Fall 2018 UF Department of Materials Science & Engineering Newsletter, The Rhines Report

DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

THE RHINES REPORT FA LL 2018

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UF IS NUMBER 8 AMONG PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT

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CHAI R’S M ESSAGE

he Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) has seen dramatic changes in the last few years, including a revitalization and resurgence in activity, aggressively seeking to set a new standard for MSE programs. With the merging of the Nuclear Engineering program, increased funding for research, hires, and student development, the department is now stronger than ever and poised to globally demonstrate areas of excellence that are one-of-a-kind and unique to this institution.

Although the changes have been dramatic, our foundations and fundamental spirit have remained solid, resolved, and unwavering – intellectual diversity tightly integrated with a commitment to excellence in teaching and service. Our contributions to the field have always been strong. The members and alumni of the department can solidly say that they are innovators in every facet of our profession.

Currently the department has 32 tenured and tenure-track (T/TT) faculty, and we are excited about the opportunity to hire 6 more faculty over the next few years. We have expanded our undergraduate laboratory space by 3,500 sq. ft. and added advanced equipment and characterization tools, modern simulation and computational software, and additive printers.

Additionally, we have completed renovations on a new 1,100 sq. ft. Nuclear Fuels and Materials Characterization (NFMC) facility which includes

Michele V. Manuel, Ph.D. CHAIR DEPARTMENT OF M ATE R I A L S SC I E N C E & ENGINEERING

electron microscopes and materials property testing equipment. Our strength arises from our commitment to excellence in teaching and research. We are developing the next generation of leaders in materials and nuclear sciences and engineering through cuttingedge education programs, and by performing high-impact research that benefits society and serves the needs of the state and nation.

Our department is steeped in tradition but has an eye on the future. We hope you will be a part of our future.

“IT’S AN EXCITING TIME TO B E A PA R T O F M S E , W E ’ R E A L L L O O K I N G F O RWA R D T O T H E F U T U R E .”

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Cammy R. Abernathy DEAN, HERBERT WERTHEIM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

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Michele V. Manuel

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CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF M AT E R I A L S S C I E N C E & ENGINEERING

John (Jack) Mecholsky, Jr. A S S O C I AT E C H A I R A N D PROFESSOR

James (Jim) Baciak NUCLEAR ENGINEERING PROGR AM DIRECTOR, FLORIDA P O W E R A N D L I G H T A S S O C I AT E PROFESSOR

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$1M GIFT HELPS UF MSE

SHOOT FOR THE STARS DR. WALDEN “WALLY” RHINES, SON OF UF MSE (MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING) DEPARTMENT FOUNDER FREDERICK N. RHINES, CONTINUES HIS FAMILY’S SUPPORT. he University of Florida’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering continues to benefit from the Rhines family since the founding of the department by Professor Fred Rhines 59 years ago. Dr. Walden “Wally” C. Rhines, son of Fred Rhines, has made a gift of $1 million to the department to establish the Rhines Rising Star Professorships.

The Rhines Rising Star initiative will fund two assistant professorships that will be awarded to selected early career faculty who are already demonstrating distinguished performance in research and teaching.

Wally Rhines is the chairman and chief executive officer of Mentor Graphics, a Siemens Business, a

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“ T H E R H I N E S FA M I LY I S A N I M P O R TA N T PA R T O F T H E D E PA R T M E N T ’ S PA S T A N D F U T U R E , A N D W E A R E G R AT E F U L F O R T H E I R C O N T I N U E D S U P P O R T.” Dr. Michele Manuel, Chair, UF Department of Materials Science & Engineering

leader in worldwide electronic design automation used by companies worldwide. Prior to his time at Mentor Graphics, he spent 21 years at Texas Instruments, where he was the executive vice president and led the company’s groundbreaking efforts in digital signal processing.

Wally Rhines holds a bachelor’s degree in metallurgical engineering from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Stanford University. Aside from his engineering degrees, Wally also holds an MBA from Southern Methodist University and Honorary Doctor of Technology degrees

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from UF and Nottingham Trent University.

