Center for Advanced Materials Research

Materials Research Science and Engineering Center

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Periodically, the MRSEC posts scientific research HIGHLIGHTS, i.e. brief one or two page descriptions of important scientific or technological discoveries and innovative new outreach initiatives which have resulted from NSF or other support. Feel free to explore the ones that we have provided here. The highlights are in pdf format.

Tin Whiskers Create Reliability Risk in Lead-Free Electronics Manufacturing - 2007
E. Chason and K.S. Kumar, Brown University

Modeling of Stress Evolution during Thin Film Deposition - 2007
J.S. Tello, A.F. Bower, E. Chason, B. W. Sheldon, Brown University

How Lightweight Al-Mg Alloys Deform - 2007
W.A. Curtin, D.L. Olmsted, Brown University; L.G. Hector, Jr., GM Technical Center

Controlling Fracture in Complex Engineered Materials - 2007
D.Catoor, Y.Wei and S.K. Kumar, Brown University

General Motors/Brown Collaborative Research Lab on Computational Materials Science - 2007
A. Bower, W. Curtin, K. Kim, S. Kumar, Sheldon, Division of Engineering, Brown University; L. Hector, P. Krajewski, L. Lev, R. Mishra, T. Perry, A. Sachdev, Qi, Verbrugge, General Motors R&D Center

MRSEC Educational Outreach - 2007
J. Blume, Brown University RET Program; BrownOut Program; Hope High School/Brown Collaboration

MRSEC Educational Outreach: Research Experience for Teachers - 2007
J. Blume, Brown University RET Program

MRSEC Educational Outreach: BrownOut Classroom Visits Program - 2007
J. Blume, Brown University; BrownOut Program

ARCHIVED RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS:
2006
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2004

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