintering ’05, 14th International Conference on

Science, Technology and Applications of Sintering, Grenoble, France, August 29-September 1, 2005

• Proposal Panel: NSF DMII, National Academy of Engineering AFOSR Proposal Panel • Proposal Reviewer: NSF-DMR • Editorial Board: International Journal of Powder Metallurgy • Key Reader: Metallurgical Transactions • Manuscript Reviewer: Materials Science & Engineering, Materials & Design, Particulate

Science & Technology, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Powder Metallurgy, Science of Sintering, Wiley Technical Books, Powder Metallurgy (UK)

department of materials science & engineering 2004-2005

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