His father, Fred Rhines founded the department on the talents and promise of early career faculty with the philosophy that outstanding people want to work with other outstanding people. This gift, says Wally, will continue to honor his father’s legacy to support assistant professors of this caliber.

The professorships will bear the Rhines name and the names of two outstanding pioneering faculty in honor of their service to the department - The Rhines Rising Star Robert DeHoff Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and the Rhines Rising Star Larry Hench Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering.

DeHoff and Hench were both early in their careers when Fred Rhines hired them. Hench joined the department in 1964 and invented Bioglass, the first human-made material to bond with living tissues and is now used to repair bones, joints and teeth. DeHoff joined the department during its founding year in 1959 and was Rhines’ final Ph.D. student at Carnegie-Mellon University. DeHoff became an expert in thermodynamics, writing the first and second editions of Thermodynamics of Materials Science.

“They helped attract more faculty and students like them,” Wally Rhines said, “eventually, taking the department to a top-ranked

position. (And now) I think the dean has done a terrific job in providing momentum to grow the engineering college, and I want MSE to be a part of that growth,” Rhines said.

As the department continues to be a source of pride for the Rhines family, identifying ways to support and ensure its continued success is key, says Wally. The gift is therefore made to help accelerate the growth and energy of the department, he believes.

“Endowed professorships carry a level of prestige that positively reflects on our faculty and their research,” Rhines said.

“The Rhines family is an important part of the department’s past and future, and we are grateful for their continued support” said Michele Manuel, Chair for the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. “Wally understands the impact of having endowed professorships for faculty as a way of showing our support and confidence in the groundbreaking research and teaching that faculty are contributing within the department and college.”

MSE continues its momentum with the Rhines Rising Star professorships. With the generous support of the Rhines family, the department now has 10 named professorships, including the Frederick N. Rhines professorship established by Wally and his wife in 2007. Other named professorships include the Rolf E. Hummel Professorship for Electronic

Materials and the Ellis D. Verink Jr. Professor of Materials Science and Engineering.

THE RHINES LEGACY

While Wally didn’t attend the University of Florida, he has a long, historical connection to the university and the department because of his family.

His father’s materials science and engineering legacy at UF clearly made a lasting impact on him – his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan is in metallurgical engineering, and his master and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford are in materials science and engineering.

In addition, he also holds an MBA from Southern Methodist University, and he received Honorary Doctor of Technology degrees from the University of Florida in 2016 and Nottingham Trent University in 1998.

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FA S T FA C T S

MSE FAST FACTS

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MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT RANKING AMONG PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES

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IN THE COUNTRY FOR MOST FEMALE FACULTY IN MATERIALS SCIENCE &ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

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NUMBER OF NEW FACULTY HIRES IN 2018 AND GROWING

NUMBER OF TENURED AND TENURE-TRACK RESEARCH FACULTY IN DEPARTMENT

Information sourced (from left): U.S. News & World Report; Departmental Resources; U.S. News & World Reports; ASEE

HIGHLIGHTS CERTIFICATES Undergraduate and graduate students can pursue a certificate in biomaterials, ceramics, electronic materials, metals or polymers.

EQUIPMENT Students are trained on industry-standard equipment, including the scanning election microscope, polymer 3D printers, and ion-characterization

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ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS

These professorships are the result of donors who prioritize research and want to help attract and retain top faculty. Thanks to a $1 Million gift in 2018, the department added two new named professorships honoring the legacy of the department founder, Dr. Frederick “Fred” Rhines and two early faculty, Robert DeHoff and Larry Hench.

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AWARDED IN FUNDING FROM DOE AND INMM FOR 2 EARLY CAREER FACULTY RESEARCH PROJECTS

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GRANT PROJECT BEING CONDUCTED WITH ARPA-E

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Information sourced (from left): U.S. News & World Report; Departmental Resources; ASEE

Partnerships Argonne National Laboratory; Idaho National Laboratory; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; United States Department of Energy; United States Department of Defense; Nuclear Energy University Program;

Research Areas ►► ►► ►► ►► ►►

Nuclea r Mater ia ls Radiation Detection and Imaging Reactor Physics N u c l e a r S e c u r i t y, Safeguards and Nonprol i ferat ion ► ► Fusion and Plasma Physics ► ► Thermal Hydraulics

Research Facilities The Nuclear Engineering Program offers hands-on experience through its research labs. Facilities include the reactor, hot cell, hot scanning electron microscope – focused ion beam tool, hot transmission electron microscopy, microstructural characterization, radiation instrumentation and mechanical testing laboratories. Below are five popular labs for students to gain research knowledge and one of our newest labs that will bring expand our nuclear proliferation research.

