With the help of a team of undergraduate students who processed, fabricated and characterized the samples in the lab, Almishal synthesized bulk ceramic pellets of the seven novel, stable and potentially functional metal HEO compositions. The undergraduate researchers are supported by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Penn State’s Center for Nanoscale Science, a U.S. National Science Foundation-funded Materials Research Science and Engineering Center.
In the process of synthesizing the new materials, the researchers created a framework using principles of future materials. The team, published their work in Nature Communications.