Professor Thevamaran gives the Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering and Sciences Webinar–a multi-university webinar series–on the theme of Mechanics and Materials. You may join the webinar live at 3.30 pm (EST) on Oct 2, 2020, or …
Year: 2020
Our research is featured as a cover of the August Issue of Nano Letters
Our lab receives grant to study lightweight vibration control materials from the Army Research Office
Read the full story here: https://www.engr.wisc.edu/news/thevamaran-receives-army-grant-to-study-lightweight-protective-materials/
Our shock metamorphism experiments suggest Coesite forms in Opal-A at low pressures in contrast to previous believes
Our study published in ACS Earth and Space Chemistry suggests that Coesite forms in Opal-A at low pressures than what was previously thought. Opal-A is a hydrated amorphous silica species and a widespread mineraloid on Earth’s …
Postdoctoral Research Associate Position Available (Fall 2020)
A Postdoctoral Research Associate Position is available in Professor R. Thevamaran’s laboratory at the Department of Engineering Physics of the University of Wisconsin-Madison to study the dynamic behavior of hierarchical materials. The research will focus on design, synthesis, structural …
Shields up: Nanomaterial bests all others in blocking speeding projectiles
Kyle Seledic wins Hilldale Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Congratulations to Kyle for winning the prestigious 2020-21 Hilldale Undergraduate Research Fellowship. This award will support his research in our lab on PT-symmetric metamaterials.
Congratulations to Jizhe for publishing his paper in Nano Letters
Dr. Jizhe Cai, a postdoctoral research associate in our lab has published his work on semicrystalline polymer thin films in Nano Letters. Congratulations, Jizhe! Read the paper here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c00066
Professor Thevamaran gives an invited talk at the International Conference on Plasticity, Damage, and Fracture (Plasticity 2020)
Professor Thevamaran presents our research on gradient-nanograined structure and phase transformation metal microparticles impacted at high velocities at the International Conference on Plasticity, Damage, and Fracture (Plasticity 2020).