ACerS Basic Science Division recently announced the winners of its 2017 Graduate Excellence in Materials Science (GEMS) awards. The division sponsors the GEMS award as part of the annual MS&T conference and ACerS Annual Meeting events each year. Congratulations to the 2017 GEMS Award Finalists!

Diamond ranking:

  • Grace X. Gu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rapid Composite Material Property Prediction Using Machine Learning
  • Natalie Larson, University of California, Santa Barbara, In-situ XCT of crack evolution during pyrolysis of PIP-derived CMCs
  • Hadas Sternlicht, Technion, The Role of Disconnections at General Grain Boundaries in Grain Boundary Motion

Sapphire ranking:

  • Arezoo Emdadi, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Quantitative Phase-Field Modeling of Crack Propagation in Multiphase Materials
  • Anagh Bhaumik, North Carolina State University, Characterizing Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) Centers in Diamond Nanostructure Formed by Pulsed Laser Annealing Technique at Room Temperature and Ambient Pressure
  • Ajay S. Pisat, Carnegie Mellon University, Domain Specific Photoreduction of Ag+ on the Surface of Ferroelastic gamma-WO3
  • Chuancheng Duan, Colorado School of Mines, High Performance, Fuel-flexible Protonic Ceramic Fuel Cells via In-situ Exsolution of Ni Nanoparticles
  • Siva Priya Jaccani, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Understanding Cracking Behavior of Glass from Its Elastic and Plastic Response to Hydrostatic Compression
  • Wirat Lerdprom, Imperial College London, Observations on the effect of electric field on mullite formation in porcelains
  • Tiannan Yang, Pennsylvania State University, Phase-field Model of Ferroelectric Domain Dynamics under Ultrafast Stimuli

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