Welcome to the Nanostructured Magnetic Materials Research Group led by Prof. J. Ping Liu at University of Texas at Arlington.

Research Focus

The significant increase of applications of advanced materials has created a great demand for deliberate exploration to nanostructured magnetic materials. Our group is currently working on hard and soft magnets spanning all four dimensions -  nanoparticles (0D), nanorods and nanowires (1D), thin films and multilayers (2D), and nanostructured bulk magnets (3D).

• Dr. Liu is invited by the organization committee to give a talk in INTERMAG 11 Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, on bottom-up approaches to fabrication of nanocomposite magnets,  April 26, 2011.

• Our work is mentioned in the news report “The Pull of Stronger Magnets”, Nature, Vol.472, 7 April 2011, pp22-23, http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110406/full/472022a.html (PDF attached).

• Dr. Liu gave an invited seminar at the Materials Advantage Chapter at the Texas A&M University on hard magnetic nanoparticles, April 6, 2011.

• Dr. Liu is invited by the organization committee to give a talk at the TMS 2011 meeting, on nanoscaling by plastic deformations, San Diego, March 1, 2011.

• On November 29, Prof. Min Qi from Dalian University of Technology gave a Physics Seminar on crystallization of amorphous alloys under dynamic loading and high magnetic fields. Prof. Qi visited our laboratory from November 8 to December 7, 2010.

• On November 24, Prof. Aru Yan from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) gave a Physics Seminar on research activities on permanent magnets at NIMTE. Prof. Yan visited our laboratory for ten days after attending the Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials held at Atlanta.

• On November 21, Prof. Jinbo Yang from Peking University visited our laboratory and gave a Physics Seminar titled "Nanostructured Patterns in High Energy Product Pr-Fe-B Magnets".

• On November 19, Prof. Ekkes Bruck from the Technical University of Delft visited our laboratory and gave a Physics Colloquium titled "Magnetocaloric Effects in Mn and Fe based Materials". Prof. Bruck is one of the pioneers in the world in magnetocaloric materials.

• On November 10, 2010, Dr. Tom Picraux, the Chief Scientist of the Center for Integrated Nanotechnology (CINT), visited our laboratory and gave a Department of Physics and the College of Science joint colloquium on synthesis and properties of nanowires. CINT is one of the DoE Nanotechnology Centers in the country, operated by Sandia National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory. We have developed collaborative project with CINT since 2006.

• On February 17, 2010, Dr. Quanxi Jia from Los Alamos National Laboratory visited our laboratory and gave a Physics Colloquium on "Lattice strain and physical properties of self-assembled epitaxial nanocomposite films" Dr. Jia is a Los Alamos National Laboratory fellow and an APS fellow.

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