U n i ve r s i t y o f F l o r i d a T ra i n i n g R e a c t o r N u c l e a r M a t e r i a l s L a b o ra t o r y H i P e r G a t o r ( U n i ve r s i t y o f F l o r i d a H i g h P e r f o r m a n ce L a s e r a n d O p t i c s L a b o ra t o r y (u n d e r co n s t r u c t i o n) N u c l e a r F u e l s a n d M a t e r i a l s C h a ra c t e r i z a t i o n (N FM C ) L a b o ra t o r y – A N u c l e a r Sc i e n ce U s e r Fa c i l i t y 7

FA C U LT Y A W A R D S

Faculty Awards National Awards Assel Aitkaliyeva 2018 Department of Energy Early Career Award

Anthony Brennan Inducted to 2018 National Academy of Inventors

Andreas Enqvist 2017 Institute of Nuclear Materials Management Early Career Award

Kevin Jones North American Education Symposium (NAMES) Award for Outstanding Contributions to Materials Education

Michele Manuel Inducted as 2017 ASM Fellow

Juan Nino Inducted as a 2017 Jefferson Science Fellow

Nancy Ruzycki Awarded the ASM Materials Genome Toolkit

Wolfgang Sigmund 2017 LGBTQ+ Engineer of the Year Award, National Org. of Gay & Lesbian Scientists & Technical Professionals 8

New Professorships ■■ Josephine Allen - Genzyme Professor of Materials Science and Engineering ■■ Jennifer Andrew - University of Florida Term Professor ■■ Jim Baciak - University of Florida Term Professor ■■ Erika Moore - Rhines Rising Star Larry Hench Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering ■■ Juan Nino - University of Florida Term Professor ■■ Simon Phillpot - University of Florida Term Professor ■■ Yong Yang - University of Florida Term Professor

Tenure and Promotions 2018 ■■ Richard Hennig - From Associate Professor to Professor with Tenure ■■ Simon Phillpot - From Professor to Distinguished Professor

2017 ■■ Jennifer Andrew - From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor with tenure ■■ Josephine Allen - From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor with tenure ■■ Yong Yang - From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor with tenure

RESEARCH CENTER

NUCLEAR FUELS A N D M AT E R I A L S C H A R A C T E R I Z AT I O N L A B O R AT O R Y A N U C LE A R SC I E N C E U S E R FAC I LI T Y The University of Florida operates the University of Florida Training Reactor (UFTR) and Nuclear and Fuels Materials Characterization (NFMC) facility, which houses extensive laboratories for the evaluation of both irradiated and unirradiated materials. This includes a reactor facility, hot cell, a microstructural characterization and mechanical testing laboratories. The NFMC facility supports the Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF) network, facilitating rapid-turnaround experiments (RTE) and mid-to long-term research efforts.

■■ TEM F20 has a 20 -200 kV operating voltage with a Schottky field emission gun ZrO/W source for 0.34 nm point-to-point resolution in conventional TEM imaging.

■■ FEI® Helios™ NanoLab™ 600 DualBeam™ system integrates ion and electron beams for FIB and SEM functionality in one machine.

■■ MTS Series 370 Servohydraulic load frame capable of compression, tension, fatigue, and fracture toughness at room and elevated temperatures.

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NEW FACULTY HIRES J O I N U S I N W E L C O M I N G T H E N E W M S E A N D N E FA C U LT Y

aterials Science & Engineering, which houses the Nuclear Engineering Program, has hired nine new faculty members.

The new faculty bring with them exciting new research and opportunities to collaborate across disciplines.

