Ph.D. Opening in the Chicago/DOE Alliance Center

A fully funded Ph.D. position for US Persons (US citizens or permanent residents) is available for Fall 2023/Spring 2024 in Prof. Kadkhodaei’s lab at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). This position is funded under…

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Outreach Activity at the Futures Unlimited Workshop

Prof. Kadkhodaei, Ali Davariashtiyani, and Seyyedfariddodin Fattahpour demonstrated an experiment on December 15 2022 at the Futures Unlimited Workshop. Organized by the Oakton Community Colleges the Futures workshop brought together more than 800…

New publication in Materials Today Communications

Congratulations to Noel, Long, and Ogi for publishing their research article entitled “Computational design of corrosion-resistant and wear-resistant titanium alloys for orthopedic implants” in Materials Today Communications!   See the article at  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2022.104465…

TMS 2022

Farid has presented a talk in the TMS 2022 meeting in Anaheim, CA

Farid has presented his research on the role of anharmonic phonons on the diffusion of bcc metals in the “Computational Thermodynamics and Kinetics” symposium. For more details see the following articles: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.023803 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.4.043802

Understanding the role of anharmonic phonons in diffusion of bcc metals

New publication in Physical Review Materials

Congratulations to Farid for publishing his research article entitled “Understanding the role of anharmonic phonons in diffusion of bcc metals” in Physical Review Materials!   See the article at: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.023803 Or access a…

Machine Learning, Synthesizability prediction

New publication in Communications Materials

Congratulations to Ali for publishing his research article entitled “Predicting synthesizability of crystalline materials via deep learning” in Communications Materials! See the article at: https://rdcu.be/cBylm

Cluster Expansion of Alloy Theory: A Review of Historical Development and Modern Innovations

New publication in JOM

Our recent review paper entitled “Cluster Expansion of Alloy Theory: A Review of Historical Development and Modern Innovations” has been published in JOM. See the article at: https://rdcu.be/cyg7t

DFT diffusivity results by including phonon-phonon coupling effects for bcc Ti and bcc Zr.

New publication in Physical Review Materials

Our new article on understanding the effect of anharmonic lattice vibration on diffusion properties of the bcc phase of IVB metals is published in the Physical Review Materials! More articles on this topic…

Prof. Kadkhoadei presenting at Futures Unlimited workshop! Prof. Kadkhoadei and Ali demonstrating heat treating of bobby pins!

Futures Unlimited Workshop Presentation

On December 13, 2019, Prof. Kadkhodaei and Ali presented a workshop on “heat treatment of metals” at the Futures Unlimited event held at Oakton Community college, Des Plaines Campus. In this workshop, eighth-grade…

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New publication in Computer Physics Communications

A full description of the software tool for Piecewise Polynomial Potential Partitioning (P4) model has been published in Computer Physics Communications. The P4 model is a unique computational model for free energy calculation of…

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Ali attended ICME Summer School at the University of Michigan

Ali had been selected to attend the Integrated Computational Materials Education (ICME) summer school, sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF) and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. During the one-week course of this…