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Nov 2025: Bunty Tomar’s paper on low-temperature sintering of refractory thin films has been published in Nano Letters.
Oct 2025: A book chapter authored by Dr. Nautiyal has been published in Nanotubes and Nanosheets, The Science and Applications of White Graphene (CRC Press). The chapter was co-written with Prof. Sohail Mohammed, Dr. Kazue Orikasa, and Prof. Arvind Agarwal. The book is edited By Prof. Ying (Ian) Chen, Dr. Srikanth Mateti, and Dr. Qiran Cai.
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Oct 2025: Bunty Tomar has been selected as a finalist for the university-wide Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.
Oct 2025: Bunty Tomar presented his research at the Materials Science & Technology (MS&T) technical meeting and exhibition in Columbus, Ohio.
September 30,2025: Bunty Tomar receives the Graduate Excellence in Materials Science (GEMS) award by the American Ceramic Society.
September 11, 2025: Dr. Nautiyal delivered an invited keynote webinar entitled “Mechanochemistry at Sliding Contacts” on Surface Ventures.
September 1, 2025: OSU researchers win NSF Major Research Instrumental award to purchase a state-of-the-art cold spray metal 3D printer.
August 2025: Two new MS students, Chandler Saxon and Zidan Mohiuddin, join the lab.
July 2025: Foyez Ahmad won South-Central Sun Grant’s 2025 Summer Graduate Research Fellowship
May 2025: Nautiyal’s research group attended the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE) Annual Meeting in Atlanta from May 18th to 22nd.
Bunty Tomar received Platinum (first position) award for his research poster presentation.
Foyez Ahmad received Silver (third position) award for their poster presentation.
April 19, 2025: Bunty Tomar and Foyez Ahmad presented their research at the 43rd Oklahoma AIAA/ASME Symposium hosted by the University of Central Oklahoma
April 17, 2025: Corban Mullins presented his first research poster at the 2025 Freshman Research Scholars Symposium
March 2025: Pranjal Nautiyal co-organized the Advanced Real Time Imaging symposium at the 2025 TMS Annual Meeting in Las Vegas
March 2025: Pranjal Nautiyal gave a talk on Tribosintering of Nanocrystals at the 2025 TMS Annual Meeting in Las Vegas
Feb 11, 2025: Bunty Tomar receives Outstanding Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Jan 2025: Pranjal Nautiyal delivered a talk entitled Mechanically-Assisted Manufacturing of High-Performance Structural Materials at the Joint Program Meeting of Central Oklahoma ASME Section and ASME OSU Student Sections
Nov 22, 2024: Pranjal Nautiyal delivered an invited webinar entitled “Tribosintering of nanocrystals – Manufacturing wear-resistant metal oxide coatings at ambient temperature” on TriboNet.
August 2024: Pranjal Nautiyal receives NASA EPSCoR Rapid Response Research (R3) award to conduct research on lubricants for electric aircraft This was also covered by a CEAT story.
May 2024: Pranjal Nautiyal delivered a research talk entitled “Room Temperature Sintering of TiO2 Nanoparticles – Exploiting Friction to Manufacture Wear-Resistant Coatings” in the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE) Annual Meeting in Minneapolis.
January 2024: Two new PhD students, Bunty Tomar and Foyez Ahmad, join the lab.