Assel Aitkaliyeva

Erika Moore

A SSISTANT PROFESSOR

R H IN ES R ISING STAR L AR RY H E NCH A SSISTANT PROFESSOR

Nuclear Fuels, Radiation Damage, 2D Materials

Bahar Basim

Duwayne Schubring

PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE

A SSOCIATE ENG IN EER

Nanotechnology in Manufacturing, Microelectronics Integration, 2D/3D Chemical Mechanical Planarization

Two-phase Flow, Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics, Quantitative Visualization; Nuclear Reactor Safety, Computational and Numerical Methods

Kyle Hartig

Michael Tonks

A SSISTANT PROFESSOR

A SSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Non-Proliferation, Nuclear Forensics, Remote Sensing, Laser and Optical Science

Computational Materials, Microstructure Evolution, Structure/ Property Relationships

Amanda Krause

Justin Watson

A SSISTANT PROFESSOR

A SSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Interface Design in Ceramic Materials, Phase Nucleation and Growth in Non-Equilibrium Environments

Reactor Physics, Thermal Hydraulics, Multiphysics Modeling

Honggyu Kim A SSISTANT PROFESSOR

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Biomaterials, Regenerative Engineering, Immunology

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SIX OF OUR NINE NEW FACULTY MEMBERS AT THE UF TRAINING REACTOR. COMISSIONED IN 1959, THE UFTR IS A LIGHT WATER AND GRAPHITE-MODERATED, GRAPHITEREFLECTED,

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DESIGNED AND USED PRIMARILY FOR TRAINING AND NUCLEAR RESEARCH-RELATED ACTIVITIES. THE UFTR IS THE ONLY RESEARCH REACTOR 11 IN FLORIDA.

RESEARCH

DEVELOPING NEW MATERIALS FOR MOBILE DEVICES JENNIFER ANDREW, PH.D., IS ENGINEERING SCALABLE AND HIGHPERFORMANCE MAGNETIC MATERIALS THROUGH A $1.4 MILLION NSF GRANT THAT WILL BE USED IN POWER ADAPTERS. Three professors from UF’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering are developing nanocomposite magnetic materials with high saturation and low loss for miniaturizing power magnetic components.

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identify new synthetic and nanomanufacturing processes and harness the beneficial properties of metal- and oxide-based materials. It will optimize the creation of compact power inductors and transformers while still making them compatible with current manufacturing standards.

Jennifer Andrew, Ph.D. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Associate Professor

Out of This World MSE Professor Dr. Josephine Allen will study the cells back on earth to look for changes as a result of microgravity.

Josephine Allen, Ph.D. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

“When astronauts go into space they are experiencing extreme conditions which include magnified levels of radiation compared to earth and anti-gravity that doesn’t exist here,” she said.

The goal of this study is to compare

Genzyme Associate Professor of the health of Earth-grown vascular Materials Science & Engineering

cells with vascular cells that go into

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space and experience radiation and microgravity environments onboard the international space station.

The cells will be studied on campus in the Allen Lab at UF to look at changes in genomics and transcriptomics, which provides insight into the genes that are actively expressed and change based on external environments, and to gain better insight into the molecular mechanisms behind cardiovascular disease through seeing how these cells restructure themselves.

RESE ARCH SPOTLIGHT

BUILDING BETTER ENGINES THAT CONSUME LESS ENERGY MICHAEL TONKS, PH.D. IS USING AN ADVANCED COMPUTER TOOL TO IMPROVE CORROSION RESISTANCE IN ENGINES WITH SUPPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY. Increasing the operating temperatures of gasoline engines increases their efficiency.

However, the higher temperatures accelerate corrosion of engine parts, such as the engine valves, due to the combustion gases inside the engine cylinders.

The goal of this project is to develop an advanced computer tool, the Stainless Steel Alloy Corrosion (SStAC) tool, that

predicts the corrosion of valve steels during engine operation.

The SStAC tool will include the impact of the steel microstructure on corrosion, and will be developed with new information obtained from advanced experiments and lower length-scale simulations. It will assist in part design, reducing costs by eliminating the need for conservative design and enabling alloy optimization to improve corrosion resistance.

