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.

On November 24, 2009, Prof. Dechang Zeng from the South China University of Technology visited our laboratory and gave a Physics Seminar on "Advanced Magnetic Materials Research at South China University of Technology".

On October 23, 2009, Prof. Wei Liu from the Institute of Metals Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences visited our laboratory and gave a Physics Seminar on "Nanocomposite Rare-earth Permanent Magnetic Thin Films".

A new book “Nanoscale Magnetic Materials and Applications”, edited by Drs. J.Ping Liu, Eric Fullerton, Oliver Gutfleisch and David Sellmyer, has been published by Springer. 2007 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Dr. Peter Grünberg has given his foreword to the book. Details can be found at www.springer.com/engineering/book/978-0-387-85598-1.

Dr. Chins Chinnasamy from Northeastern University, Boston visited our group from June 24 to 25, 2009 and gave a Physics Seminar titled “Creating Highly Sought Magnetic Nanoparticles”

The 4th Annual Review of our MURI project was successfully held at the University of Maryland-College Park on May 21, 2009.

Dr. Liu chaired a session “Permanent Magnetic Materials” in the 2009 INTERMAG conference at Sacramento, California, on May 7, 2009.

Congratulations! Vikas Nandwana has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on April 20, 2009. Vikas worked in our group since 2003 and has done a great work in magnetic nanoparticle synthesis and characterization, especially in particle size control.

Dr. Liu gave an invited talk at the Magnetics Conference 2009, on novel approaches to fabrication of nanocomposite magnets, Chicago, April 16, 2009

Prof. Peter de Châtel from New Mexico State University visited our group from March 23 to 27, 2009 and gave a Physics Seminar titled “Nanoparticle Magnetism Applied in Hyperthermia” on March 26.

Dr. Liu chaired a session “Permanent Magnetic Materials” in the 2009 INTERMAG conference at Sacramento, California, on May 7, 2009.

Dr. Igal Brenner from Sandia National Laboratories and the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies visited our group on February 25, 2009 and gave a physics colloquium titled “Integrated Optical Chem-Bio Sensors and Microacoustic Cytometry”.

Dr. Liu gave an invited talk in the TMS 2009 - 138 Annual Meeting and Exhibition, on ferromagnetic nanoparticles, San Francisco, February 16, 2009.

Dr. Liu chaired a session the 53nd Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Austin, Texas, November 11, 2008.

Congratulations! Narayan Poudyal has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on November 24, 2008. Narayan has worked in our group since 2003. He also obtained his Master degree in this Department. He has done wonderful job in nanostructured magnetic materials processing.

Group picnic in the fall semester was held on Oct. 4 at the Red Cane park to welcome our new members Shirly Machluf, Vuong Van Nguyen, John Griffis, Hamed Arami and Chengyang Liu.

Dr. Dale Huber from Sandia National Laboratories and the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologioes visited our group from Sept. 24 to 25 and gave a physics colloquium titled “The Role of Surfactant Interactions in the Magnetic Properties of Chemically Synthesized Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites”.

Dr. Liu was invited to give the annual featured “Focus on Faculty” presentation in the University Central Library on Sept. 24. The lecture was titled “From the compass to hybrid cars --- Permanent magnets for sustainable development”.

Dr. Liu was invited to give presentations in the Gordon Research Conference on “Magnetic Nanostructures” at Aussois, France from Aug. 31 to Sept. 3,  and the Conference on “Research Trends in Novel Magnets for Electromagnetic Applications” at Santorini, Greece from September 3 to 5.

The 3rd Annual Review of our MURI project was successfully held at the University of Maryland-College Park on June 23, 2008.

Welcome Dr. Kendra Wallis join our group as a postdoctoral researcher. Dr. Wallis just received her Ph.D in Physics at the Texas Christian University.

Congratulations! Dr. Liu is selected as the recipient of University of Texas at Arlington Outstanding Research Achievement or Creative Accomplishment Award.

Congratulations! Our graduate student Kevin Elkins has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis (03/05/2008).

Congratulations to Dr. Chuanbing Rong and his wife Hongyan Pan for the arrival of their second daughter SUNNY (12/04/2007). 

Thanksgiving news: Nanotechweb reported our research results on preparation of Sm-Co nanoparticles by surfactant-assisted ball milling (in pdf) (in html).  (11/30/2007).

Brick-like hard-soft magnetic nanoparticles have been successfully synthesized by Girija and co-workers. Compared with core/shell structured nanoparticles, this type of bi-magnetic nanoparticles can be further manipulated to construct tri- or even qua-component nanoparticle systems. The research article "Synthesis and Characterization of Bi-magnetic Brick-like Nanoparticles" will be published in Chemistry of Materials.

Congratulations to Kazuaki Yano on his successful pass of Master thesis defense on (11/20/2007).

Congratulations to Dr. Chuanbing Rong for his promotion to a Research Assistant Professor position!

Sm-Co hard magnetic nanoparticles with room-temperature coercivity have been successfully produced using a surfactant-assisted ball milling technique by Yiping and co-workers. This project was started several years ago and our former colleagues Vamsi, Baki and Yang have also contributed to the work. The results are published in Nanotechnology in the coming issue.

