University of California,Santa Barbara
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Professor
Materials Department
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
e-mail: [email protected]
website: https://www.engr.ucsb.edu/~pollockgroupAREAS OF SPECIALIZATION AND INTEREST
Research interests include:
- Mechanical and environmental performance of materials in extreme environments
- Unique high temperature materials processing paths
- Ultrafast laser-material interactions
- Alloy design and 3-D materials characterization
- Thermal barrier coatings systems and platinum group metal-containing bond coats
- New intermetallic-containing cobalt- base materials
- Vapor phase processing of sheet materials for hypersonic flight systems
- Growth of nickel-base alloy single crystals with a new liquid tin-assisted Bridgman technique
- Development of new femtosecond laser-aided 3-D tomography techniques
- Development of models for Integrated Computational Materials Engineering efforts
