Dr Salvatore Grasso
PhD, MSc, FHEA, MIMMM

Research Group News

February 2024

Leading researcher from Japan's Department of Science and Technology Innovation visits Queen Mary 2 February 2024 Professor Tadachika Nakayama from the Government of Japan's Department of Science and Technology Innovation visited Queen Mary University of London on 3rd February. During his visit, he introduced his pioneering work on nano-pulsed high-energy-assisted processing. In an exciting exchange of knowledge, the group discussed ceramics processing, pooling of ferroelectrics, … [more]

January 2023

First 'National Battery Day' celebration @QMUL! 27 January 2023 We are celebrating the National Battery Day on Friday 17th February and we want to harness this opportunity to promote battery careers as widely as possible with our amazing QMUL undergraduate students! What? Short 10 min talks by some of QMUL's leading scientists in battery science. Q&A session … [more]

Salvatore Grasso and co-authors presented with the Pfeil award by the IOM3 4 January 2023 Salvatore Grasso and co-authors including Theo Saunders were presented with the Pfeil award by the IOM3. The Pfeil Award is presented annually for published work of particular merit in the field of ceramics. Eligible papers must be published 2 years before the award is presented in a relevant IOM3 Journal, … [more]

December 2022

Journal of the American Ceramic Society associate editor 2 December 2022 On behalf of the editors of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society, I welcome you to the JACerS associate editor team for 2023. Your role is to make certain that manuscripts fit the JACerS Aims and Scope, injecting your subject area expertise and resolving differences among the submitted reviews. [more]

Journal of the American Ceramic Society associate editor 2 December 2022 On behalf of the editors of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society, I welcome you to the JACerS associate editor team for 2023. Your role is to make certain that manuscripts fit the JACerS Aims and Scope, injecting your subject area expertise and resolving differences among the submitted reviews. [more]

November 2022

Member of EPSRC Peer Review College 24 November 2022 Welcome to the EPSRC Peer Review College and thank you for agreeing to serve as a member. EPSRC places great value on the commitment of College members in our peer review activities and on behalf of the organisation I would like to thank you in advance for your time and … [more]

Electric Field Enhanced Processing of Advanced Materials III: Complexities and Opportunities Thanks to the organizer for the invitation and financial support 17 November 2022 https://engconf.us/conferences/materials-science-including-nanotechnology/electric-field-enhanced-processing-of-advanced-materials-iii-complexities-and-opportunities/ Field Enhanced Processing is a complex methodology. The first day of the Conference will therefore be dedicated to seminars which explain how the experiments are done, the relationship between the microstructural outcomes and the control variables, the measurement of properties influenced by flash, and … [more]

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Other News

ICAMMM-2022 was successfully held from 1 to 2 November 2022. This hybrid event was hosted by MMED, PEC Chandigarh. The 2-day conference was well-attended by scholars and scientists from worldwide. We gratefully thank all our wonderful Keynote Speakers, Speakers, Conference Attendees, Students, and Organizing Committee Members for making ICAMMM-2022 Conference the best ever. ICAMMM-2022 chaired four sessions on 1) Advanced Energy Materials 2) composites and their applications, 3) ADI Technology, and 4) Surface Technology in which the International speakers from USA, Poland, Singapore, Philippines, Italy, United Kingdom, Japan discussed and exchanged views.

First day session was divided into two which were ADI Technology and Advanced Processes in Metallurgy and Advanced Energy Materials in which a keynote lecture from 1) Prof. Vibhor Chaswal Consultant, TAT Technologies, St. Marys, Asst. Professor, Penn State University, USA. 2) Dr. Dariusz Garbiec Lukasiewicz- Research Network, Poznan Institute of Technology, Poland. 3) Prof. Gurpreet Singh Harold O. and Jane C. Massey Neff Professor, Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Kansas State University, USA. 4) Prof. Zhichuan J. Xu School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore gave their keynote lectures. There were 8 oral presentations in ADI Technology session followed by 8 oral presentations/8 posters on Advanced Energy Materials.

The second day consisted of two sessions titled "Surface Technology" and "Composites and Their Applications," each of which featured a keynote lecture given by 1. Dr. Wei Wei Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA. 2. Prof. Rey Y. Capangpangan Mindanao State University, Philippines. 3.  Dr. Jan Hosta, who is a senior researcher at ISTEC, CNR, Italy. In the area of Composites and their applications, there were 11 oral presentations and 10 poster presentations. This was followed by an excellent keynote lecture on Field assisted material engineering (FAME) given by Dr.  Salvatore Grasso, Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom, and Dr. Theresa Davey, Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering at Tohoku University, Japan, in the area of Surface Technology. There were also 8 oral presentations in Surface Technology session followed by 4 poster presentations.

ICAMMM-2022 highlights the latest advancements in materials research happening at international level. The conference also offered a wonderful opportunity for researchers, students, scientists, academic professionals, and industry leaders in the field to discuss current challenges in materials, manufacturing and metallurgy and share their ideas, and exchange research ideas with one another. The papers that were submitted made a significant contribution to the Conference.

Everyone who was there has only had positive things to say about the conference, which I have heard. Both the presenters and the attendees of the sessions had done a good amount of preparation. Everyone felt that we did a good job organizing the meetings, selecting thought-provoking topics. Congratulations on both a successful and memorable conference. It makes a cheering moment for us.