NanotechWeb reported research accomplishment of our group in warm compaction of magnetic nanoparticles. Chuanbing and Vikas are the major investigators in this project and our former colleagues Tejaswi and Zhiqiang (Jack) started the experiments few years ago with collaborators at UT-Dallas.(in pdf) (in html). (08/29/2007)

Welcome Dr. Ming Yue join our group as a visiting scholar. Dr. Yue is an experienced researcher in rare earth magnets.(08/16/2007)

Dr. X.Y. Xiong from Monash University, Australia visited our group and gave a seminar on Microstructrural Characterization of SmCo-based Permanent Magnets Using 3D Atomic Probe and TEM.(08/10/2007)

High density (95% of theoretical value) bulk FePt/Fe₃Pt nanocomposite magnets with a homogenous microstructure have been prepared by Chuanbing and co-workers by using high-pressure warm compaction. The results has been published in J. Appl. Phys. (more).

Air-stable FeCo nanoparticles with high magnetization have been synthesized by a chemical solution method developed by Girija and co-workers in our group. The results are published in J.Am.Chem.Soc. recently (more).

Dr. Y.F.Lu form University of Nebraska-Lincoln visited our group and gave a seminar on Micro/Nanoscale Laser-bsed Material Processing and Characterization. (07/10/2007)

Congratulations on the arrival of baby Priyanka to the proud parents, Naranya and Sita Kaki. (07/02/2007)

Dr. Heinz Nakotte from New Mexico State University gave a Physics Colloquium on neutron diffraction of magnetic materials.(05/02/2007)

Dr. Nelson Bell from Sandia National Laboratory visited our group on April 19-20 for a collaborative project and a seminar. (04/19/2007)

Congratulations to Narayan! On February 12, Narayan passed his Ph.D qualification examinations. (2/12/2007)

Congratulations on the arrival of baby girl Saloni on Jan. 18, 2007 to the proud parents, Usha and Girijia. (01/18/2007)

Congratulations on Vikas and Deepika's wedding on Dec. 13, 2006. The ceremony will be held in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. (12/13/2006)

More than 12 papers have been published or accepted to date this year. One article submitted to Advanced Materials, Size-dependent chemical and magnetic ordering in L1₀ FePt nanoparticles, is accepted with high remarks from all the reviewers as “important results”.

Dr. Ralph Skomski from University of Nebraska-Lincoln gave a colloquium talk on Recent Trends on Permanent Magnetism on Nov. 15, 2006 (More). (11/15/2006)

Dr. Mike Lilly from Sandia National Lab gave a colloquium talk on Exploring interactions and coherent transport in 1D systems on Nov. 1, 2006 (More). (11/01/2006)

Dr. Liu, Ping was invited to University of Idaho for a colloquium on Nov. 3, 2006. (11/03/2006)

MURI review meeting was successfully held at Brown University on September 19-20, 2006 (More). (09/19/2006)

Dr. Liu was invited to attend the Gordon Research Conference on Magnetic Nanostructures at Oxford University, England, Sept. 3-8, 2006 and presented our research. (09/3-8/2006)

Congratulations on Dr. Yang Li's new position at University of Puerto Rico. Dr. Yang Li started his new job of tenure track assistant professor on (08/02/2006).

Our review article on rapid thermal processing of magnetic materials has been published (More).

Welcome Kazuaki Yano, an excahnge student from USHIO Inc. in Japan, join our group on (07/17/2006) (More).

Prof. Liu gave an invited talk at the International Magnetics Conference at San Diego. Prof on (05/11/2006). Liu was also a session chair in the conference.

Daren Li successfully defended his MS thesis on Preparation and Characterization of Hard Magnetic Nanoparticles (04/14/2006).

Daren Li received the 2005-2006 year Scharff Award Scholarship for research achievement from the Department of Physics at UTA.

Our publication is selected as 2005 Highlight in Journal of Physics D (More).

Welcome to Dr. Yiping Wang Joining Our Group (2/16/2006) (More).

Welcome to Dr. Girija Shankar Chaubey Joining Our Group in (01/16/2006) (More).

Prof. Liu was invited to give a presentation at National Science Foundation Nanoscale Science and Engineering 2005 Grantees Conference at Arlington, Virginia (12/15/2005).

Congratulations to Narayan for his recent marriage!

Dr. Ivan K. Schuller from Physics Department, Univ. of  California San Diego gave a colloquium (10/06/2005).

Dr. You Qiang from Univ. of Idaho gave a colloquium on (09/28/2005).

Dr. Feng Li from University of New Orleans gave a seminar talk on (09/09/05)

Vamsi accepts a job offer from IBM, USA.

Dr. Ziqiang Jin accepts a job offer from Arnold Magnetic. Tech Corp.

Dr. Qingyu Yan from Rensselaer Polytechnic  Institute gave a Seminar Talk on (08/26/05)

Welcome to Dr. Chuanbing Rong Joining Our Group on (08/16/05)

Physics Web Report on Synthesis of fct Structured FePt Nanoparticles.(in pdf) (in html)

Narayan Defended Master Degree (08/05/2005)

One Paper Selected by IOP Select (08/04/2005)

PPMS is coming for enhancing research capability(07/20/2005)

Istanbul Technical University Offered Dr. Altuncevahir Baki Faculty Position (07/01/2005)

Dr. Yang Li from Texas A & M University Visited Our Group (05/10/2005)

Vamsi Defended Master Degree (05/09/2005)

MURI Kick-off Meeting at UTA (04/27/2005)

Team Led By Prof. Liu Won MURI Grant of $5 Millions (03/01/2005)

Vikas Won Second Place at ASM-International 1st North Texas Materials Symposium (04/10/2005)

Narayan awarded "Scharff Award Scholarship" (03/22/2005)