HEOs Ceramic Factory
If you are an undergraduate at PennState and want to join our fun team; don’t hesitate to get in touch with Saeed at ssa5409@psu.edu or at saeedsialmishal@gmail.com
Ceramic processing is an important part of our group research both for bulk materials exploration and for sputtering/laser ablation target preparation. In our high-entropy oxides ceramic factory, we maintain facilities heat treating powders and pellets for promoting solid state reactions, defect chemistry studies, and sintering of chemically disordered materials. We regularly use in-lab X-ray diffractometer to identify the number of phases and crystal structures of our resulting ceramics and we have a dedicated and calibrated X-ray fluorescence detector to identify their chemical composition. Our group has a bank of furnaces including tube furnaces for controlled atmosphere studies, and box furnaces with a spectrum of elements including kanthal (1200 °C) SiC (1450 °C) and MoSi2 (1750 °C).
Meet Our Team 2024-2025
Chief operating manufacturing director: Saeed Almishal (PhD candidate)
Lanthanides CEO: Billy Yang (PhD candidate)
Gold Olympic Medal winner in stabilizing rock salt HEOs: Matthew Furst (Junior UG)
Director of onboarding huge atoms in HEOs: Dhiya Srikanth (Junior UG)
Director of onboarding 3d transition metals in HEOs: Joe Petruska (Junior UG)
Assistant director of stabilizing rock salt HEOs: Kaylin Lamaute (Freshman UG)
News and Achievements
Untangling individual cation roles in rock salt high-entropy oxides”
Discovering High-Entropy Oxides with a Machine-Learning Interatomic Potential”
April 2024 Matthew wins 1st Place in MatSE Poster Competition https://www.mrsec.psu.edu/matthew-furst-wins-1st-place-matse-poster-competition
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