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X-WR-CALNAME:Engineering Seminar: Harnessing Nanoscale Heterogeneities and 
 Mechanisms for Next-Generation Materials Design: Guiding Insights from Mod
 eling and Cross-Disciplinary Research Integration
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Garritt J. Tucker\, Eula Mae and John Baugh Endowed Chair i
 n Physics and program Chair for Materials Science and Engineering at Baylo
 r University will give a seminr titled "Harnessing Nanoscale Heterogeneiti
 es and Mechanisms for Next-Generation Materials Design: Guiding Insights f
 rom Modeling and Cross-Disciplinary Research Integration" to the intereste
 d faculty and students at Discovery Park.\n\n \n\nAbstract\n\nTuning the f
 unctional properties (e.g.\, electronic\, optical\, mechanical\, and therm
 al) of materials\, often depend upon controlling the competition and/or co
 operation between fundamental  mechanisms starting at the atomic scale. Wh
 ile materials performance is ultimately realized at the macroscale\, nanos
 cale behavior often governs the most fundamental and promising materials p
 roperties. Accordingly\, a long-standing challenge in Materials Science is
  to develop more predictive\, and physically-informed\, relationships betw
 een multiscale structure and properties to enable new materials with tailo
 red performance metrics. In this talk\, a few recent research examples wil
 l be provided toward how both heterogeneities and deformation mechanisms i
 n materials are facilitating the discovery and design of new properties 
 – enabling new areas of research integration in materials science. Speci
 fic focus will be on the use of computational modeling at the nanoscale to
  complement innovative experimental efforts to understand the role of defe
 cts. We have synced both atomistic simulations and atomic probe tomography
  mappings of microstructure and chemical segregation in nanostructured mat
 erials to properly interpret the origins of maximum strength. Novel mechan
 isms and behaviors were quantified for the first-time to rationalize decad
 es of experimental testing data toward developing stronger materials throu
 gh microstructural design and alloying. Finally\, newly developed approach
 es to improve our quantification of structure\, differentiating order and 
 disorder\, and providing avenues for fingerprinting key structural environ
 ments will be discussed in the context of next-generation materials design
 .\n\n \n\nBio\n\nProfessor Tucker is the Eula Mae and John Baugh Endowed C
 hair in Physics\, and the program Chair for Materials Science and Engineer
 ing at Baylor University. He earned his Ph.D. in 2011 from the Georgia Ins
 titute of Technology from the School of Materials Science and Engineering 
 while earning research distinction in the division of Mechanics of Materia
 ls\, and a B.S. in 2004 from Westminster College in Salt Lake City\, UT ma
 joring in both Physics and Mathematics. While at Westminster\, he was also
  an Academic All-American as a co-captain on the varsity soccer team.\n\nH
 e is the Principal Investigator of the Computational Materials Science and
  Design research group at Baylor and is co-Director of the Point-Of-Need I
 nnovation (PONI) manufacturing center. He joined the faculty at Baylor in 
 the summer of 2023. Before moving his research group to Baylor\, he spent 
 6 years at the Colorado School of Mines (Golden\, CO) in the Department of
  Mechanical Engineering as an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate
  Studies\, 4 years as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Material
 s Science and Engineering at Drexel University (Philadelphia\, PA)\, and 2
  years as a Postdoctoral Research Appointee at Sandia National Laboratorie
 s (Albuquerque\, NM) in the Computational Materials and Data Science group
 .\n\nTucker has received several distinctions including: the Outstanding T
 eacher Award at Drexel University and the TMS Society’s Young Leader Pro
 fessional Development Award for his work in computational materials scienc
 e. His research ambitions are aimed at integrating high-performance comput
 ing\, materials theory\, and novel computational tools to discover the fun
 damental structure-property relationships of emerging materials that will 
 enable the predictive design of advanced materials with tunable properties
 . At the core of Prof. Tucker’s research group approach is to develop co
 llaborations and programs that effectively mesh computation with experimen
 t to tailor functional materials.
GEO:33.253134;-97.148579
LOCATION:Discovery Park Building\, B155
SUMMARY:Engineering Seminar: Harnessing Nanoscale Heterogeneities and Mecha
 nisms for Next-Generation Materials Design: Guiding Insights from Modeling
  and Cross-Disciplinary Research Integration
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.unt.edu/event/es-202604101100
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