News
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 …
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).
Professor Thevamaran presents a seminar at the RMIT University, Australia
Professor Thevamaran gave a seminar on “Microballistics: From martensitic transformation in metals to superior energy dissipation in ultra-thin polymer films” at the Center for Material Innovation and Future Fashion (CMIFF) of the RMIT University in …
Jizhe and Claire present their work at 2019 MRS Fall Meeting
Postdoctoral Research Associate Jizhe Cai and Graduate Student Claire Griesbach present their work at the 2019 MRS Fall meeting in Boston this week. Jizhe gives a talk on supersonic micro projectile impact of semicrystalline polymer …
Congratulations to Claire for successfully defending her Master’s Thesis
Claire Griesbach successfully defended her Master’s thesis on “Quasi-Static and High-Velocity Impact Deformations of Single-Crystal Silver Microcubes”. Congratulations!