April 8, 2024

Finally, a book "Ultrafine-Grained Materials" is online first from Springer Nature!

Authors: Ruslan Z. ValievIgor V. AlexandrovMegumi KawasakiTerence G. Langdon

  • Provides a detailed overview on mechanical and functional properties of bulk nanostructured materials
  • Details applications of bulk nanostructured materials in various industries and engineering disciplines
  • Describes the application of severe plastic deformation to the formation of hybrid metal systems

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March 19 - 23, 2024

Isshu, Laxman, Mdison and Megumi are back in TMS 2024 Annual Meeting held in Orlando, FL.
Good job everyone !!

 

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January 3-4, 2024

Megumi gave an invited talk at the 2nd Winter Workshop on Recent Advances in high Pressure Research at FORCE facility, Arisona State University.
https://e82upvfdvmj.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2023/11/WW24...

     

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October 9-20, 2023

Prof. Djamel Bradai has been visited from the Faculty of Physics, University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB) Algiers, Algeria.
He gave a seminar with the title of the talk "Nanostructured materials obtained by severe plastic deformation techniques"

(left) at the Djamel's seminar, and (right) at OSU Mat Sci facuty lunch. 

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September 5-7, 2023

Invited talk was given at EUROMAT 2023, Frankfurt, Germany - " Heterogeneous solid-state mixing and phase transformation upon heating of Al-Mg alloy examined by high-energy synchrotron X-rays"

Seminar talk at Institute of Nanotechnology at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany - "In-situ characterization techniques for bulk nanocrystalline metals: Synchrotron high-energy X-ray & neutron diffraction, and laser-scanning confocal microscopy"

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August 15, 2023

The ICSAM Superplasticity Community opened a new ICSAM website

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July 9-12, 2023

Megumi attended ICSAM 2023 at Barcelona, Spain.
She was elected for the new Chairperson of the ICSAM International Committee.

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July 3-6, 2023

Megumi attended THERMEC 2023 in Vienna, Austria.

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June 15-16, 2023

Conglaturations, Jae-Kyung! You did it!  OSU commencement

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April 7, 2023

Laxman is selected as a recipient of the 2023 OSU-PNNL Distinguished Graduate Research Program (DGRP) Student Cohort! Congraturations, Laxman!!

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March 19 - 23, 2023

Isshu presented our research at TMS 2023 Annual Meeting held in San Diego, CA.
Isshu:"Continuous metal processing of ultrafine-grained copper sheets through cold angular rolling process"

Megumi:"Strain-dependent phase transformation mapping of diffusion-bonded nanocrystalline aluminum-magnesium by high-energy synchrotron X-rays" at HGM V symposium; "Structural Evolution during Nanostructuring and Heating of an Additive-Manufactured CoCrFeNi Alloys Examined by X-ray and In-situ Neutron Diffraction Analyses" at Phase Transformation symposium

Megumi is a co-organizer of the Phase Transformation & Microstructural Evolution symposium.

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March 15, 2023

The NanoSPD Steering Committee started a new NanoSPD website! Please check it out!

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February 26 - March 3, 2023

Megumi attended the NanoSPD8 conference held in Bangalore, India. She gave a talk entitled "In-situ heating neutron diffraction analysis of structural relaxation in AM Stainless Steel & CoCrFeNi alloy".

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November 10, 2022

Jae-Kyung has successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation! Congratulations!!

Jae-Kyung's Ph.D. dissertation title: "Characterization of Heterostructured Nanocrystalline Metals Processed by High-Pressure Torsion"

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July 1, 2022

Megumi has been named the inaugural “Jack R. Meredith Faculty Scholar in MIME” for the period of July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2025. 

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May 25, 2022

Marina has successfully defended her Honours Thesis! Congratulations!!

Marina's Honours Thesis "Significance of High-Pressure-Torsion Processing on an Aluminum-Lithium Aerospace Alloy"

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March 15, 2022

Megumi joined Editorial Board of Scientific Reports. 

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February 27 - March 4, 2022

Jae-Kyung and Isshu presented our research at the Ultrafine-grained and Heterostructured Materials (UFGH XII) symposium at TMS 2022 Annual Meeting held in Anaheim, CA.

Jae-Kyung:"Significance of grain refinement on micro-mechanical properties and structures of additive-manufactured CoCrFeNi high-entropy alloy"
Isshu:"Manufacturing high strength ultrafine-grained copper sheets using the cold angular rolling process"

Megumi:"Effect of nanostructuring in additive-manufactured 316L stainless steel on structural relaxation examined by in-situ heating neutron diffraction analysis" at UFGH symposium; "Structural evolution by grain refinement and relaxation upon heating of an additive-manufactured 316L stainless steel" at Phase Transformation symposium

Megumi is a co-organizer of the Phase Transformation & Microstructural Evolution symposium.

