The team enjoyed a massive Christmas/end of year feast at an Italian restaurant in Surry Hills on a hot and sunny summer day. This was a welcome chance to relax and reminisce on how well the team managed all challenges thrown at us during 2020. We also celebrated Nima’s promotion to Level B, which is […]
Maxwell and Nima recently visited our collaborator Dr Vladimir Luzin at the Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering (ACNS), which forms part of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO). This visit allowed them to develop a greater understanding of the materials characterisation techniques available at ACNS which may be applied to projects in our […]
We recently enjoyed a beautiful and somewhat exhausting bushwalk followed by lunch in the Royal National Park, as farewell to Ryan. He will spend the last couple of months of his PhD back in the US, where he will continue writing up lots of awesome papers on 3D EBSD of 3D printed Ti-6-4. Couple of […]
Earlier this year, both Carina and Felix have been awarded their PhDs. However, due to the global pandemic, UNSW graduation ceremonies are currently on hold. Therefore, we decided to invent our own Covid style graduation ceremony in Sophie’s backyard. Obviously, Sophie took the opportunity to give laudations for our graduands. These impromptu speeches were witnessed […]
Warm congratulations to our first year AUSMURI PhD student Maxwell Moyle for bringing home the 2020 ‘Best 1MT in the School of Materials Science and Engineering award’. Decent science communication skills are required in order to successfully outline the aim and impact of a PhD project to a broader audience. This is especially challenging if […]
We have been lucky to be awarded another grant in the Australian Research Council Linkage 2019 round. This project is led by Sophie at UNSW and aims to design a new thermo-mechanical process for manufacturing aero-engine disks with superior mechanical properties. This is based on our previous research in direct industry collaborations around multi-scale characterisation […]
Congrats to our 2019 Honour’s student Liam Stephenson for winning the university medal, one of the most distinguished awards based on an outstanding academic performance. Liam did his Honour’s project with us studying variant selection mechanisms in 3D printed Ti-6-4, in the framework of the AUSMURI project. Thanks also to Nima and Ryan who did […]
We have recently been lucky to secure more funding from the ARC Linkage scheme. The aim of this project is to better understand the origins of the properties of tungsten-carbide cobalt based (WC-Co) hard metals and how these may be tuned via alloying and processing. The team of researchers from The University of Sydney and […]
This is how we are staying in touch with each other in Covid-19 times: Group meetings, teaching and discussions with students have been moved to MicrosoftTeams, virtual group coffee is done in Zoom. The awesome tile format of the latter product enables us to capture some interesting group photos. You can immediately spot who is […]
Felix, Ryan and Sophie attended TMS 2020 in sunny San Diego, California. Sophie organised a symposium on ordered precipitates in a FCC matrix and chaired the corresponding superalloy session. Felix gave his first invited talk summarising his recent results on Alloy 718, recently published in his second paper in Acta Materialia. Ryan presented results from […]
