Materials Physics and Engineering Group

How can we make today’s materials safer and more efficient? Can we merge experimental data with computational tools to design and engineer new materials? These questions are addressed with brilliant, high-energy x-rays by users and staff of the Materials Physics and Engineering (MPE) group. The MPE group operates the 1-ID and portions of both the 1-BM and 6-BM beamlines of the Advanced Photon Source.Together with users, we are developing x-ray techniques and in situ environments to study 'real materials, in real time and under real conditions'.

MPE group members

Name Location email phone Jonathan Almer 431/A006 almer@aps.anl.gov 630-252-1049 Chih-Pin (Andrew) Chuang 431/A002 cchuang@aps.anl.gov (630) 252-5891 Marija Erkapic 431/A006 erkapic@aps.anl.gov 630-252-5453 Peter Kenesei 431/A007 kenesei@aps.anl.gov 630-252-0133 Ali Mashayekhi 431/A009 mashayek@aps.anl.gov 630-252-0123 John Okasinski 431/A003 okasinski@aps.anl.gov 630-252-0162 Jun-Sang Park 431/A004 parkjs@aps.anl.gov 630-252-9194 Rogelio Ranay 431/B095 ranay@aps.anl.gov 630-252-6031 Sarvjit Shastri 431/A005 shastri@aps.anl.gov 630-252-0129

Selected research highlights

Cracking the puzzle of material failure A better way to probe biological polymorphs Revealing a novel mode of action for an osteoporosis drug Breakthrough in nanocrystals growth New Light on Improving Engine Efficiencies

An example of how x-ray research can aid the materials design loop

A collaboration between defense (USAF), universities and national laboratories utilizes high-energy x-ray methods and advanced computational tools to understand and improve aerospace materials.

 

02.09.2021