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3-D XRD Investigation of Active Materials (8/19/2005)
3-D XRD Investigation of Active Materials (8/19/2005)
3M Faculty Grant (7/1/2000)
3M Polymers Program (7/1/2005)
Acquisition of a High-Temperature Thermal Analysis System for Development of New Materials (6/15/2007)
Acquisition of a Thermal Analysis Suite for Self-Healing Composites and Bulk Metalic Glass Research (5/1/2006)
Acquisition of Spectroscopy (7/1/2006)
Advanced Electric Traction System Technology Development (3/11/2008)
Advanced Magnetic Materials for Near Room Temperature Magnetic Cooling (5/1/2006)
Advanced Nondestructive Evaluation for Future Aerospace Systems (8/1/2005)
Alan and Julie Renken Professors (7/1/2005)
An Investigation of the Roles of Strain Rate and Twinning in the High Ductility of B2 Intermetallic Compounds (8/15/2004)
Assembling Dendritic and Branched Molecules at Interfaces (6/1/2003)
Autonomic Healing of Damage in Polymer Matrix Composites (9/1/2005)
Bioinspired Haircell Receptive Sensors (8/1/2005)
Biorenewable Composites Reinforced with Under-Used Co-Products from Ethanol Production (7/1/2007)
Boride Material Project (10/19/2000)
CAREER: The Evolution of Polar Nanoregions and Its Coupling with Cation-Ordered Domains in Pb(B'B")03 Relaxor Ferroelectrics (8/1/2004)
CAREER: Interface Control and Three-Dimension Mechanisms of Branch-Limited Eutectic Growth (7/1/2003)
Carver Trust--Magnetic Film Lab (10/5/2000)
Center for NDE Renewal (6/23/2005)
Characterization of Magnetocaloric Materials (1/2/2007)
Characterization of Toolmarked Surfaces (10/1/2004)
Characterization of Toolmarks (9/1/2004)
Coating for Wear and Corrosion (7/1/2004)
Collaborative NSF/ASEE Poster Sessions (10/1/2005)
Conduits with Micropatterned Films for Peripheral Nerve Regeneration ()
Coupled Biological and Mathematical Models of Neuronal Stem Cell Pattern Formation (5/1/2004)
CREM Newsletter (6/10/1968)
DARPA Dimensionality Reduction and Data Mining (9/13/2006)
Departmental Support (7/1/2003)
Departmental Support (12/1/1996)
Departmental Support (5/1/1994)
Determination of Transformation Diagrams for the Superaustenitic Stainless Steel Casting Alloys (1/1/2004)
Development and Demonstration of Computational NDE Techniques (6/1/2007)
Development of Alumina-Based Ceramic Materials Including Abrasive Grains (12/1/2001)
Development of Biomimemetic Sensors (8/1/2005)
Development of Ceramic Proton Exchange Membrane for H2-O2 Fuel Cells for Advanced Power and Transportation (8/25/2004)
Development of Improved Powder for Bonded Permanent Magnets (4/1/2001)
Development of Magnafilter for Filtering Fine Metal Particles Using Finite Element Method (2/21/2005)
Development of Ultrafine Aluminum Atomization Process (11/4/2003)
Direct Observations of the Dynamic Evolution of Nanoscale Features in Ferroelectric Thin Films: An In-situ Transmission Electron Microscopy Study (9/1/2005)
Dynamical Selection of Three-Dimensional Interface Patterns in Directional Solidification (4/1/2004)
Dynamical Selection of Three-Dimensional Interface Patterns in Directional Solidification (6/1/2007)
Editorial Activities for IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (1/1/1992)
Effects of Defects in Friction Stir Welds: Tie Collaborative Research Program between the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and Iowa State University (10/1/2003)
Electromagnetic Nondestructive Evaluation of Wire Insulation and Models of Insulation Material Properties (9/12/2007)
