Asta Research Group

Wenqing passes the qualifying exam to advance to Ph.D. candidacy!

Anas publishes an assessment of using a mean-field concentration wave model to predict ordering/clustering in concentrated alloys in Acta Materialia.

Yuan passes the preliminary exam – congratulations, Yuan!

Shivani’s ab-initio study of oxygen vacancy properties in magnetite iron oxide is published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

The group says farewell to David Olmsted who retires after many years as a Staff Scientist with the Asta group.

Nathan’s phase field model for grain boundary dealloying corrosion is published in npj Computational Materials.

Flynn and Anas publish their perspectives on the observations of short-range ordering in “high-entropy” alloys in MRS Bulletin.

Flynn comments on interpretation of electron diffraction patterns towards characterizing short-range ordering in alloys in Nature Materials.

Read about our recent works on metal/molten salt interfaces in this EFRC Newsletter article written by Andrea!

Madelyn and Nathan pass their qualifying exams and advance to Ph.D. candidacy!

Anas graduates with his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering and begins work as an NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at NIST.

Flynn graduates with his Ph.D. in Applied Science and Technology and begins work at Lawrence Livermore National Lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow.

Bella graduates with a B.S. in Materials Science in Engineering and will begin graduate school at Stanford.

Danny and Shivani publish their work on benchmarking high-throughput point defect calculations in npj Computational Materials.

Shivani and Mark’s co-authored work on charged point defect thermodynamics and kinetics in hematite iron oxide Electronic Structure.

The group welcomes Zhao Fan as a new Postdoctoral Researcher, co-advised by Michael Whittaker and Piotr Pawel Zarzycki.

Nick graduates with his Ph.D. and begins work at Apple as an Applied Scientist.

Enze receives the Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Student and Inclusion Award for 2022-2023!

Sheng and Mark’s coauthored work on grain boundary “wormhole” corrosion in metals by molten salts is published in Nature Communications.

Mark steps down from Material Sciences Division Director to Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and begins a new position as Executive Associate Dean in the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley.

Madelyn and Flynn’s coauthored study on the low-temperature fracture toughness of high-entropy alloys in published in Science.

Flynn and Madelyn also published a coauthored study on the chemical ordering of CrCoNi medium-entropy alloys in Acta Materialia.

Flynn’s ab-initio investigation of ferromagnetic behavior in ordered FCC NiCr alloys is published in Physical Review Materials.

David and Mark’s coauthored work on elucidating the chemical formula of Nesquehonite is published in Chemistry – A European Journal.

Buyu’s molecular dynamics study on hydrogen embrittlement on iron, using machine learned potentials, is published in Computational Materials Science.

Iwnetim leaves the group to begin as an Assistant Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Anas’s study of Lomer and Lomer-Cottrell dislocations in FCC Alloys is published in Physical Review Materials.