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November 23, 2021

Our paper entitled "In Situ Heating Neutron and X-Ray Diffraction Analyses for Revealing Structural Evolution during Postprinting Treatments of Additive-Manufactured 316L Stainless Steel" is featured at Celebrating Excellence in Advanced Engineering Materials: Women in Engineering Materials in Advanced Engineering Materials.

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September 24, 2021

Jae-Kyung's paper entitles "Bulk-State Reactions and Improving the Mechanical Properties of Metals through High-Pressure Torsion" was selected for the top 10 highly cited papers in 2020 in Materials Transaction.

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May 10-14, 2021

Jae-Kyung presented our research at THERMEC,2021 Online conference.
Jae-Kyung:"Heterogeneity in phase transformation and texture of titanium aluminide processed by high-pressure torsion"

Megumi is a co-organizer of the Ultrafine-grained materials symposium.
Keynote talk: "Mechanical bonding for synthesizing hybrid nanostructured alloys through high-pressure torsion"

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April, 2021

Megumi gave a keynote talk in the Magnitogorsk Materials Week, Spring 2021, dedicated to the memory of Prof. Alexander Zhilyaev.

"Mechanical bonding for synthesizing hybrid nanostructured alloys through high-pressure torsion"

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March 16, 2021

Megumi presented our research in the Ultrafine-grained and Heterostructured materials (UFGH-XII) symposium at TMS 2021 Annual Meeting.

"Mechanical Properties and Structural Stability of a Bulk Nanostructured Metastable Aluminum-Magnesium"

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December 2, 2020

Wenrui successfully defended his MS thesis. Congratulations!!

Thesis titele: Significance of Grain Refinement on High Entropy Alloys Processed through High-Pressure Torsion

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November, 2020

Megumi became an Editor of Journal of Materials Science. 

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Februaly 23-27, 2020

Jae-Kyung and Wenrui presented our research in a poster session at the Ultrafine-grained and Heterostructured materials (UFGH-XI) symposium and High-entropy alloy symposium at TMS 2020 Annual Meeting held in San Diego, CA.
Jae-Kyung:"Evolution in Mechanical Response, Phase Transformation and Texture of Titanium Aluminide Processed by High-Pressure Torsion"
Wenrui:"Significance of grain refinement in HfNbTiZr and CoCrFeNi high-entropy alloys"

Megumi is a co-organizer of the Ultrafine-grained and Heterostructured materials (UFGH-XI) symposium. She presented her oral talk at the symposium.
"Synthesis of an ultrafine-grained metastable Al alloy through mechanical bonding by high-pressure torsion"

She also gave a talk entitled "Synthesis of an ultrafine-grained metastable Al alloy through mechanical bonding by high-pressure torsion" in a Solid State Diffusion Bonding of Metals and Alloys symposium.

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January 21, 2020

Congratulations!! Jae-Kyung received a 2020 Metals Travel Award!!

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December 3, 2019

Megumi gave a talk and served as a session chair in the Extreme Mechanics at 2019 MRS Fall Meeting held in Boston, MA.

"Heterostructured metastable aluminum-magnesium system processed by high-pressure torsion"

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November 25, 2019

Both Alex and Jae-Kyung successfully defended their MS theses. Congratulations!!

Alex thesis title: Synthesis and Characterization of an Ultrafine-Grained Aluminum-Copper System through High-Pressure Torsion

Jae-Kyung's thesis title: Synthesis of Heterostructured Aluminum-Magnesium System with Extreme Specific Strength through the Application of High-Pressure Torsion

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October 30, 2019

A Ph.D. student scholar, Moara Castro, from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil, is visiting our group for 6 months. Welcome, Moara!

From right, Megumi, Wei Ruan (Mech. Eng. undergraduate research assistant), Taylor Herndon (Mech. Eng. undergraduate research assistant), Wenrui Zhao (Mater. Sci. M.S. graduate student), Alex Liang (Mater. Sci. M.S. graduate student), Jae-Kyung Han (Mater. Sci. Ph.D. student) and Moara Castro (Ph.D. visiting student from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil)

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September 29 - October 3, 2019

Jae-Kyung and Dr. Kawasaki presented our research in an oral session of Ultra High Performance Metallic Systems for Aerospace, Defense, and Automotive Applications at MS&T19 held in Portland, OR.
Jae-Kyung:"Evolution in Mechanical Response, Phase Transformation and Texture of Titanium Aluminide Processed by High-pressure Torsion"
MK:"Bulk-state Reaction for Synthesizing Bulk Hybrid Alloys through High Pressure Torsion"

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September 25-27, 2019

Megumi gave an invited talk at the 6th International Symposium on "bulk nanomaterials: from fundamentals to innovations" held at Ufa, Russia.

