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)
