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2025 Highlights
November 11th-12th, 17th-18th: Nicholas Morgan and Sri Harsha Olety engaged with 85 chemistry students at DW Daniel High School through an immersive, hands-on exploration of composite materials and AI-driven materials innovation!
November 10th: Dr. Srikanth Pilla took the stage at The Fiber Society 2025 Fall Meeting and Technical Conference to deliver his Plenary Talk, “Threads of Innovation: Fiber Architectures Fueling Performance-Focused Lightweight Automotive Design.” (Link)
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Aug 27th-28th: All Center Members met at the Pacific Northwest National Labortory in Richland, WA for the All Hands August 2025 Meeting. (Link)
2024 Highlights
Dec 20th - Scientific Program Manager Sai Aditya Pradeep continued the AIM Center Outreach program to Newark Charter Senior High School.
Dec 18th: Dr. Gang Li, with the assistance of Dr. Srikanth Pilla, conducted real-time measurements of electricity usage for a type of large-format additive manufacturing (LFAM) known as big area additive manufacturing (BAAM). (Link)
Dec 1st: Dr. Srikanth Pilla, with the help of Dr. Gang Li and Dr. Pourboghrat, discuss the use of convergent laser beam shapes to improve signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in Laser Ultrasonic Testing (LUT) of composite materials. (Link)
2023 Highlights
Oct 29th - Gang Li et al. published a Thrust I led paper with Thrust III PI Srikanth Pilla on Deep reinforcement learning for Metamaterials (Link)
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Oct 20th - Minglei Lu (PhD student) won 2nd Place Award at 2023 Mechanical Engineering Pi-Minute Thesis (Pi-MT) Presentation Competition, Clemson University.
Oct 16th - Sternberg et al. Measured mechanical properties of bio-based polyamides. Generated physical and mechanical data of new polymer systems (Link)