"Bulk-state reactions and improving the mechanical properties of metals through high-pressure torsion"

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September 23, 2019

Megumi visited Skoltech, Moscow Russia, and gave a seminar talk.

"Processing of bulk nanostructured metals and nanocomposites through the application of high-pressure torsion". 

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April 27, 2019

Megumi is invited to become a member of the Advisory Board of Materials Science Forum. 

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April 26, 2019

Megumi gave an invited talk at the Prof. Václav Sklenička Honorary Symposium "High Temperature Plasticity of Metallic Materials" held at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.

"Creep and superplasticity in ultrafine-grained metals processed by severe plastic deformation"

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April 12, 2019

Megumi gave a seminar talk in the Mechanical and Materials Engineering Department at Portland State University.

"Processing of bulk nanostructured metals and nanocomposites through the application of high-pressure torsion"

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March 25-29, 2019

Megumi was invited to a workshop of the Magnitogorsk Materials Week, Spring 2019, held at Magnitogorsk State Technical University, Russia.

http://en.magtu.ru/603-results-of-magnitogorsk-materials-week-spring-2019

http://magtu.ru/novosti/nauka/10422-tri-glavnykh-itoga-magnitogorskoj-nedeli-materialovedeniya.html

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March 10-14, 2019

Jae-Kyung and Alex presented our research in a poster session in the Phase Transformation and Microstructural Evolution symposium at TMS 2019 Annual Meeting held in San Antonio, TX.

Jae-Kyung:"Synthesis of intermetallic-based aluminum matrix nanocomposites through high-pressure torsion"; Alex:"Microstructural evolution in an aluminum-copper system processed by high-pressure torsion"

Megumi is a co-organizer of the Phase Transformation and Microstructural Evolution symposium. She presented her oral talk at the symposium.

"Mechanical Response, Phase Transformation and Texture Evolution of Titanium Aluminide Processed by High-Pressure Torsion"

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February 1-4, 2019

Jae-Kyung went to SPring-8 in Japan.

Awarded beam time is for research of "Full structural characterization and mapping of high-pressure-torsion processed titanium aluminides"

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January 28, 2019

Megumi gave a seminar talk in the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science - Distinguished Lecture Series at the University of Southern California.

"Processing of bulk nanostructured materials through the application of high-pressure torsion"

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Norvember 18, 2018

Megumi was appointed to the International NanoSPD Steering Committee as their first female member.

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Norvember 25-30, 2018

Megumi gave a talk at the Titanium Aluminides I symposium at 2018 MRS Fall Meeting held in Boston, MA.

"Micro-Mechanical Response and Texture Evolution of Ultrafine-Grained Titanium Aluminide Processed by High-Pressure Torsion"

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September 20, 2018

Megumi gave a seminar talk in the Materials Science Department Seminar Series at Michigan State University.

"Processing of ultrafine-grained and bulk nanostructured materials through the application of high-pressure torsion"

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August 19-22, 2018

Megumi gave a Keynote talk at The 13th International Conference on Superplasticity in Advanced Materials (ICSAM) held in St. Petersburg, Russia.

"Superplastic flow and micro-mechanical response of ultrafine-grained materials"

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July 8-13, 2018

Megumi gave a Keynote talk at Ultrafine-Grained Materials symposium at the International Conference on Processing & Manufacturing of Advanced Materials (THERMEC’2018) held in Paris, France.

"Micro-scale mechanical behavior of ultrafine-grained materials processed by high-pressure torsion"

She served as the Co-Chair in the THERMEC'2018 Award Ceremony.

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March 23, 2018

Megumi became a member of the Advisory Board of Advanced Engineering Materials (IF: 2.576).

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March 11-16, 2018

Megumi gave a talk in the 10th International Symposium on Ultrafine Grained Materials symposium and 5th International Symposium on Nanocomposites symposium at TMS 2018 Annual Meeting held at Phoenix, AZ.

"Micro-Mechanical Response of Gamma-based TiAl Intermetallic Compound Processed by High-Pressure Torsion"; “Rapid Synthesis of Lightweight Metal Matrix Nanocomposite Processed by High-Pressure Torsion”

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Norvember 26 - December 1, 2017

Megumi gave an Invited talk in the Interfaces and Interface Engineering in Inorganic Materials at 2017 MRS Fall Meeting held at Boston, MA.

"Fabrication of nanocomposite through diffusion bonding under high-pressure torsion"