{"669836":{"#nid":"669836","#data":{"type":"news","title":"MSE Professor Blair Brettmann and CHBE student Alexa Dobbs Spends Summer at LLNL Exploring Materials Processing and Manufacturing","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMSE Professor Blair Brettmann and CHBE doctoral student Alexa Dobbs decided to spend a summer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to collaborate with the Lab\u2019s materials science experts and learn more about LLNL\u2019s experimental resources. During Brettmann\u2019s faculty mini-sabbatical, she collaborated with researchers from LLNL\u2019s Energetic Materials Center to refine material manufacturing techniques.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to LLNL materials scientist Kyle Sullivan, who sponsored Brettmann\u2019s mini-sabbatical, she helped his team take a fresh look at their methodology, enabling them to identify ways to streamline a highly complex process.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMany of our material development activities start with multi-faceted problems,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cWe were eager to draw from Blair\u2019s experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing to help us identify an efficient methodology to apply to our research.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBrettmann\u2019s research focuses on material processing, including how a material\u2019s properties influence the optimal processing approach, as well as how novel processing techniques can be used to develop materials with the features needed for specific applications. Her goal is to better understand options for real-time monitoring of material processing, including effective data collection tools, as well as knowing which experimental data would be beneficial to analyze. As she heads back to Georgia Tech to start another academic year, Brettmann is hoping that the insight she gained during her mini-sabbatical will help her research team as they test new analytical techniques for their material formulation experiments.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDobbs spent her summer at LLNL investigating material formulation techniques. She helped design and conduct experiments that explored ways to optimize material mixing and she developed a new process for analyzing experimental data. During her internship, Dobbs met with LLNL experts in materials processing and advanced manufacturing, who helped her frame her experiments.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt was great to expand my understanding of the entire manufacturing process and learn about key challenges in the field,\u0022 Dobbs said. \u201cThe opportunity to spend time with energetics experts was one of the highlights of my internship experience.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.llnl.gov\/article\/50141\/georgia-tech-duo-spends-summer-llnl-exploring-materials-processing-manufacturing\u0022\u003ERead the full article\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBrettmann\u2019s research focuses on material processing, including how a material\u2019s properties influence the optimal processing approach, as well as how novel processing techniques can be used to develop materials with the features needed for specific applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Brettmann\u2019s research focuses on material processing, including how a material\u2019s properties influence the optimal processing approach, as well as how novel processing techniques can be used to develop materials with the features needed for specific applica"}],"uid":"34760","created_gmt":"2023-09-21 19:20:20","changed_gmt":"2023-09-21 19:30:59","author":"Laurie Haigh","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-09-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-09-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"217141","name":"Georgia Tech Materials Institute"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}