CMI researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory conducted the activity for this highlight
Innovation
Kate Elder, a CMI post-doc at LLNL, has been awarded a Fulbright Award to pursue advanced studies at VTT, Technical Research Centre at Helsinki, Finland. She will work with the Computational Materials Design team to investigate microstructures that form during additive manufacturing of high entropy alloys.
Achievement
Recent first author publications on high entropy alloy design in Computational Materials.
Awards include a CMI best poster (2024) and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) PhD Scholarship.
Significance and Impact
Kate is developing an integrated computational materials engineering framework to identify manufacturing conditions that optimize ductility and strength in additively manufactured materials important to future applications using critical materials.
She is applying the CALPHAD thermodynamic method to predict magnets with reduced critical rare earth elements content.
Hub Target Addressed
Providing the leaders, technical experts, and skilled professionals needed by U.S. industry to assure its supply chains.