Manufacturing and Materials Research

New research could lead to greener, faster metal production

SUNY Distinguished Professor Guangwen Zhou has led research on the critical chemical reactions fueling metal production.

Manufacturing and Materials 

Computer-aided design, design with reliability, additive manufacturing, materials characterization, microstructure/property relationships, thin films, computational materials, interfacial phenomena, funcational materials, materials processing, micro- and nano-fabrication. 


Snapshot of Select Funded Research 

Jennifer Iacabucci (PI),  Junghyun Cho (Co-PI), SB Park (Co-PI) 

  • Artificial Intelligence Collaborative Research Alliance - IBM 

Jingzhou (Frank) Zhao

  • Thermal Drawing of Composite Fibers for Wearable Energy Textiles - National Science Foundation 

Guangwen Zhou

  • Collaborative Research: Coordinated In-Situ Dynamic Experiments and Atomistic Modeling of Surface Segregation in Alloys- National Science Foundation
  • In Situ Visualization and Theoretical Modeling of Early Stages of Oxidation of Metals and Alloys - US Department of Energy

Changhong Ke 

  • Exploiting Nanoscale Interfaces to Enhance Bulk Mechanical Response of Additively Manufactured Boron Nitride Nanotube-Metal Composites – National Science Foundation 

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