Fall 2008
In This Issue:
Electronic Materials
Three Recieve the Rustum & Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award
Award winners Omkar Parajuli and David Asay with Rustum and Della Roy |
Graduate students David Asay and Omkar Parajuli received the third annual Roy awards for “interdisciplinary materials research which yields valuable, unexpected results.” Assay, a Ph.D. student in Chemical Engineering, received the award for his work on the first promising solution for the lubrication of micromechanical systems (MEMS). Chemistry graduate student Omkar Parajuli received the award for work on the in-place growth of carbon nanotube cantilevers.
In addition, research associate Shunli Shang in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering received the award that is given to a postdoctoral researcher or junior faculty. Dr. Shang does innovative research in computational materials science. Currently he is studying the temperature- and composition-dependent phase stabilities of alloys and oxides by using statistic physics and first-principles calculations.
The award presentation was followed by lunch and an interactive poster session featuring 78 research posters in the areas of biomaterials and medical devices; computer simulation and modeling; electronic/photonic materials and devices; fuel cells and other energy technologies; materials characterization; materials processing and manufacturing; nanofabrication and MEMS; and structural materials/composites.
