2006 News

	September 20, 2006 Congratulations to Marsha on receiving the Smith Fellowship -- a terminal year fellowship awarded by the McCormick School of Engineering.
	September 15, 2006 Congratulations to Justin on the renewal of his Nanoscale Science & Engineering Center (NSEC) Fellowship.
	July 3, 2006 Ampika will be attending the upcoming THERMEC' conference and Rick is headed to ICAA.
	June 7, 2006 Congratulations to Dr. Keith Knipling on successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Development of a Nanoscale Precipitation-Strengthened Creep-Resistant Aluminum Alloy Containing Trialuminide Precipitates."
	June 5, 2006 Congratulations to Dr. Marcus Young on successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Strain Measurements and Imaging of Metal Matrix Composites using High-Energy X-Rays."
	June 1, 2006 David Dunand is invested as the James and Margie Krebs Professor of Materials Science and Engineering by Dean Ottino from the McCormick school of Engineering at an April 2005 ceremony.
	May 16, 2006 The Art Institute of Chicago and McCormick unravel the mysteries of art, an article featured in McCormick By Design.
	May 2, 2006 Alan recently had a paper published in Intermetallics A.H. Brothers, D.W. Prine, and D.C. Dunand. "Acoustic Emissions Analysis of Damage in Amorphous and Crystalline Metal Foams," Intermetallics 14(8-9) 857-865 (2006). PDF
	May 1, 2006 Several papers from the Dunand Group have been ranked as ScienceDirect Top 25 Hottest Articles: An article resulting from a collaboration between the Stupp, Brinson and Dunand groups was #1 (July-Sept 2005) and #2 (Oct-Dec 2005) in ScienceDirect Top 25 Hottest Articles for Acta Biomaterialia. This work is funded by NSF: Spoerke, E.D.; Murray, N.G.; Li, H.; Brinson, L.C.; Dunand, D.C.; Stupp, S.I. "A bioactive titanium foam scaffold for bone repair" Acta Biomaterialia, 1(5) 523-533 (2006) PDF An article by Alan Brothers and David Dunand was listed #6 in ScienceDirect Top 25 Hottest Articles for Acta Materialia (downloads in July-Sept 2005) A.H. Brothers and D.C. Dunand "Plasticity and damage in cellular amorphous metals" Acta Materialia, 53(16) 4427-4440 (2006). PDF An article by Marsha VanDalen, David Seidman and David Dunand was listed #23 in ScienceDirect Top 25 Hottest Articles for Acta Materialia (downloads in July-Sept 2005) M.E. van Dalen, D.C. Dunand, and D.N. Seidman "Effects of Ti additions on the nanostructure and creep properties of precipitation-strengthened Al-Sc alloys" Acta Materialia, 53(15) 4225-4235 (2006). PDF ScienceDirect Top 25 Hottest Articles for Acta Biomaterialia for Oct-Dec 2005 C. Greiner, S.M. Oppenheimer, and D.C. Dunand "High strength, low stiffness, porous NiTi with superelastic properties" Acta Biomaterialia 1(6) 705-716 (2006). PDF
	April 20, 2006 Several new papers have recently been published: J.D. Marvin, D.C. Dunand “Transformation Mismatch Plasticity in Thin Iron Wires” Materials Science and Engineering A, 421, 35-39 (2006). PDF D.K. Balch, D.C. Dunand “Synchrotron X-Ray and Neutron Load Partitioning in Aluminum Syntactic Foams Containing Ceramic Microspheres” Acta Materialia, 54, 6, 1501-1511 (2006). PDF A.H. Brothers, D.C. Dunand “Amorphous Metal Foams” Scripta Materialia, 54, 4, 513-520 (2006). PDF
	April 16, 2006 A new paper was published by former group member N.G.D. Murray and Daviud Dunand: N.G.D. Murray, D.C. Dunand “Effect of Initial Preform Porosity on Solid-State Foaming of Titanium” Journal of Materials Research, 21 (6), 1175-1188 (2006).
	March 31, 2006 Congratulations to Justin on receiving a prestigious 3-year National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.