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The MONSTER Research Group is thrilled to announce that Dr. Tori Miller has been awarded the Vladimir A. Grodsky Professorship in the Materials Science & Engineering Department at UF! This prestigious recognition honors Dr. Miller’s sustained performance and excellence in research, teaching, and service in materials science & engineering with a specialization in metals. Congratulations, Dr. […]

Tianchen Wei published his first paper “Laser Bending Behavior of Austenitic Stainless Steels and Characterization of the Resultant Microstructures” in the Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance. This study establishes a correlation between the initial microstructure of the material and the resulting bending angles achieved through laser sheet metal forming. It further elucidates the microstructural […]

Yonguk Lee recently published “On the Formation of Multiply Coherent γ Grains in a Powder Metallurgy Ni Base Superalloy” in the Superalloys 2024 proceedings. The paper reports a unique γ microstructure which contains multiple pinning particles inside that are coherent (multiply coherent gamma grains, MCGs), which are explained to have possibly formed through the combined effect of initial orientation […]

Nathan Fripp passed his qualifying exam, with his proposal entitled “Enhanced Control of Laser Forming Outcomes Through Tailored Thermal Gradients.” Congrats Nathan!

This year the MONSTER group ventured an impressive two hours south from Gainesville, FL to Orlando, FL for TMS 2024, with a couple of newbies filling the passenger seats. Kimi, June, and Nathan eased in by presenting posters on their work, while the veterans (Ben, Begley, Tony, and Megan) delivered oral presentations. Though we might be […]

Yonguk Lee recently published “Prevalence of Heteroepitaxial Recrystallization in the Low Solvus High Refractory (LSHR) γ–γ′ Superalloy” in Metallography, Microstructure, and Analysis. The paper reports the observation of HeRX outside of low-misfit Ni-base superalloys for the first time, which suggests that HeRX can contribute to microstructural evolution in a much wider range of polycrystalline Ni-base […]

Benjamin Anthony recently published “A ‘step’ in the right direction: quantifying error in twinning analysis due to EBSD scan resolution” in Scripta Materialia. This paper demonstrates the error in calculated twin fraction and other features when using too-large EBSD step sizes. Read the paper here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2023.115929

Tianchen Wei passed his qualifying exam, with his proposal entitled “Microstructural Evolution during Laser Forming of Sheet Metals: the impact of dynamic recrystallization.” Congrats Kimi!

Dr. Benjamin Anthony becomes the third student to graduate with a PhD from the MONSTER Research Group, defending his dissertation entitled “Quantifying the Role of Coarse Intermetallic Particles on Twinning Behavior in Magnesium Alloys.” Congrats Ben!

Dr. Sarah Hamilton successfully defended her dissertation, “Materials and Manufacturing Study of Uranium Mononitride/Zirconium Carbide Cercer Composites for Use in Space Nuclear Propulsion” and is the second student to obtain their Ph.D. in the MONSTER Research Group.  Congrats Sarah!