Diego Gonzalez
Diego built a ball-and-stick physical model of an intercalation compound and simulated the same in Mathematica software.
Arlette Fernandez
Arlette studied the mechanics of battery materials upon repeated charging and learnt the importance of mitigating structural degradation in cathode materials.
Henoke Berhanu
Henoke wrote codes in mathematica to visualize the atomic structure of intercalation battery materials.
Benjamin Barboza
Ben simulated ferroelectric microstructures that improved the efficiency of an energy harvester.
Carl Kohnke
Carl designed microstructures in shape-memory-alloys to enhance their actuation strains.
Riah Ivy
Riah wrote a Mathematica code to compute the lattice deformation gradients in intercalation materials.
Devesh Tiwari
Devesh is studying how light induces phase transformation in organo-metallic compounds causing them to bend, twist, or stretch.
Delin Zhang
Delin is conducting research on how battery microstructures can be crystallographically designed to mitigate volume changes and internal stresses.
Doping-Induced Pre-Transformation to Extend Solid-Solution Regimes in Li-Ion Batteries
We dope a phase-transforming V2O5 electrode to reduce structural distortions during charge/discharge processes.
Design of soft magnetic materials
We quantitatively demonstrate that the delicate balance between magnetocrystalline anisotropy, magnetostriction constants, and the spike-domain microstructure (localized disturbance) is necessary to lower magnetic coercivity.
MATERIALS DEPARTMENT
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5050