Enhancement of Mechanical Properties of Magnesium Alloys by Reciprocal Extrusion (2/1/2006)
Environmentally Benign Repair of Composites (1/31/2007)
Evaluation of Optical and Electrical Properties of Oxysulfide Glass Materials (7/15/2005)
Evaluation of the Optical and Electrical Properties of Oxysulfide (8/15/2003)
Fabrication Conditions for CoMnSi1-xGex Ingots (8/9/2007)
Flex Biohybrid Nanomembranes as a Platform for Multifunctional Microscopic Sensors (5/1/2005)
FRG: New Magnetoelastic Materials with High Stress Sensitivity and Low Hysteresis (5/1/2004)
Glass Fiber Core Material Design and Synthesis (7/1/2007)
High-Flux Metallic Membranes for Hydrogen Recovery and Membrane Reactors (10/1/2005)
High-Temperature, Low-Activation, Refractory Alloys for Generation IV Nuclear Reactor Construction (6/20/2007)
Hot Corrosion Tests (10/10/2003)
I/UCRC: Center for NDE Renewal (10/1/2003)
IMR-MIP DANSE (6/1/2006)
IMR-MIP Danse Distributed Data Analysis for Neutron Scattering Experiments (7/1/2004)
IMR: Development of an Optimized Scanning X-ray Microdiffraction System for Materials Research and Education (8/1/2004)
Informatics-Aided Alloy Design (8/1/2006)
Infrared Fiber for Conversion and Routing (8/15/2007)
Injection of Vacancy-Type Defects and Hydrogen by Metallic Corrosion (7/1/2006)
International Linkage Program for the Ultrasonic Modeling of Complex Materials (9/1/2004)
Internship Program for Women Engineers (6/11/1998)
Investigation of the Enhanced Operation Parameters of xPZT-(1-x)PNN Relaxor Ferroelectrics Through Longtime Thermal Cycling (10/1/2007)
Iron-Based Magnetostrictive Alloys: New Structural Materials for Revolutionary Engineered Systems (5/1/2006)
Lead-Free Valve Plates for Hydraulic Pumps (11/20/2007)
Magnetic Sputter Target Fabrication (4/30/2006)
Magnetocaloric Materials Synthesis and Characterization (3/29/2004)
Materials and Components/Materials (Computational and Experimental Development of Novel High-Temperature Alloys) (10/1/2007)
Materials and Components/Materials (Improved Atomization Process for Fossil Energy Applications) (2/1/2000)
Materials and Components/Materials (Novel Processing of No-Si-B Intermetallics for Improved Efficiency of Power Systems) (6/1/2000)
Materials Chemistry and Biomolecular Materials (10/1/1995)
Materials Informatics and Combinatorial Materials Science: An Information Portal for Materials Discovery and Design (7/1/2005)
Materials World Network: An International Collaborative Educational and Research Program in the Study of Mixed Glass Former Phenomena in Materials (8/15/2007)
Mechanical Behavior of Materials and Radiation Effects (Formation and Dynamics of Defects in Solids) (10/1/1995)
Mechanical Sciences (Correlations and Dynamics in Metallic Liquids and Associated Amorphous and Crystalline Systems) (9/30/2003)
MSE Electronic Materials (7/1/2003)
Multicomponent Drying of Semicrystalline Polymer Films (8/26/2002)
Nerve Regeneration Using Micropatterned Polymers and Copolymers for Gene Therapy (5/1/2005)
New Composite Magnetoelastic Materials with High Stress Sensitivity and Low Hysteresis (10/1/2004)
New Initiative Surface and Interface Properties of Quasicrystals (10/1/1995)
NIRT: Bioinspired Flex Nanomembrane for Multifunctional Microsensors (9/1/2006)
NIRT: Bioinspired Flex Nanomembranes for Multifunctional Microsensors (7/15/2005)
Nondestructive Evaluation of Manufacturing-Induced Anomalies (8/30/2004)
Novel Biomimetic Mems-Based Infrared Sensor (10/18/2004)
Novel Bonda Coat and Thermal Coating for High-Temperature Naval Gas Turbine (5/1/2006)
