Dr. Easo P. George
Professor (UTK)
Distinguished Research Staff Member and Group Leader (ORNL)
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania (1985): Physical metallurgy and mechanical behavior
Brief Bio
Easo P. George received his B.Tech. with Distinction in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur) in 1981 and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985. After brief stints as Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and Research Engineer at Southwest Research Institute he joined the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1987 where he currently heads the Alloying Behavior and Design Group. In 2002 he became a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Tennessee as part of the ORNL-UT joint faculty agreement. Among the other positions that he has held are Visiting Scholar at the Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany (2001, 2002) and Visiting Scientist at the National Research Institute for Metals in Tsukuba, Japan (1995, 1997, 1999).
Research Areas
• Small-scale mechanical behavior of crystalline and amorphous materials
• Refractory and precious metals for space power applications
• Mechanical behavior at extremes of temperature and strain rate
• Environmental effects on microstructure and mechanical properties
Selected Awards and Honors
1995 NRIM Fellowship, Science and Technology Agency, Japan
1995 Beuhler Best Paper Award, Materials Characterization journal
1998 Sustained Outstanding Research Award, U. S. Department of Energy
1999 NASA Group Achievement Award for the Cassini RTG Team
1999 ASM Fellow
2000 Humboldt Prize, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
2005 Ribbon Award for Outstanding Paper, Materials Research Society
Professional Activities
Editorial Board Member, Intermetallics, 1998-present
Editorial Board Member, Research Letters in Materials Science, 2007-present
Adjunct Professor of Materials Science, Auburn University, 1997-present
Selected Publications
S. Xie and E. P. George, “Hardness and Shear Band Evolution in Bulk Metallic Glasses After Plastic Deformation and Annealing,” accepted for publication, Acta Mater. (2007).
H. Bei, S. Shim, M. K. Miller, G. M. Pharr, and E. P. George, “Effects of Focused Ion Beam Milling on the Nanomechanical Behavior of a Molybdenum-Alloy Single Crystal,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 91 111915 (2007).
H. Bei, S. Shim, E. P. George, M. K. Miller, E. Herbert, and G. M. Pharr, “Compressive Strengths of Molybdenum Alloy Micro-Pillars Prepared Using a New Technique,” Scripta Mater. 57 397-400 (2007).
Y. Liu, H. Bei, C. T. Liu, and E. P. George, “Cooling Rate Influenced Softening in a Zr50Cu50 Bulk Metallic Glass,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 90 071909 (2007).
D. Wu, I. Baker, P. R. Munroe, and E. P. George, “The Yield Strength Anomaly of Single-Slip-Oriented Fe-Al Single Crystals,” Intermetallics 15 103-107 (2007).
Contact Dr. George
426 Dougherty Engineering Building
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-2200
Tel: (865) 974-9331
Email: egeorge@utk.edu