Nanoscale Advances is featuring work on their cover, highlighting an article and work by Yidong Xia, Rahul Kancharla, Ahmed Hamed, and Joshua J. Kane, Idaho National Laboratory; Jianfang Liu and Gang Ren, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Jiaoyan Li and Seyed M. Hatamlee, University of Buffalo; and Viktoriya Semeykina, University of Utah:
Safety First!
We encourage all MUSE research groups to have monthly lab walkthroughs, create and update Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and generally promote a culture of safety couscious scientists and researchers. Link here to the Safety page for the University of Utah's College of Mines and Earth Sciences, where you can find forms for lab walkthroughs, as well as other helpful info on safety.
Multi-scale Fluid-Solid Interactions in Architected and Natural Materials (MUSE) is an Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) funded by the US Dept. of Energy's Office of Basic Energy Sciences
Our Mission
The mission of MUSE is to develop a new fundamental understanding and models of the
transport and interfacial properties of fluids confined by porous media by integrating
multi-scale experimental and theoretical methods including state-of-the-art microscopy
imaging, and validated multi-scale, physics-based modeling of hierarchical and natural
nanostructured materials of varying levels of physical and chemical heterogeneities.
GeoMaterials
Properties
Dynamic Characterization
Multiscale Modeling
Journal Features MUSE Research
You can find the full open access article here.
MUSE PI Wins Career Development Grant
Mining Engineering Magazine announced this summer that Jiaqi Jin won a career development grant. Congratulations Jiaqi!
Announcements
Next All Hands Meeting OCtober 25
MUSE will hold its monthly All Hands Meeting on October 25th from 12:00-1:00 mountain time. We will hear research updates from Zach Diermyer and Ahmed ELnashar, who just graduated with his PhD. Congratulations Ahmed!
MUSE Early Career Leadership Certificate News
Zachary Diermyer joins Mahmoud Elmehlawy and Sohaib Moammed as the first grad students/postdocs to complete the MUSE Early Career Leadership Certificate. Congratulations to all three of you!
The Orange Team
The US Department of Energy's office of Basic Energy Science sponsors a number of EFRCs (Energy Frontier Research Centers), which are broken into teams. MUSE is part of the Orange team, which also includes several sister EFRCs, including:
- Advanced Materials for Energy-Water Systems (AMEWS)
- The Center for Enhanced Nanofluidic Transport (CENT)
- Mechanistic control of water-hydrocarbon-rock interaction in nano-porous geological media (CMC-UF)
- Center for Materials for Water and Energy Systems (M-WET)
- Geo-processes in Mineral Carbon Storage (GMCS)
Recent News From EFRC-MUSE
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Dr Miller Is Elected as a TMS Fellow
Prof. Jan Miller of MUSE and the University of Utah will be named a TMS Fellow at the March 2022 TMS meeting. This represents an outstanding achievement within the field of metallurgy, and he will be one of only ten scientists receiving this award in 2022. Congratulations Jan!
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Dr. Jiaoyan Li Back Into MUSE
MUSE is delighted to officially welcome Dr. Jiaoyan Li back into MUSE. She finished her postdoctoral appointment at the Idaho National Laboratory, where she worked on MUSE research efforts before moving to New York, where she has begun her professorship at SUNY-Buffalo in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. Welcome back Jiaoyan!
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Greeshma Gadikota featured on PBS Terra
Greeshma Gadikota, a leading researcher in MUSE and a professor at Cornell University, was recently interviewed for a PBS Terra episode! Using science to try to solve global environmental problems, and of course, employing research performed within EFRC-MUSE. You can watch part of the program here.
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Greeshma Gadikota is interviewed in Physics Today in their July 2021 issue.
In a recent Physics Today article by David Kramer, ARPA-E's consideration of potential routes to making cleaner pure metals from ore is reviewed. The article investigates a number of important aspects of this energy-intensive industrial necessity, and closes with comments from Prof. Gadikota concerning her role as Director of Cornell Univerity's Sustainable Energy and Resource Recovery Group. You can find the full article here:
Molecular Simulations
Hexane on Quartz
A submicroscopic hexane droplet interacts with a quartz substrate through a molecular modeling simulation. These types of simulations are helping scientists at EFRC-MUSE to understand the interactions between liquids and solids in extremely confined spaces. (curtesy of Prof. Jan Miller and Dr. Jiaqi Jin of the University of Utah)
Does water aid in the sintering of clay?
Two thin layers of kaolinite (clay) are sintered at 1273 K in the presence of a small amount of water. (courtesty of Prof. Adri van Duin and Murali Muraleedharan of Penn State University)
EFRC-MUSE Partners
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Our team includes the DOE's Basic Energy Sciences Program, the University at Buffalo, The Pennsylvania State University, the University of California - Davis, the University of Utah, the University of Wyoming, the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Cornell University and the Idaho National Laboratory.