{"id":13705,"date":"2012-11-14T19:27:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T19:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=13705"},"modified":"2012-11-14T19:27:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T19:27:28","slug":"materials-modeling-expert-avinash-dongare-joins-uconn-faculty-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/11\/materials-modeling-expert-avinash-dongare-joins-uconn-faculty-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Materials Modeling Expert Avinash Dongare Joins UConn Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Colin Poitras (UConn Today)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/avinash1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13742 img-responsive lazyload\" title=\"avinash1\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/avinash1-300x262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/262;\" \/><\/a>As scientists across the country work to unlock the potential of new materials as part of President Obama\u2019s Materials Genome Initiative, materials modeling experts like Avinash Dongare are in high demand.<\/p>\n<p>Dongare uses his skills in computational materials science to delve deep into the atomic microstructure of materials to find the optimal mix of components experimental scientists need to build stronger, faster, lighter, and more resilient steels, plastics, ceramics, and other materials.<\/p>\n<p>Using advanced algorithms, Dongare\u2019s computer simulations screen out weaker or more problematic structures in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo run an experiment and do analysis costs a lot of money and a lot of time,\u201d says Dongare, one of eight new tenure-track professors brought in to UConn\u2019s School of Engineering this year as part of President Susan Herbst\u2019s Faculty 500 initiative. \u201cAnd it\u2019s very difficult to identify individual processes at the atomic level, because researchers often don\u2019t have that kind of equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full profile <a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/blog\/2012\/11\/materials-modeling-expert-avinash-dongare-joins-uconn-faculty\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As scientists across the country work to unlock the potential of new materials as part of President Obama&#8217;s Materials Genome Initiative, materials modeling experts like Avinash Dongare are in high demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[38],"class_list":["post-13705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 05:19:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13705"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=13705"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}