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)
