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Materials Science and Engineering Seminar

Dr. Corey Oses

Postdoctoral Fellow, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Duke University

Abstract

Disorder is both intrinsic to all materials and a route to enhanced functionality. A combination of 1) high chemical disorder and 2) metal-nonmetal bonding offers a new direction for thermal protection barriers, wear- and corrosion-resistant coatings, batteries, and catalysts. Engineering these materials for applications demands an understanding of the mechanisms governing synthesizability and other entropy-driven behavior, a challenging task often resolved within a limited context or neglected altogether. A simple modeling paradigm is presented that has already led to the discovery of new metal-carbide systems achieving high hardness values as predicted. Promising new research directions for high-entropy ceramics will also be identified.

Bio

Corey Oses is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Duke University in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science. He received a PhD in Materials Science from Duke University in 2018 and a BSc in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell University in 2013. His research interests include design of data-driven thermodynamic descriptors for disordered materials and development of autonomous frameworks enabling materials informatics. More information can be found at coreyoses.com.