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The Center for Plasma-Material Interactions and local company Starfire Industries have teamed with General Motors Co. and the U.S. Department of Energy to apply plasma processing in producing lightweight automotive materials.
A project to reduce vibration between fuel rods in nuclear reactor cores has won the 2018 Daniel F. Hang Outstanding Senior Design Award.
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Yang Zhang
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Assistant Professor Zhang heads the Zhang Laboratory, whose research focuses on the study of liquids and glassy materials using integrated neutron and synchrotron light experimental probes and atomistic modeling and simulation. The structure and dynamics of these systems are either inherently complex or driven far from equilibrium by extreme conditions: rapid change of temperature or pressure, intense irradiation, high mechanical load, and so on. Such studies shed light on a class of fundamental and technical problems involving phenomena emerging from self-organization, rare events, and symmetry breaking, and may lead to countless pivotal applications.
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