Current Grants/Projects from External Sources
(1) PI on NSF CMMI 0900027: A Peierls Perspective on Mechanisms
of Atomic Friction, $198K, 07/01/2009~06/30/2012 (no-cost extension till 06/30/2013).
(2) Co-PI on NSF DMR 0909037 (with PI P.K. Liaw): Materials
World Network: Structure and Mechanical Behavior of Nanocrystalline Phase-Containing Glass-Forming
Thin Films, $420,000, 8/1/2009~7/31/2012 (no-cost extension till 7/31/2013),
as well as a REU supplement of $6,000 in 2012.
(3) PI on NSF CMMI 0926798 (with Co-PI G.M. Pharr): Indentation-
Induced Damage Initiation and Evolution in Single- and Poly-Crystalline Ceramics,
$315,000, 10/1/2009~9/30/2012.
(4) PI on UT-Battelle grant: Energetics and Kinetics of Nanoscale Incipient Dislocation Plasticity,
9/9/2008~8/31/2012.
(5) Co-PI on DOE BES FWP ERKCM06 (with PI E.P. George at ORNL and
4 more Co-PIs): Multiscale Mechanical Properties and Alloy Design, ~$3.4M, FY 2010-2012.
(6) Senior Participant in the Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) for Defect Physics in Structural
Materials (ORNL), DOE BES FWP ERKCS99,
http://cdp.ornl.gov, 8/1/2009~7/31/2014.
(7) PI on UT-Battelle grant (with Co-PI M.C. Troparevsky): Theoretical Studies
of Novel Properties of Metal/Alloy Nanoparticles, 5/1/2011~10/31/2012.
Past Grants/Projects from External Sources
(1) Co-PI on ORNL LDRD 07-091 (with PI G.M. Stocks and Co-PI
A. Goyal): Fundamental Mechanisms of Self-Assmelby of Ordered Nanostructures in Heterogeneous
Ceramic Materials, $573K, 10/01/2006~09/30/2008.
(2) PI on a contract from the Center for Materials Processing at UT: Small Scale Mechanical Testing --
Accurate Measurements of Thin Film Mechanical Properties, $47K, 12/1/2007~6/30/2011.
(3) PI on UT-Battelle grant: Directed Self-Assembly and Film Growth of Superconductors and other
Oxides, 04/14/2008~04/13/2010.
(4) Co-PI on DOE BES FWP ERKCS92 (with PI G.M. Stocks and later
PI Zhenyu Zhang at ORNL and other Co-PIs): Theoretical Studies of Formation, Stability, and
Properties of Low-Dimensional Materials, ~$1.6M per year, FY 2008-2011 (4 years).
(5) PI on Agilent Technologies Foundation Research Project:
3D Multi-Physics Modeling and Analysis of Next-Generation ASIC Packaging, $22,500,
7/1/2010~1/31/2012.
(6) PI on NSF CMMI 0800168 (with Co-PI G.M. Pharr at UT and Senior
Collaborator B.C. Larson at ORNL): Scale-Dependent Crystal Plasticity and Nanoindentation-Induced
Dislocation Microstructure, $316,643, 05/01/2008~04/30/2011 (no cost extention to 4/30/2012).
