Composites recycling project highlighted in USC NewsThe Center's collaborative project on recycling composites with Professor Travis Williams from the Chemistry department has been featured in USC News. Click this link for the full story.
The Gill Corporation VisitA group of engineering and chemistry students visited The Gill Corporation in El Monte on July 18th, and were treated to a fascinating tour of the manufacturing plant. The Gill Corporation, founded in 1947 by M.C. Gill, an alumnus of USC. The Gill Corporation is a vertically integrated supplier of high-performance composite materials and products…
Emily Anne Vargas Wins 1st place for her technical poster at National Space & Missile Materials SymposiumMaterials Science Ph.D. student Emily Anne Vargas was awarded 1st Place for her Technical Poster titled “Preform Processing of Oxide-Oxide Ceramic Matrix Composites (Ox-Ox CMCs)” at the National Space & Missile Materials Symposium + Commercial and Government Responsive Access to Space Technology Exchange (NSMMS + CRASTE) Joint Symposia in Madison, WI June 24-27th, 2024. Emily Anne represented the University of…
Recycling Composites to Sustain Wind EnergyProfessors Steve Nutt (Materials Science) and Travis Williams (Chemistry) will undertake a collaborative project to develop a recycling solution for composites in wind blades. The PI’s will develop a chemical solvolysis method to separate fibers and matrix, then return both components to service for multiple life cycles. The project, entitled “Recycling Composites to Sustain Wind…
USC M.C. Gill Composites Center participate in UCLA TBP Research ExpoOn June 2nd, 2023, the Tau Beta Pi Research Center Expo was held at UCLA to bring together professional and aspiring researchers from various disciplines. Among them were three graduate students from the USC M.C. Gill Composites Center: Alison Kennedy, Carineh Ghafafian, and Patricio Martinez. These students were the only representatives from USC and talked…
Alison Kennedy wins awards at ASM student nightAlison Kennedy, a 2nd-year graduate student advised by Prof. Steve Nutt at USC's M.C. Gill Composites Center, won the 1st Place and People's Choice awards in the graduate division at the annual Student Night of the Los Angeles Chapter of ASM International, hosted in Marina Del Rey on May 23rd, 2023. Alison's presentation highlighted the potential…