Thomas Tsakalakos

Development of High Ductile Advanced Ceramics and Advanced Piezo-Electric Ceramics, widely used in electronic devices and other sensors. Processing of such ceramics by Electric Field Assisted Flash Sintering Methods, developed in my lab (see Patent below).

Unique Dynamic Interplay between the Advanced Synchrotron Characterization Methods and the Processing and Development of Structural and Functional Materials used for:

Defensive Armory Protection,

Medical Drug-Delivery and Healing Therapy applications,

Biomedical Devices,

Electric Battery Advancement

Other Research: Thermal Spray Technology of Nano Coatings and Films; Strain and Phase Mapping by Light Source Synchrotron Radiation; Residual Stress Measurements by Synchrotron EDXRD (Energy Dispersive X-ray Diffraction) method; Micromechanics and Phase Field Modeling; Mechanical Behavior of Nanocomposites.

HONORS and AWARDS and PATENT (after 2000)

2018: Patent: US 9,884,788B2: Methods for Producing Low Porosity NonOxide Ceramics

2016: Electric Field Assisted Sintering & Related Phenomena, Engineering Conferences International sponsored by US Army Research

2012: Awarded Chair and Organizer for the XIII International Nanostructured Materials Conference held in Rhodes, Greece

2011: Awarded Co-Organizer for the XII International Nanostructured Materials Conference held in Stuttgart, Germany

2007: Recognized for Scientific Contributions of Nanomaterials Applications by the ISOPE: International Society for Offshore Polar Engineering

2002: Awarded Co-Chair and Organizer for the International Nanostructured Materials Conference held in Orlando, Florida

2001: Awarded Co-Chair and Organizor for the International Nanostructured Materials Conference held in Cancun, Mexico

ACHIEVEMENTS

Director of Nanomaterials and Flash Sintering Laboratory, Dept. Materials Science & Engineering, Rutgers University (2011 – Present)

Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University, Department of Materials Science & Engineering (1994 to Present)

Editor (and founder): Nanostructured Materials Journal, Elesvier Publications (1992 – 2002)

Director of Laboratory for Nanostructured Materials Research, Dept. Materials Science, Rutgers University (1991- 2005)

EDUCATION

1977: PhD and M.Sc. Materials Science & Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ilinois USA. NOTE: Advisor Professor John Hilliard, World Class Scholar

1972: BS University of Athens, Greece

Sintering of Engineering Materials; in-situ and Operando Synchrotron Probe of Commercial Batteries and other Novel Engineered Materials; Armory Applications; Electric Field and Pressure Assisted Processing of Inorganic and Nonmetallic Solids; Synchrotron Strain and Phase Mapping of Nuclear Materials; Field Testing of Infrastructure Materials; NanoBiotechnology; Thermal Spray Technology of Nano Coatings and Films; Strain and Phase Mapping by Light Source Synchrotron Radiation; Residual Stress Measurements by EDXRD;  Micromechanics and Phase Field Modeling; Mechanical Behavior of Nanocomposites.