Michael Tonks, Ph.D. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Associate Professor Thus, it will help reduce costs for existing engines and will assist in the material and engine design for the engines of the future, reducing the development time by years.

Ph.D. student Charlyne Smith Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Nuclear Engineering Ph.D. student Charlyne Smith has been awarded a coveted National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. She is a 2017 graduate of Coppin State University, where she earned her bachelor’s degree

in chemistry and mathematics, and is a first year Ph.D. student in the University of Florida’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Charlyne was inspired by her childhood in Jamaica to study nuclear energy.

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ALUM N I SPOTLIGHT

Ice, Ice, Baby E R I N J A C K S O N , M S E A L U M , C O M P E T E D I N T H E 2 0 1 8 W I N T E R O LY M P I C S I N PYEO N GCHAN G, SOUTH KO R E A Erin Jackson has a new material in her life: Ice. The 2015 University of Florida Materials Science and Engineering alumna traded her inline skates for ice skates just four months prior to the Olympic games. This February, she competed in Pyeongchang, South Korea, as a member of Team U.S.A. in Olympic long-track speedskating.

She finished third in the 500-meter race during the Olympic trials in Milwaukee snagging the final of three spots. Before the qualifying races, Jackson had never skated the course in less than 40 seconds.

In Milwaukee she had two personal bests, completing the course in 14

39.22 seconds and 39.04 seconds.

It has been reported that Jackson was shocked to not just surpass her Top 10 dreams but make the team.

Even more surprising, Jackson is from Ocala, where the closest ice rinks are more than an hour away.

Though inline skating has been a feeder for top ice speedskating competitors.

During her time in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Jackson worked with Dr. Jack Mecholsky. Her undergraduate thesis focused on fracture mechanics of dental ceramics and was completed in conjunction with UF’s Center for Dental Biomaterials.

“I think she developed the skills of organization and timeliness from her love of athletics,” Mecholsky said. “Her senior thesis work was outstanding and will contribute to a journal publication.”

She graduated cum laude with her bachelor’s degree.

Prior to coming to UF, Jackson graduated from Forest High School, where she was in the EMIT (Engineering and Manufacturing Institute of Technology) program.

Jackson joined Olympic speedskaters and Ocala natives Brittany Bowe and Joey Mantia.

ALUM N I SP OTLIGHT

Honoring a Lifetime of Achievement The American Association of Physicists in Medicine recently awarded Frank J. Bova, Ph.D. the Edith Quimby Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in radiosurgery.

The award is given to members of the association who have made significant contributions to medical physics throughout their career.

Bova holds 13 patents for mechanical and computer systems used in radiosurgery, with the first awarded in 1992. He most recently patented a robotic imaging platform to provide integrated navigation capabilities for surgical guidance, the release said.

Bova received his doctoral degree in Nuclear Engineering Sciences with a specialization in Medical Physics from the University of Florida in 1977.

He co-founded the UF Radiosurgery Program in 1985 in collaboration with Dr. William Friedman. Their work has produced multiple patents for

mechanical and computer systems associated with radiosurgery and image guided procedures, according to a UF Health news release.

The UF Radiosurgery Program has treated more than 4,600 patients. In 2014, Bova was recognized with both the UF College of Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award and as Office of Technology and Licensing Inventor of the Year.

“As a founding member of the UF Radiosurgery Program, Frank Bova has become one of the most internationally-recognized leaders and graduates of the UF Nuclear Engineering Program, inspiring countless nuclear scientists and engineers to pursue careers and research in solving challenges within the medical field,” said Jim Baciak, Director of the UF Nuclear Engineering Program,

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

Frank Bova, Ph.D. NES ‘77

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR MCKNIGHT BRAIN INSTITUTE RADIOSURGERY/BIOLOGY LABORATORY COURTESY FACULTY J. CRAYTON PRUITT FAMILY DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

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Join us at the following conferences:

AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY ALUMNI AND FRIENDS SOCIAL November 12, 2018 Orlando, FL

THE MINERALS, METALS & MATERIALS SOCIETY ALUMNI AND FRIENDS SOCIAL March 10, 2019 San Antonio, TX