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Penn State Intercom......August 22, 2002

Research team gets $2.9 million grant

Zi-Kui Liu, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, and his research team received $2.9 million from the National Science Foundation to develop a prototype grid-enabled software for multicomponent materials design that will enable scientists to develop new materials with unique properties as well as tailor existing materials for better performance.

The main objective of the proposal is to develop a set of integrated computational tools to predict the relationships among the chemical, microstructural and mechanical properties of multicomponent materials using the technologically important aluminum-based alloys as model materials.

Liu's research team includes Long-Qing Chen, professor of materials science and engineering; Padma Raghavan, associate professor of computer science and engineering; Qiang Du, professor of mathematics; and other support from Argonne National Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology and Ford Motor Co.

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