Asta Research Group

Nathan completes his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering! Nathan will be joining Lawrence Livermore National Lab as a postdoctoral researcher.

Mark Ma’s research on spatial-selective electrostatic doping in graphene via substrate heterointerface engineering is published on Small.

Kuner passes the qualifying exam and advances to Ph.D. candidacy!

Prof. Mark Asta, Madelyn, Mark Ma, Nathan, Pedro, Wenqing, and Zhao presented their research at the TMS 2025 conference.

Buyu and Enze’s research on MLIP-based simulation of oxygen grain boundary segregation in HCP Ti is published on Computational Materials Science.

Nathan has been awarded the 2024–25 Corrosion Award from the department for his outstanding research using phase-field modeling to investigate molten salt dealloying corrosion of metals. Congratulations!

Pedro Borges receives the 2023 Acta Materialia, Inc. Student Award for his work on relating the effect of composition on local lattice distortions and relative stability of competing phases in bcc Nb–Ta–Ti–Hf alloys. Congratulations!

Pedro’s work showcasing how key features in electronic structure govern intrinsic ductility and dislocation deformation behavior in high-entropy alloys with a bcc crystal structure is published in Science Advances.

Lassi Linnala from the University of Helsinki has joined the research group for a six-month visit – welcome to the team!

Buyu completes her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering!

Mark passes the qualifying exam and advances to Ph.D. candidacy!

Pragalbh joins the Asta group to begin the Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering. Welcome, Pragalbh!

Prof. Ridwan Sakidja wraps up his visiting faculty stint! Ridwan worked with us this summer to develop atomistic models of alloys corroding in molten salt.

Enze publishes his open-source tool for uncovering ground state interface structures with application to grain boundaries in titanium in Nat. Commun.

Flynn’s article in Science Advances shows how extra electron diffractions in high-entropy alloys can result from origins besides short-range ordering.

Nathan and Mark’s co-authored work investigating corrosion morphology of NiCr alloys exposed to molten salt is published in JES.

Mark Ma and Mark Asta’s co-authored work on thickness-dependent tuning of band structure and excitonic properties in ultrathin MAPbI3 perovskite for multiple quantum well applications is published in ACS Energy Letters.

Nathan wins the award for best poster at the Gordon Research Conference for Computational Materials Science and Engineering!

Anas’s concentration-wave model for predicting short-range ordering kinetics in high-entropy alloys is available online in Scripta Materialia.

Shivani completes her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering! Shivani will start as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Lab.

Andrea has completed her MS degree and will continue research into the thermophysical and chemical properties of bulk molten salts using machine-learned interatomic potentials.

Kuner’s work in Comput. Mater. Sci. shows how high-entropy alloy properties can be calculated using DFT on small sets of binary and ternary structures.

Madelyn, Pedro, Wenqing, Flynn, and Mark’s coauthored study showing how kink bands control fracture in high entropy alloys is published in Science.