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2025 Highlights
Aug 25th-29th: As part of National Composites Week 2025 and the theme “Performance with Purpose,” AIM EFRC, in collaboration with CompositesWorld, is proud to celebrate the students shaping the next generation of advanced composites. (Link)
Aug 11th-12th: AIM EFRC goes to Washington, D.C. Our team of 17 is at the 2025 EFRC, Hub, CMS, and CCS Principal Investigators’ Meeting with the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. (Link)
June 2nd-4th: Dhanashree Shinde, Hao Chen, Elham Kiyani, and Sai Pradeep presented talks @ SPE2025 (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)
