High-Performance Materials Institute

Join us for our 10th anniversary of holding the Ice Bucket Challenge in support of the ALS Association, which has been held in memory of Harry Kroto since 2016.

Come to the Materials Research Building, Wednesday, July 24, at 3:30 as we hold our Ice Bucket Challenge in memory of Sir Harry Kroto, who passed away from ALS on April 30, 2016. Harry Kroto was a Nobel Laureate, FSU professor and a long-time friend of HPMI and many others at FSU and throughout the world.

Please participate or come out and support the challenge and/or donate to the ALS Association at our event website, https://donate.als.org/2024_Kroto_IBC . Thanks to those who have already donated. Donations now total $308 as I am writing this.

A team of FAMU-FSU College of Engineering researchers at the High-Performance Materials Institute have completed a novel study on the extreme temperature thermal stability of purified boron nitride nanotubes, also known as BNNTs. The discovery has applications in everything from deep space travel to medicine delivery systems, including electronics.

BNNTs have been studied extensively, but no one has determined the decomposition mechanism, according to the researchers. The group analzyed the properties of BNNTs in an inert atmosphere similar to the conditions used in the manufacturing process for high-temperature nanocomposites.

Rebekah Sweat, an assistant professor in industrial and manufacturing engineering at the college, worked with lead author Mehul Tank. Engineering graduate students, as well as with scientists from the BNNT Materials—Ana De Leon, Aspen Reyes, Jin Gyu Park, Lyndsey Scammell, and Michael Smith—collaborated with Sweat and Tank on the project. The study was supported by Florida State University Faculty-Affiliated startup funds from the Office of Commercialization and BNNT Materials.

Read the full story: http://ow.ly/na7950MUPb9

From Science Fiction to Reality - 850 Business Magazine FSU institute develops materials of the future

https://news.fsu.edu/news/2021/12/07/fsu-materials-researcher-named-to-national-academy-of-inventors/

FSU materials researcher named to National Academy of Inventors - Florida State University News A Florida State University researcher has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors for his innovative work with carbon nanotubes and other composite materials. The NAI announced Richard Liang, director of the High-Performance Materials Institute, would be a part of the 2021 class, wh...

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Tallahassee engineering students conduct research for the Air Force The Air Force is now working with Florida State University, granting them more than $6 million to create and test the next generation of aerospace materials.

Congratulations to Dr. Liang! Zhiong “Richard” Liang was recently appointed Sprint Eminent Scholar Chair by John Thrasher, president of Florida State University.

Liang was chosen by a distinguished selection committee that reviewed several excellent nominations and unanimously selected him based on his international recognition in the fields of high-strength nanocomposites and scale-up manufacturing. They also were impressed by his scholarly leadership, demonstrated through his record of mentoring successful undergraduate and graduate students, generating patents and building strong industrial collaborations in his research fields.

Liang is a professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering at Florida State University and the FAMU FSU College of Engineering. He is also the director of the High-Performance Materials Institute at FSU that is closely associated with the college.

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Rebekah Sweat, assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering and faculty at the High-Performance Materials Institute (HPMI) recently established a partnership with Siemens that made her a Siemens Academic Partner. In addition, she was awarded a large in-kind grant of industrial-strength software and curriculum to support classroom instruction and real-world applications. 💪The software server is located in the Center for Optimization of Material Performance with Adaptive and Smart Simulation (COMPASS) lab, which contains 30 seats of the Siemens software, including MultiMechanics, providing the ability to couple the macro and micro-scales in digital twin multi-scale simulations. This grant will be used in Sweat’s research group at the COMPASS lab to increase the predictive ability of models focused on techniques to more rapidly develop new composite materials. 👉The software will be an integral part of the instruction in the Materials by Design course starting in Spring 2021.