Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Xiaoli Tan’s research to examine the morphotropic phase boundary, or a state of compounds with a coexisting crystalline phase, in lead-free piezoelectrics was recently published in Physical Review Letters (PRL), the world’s foremost physics journal. Tan and graduate students Hanzheng Guo and Cheng Ma, along with MSE Assistant …Continue reading “Tan’s lead-free piezoelectrics discovery published in Physical Review Letters”
An Iowa State professor and his PhD student are gaining global recognition for their work on surface-induced phase transformations. Valery Levitas, Schafer 2050 Challenge Professor and faculty member of aerospace engineering and of mechanical engineering, along with PhD student Mahdi Javanbakht were published in Physical Review Letters (PRL, 2011, Vol. 107, 175701), the world’s foremost …Continue reading “Levitas and students published in foremost physics journal”
An Iowa State professor and his PhD student are gaining global recognition for their work on multivariant martensitic phase transformations. Valery Levitas, Schafer 2050 Challenge Professor and faculty member of aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering, along with PhD student Mahdi Javanbakht was published in Physical Review Letters (PRL, 2010, Vol.105, No.16, 165701), the world’s foremost …Continue reading “Engineering professor, PhD student published in leading physics journal”
