PHATE Research Group

Shamberger Lab

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On the search for outstanding graduate students!

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We are looking to recruit 1-2 promising graduate students into our research group, starting summer/fall 2019. If interested, please contact Prof. Shamberger directly by e-mail. Please include a CV/resume, transcript, and a brief statement of interest.

Congrats to Heidi Clarke & Tim Brown on passing quals!

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Congrats to senior grad students Heidi Clarke & Tim Brown on passing quals in exemplary fashion! One step closer…

Post-Doc Alumni

Amy Bolon: PD Researcher. Transitioning Salt Hydrate Phase Change Materials (2017) {Currently with Enterprise Products}

Eunju Jung: PD Researcher. Effectiveness of Active Learning Pedagogies in an Introductory Materials Science Class (2015-2016) {Currently PD at Univ Indiana – Bloomington}

Graduate Student Alumni

Emily Emmons: MS. Corrosion of Common Heat Exchanger Materials by Lithium Nitrate Trihydrate
(2015 – 2017)

UG Alumni

Joseph Anderson:
UG Researcher (PHYS). 3D Tomography of Conductive Filaments (2018) UG Honors thesis {Currently PhD at Purdue Univ., IN}

Aaron Garcia:
UG Researcher (MEEN). Thermophysical Properties of Salt Hydrates (2018)

Molly Jones: REU Summer Intern. Phase transformations in Heusler alloy thick films (summer 2017). {Currently UG at Ole Miss}

Sunita Kumari: IITK Summer Intern. Structure of insulating composites (summer 2017). {Currently MS at IITK, India}

Elizabeth Yee:
UG Researcher (CHEN). Decomposition of Ammonia Salts (2017)

Sarah Hammock: UG Researcher (CHEN). 3D cAFM Imaging of Conductive Filaments in HfO2 Resistive Switching Devices(2015-2017) UG Honors thesis {Currently MS at UW Seattle, WA}

Bill Caraway: UG Researcher (MEEN). Imaging Phase Transitions in VO2 particles (2016-2017)

Nick Gripp: UG Researcher (CHEM). Decomposition of Ammonia Salts (2016-2017) {Currently MS at TAMU}

Tyler Buffington: UG Researcher (MEEN). Thermodynamic Efficacy of Irreversible Magnetocaloric Effect Cycles (2015-2016) UG Honors thesis {Currently MS at UT Austin, TX}

Adam McClellan: UG Researcher (ISEN). Materials Stability of Thermal Energy Storage Materials (2015-2016)

Xander Majek: UG Researcher (PHYS). Electrical Resistance Switching in Sputtering Grown HfO2 Devices (2015-2016)

Erika Salzman: HS Researcher. Undercooling in Mg(NO3)2 hydrates (2015-2016)  {Currently UG at Caltech}

Yasushi Mizuno: UG Researcher (MEEN). Entropy of Fusion in Low Melting Point Alloys (2014-2015) {Currently GS at TAMU}

Taylor Messinger: UG Researcher (MMET). Thermal Properties of Salt Hydrate (2015)

Joshua Murley: UG Researcher (CHEN). Indirect Entropy Measurement in Magnetocaloric Effect Materials (2014-2015)
Best presentation award at UG Gulf Coast Research Symposium

Shelby Turner: UG Researcher (ECEN). Electrical Resistance Switching in HfO2 Dielectrics (Spring 2015) {Currently GS at Ecole Centrale de Lyon}

Temi Balogun: UG Researcher (MEEN). Electrical Resistance Switching in HfO2 Dielectrics (Fall 2014)

Trey Torno: UG Researcher (CHEN). Magnetic Domain Structures in Magnetocaloric Heusler Alloys Near the FOPT. (Summer 2014-Fall 2014)
TAMU USRG Fellowship

Anna Rubin: UG Researcher (MEEN). Salt Hydrate Thermal Energy Storage Gels. (Summer 2014)

Pawan Bhandari: UG Researcher (MEEN). Thermophysical Properties of Low Melting point Alloys (2014)

Welcome to new grad students!

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Welcome to Adelaide Bradicich (TAMU-Commerce, Phys & Chem) and Aliya Yano (ASU, Mat Sci Eng), joining the group as the most recent PhD students.

Banerjee, Arroyave, and Shamberger team up to advance neuromorphic materials

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Researchers from Texas A&M University report significant advances in their understanding and control of a chameleon-like material that could be key to developing next-generation computers that are even more powerful than today’s silicon-based machines.  See full story here.  Read the full technical paper (“Modulating the Hysteresis of an Electronic Transition: Launching Alternative Transformation Pathways in the Metal–Insulator Transition of Vanadium(IV) Oxide”) here.

 

Welcome to New Group Members!

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New MS student Michael Deckard joins team, focusing on thermal properties of thermal energy storage composites. Also, we’re joined by TAMU UG research Aaron Garcia and REU UG Molly Jones (joining us from Ole Miss). Welcome to the team, all.