| Abstract Scope |
My fascination with metals, specifically metal powders, began 38 years ago when I arrived in the MIT laboratory of late Professor Nicholas J. Grant as a brand new and very nervous graduate student. Fast forward several decades later to this Acta Materialia Symposium. Despite our progress, I continue to be intrigued and humbled by the constantly evolving research questions that remain. Over the course of my career, I have been extremely fortunate to have the support and dedication of my family and to work with inspiring and brilliant collaborators, dedicated students and post-docs, and numerous visiting professors. Collectively, they are the reason I have the privilege of presenting this brief lecture. I will describe the evolution of my research interests in the context of my publications in Acta Materialia (formerly Acta Metallurgica). My talk will begin with a study on solidification behavior during spray atomization and deposition, then fundamental investigation into non-equilibrium materials processing, and finally understanding of microstructure and mechanical behavior in materials fabricated by non-equilibrium processing. |