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Challenges to a foundational understanding of the plasma-material interface in plasma-burning nuclear fusion reactors

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Professor Allain was invited to present the talk titled Challenges to a foundational understanding of the plasma-material interface in plasma-burning nuclear fusion reactors in the 2015 – 2016 Nuclear Engineering Colloquium Series at The University of Tennessee this past February, 2016. The complete talk is available for viewing at the following link: View Nuclear Colloquium […]

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Intelligent Design of Advanced Nanostructured Biointerfaces for Regenerative Medicine Applications

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Professor Allain was invited speaker at the II International Seminar on Biomaterials, Biomechanics and Regenerative Medicine at the Universidad de Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia. Professor Allain presented the talk Intelligent Design of Advanced Nanostructured Biointerfaces for Regenerative Medicine Applications and also visited Ruta N Corporation, an institution that is pursuing the consolidation of Medellin as a city of knowledge undertaking the development of a technology district.

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Prof. Allain awarded a $1.1 million Fusion Energy Sciences grant from the U.S. Department of Energy

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Prof. Allain has been recently awarded a $1.1 million Fusion Energy Sciences grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to support his research on plasma-material interactions that involve the first few microns of the material surface. Allain’s research group has been pioneering this work discovering adaptive materials capable of sustaining the far-from-equilibrium conditions found in […]

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Workshop: Sensitivity, Error and Uncertainty Quantification for Atomic, Plasma, and Material Data

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Professor Allain was invited speaker at the workshop Sensitivity, Error and Uncertainty Quantification for Atomic, Plasma and Material Data organized by the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University. The focus was theory and simulation relevant to fusion and astrophysical plasmas including their interface with materials such as is necessary in the design […]

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Invited talk at the 17th International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials

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The International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials (ICFRM) is the major international forum for information exchange about materials to be used in future fusion power systems. Today at the 17th International Conference in Aachen, Germany Professor J.P. Allain gave the invited talk In-Situ Characterization of Extreme-Refined and Porous Radiation-Resistant Tungsten Materials at the session on Plasma-Facing components. The new […]

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Invited Seminar at ICMM

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The Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid – ICMM, an institute of the Spanish National Research Council, invited Professor Allain to give a research seminar this summer in their seminar series Nanostructures, Surfaces and Coatings. His talk titled Irradiation-driven nanosynthesis: harnessing and manipulating nature’s self-organized systems at the nanoscale addressed the nanopatterning of III-V semiconductors and […]

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Professor Allain at ICPEAC 2015

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This summer Professor Allain presented in Toledo, Spain the invited talk “Directed-irradiation synthesis: manipulating matter in nanoscale self-organized systems during particle-surface interactions” in the Heavy Particle Session at ICPEAC 2015, the XXIX International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions. ICPEAC is a major biennial international meeting of physicists working in the broad area of collisions involving […]

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