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W. Streit Cunningham Receives NSF MPS-Ascend Postdoctoral Fellowship

May 16, 2023

W. Streit Cunningham, a postdoctoral researcher advised by Prof. Dan Gianola, has been awarded a National Science Foundation Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Streit's research focuses on the irradiation behavior of complexion-containing nanocrystalline alloys.

Bailey Rhodes recieves NDSEG Fellowship!

May 15, 2023

Bailey Rhodes, a 3rd-year Ph.D. student co-advised by Profs. Dan Gianola and Irene Beyerlein, has been awarded a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. Bailey's research focuses on the coupling of deformation and magnetism in intermetallic alloys.

The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in fields within the  DOD's mission. The award provides 3 years of stipend, health insurance, and tuition funding. Congratulations to Bailey on an incredible achievement! 

Daniel Gianola and colleagues predict how seemingly disparate disordered materials fail, using ‘softness’ as a criterion

March 02, 2018

The metal body of a smartphone is made of a crystalline material, which has a highly ordered arrangement of atoms. Dropping the phone on its metal back would, at worst, result in a dent. Further, because such crystalline materials have a clear order to disrupt, with potential weak points defined by “defects” in that order, it would be relatively easy to predict which atoms would change places, or become rearranged, to form the dent. 

Prof. Daniel S. Gianola

Prof. Daniel S. Gianola joins the UCSB Materials faculty

March 01, 2016

UCSB Materials welcomed new Associate Professor Daniel Gianola on November 1, 2015 to the Structural Materials research group. Prof. Gianola’s research interests span from the nanomechanical behavior of ultra-strong materials to the development of tunable energy conversion materials for applications in structural settings, micro- and nanoelectronics, robust thermal management, and waste heat collection.