Penn State Intercom......January 24, 2002

Research team gets
$1.8 million grant from NASA

Long-Qing Chen, associate professor and associate head of graduate studies in materials science and engineering, and his research team received $1.8 million from NASA to develop revolutionary materials technologies for future generation turbine engine propulsion systems under NASA's Ultra Efficient Engine Technology program.

The objective of the project is to develop a set of multiscale computational tools that will be employed to predict the relationships among the chemistry, microstructure and mechanical properties of single-crystal Ni-base superalloys.

Chen's research team includes Zi-Kui Liu, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, and other institutional and industrial partners from NASA Glenn Research Center, University of Florida, General Electric, Ford Motor Co. and Universal Energy Systems.

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