Nastasi named Materials Research Society Fellow

March 21, 2011—Michael Nastasi of the Laboratory's Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies has been selected as a 2011 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fellow. The Fellows are outstanding MRS members whose sustained and distinguished contributions to the advancement of materials research are internationally recognized. Each year, no more than 0.2 percent of the current membership of the Society is elected to the status of Fellow.

Nastasi’s award citation reads, “For seminal contributions to the field of ion-solid interactions and radiation effects, including synthesis of novel materials using energetic ions, with applications to energy, manufacturing, nanotechnology, and advanced microelectronics.” 

Nastasi will be formally recognized during the 2011 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco.

Research and previous awards

Nastasi’s research includes

• irradiation effects in nanostructured materials
• irradiation-induced phase transformations
• ion-enhanced and plasma synthesis of materials
• mechanical properties of metastable materials and nanoscale structures
• and materials analysis using ion beam techniques.

Nastasi, who has a doctorate in materials science and engineering from Cornell University, is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Laboratory Fellow. He directs the Center for Materials at Irradiation and Mechanical Extremes (CMIME), a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center. Previously, Nastasi was the nanoelectronics and mechanics thrust leader at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies and the team leader of the nanoscience and ion-solid interaction team in Structure/Property Relations (MST-8).

Founded in 1973, the MRS has more than 15,100 members from the United States and nearly 70 other countries. The Society is different from that of single discipline professional societies because it encourages communication and technical information exchange across the various fields of science affecting materials.