Novel Ni-Al-Pt-Based Bond Coats for the Improved Reliability and Durability of Advanced Thermal Barrier Coating Systems (6/1/2002)
Novel Surface Modification Pathways Using High-Density Infrared Heating (3/1/2006)
Novel Therapies for Pneumonic Plague Targeting Quorum Sensing Components (9/29/2006)
NSDL Materials Digital Library Pathway: Hub for Materials Education and Research (9/1/2005)
Optimizing the Hot-Corrosion Resistance of Novel Cr-Pt+Hf-Modified y-Ni+y'-Ni3Al Coatings (5/9/2006)
Pb-Free Solder Research (6/1/2000)
Photonic Band Gap Materials (10/1/1995)
Physical Behavior of Materials (10/1/1995)
Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal Confined in Nanoscopic Templates (9/1/2005)
Polymer Dissolution in Biofuels (1/4/2007)
Powder Processing for Advanced Ballistic Materials (7/27/2005)
Precious Metal Modified Ni-Base Superalloys (9/1/2005)
Quantitative Inspection Techniques for Assessing Aging Military Aircraft (4/30/2004)
Romp Healing Agent Development for Self-Healing Materials (3/1/2008)
Searching for Single-Phase Compounds with Strong Spontaneous Polarization and Magnetization at Room Temperature (9/8/2006)
Senior Design Projects (2/1/2000)
SGER: Spontaneous Formation of Ordered Structures from a Capillary-Held Solution (7/1/2007)
Smart Coating on Gas Turbine Blade to Realize the Next High Power Generation (9/1/2002)
Structure and Composition of Materials (Structure and Dynamics in Condensed Systems and Dynamics and Energetics of Phase Transitions) (10/1/1995)
Symposium on Highly Branched and 3-Dimensional Polymers at Interfaces; ACS Meeting; March 26-31, 2006; Atlanta, Georgia (12/1/2005)
Synthesis and Processing Science (Engineering Materials) (10/1/1995)
Synthesis and Processing Science (Materials Preparation Center) (10/1/1995)
Synthesis and Processing—Base Program (10/1/1995)
Synthesis of Self-assembling Hybrid Structures (9/1/2004)
TEM Study of PZT95/5(1.5Nb) Ceramics (2/28/2007)
Testing Ceramic Glue (1/10/2003)
Thermal Acoustic Studies of Engine Disk Materials (8/31/2004)
Thermal Aging Effects in Pb-Free Solder Joints for Audio Component Applications and their Correlation with AC Harmonics, Impact Resistance, and Microstructure (3/10/2006)
Thermal Aging Effects in Pb-Free Solder Joints for Audio Component Applications and their Correlation with AC Harmonics, Impact Resistance, and Microstructure (3/10/2006)
Thermal Barrier Coating (2/15/2005)
Thermal Stability and Oxidation Behavior of Pt+Hf-Modified g'-Ni3Al+g-Ni Alloys (6/10/2005)
Three-Dimensional Interactive Microstructural Evolution Tool--iMET-3D: Data Mining and Analysis (12/1/2005)
Toying with Technology Support (7/1/2004)
Transitioning Technology on Thermal Barrier Systems to Aircraft Engines (2/15/2005)
Ultrasonic Measurement of Stress (10/1/1985)
Ultrasonic Measurement of Stress in Thick Aluminum Plate (9/1/2003)
Understanding Competitive Kinetics and Systems Thermodynamics to Guide the Development of Improved Next-Generation y-Ni+ (12/1/2006)
Understanding Thermal and Chemical Effects on the Stability and Performance of Novel Pt+Hf Modified y-Ni+y-Ni3Al-based Alloys (6/1/2002)
Understanding Thermal and Chemical Effects on the Stability and Performance of Novel Pt+Hf-Modified y-Ni+y'-Ni3Al-Based Alloys (6/1/2002)
Unrestricted Funding in Support of Research (1/30/2001)
Use of Synthetic Nerve Grafts to Restore Cavernous Nerve Function Following Prostate Cancer Surgery: In Vitro and In Vivo Studies (3/1/2004)
Welding Process Advancements for Wear Resistant Augers (12/21/2005)