2017

• Chandrani and Jake quantify CNT dispersion in solvents and polymer solutions (ACS Nano), Tg and shear strength of carbon nanotube/PAN composites (ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces) (December)
• Invited talks in Singapore – A*Star, NTU, and NUS (November)
• New $15m NASA Institute “US-COMP: Institute for Ultrastrong Composites by Computational Design” kicks off – our team will contribute to materials design for the Mars mission (October)
• Ratan, Tariq, and friends publish the first cement force field database and receive multiple press releases (October)
• Congratulations to Lesli Mark for receiving a GAANN fellowship (September)
• Welcome to visiting PhD student Peiying Li from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Yuhei Hayamizu’s lab) (July-October)
• Workshop lectures (AIPEA school for young scientists) and keynote talk on simulation of clay materials at the 16th ICC in Granada, Spain (July)
• Plenary talk at Int. Conf. on Emerging Areas in Materials Engineering, Kerala, India (July)
• Invited talks on Interface MD at CECAM workshop on bionano interfaces and at the Fritz-Haber Institute Berlin, Germany (June)
• Krishan Kanhaiya delivers invited talk at ACS Green Chemistry conference
• Keynote talk at Bilkent University’s Nanoday 2017 (May)
• Key presentations on novel modeling of cement materials at SCS Freiburger Symposium (Fribourg, Switzerland) and Nanocem (Les Diablerets, Switzerland, May)
• Several invited talks at TMS, Lonza AG, ACS, IEEE  (February, March)
• Welcome to visiting PhD student Thomas Underwood from U Durham (Chris Greenwell’s lab) (January-February)

2016

• Lecture and tutorial on the Interface MD platform at the CECAM school on soft matter in Mainz, Germany (October)
• Welcome to new PhD students Sam Hoff and Michael Nathanson (October)
• Hendrik elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, mentioned in The Times (London), Oct 20, Issue
• Plenary talk at the Swiss Chemical Society’s Annual Meeting for the 2016 Sandmeyer Award (September)
• Plenary talk at the 5th Mediterranean Clay Meeting (September)
• Prof. Yuhei Hayamizu from Tokyo Tech visits our lab to explore undergraduate/graduate student exchanges (August)
• Dr. Tzu-Jen Lin, Heinz group PhD alumnus (2013) appointed Assistant Professor at Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan, starting August 1, 2016
• Christopher Kirby works at the research center for biomaterials, CICBiomagune, in San Sebastian, Spain, as part of our NSF-EU project on nanomaterials safety (June-August)
• Tariq Jamil earned the “Best Poster” award at the 5th World Congress on Materials Science & Engineering, held June 13-15 in Alicante, Spain
• Welcome to new postdoc Dr. Juan Liu
• Jacob Gissinger serves as an intern at NASA Langley Research Center (June-August)
• Welcome to new postdocs Drs. Chamila Dharmawardhana, Nada Mehio, and Juan Liu (March-July)
• Invited review on simulations of inorganic-(bio)organic interfaces for materials discovery appears in Chemical Society Reviews, Special Issue on Bioinspired Surfaces and Materials (January)

2015

• Welcome to new PhD students Krishan Kanhaiya, Lesli Mark (co-advised with Will Medlin), and Shiyi Wang
• Hendrik Heinz and team selected for the Swiss Chemical Society 2016 Sandmeyer Award (December)
• Welcome to new postdoctoral scholar Dr. Chandrani Pramanik (October)
• Collaborative work on atomic structure of a tungsten tip published in Nature Materials (September)
• Heinz team relocates to University of Colorado Boulder (August 2015)
• Hendrik Heinz to deliver short course at Corning, NY, and invited talk at the ACS National Meeting (August)
• Amanda Garley spends semester at AFRL/Materials and Manufacturing Directorate (July-December)
• Hendrik Heinz accepts role as associate editor for RSC Advances (July 2015)
• Congratulations to Dr. Hadi Ramezani-Dakhel – now at U Chicago with J. DePablo and B. Roux (June)
• Cover art on ACS Nano issue for May 2015 for collaborative work on Pd nanoparticles (May)
• Tariq Jamil receives award of distinction at POLYCHAR23, May 11-15, at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Hadi Ramezani-Dakhel and Hendrik Heinz present at Eastman Chemical Co. in Kingsport, TN
• Amanda Garley receives an Eastman travel award to present at the MRS Spring meeting (March)
• Hendrik Heinz talks at CU Boulder, Virginia Tech, Northeastern U, IUPUI, Analytix2015 (China), and Shanghai Jiao Tong U, China (January-April)

2014

• Hendrik Heinz delivered Webinar on the INTERFACE force field for BIOVIA Materials Studio commmunity (November 13)
• Hadi Ramezani-Dakhel awarded Eastman Fellowship and Frank Kelley Graduate Student Award (October)
• $1.2m NSF-DMREF grant awarded for Design and Testing of Nanoalloy Catalysts in 3D Atomic Resolution; Heinz will serve as lead-PI in a team with John Miao and Yu Huang at UCLA (September)
• Welcome to new PhD students Jake Gissinger, Ali Javadi (joint with Prof. Min), and Masoud Sobani (September)
• Jacob Gissinger received the Founder’s award of the Department of Polymer Engineering (September)
• AFRL-Akron research exchange meeting hosted by Heinz team (Aug 26)
• Heinz entered a agreement with Dassault Systemes/Biovia to develop the INTERFACE force field as part of Materials Studio and Discovery Studio (August)
• More than $9m in new research funds awarded to Heinz team and collaborators, including an ONR-MURI on Understanding Corrosion in 4D, an AFOSR grant on Rational Design of Carbon Nanofiber from the Nanoscale, and a project with P&G on caries modeling (June)
• Hendrik Heinz invited as a Guest Professor to the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), Tsukuba, Japan (June-July 2014)
• Hadi Ramezani-Dakhel won the 2014 Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award at the U Akron Student Innovation Symposium (April 10)
• Hendrik Heinz to speak at the NSF summer school “Transformational Technologies in Molecular Simulations”, May 19-22, 2014 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Welcome to new group members Tariq Jamil and Prof. Han-Xou Hou (Jan)

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