We are very happy to welcome Ben Keoshkerian and Cole Storch, sophomore students in the Mechanical Engineering Department, to our group as undergraduate student researchers! 

Ben will work on both cold spray deposition and metallic glasses projects, while Cole will mainly focus on the deformation mechanics of metallic glass composites. We look forward to working with these talended students and seeing the contributions they will make to our research!

Fahim has successfully passed his proposal exam and completed all other requirements to advance to candidacy. Congradulates to Fahim! We are very proud of his accomplishment and look forward to his continued progress in his research.

We are excited to welcome George Boyt, a senior undergraduate student in the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department, to our group as an undergraduste student researcher!  George will work on understanding the processing-microstructure relationship in additive manufacturing. We look forward to working together and seeing the contributions George will make to our research!

Our proposal on the deformation mechanics of bulk metallic glasses has been awarded by NSF (https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/show-award?AWD_ID=2611902). We are grateful for the support from the Mechanics of Materials and Structures Program and excited to start the project.

We enjoyed our group lunch at Texas Roadhouse and had a great time talking about the World Cup, food, and our pets. As our research group continues to grow, we are excited to welcome new members at both undergraduate and graduate levels. If you are interested in joining our team, we'd love to hear from you!

We are grateful for the support from the SEC Faculty Travel Program and the Division for Research at UA, which allows us to travel the University of Tennessee Knoxville to explore potential collaboration opportunities.

Our proposal on the effects of grain boundary segregation spectra on grain boundary-related microstructural features has been awarded by the NSF CAREER program (https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/show-award?AWD_ID=2542484). We are grateful for the support from the NSF Metals and Metallic Nanostructures Program and excited to start the project.

Zayed presented his research on cold spray deposition of Sn-based alloys at the first annual AMI Research Showcase. Great job, Zayed!

Fahim attended the 2026 MRS Spring Meeting in Hawaii and delivered an oral presentation on nanoscale grain boundary precipitation in aluminum alloys. Nice work, Fahim!

Fahim's paper titled "Nanoscale Grain Boundary Precipitation with Unique Interfacial Segregation for Stabilizing Aluminum 5083 Alloy" has been accepted by Materials Letters. We sincerely acknowledge Dr. Chongze Hu's group (https://humaterialslab.weebly.com/) for their valuable computational contributions. Congrats to the team! 

We had our group lunch at Chow's Country Buffet. A big thank you to all group members for their hard work throughout the semester!

We performed our first atomization run today. We appreciate the grant from AFRL and the help from Dr. Lorena Perez!

Our DEPSCoR proposal on cold spray-based metallization of composites was funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4319001/department-of-war-awards-19m-to-stimulate-academic-research-in-underutilized-st/). Looking forward to the collaboration with Prof. Luke Brewer (https://sites.ua.edu/lnbrewer1/).