Recently relocated to Virginia Tech, our group focuses efforts in gaining fundamental insight into the structure-process-property relationships of novel ceramics created through entropic engineering.

 

The group currently maintains a solid-state synthesis lab containing both a high temperature tube furnace and bottom-loading furnace each capable of reaching 1973 K in air, a high speed mixer/mill, a rolling ball mill, a uni-axial hydraulic press, and a particle size measurement system. General activities of interest include ceramic synthesis via powder processing, phase and structural characterization by X-ray diffraction, microstructure analysis via scanning electron microscopy, and local, atomic level structural characterization though synchrotron spectroscopy methods.

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