| Suresh Group | Prof. Suresh's laboratory at MIT couples experimental facilities--which include nano- and microindenters, standard and microtensile testers and bubble raft indentation simulators--with computational facilities comprised of SGI, UNIX and NT platforms dedicated to FEM continuum and crystal plasticity simulations of mechanical deformation of nanostructures. |
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| Nanostructured Materials Research Laboratory | Prof. Ying's laboratory at MIT possesses processing capabilities, both to generate nanostructured powders and also to form these powders into bulk compacts or coatings. |
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| Anand Mechanical Engineering Laboratory | Prof. Anand's laboratory at MIT has processing, mechanical testing, and computational facilities dedicated to the development of accurate mechanical response-prediction of micron sized devices. |
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Argonne National Laboratory's Interfacial Materials Group |
Drs. Wolf and Eastman at ANL utilize the complementary strengths of the simulation and experimental approaches are exploited to provide atomic-level insights into the concepts, mechanisms and interfacial driving forces that control the overall film properties, including in-situ x-ray studies during synthesis and processing of thin films at the Advanced Photon Source (APS); characterization of interfacial strains, including modes of strain relaxation during in-situ growth and/or post-growth environmental re-equilibration at the APS; Determination of the atomic structure and chemistry of the interfaces in these films using complementary x-ray, microscopy and ion-scattering techniques. |
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| Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe | Prof. Herbert Gleiter of the Institute of Nanotechnology in Karlsruhe, Germany, heads the Nanostructured Materials Department. The department studies the relationship between the local properties within material interfaces, as well as the relationship betweeen microstructure and macroscopic properties, with a combination of preparational, analytical and theoretical approaches. |
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Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory's Materials Science and Technology Division |
Dr. T.-G. Nieh at LLNL has access to a full suite of materials characterization capabilities including scanning electron microscopy, Auger spectroscopy, Rutherford backscattering and associated techniques using a 4 MeV ion accelerator, X-ray diffraction, atomic force microscopy, scanning tunneling microscopy, and various synchrotron based analytical methods. In addition, LLNL has fully instrumented, experimental surface science capability to carry out sample preparation, modification, characterization, including in-situ analytical measurements during transient behavior. |
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| Laboratory for Nanostructured Materials Research | Prof. Tsakalakos' laboratory at Rutgers University focuses on interfacial phenomena in magnetic superlattices, processing of magnetic nanopowders, and ceramic nanocomposites. Other research activities include thin film technology with emphasis on fabrication of multilayers for a variety of applications such as x-ray optics (mirrors), magnetooptical and ferroelectric devices and mechanical properties, molecular dynamics of solid interfaces, micro mechanics of stress induced transformation in ceramic systems, spinodal decomposition and x-ray determination of microscopic and macroscopic strain distribution in inhomogeneous solids. |
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| Multiscale Materials Modeling Group | Prof. Sidney Yip's laboratory at MIT works to develop an approach to materials modeling which combines contemporary theoretical concepts with atomistic simulation and sampling techniques of molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo, analyzing materials in terms of local molecular environments, interatomic bonding and forces, and various microscopic details pertaining to structure and dynamics. MMM's current focus is primarily directed at mechanistic understanding and analysis of materials behavior such as stress-driven or thermally activated structural instabilities, dislocation processes in plasticity and fracture, structural disordering versus melting in bulk and at interfaces, and atomic modes of defect mobility and microstructural evolution. |
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| Technical University of Munich | Prof. Stan Veprek of Technical University Munich co-directs an international research effort on the preparation and characterization of nanostructured composite coatings, and will supply well controlled and systematic ceramic coatings of nanoscale grain dimensions. |
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| NanoMechanical Technology Laboratory (NanoLab) | A state-of-the-art laboratory in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT for probing the properties and surfaces of engineering and biological materials at atomic and molecular length scales through mechanical contact. |