Extreme Mechanics & Materials Group 

Bo visited the Material Research Group at National Atomic Research Institute at NARI to share our latest group research on metallic materials. It's a rare opportunity to interact with the only research institute dedicated to nuclear materials in Taiwan. Thanks to all the group members whom contributed to the talk and NARI for the host!

Congrats to 浚宇 on his first publication. Using indenter tips of various sharpness, we are able to correlate the observed pop-in events with dislocation nucleating stresses, and demonstrated that there is little work-hardening associated with the dislocation interactions at RT. Cautions should be taken while designing SiC components as dislocations can appear at stresses much lower than that of its hardness, causing degradation of its electrical performance significantly. Great co-supervising experience with Profs JC Huang & MC Chou

More can be found here

The group name is changed to Extreme Mechanics & Materials Group (XM^2) and updated bits and pieces of the website

Despite Typhoon 山陀兒, we still manage to host Dr. Megan Cordill from Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science at TACT 2024. We thank NSTC, TACT, and the local organising committee for the generous support and thank Megan for coming! 

Bo was invited to speak at the Taiwan Bruker Workshop and share some of our work related to the semiconductor industry. Great to see more people interested in small-scale mechanics and thanks to Bruker for the kind invitation

Many congrats to our first cohort of MS students: 本為、星宇、冠融、宗穎、詠澤、國熙、承瀚 for their upcoming graduation. It's really my great pleasure to supervise you guys for the past two years. Wish you all the best! 

We have three new students 淯詮、煒昇、政隆 joining us this year (112學年度). Welcome to the exciting world of small-scale mechanics and materials design!

Welcoming dinner @ 簡單就好海產快炒店 in 左營 

Finished one week of intense lab training (sample prep, microscopes, crystal growth, mech testing, nanoindentation) with Prof Jacob Huang’s group

Prof. Huang carefully explained EBSD (installed on Zeiss Supra) to the students

We end this busy term with an excellent buffet lunch at 帕里巴黎。Thanks everyone for the hard work, we look forward to another fruitful term ahead!

帕里巴黎buffet @高雄左營

We have won the 3rd place in the annual lab cleaning contest. Thanks everyone for not making a mess and we are aiming for 1st place next year! 

From left to right: Bo, 國熙, 程主任

With great pleasure we kick-off our term with the DiagTech Lab (https://lingshanyu.squarespace.com/). Thanks for joining and we expect more interactions between the two labs!

Left: Group photo after excessive amount of rice @ 龍鶴家 

Great bringing the group to visit China Steel Corporation (biggest steel company in Taiwan!) and see how they properly treat steel. Many thanks for the host and looking forward to see more collaboration with NSYSU MEME in the future

We have successfully commissioned our SolidMen300 SLM metal printer. This is a badge for the department to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Many thanks to 本為 to take the lead on this and the team for helping! This is a great milestone for the group to be able to print self-designed objects out without cracking!

MDNG gathered for the first time after the long summer holiday. We spend some time talking about future research direction and get to know each other. Thanks for coming and looking forward to do exciting work together 

Materials Design by Nanomechanics group website is finally online. Keep an eye on it as we will be constantly updating 

Left: Dr. Knight and Bo taking a photo in the much-missed 300 Main (with UofSC mug)

Left: Bo catching up with some old friends from Leoben during the social hour