Avinash M. Dongare

Interim Department Head and Professor

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

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Education

Ph.D., University of Virginia, Charlottesville (2008)

Research Focus

• Density functional theory simulations
• Electronic properties
• Phase stability
• Molecular dynamics simulations
• Deformation behavior
• Phase transformations
• Mesoscale modeling
• Quasi-corase-graining
• Kinetic Monte Carlo

Awards

• The Minerals, Metals, and Materials (TMS) Society Young leader Professional Development Award, 2015
• NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, 2015
• Outstanding Faculty Award, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Academic Year 2014-2015
• UConn Junior Faculty Summer Fellowship, Summer 2014
• ORISE/ORAU Visiting Faculty Fellow, US Army Research Laboratory, Summer 2013
• National Research Council (NRC) Research Associateship Award, 2007

Publications

Virtual texture analysis to understand microstructure effects on deformation twinning and detwinning behavior in BCC metals; Kannan, Aadhithyan; Tsurkan, Phillip; Dongare, Avinash M. Computational Materials Science (2025), 249, 113636

Unraveling the role of temperature on the onset of ejecta formation at atomic scales; Echeverria, Marco J.; Saunders, Alison M.; Rudd, Robert E.; Haxhimali, Tomorr; Fensin, Saryu J.; Dongare, Avinash M. Computational Materials Science (2025), 249, 113659

Shock-induced twinning/detwinning and spall failure in Cu-Ta nanolaminates at atomic scales; Echeverria, M. J.; Fensin, S. J.; Dongare, A. M. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering (2024), 32(8), 085014

Kumar, A. Mishra, J. Chen, and A. M. Dongare, Interface Microstructure Effects on Dynamic Failure Behavior of Layered FCC/BCC Microstructures, Sci. Rep. 1, 11365 (2023). [Link]

Liu, X. Lu, C. Zhu, Z. Bian, X. Song, J. Sun, B. Zhang, J. Weng, A. Subramanian, X. Tong, L. Zhang, A. M. Dongare, C.-Y. Nam, Y. Ding, G. Zheng, H. Tan, P.-X. Gao, Unraveling Anisotropic and Pulsating Etching of ZnO Nanorods in Hydrochloric Acid via Correlative Electron Microscopy, ACS Nano 13, 12603 (2023). [Link]

Parida, A. Dobley, C. B. Carter, and A. M. Dongare, Phase engineering of layered anode materials during ion-intercalation in Van der Waal heterostructures, Sci. Rep. 13, 5408 (2023). [Link]

Chen, S. Galitskiy, A. Mishra, and A. M. Dongare, Modeling laser interactions with aluminum and tantalum targets using a hybrid atomistic-continuum model, J. Appl. Phys. 133, 105901 (2023). [Link]

S. Galitskiy, A. Mishra, and A. M. Dongare, Modeling Shock-induced Void Collapse in Single-crystal Ta Systems at the Mesoscales, Int. J. Plasticity 164, 103596 (2023). [Link]

S. Parida, Y. Wang, H. Zhao, H. Htoon, T. M. Kucinski, M. Chubarov, T. Choudhury, J. M. Redwing, A. M. Dongare, M. T. Pettes, Tuning of the electronic and vibrational properties of epitaxial MoS2 through He-ion beam modification, Nanotechnology 34, 085702 (2022). [Link]

R. Sainju, D. Rathnayake, H. Tan, G. Bollas, A. M Dongare, S. L Suib, and Y. Zhu, Beyond In Situ ETEM Imaging: Unveiling the Size-dependent Oxidation Mechanism of Metallic Nanoparticles by Individual Nanoparticle-level Oxidation Kinetic Analysis, Microscopy and Microanalysis 18, 160 (2022). [Link]

K. Ma and A. M. Dongare, Role of α-ε-α Phase Transformation on the Spall behavior of Iron at Atomic Scales, J. Mater. Sci. 57, 12556 (2022). [Link]

A. Mishra, K. Ma, and A.M. Dongare, Virtual diffraction simulations using the quasi-coarse-grained dynamics method to understand and interpret plasticity contributions during in situ shock experiments, J. Mater. Sci. 57, 12782 (2022). [Link]

G. Pilania, B. R. Goldsmith, M. Yoon, and A. M. Dongare, Recent advances in computational materials design: methods, applications, algorithms, and informatics, J. Mater. Sci. 57, 10471 (2022). [Link]

A. Mishra, M. J. Echeverria, K. Ma, S. Parida, C. Chen, S. Galitskiy and A. M. Dongare, Virtual texture analysis to investigate the deformation mechanisms in metal microstructures at the atomic scale, J. Mater. Sci. 57, 10549 (2022). [Link]

R. Sainju, D. Rathnayake, H. Tan, G. Bollas, A. M. Dongare, S. L. Suib, and Y. Zhu, In Situ Studies of Single-Nanoparticle-Level Nickel Thermal Oxidation: From Early Oxide Nucleation to Diffusion-Balanced Oxide Thickening, ACS Nano 16, 6468–647 (2022). [Link]

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