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February 26, 2015

Thornell Takes Second Place at Adhesion Society Poster Competition

Travis Thornell, a second-year Materials Engineering graduate student advised by Prof. Kendra Erk, was recently named First Runner-Up in the Student Poster Competition at the 38th Annual Meeting of The Adhesion Society (Feb 22-25, 2015 in Savannah, GA).
February 26, 2015

Pioneering Partnership

Purdue's innovative work with a southern Indiana company intent on enhancing oil recovery.
January 26, 2015

A Purdue MSE Alum will be receiving a prestigious Acta Materialia award a special symposium as part of the TMS 2015 Annual Meeting & Exhibition

Tresa M. Pollock, the 2015 Acta Materialia Inc. Hollomon Materials & Society Award recipient, is the Alcoa Professor of Materials at the University of California Santa Barbara. She will deliver the presentation, "Design of New Co-base Alloy Single Crystals: The Impact of an MGI Approach."  on Wednesday afternoon, March 18, at TMS2015 in Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida. Dr. Pollock will formally accept her award at the 2015 TMS-AIME Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, March 17.
January 23, 2015

Improved dendrite formation control helps lithium batteries last longer

Associate Professor Edwin Garcia is part of a group of researchers at Purdue University who are using numerical modeling to find ways to understand the complex science behind the formation of 'dendrites' that cause lithium-ion batteries to fail which will help to design better separators to create longer-lasting batteries.
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