Principal Investigator:

Dr. Youxing Chen

Graduate students:

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Mr. Chunan Zhang

PhD student

Research focus: Nanomechanics and Materials

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Ms. Maedeh Taghipour

Research focus: Microstructure Analysis, Manufacturing, Nanomechanics

Mr. Trevor Williams

Undergraduate student (Senior, Early-Entry Master Program)

Research focus: Ceramics Additive Manufacturing

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Mr. Devin McKillop

Undergraduate student (Senior, Early-Entry Master Program)

Research focus: Nanomechanics and Materials

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Mr. Raffael Ziemski

(exchange undergraduate student from KIT, 2024/04/01-2024/10/01)

Research focus: Small-scale mechanical testing, Nanomechanics

Dr. Liuqing Yang

Research focus: Nanomechanics, Microstructure Analysis

Current: TDK semiconductor

Mr. Oliver Burgi (exchange master student from KIT, 2023/04/01-2023/10/01)

Advisor: Dr. Y. Chen @ UNC Charlotte; co-advisor: Dr. J. Shingledecker @ EPRI

Master’s Thesis Topic: nanoindentation of additively manufactured ABD900 superalloys

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Mr. Tom Shanley (B.S., graduated in 2023)

Research Topic: surface analysis of diamond-turned surface

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Ms. Michelle Amoah (high-school student, 2023)

Research topic: Microstructural design inspired by nature