Thevamaran Lab
Innovative Structured Materials for Extreme Mechanical Properties
Synchrotron X-ray scattering experiments at Advanced Photon Source

Facilities

Dynamic testing of materials

Laser-induced Microballistic Experiments with Ultra-fast (equivalent fps: 80 million) Microscopy

LIPIT

Nicholas Jaegersberg

LIPIT

Microscale Wave Dynamics Experiments (Micro-WaDE) with Interferometry

MicroWaDE

MicroWaDE

Miniaturized Kolsky Bar (mK-bar) Experiment

Bhanugopan performing mK bar experiments

Kolsky bar experiment

Broadband Dynamic Mechanical Analysis with High-speed microscopy (Photron SA-Z (fps:1 million)+lens: K2/KC)

Quasistatic testing of materials

Instron Electro Pulse E3000 (compression/tension/shear/DMA) with in situ High-speed Microscopy (Photron SA-Z (fps:1 million)+lens: K2/KC)

Instron Electropulse

Micro and Nano-indentation (Hysitron PI-85) with in-situ Scanning Electron Microscopy

Material Synthesis

Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) Synthesis of Vertically-Aligned Carbon Nanotubes

Polymer thinfilm fabrication

Synchrotron X-ray scattering experiments at the Argonne National Laboratory

APS