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Intelligent Processing of Materials Laboratory
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Founded in 1988, the University of Virginia's Intelligent Processing
of Materials Laboratory (IPML) is a premier center for research on the
design and synthesis/processing of new materials. Located in the
University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the
laboratory integrates the development of synthesis and processing
techniques with predictive process modeling, in-situ sensing, and
closed loop control and applies the methodology to the synthesis of
second generation thermal barrier coatings, spintronic device
fabrication and multifunctional cellular materials.
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The goals of IPML research:
- Create innovative process technologies to facilitate creation of
new materials and devices.
- Develop mathematical
models for predicting a materials evolution during its
synthesis and processing.
- Investigate novel in-situ sensors for tracking material changes
during processing.
- Explore model-based, process path
optimization and feedback control concepts
to steer unstable process to desirable outcomes.
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The laboratory's research is highly interdisciplinary,
with extensive interaction
with other universities, industry and numerous government
laboratories. The laboratory's faculty,
scientists, and students have backgrounds in
materials science, applied mathematics, electrical engineering, civil
engineering, mechanical and aerospace engineering, engineering
physics, computer science, chemistry and physics. They
have published more than 350 technical papers, and numerous books.
The laboratory has made many inventions and its members have over 25
patents either issued or pending. Two companies have been spun out of
the group's research
program.
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