News

2020
  • Prof. Tucker is awarded the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Institute for Materials Science Distinguished Faculty Award (Oct 2020)
  • New published article in NPJ Computational Materials (Oct 2020)
  • Prof. Tucker gives technical presentation to UFSCar – Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil (Oct 2020)
  • Prof. Tucker gives presentation at annual SES Conference (Sep 2020)
  • Prof. Tucker gives presentation at MXene 2020: 10 Years Later (Aug 2020)
  • New published article in NPJ Computational Materials (May 2020)
  • REU students, Kimberly Kusler and Aaron Schwan, join CMSD group for summer research  (May 2020)
  • New published article in ACS Energy Letters (May 2020)
  • New published article in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (Apr 2020)
  • New published article in JOM (Apr 2020)
  • New published article in Acta Materialia (Mar 2020)
  • New published article in Materials Research Letters (Feb 2020)
  • Prof. Tucker, Ankit Gupta, Meghnath Jaishi, Jacob Gruber, Jacob Tavenner, and Gabriel Plummer gives presentations at annual TMS Conference in San Diego, CA (Feb 2020)
  • Jacob Tavenner, Prof. Tucker, and colleagues from Colorado State University participate in Diffusion Zone at TMS Conference, showcasing Virtual Reality for Materials Science Exhibit (Feb 2020)
  • Prof. Tucker gives keynote presentation at International Conference on Plasticity, Damage, and Fracture (Jan 2020)
2019
  • Congratulations to Dr. Satish Rajaram for successful completion of PhD at Drexel University (Dec 2019)
  • New published article in Physical Review B (Dec 2019)
  • Prof. Tucker gives seminar at Sandia National Laboratories (Oct 2019)
  • New published article in Journal of Applied Physics (Sep 2019)
  • CMSD research group receives Army Research Office (ARO) funding to study mechanistic design of hierarchical multilayered nanocomposites that exhibit tunable strength and toughness (Sep 2019)
  • Prof. Tucker, Ankit Gupta, Jacob Tavenner, Jacob Cordell, and Gabriel Plummer present at annual MS&T Conference (Sep 2019)
  • Jacob Cordell wins poster award at the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the American Vacuum Society (Sep 2019)
  • Prof. Tucker gives technical presentation at USACM, University of Pennsylvania (Aug  2019)
  • Prof. Tucker gives seminar at Los Alamos National Laboratory (July 2019)
  • Jacob Cordell presents poster at the North American Solid State Chemistry Conference (July 2019)
  • Dr. Ankit Gupta presents poster at Gordon Research Conference (July 2019)
  • Congratulations to Gabriel Plummer and Jacob Cordell for successfully passing the Ph.D. qualifying exam (May 2019)
  • Prof. Tucker gives seminar at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Apr 2019)
  • Jacob Cordell gives presentation at the March APS meeting (March 2019)
  • CMSD research published in International Journal of Plasticity (Feb 2019)
  • Prof. Tucker and Jacob Tavenner present at annual TMS Conference in San Antonio, TX (Mar 2019)
  • CMSD research published in Computational Materials Science (Feb 2019)
  • CMSD research published in Advanced Materials (Jan 2019)
  • CMSD research published in Physical Review Materials (Jan 2019)
2018
  • CMSD research published in Computational Materials Science (Nov 2018)
  • Prof. Tucker presents at the MMM 2018 Conference in Osaka, Japan (Oct 2018)
  • Prof. Tucker and Dr. Ankit Gupta present at MS&T Conference (Oct 2018)
  • Dr. Meghnath Jaishi joins the CMSD research group as a postdoctoral research appointee (Oct 2018)
  • CMSD research group receives NSF funding to study hierarchical nanocomposites (Sep 2018)
  • Dr. Sanaz Yazdanparast joins the CMSD research group as a postdoctoral research appointee (Aug 2018)
  • Gabriel Plummer and Jacob Cordell join the CMSD research group as new PhD students (Aug 2018)
  • CMSD research published in Computational Materials Science (Aug 2018)
  • Congratulations to CMSD member and NextGen fellow, Bryce Frazee, for winning the student poster competition for the NextGen program (Aug 2018)
  • Dr. Ankit Gupta gives research seminar at NIST on improved methods for atomistic modeling of nanocrystalline alloys (Aug 2018)
  • Congratulations to CMSD member and NextGen fellow, Bryce Frazee, as part of Mines’ team wins NASA competition (July 2018)
  • Congratulations to Jacob Tavenner and Annika Fash-White for successfully passing the Ph.D. qualifying exam (July 2018)
  • Prof. Tucker and Jacob Tavenner present at USNC/TAM Conference (June 2018)
  • CMSD research published in Physical Review Materials (May 2018)
  • Congratulations to Gabriel Plummer successfully passes M.S. thesis defense (May 2018)
  • Congratulations to Satish Rajaram successfully passes Ph.D. thesis proposal (May 2018)
  • Prof. Tucker gives invited talks at TMS Conference (Mar 2018)
  • Dr. Ankit Gupta joins CMSD group as postdoctoral research appointee (Feb 2018)
  • CMSD research published in Physical Review Materials (Jan 2018)
2017
  • CMSD research published in Scripta Materialia (Oct 2017)
  • Prof. Tucker gives invited seminar at the MS&T conference (Oct 2017)
  • Congratulations to Dr. Dan Foley passes his thesis defense presentation at Drexel (Oct 2017)
  • CMSD group receives funding from the Army Research Laboratories to study damage initiation and structural health in light-weight alloys (Sep 2017)
  • CMSD group receives funding from the Army Research Office to study Nanocrystalline Alloys (Sep 2017)
  • CMSD group receives funding from the National Science Foundation to study defects in layered solids (Sep 2017)
  • Prof. Tucker gives keynote seminar at Lucian Symposium at St. Edwards University (Sep 2017)
  • Prof. Tucker gives presentation at the ASME-SMASIS conference (Sep 2017)
  • Prof. Tucker gives invited seminar at UCCS (Sep 2017)
  • CMSD research published in Scientific Reports (Sep 2017)
  • CMSD receives funding from the Office of Naval Research to study deformation mechanisms in metallic microstructures (Aug 2017)
  • Jacob Gruber transfers to Mines from Drexel University (Aug 2017)
  • Jacob Gruber transfers to Mines from Drexel University (Aug 2017)
  • Jacob Tavenner joins the CMSD group as a PhD student (Aug 2017)
  • Annika Fash-White joins the CMSD group as a PhD student (July 2017)
  • CMSD group starts at Mines (July 2017)