TMS Abstract Accepted for Poster Presentation (1/13/26)

We are pleased to announce that Daniel Bolden and Louis Katz’s 2026 TMS abstract has been accepted for a poster presentation! The work, titled “A New Approach to Thermomechanical
Processing of Brittle Refractory Alloys, will showcase the new techniques being developed for the refractory rolling section of our group’s research.

TMS Abstract Accepted for Poster Presentation (9/7/25)

We are pleased to announce that Daniel Bolden and Louis Katz’s 2026 TMS abstract has been accepted for a poster presentation! The work, titled “High-Throughput, High-Fidelity Characterization of Complex Alloys via Machine Learning Driven 4D-STEM”, will showcase the post-processing work being done in the microscopy section of our group’s research.

Installation of PicoIndenter for Themis S-TEM (7/23/25)

Between 7/21/25 and 7/23/25, we hosted Laura Fleming from Bruker as she trained us to use their PI95 TEM PicoIndenter. This will allow our group to perform in-situ tensile tests of our materials inside of UF’s most capable TEM. We had a wonderful time with the training and look forward to seeing the results this new capability will give us! Special thanks to Dr. Nick Rudawski from the NRF for his time and assistance during this training.

TMS Abstract Accepted for Oral Presentation (7/18/25)

We are pleased to announce that Israel Reimer’s 2026 TMS abstract has been accepted for an oral presentation! This abstract, titled “Mechanical Effects of Interstitial-Induced Metastability in Group IV-Based Refractory Alloys” will be the first work presented by a graduate student in Dr. Silverstein’s research group.

Latest update about our laboratory (1/9/26)

Our furnaces are being installed and wired up!