2005 News


	December 1 , 2005 Northwestern Collaborates With Art Institute on Conservation Science. Northwestern has partnered with The Art Institute of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory on a long-term art conservation and scientific research program that recently received a three-year, $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Marcus and David are active collaborators in this program. More...
	August 17, 2005 Congratulations to Rick on receiving a TMS travel scholarship to attend the 2005 TMS MS&T meeting in Pittsburgh in September.
	June 14, 2005 Congratulations to Dr. Olivier Couteau and his wife on the birth of their new daughter, Leïla. Olivier reports, 'She is 7 lbs 14 oz, 20" and she is full of energy.' Photo of Leïla.
	June 13, 2005 Marsha and Keith presented talks at the American Vacuum Society Prairie Chapter meeting on their research on Al-Sc and Al-Zr based high-temperature alumnum alloys.
	April 14, 2005 The creation of ductile bulk metallic glass foams has recently been featured in Materials Today and the MRS Bulletin.
	April 11, 2005 Congratulations to two of our students who have won prizes for posters at The Chicago Regional Chapter of ASM International (April 2005): Marcus Young (advised by DC Dunand and D Haeffner, ANL): First Place \| Synchrotron x-ray study of load transfer in ultra-high carbon steels. Marsha VanDalen (advised by DC Dunand and DN Seidman): Third Place \| Atom probe study of precipitation in Al-Sc-rare-earth alloys.
	March 11, 2005 David Dunand is on the International Advisory Board of Metfoam 2005, the 4th international conference on porous metals and metal foaming technology, to take place in Japan in September 2005. Our research group will be presenting several talks at this conference.
	February 3, 2005 Former visiting scholar Christian Greiner received from the University of Stuttgart the Prize for best diploma in the area of Physics/Chemistry/Materials/Mechanical and Civil Engineering ("Artur Fischer Preis"). Christian performed this research and wrote his thesis entitled "Processing and Properties of Superelastic NiTi Foams" in the Dunand group while visiting from the University of Stuttgart. His work will be submitted for publication to an international journal, and presented at MetFoam 2005.
	January 31, 2005 Hipolito successfully defended his Masters Thesis. He also recently published a paper on his research involving transformation superplasticity. H.J. Gonzalez and D.C. Dunand, "Transformation Superplasticity in Zircadyne 705," Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 13, 665-669. PDF
	January 26, 2005 Alan was awarded a very prestigious Northwestern Presidential Fellowship.
	January, 2005 Alan recently had two papers published discussing his research on metallic glass foams. A.H. Brothers, D.C. Dunand. "Ductile Bulk Metallic Glass Foams." Advanced Materials 17 (4) 484-486 (2005). PDF A.H. Brothers, R. Scheunemann, J.D. DeFouw, D.C. Dunand. "Processing and Structure of Open-Celled Amorphous Metal Foams," Scripta Materialia, 52, 335-339 (2005). PDF
	January 10-14, 2005 The high-temperature aluminum people (Rick, Marsha, Keith) attended the high resolution electron microscopy winter school at Arizona State University. This was a welcome relief from Chicago winter. We also met former group member, Heeman Choe, for dinner. Heeman now works at Intel near Phoenix.