S. Pamir Alpay
Interim Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., University of Maryland (1999)
Innovation Partnership Building at UConn Tech Park
159 Discovery Drive
Storrs, CT 06269
Phone: (860) 486-6917
Email: pamir.alpay@uconn.edu Web: http://alpay.ims.uconn.edu
2020 | Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor |
2020 | Fellow of ASM International |
2018 | Elected Fellow of the American Ceramic Society |
2018 | UConn-The American Association of Professors (AAUP) Excellence in Career Research and Creativity Award |
2017 | General Electric Professor in Advanced Manufacturing |
2014 | Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society |
2013 | Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, University of Connecticut |
2013 | University of Connecticut Materials Science and Engineering Award for Teaching Excellence |
2012 | Elected Member of Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering |
2008-2010 | United Technologies Corporation (UTC) Professor in Engineering Innovation Award |
2004 | Outstanding Junior Faculty Award of the School of Engineering, University of Connecticut |
2001 | National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award |
C. J. Hung, S. K. Nayak, L. R. Parent, R. J. Hebert, and S. P. Alpay, ”Matrix Controlled Structural Phase Transformations in Embedded Metallic Nanoparticles,” Scripta Mater. 213, 114632 (2022), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2022.114632
U. A. Anene and S. P. Alpay, “Post-synthetic Modification of STAM-17-OEt Metal-organic Frameworks via First Principles Calculations, ACS Omega 7, 7791-7805, (2022), https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.1c06658
R. S. Uwanyuze, S. P. Alpay, S. Schafföner, and S. Sahoo, “A First Principles Analysis of Oxidation in Titanium Alloys with Aluminum and Vanadium,” Surface Science 719, 122026 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.susc.2022.122026
K. Co, S. P. Alpay, S. Nakhmanson, and J. Mangeri, “Surface Charge Mediated Polar Response in Ferroelectric Nanoparticles,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 119, 262903 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0077629, Editor’s Pick
J. Kong, S. K. Nayak,K. Co,S. Nayak, J. Wu, A. Feteira, K. A. Beyer, S. P. Alpay, and A. Pramanick, “Point Defect Induced Incommensurate Dipole Moments in Dion-Jacobson Layered Perovskites,” Phys. Rev. B. 104, 224104 (2021), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.104.224104
C. M. Atkinson, M. C. Guziewski,S. P. Coleman,S. K. Nayak, and S. P. Alpay, “First Principles Analysis of Impurities in Silicon Carbide Grain Boundaries,” Acta Mater. 221, 117421 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2021.117421
L. Miller, K. Zhou, J. Tang, L. D. Frame, R. J. Hebert, L. R. Narayan, A. Merkouriou, S. P. Alpay, and J. Kim, “Thermal-Mechanical Finite Element Analysis of Orthogonal Cutting for Normalized Steels,” The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology 114, 3337–3356 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-021-07130-2
T. N. Vu, S. K. Nayak, N. T. T. Nguyen, S. P Alpay, and H. Tran, “Atomic configurations for materials research: A case study of some simple binary compounds,” AIP Advances 11, 045120 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0044180
E. Nykwest, D. Trujillo, and S. P. Alpay, “Surface Localized Magnetism in Transition Metal Doped Alumina, Scientific Reports 11, 6410 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85791-5
S. Sahoo, D. Dekel, R. Maric, and S. P. Alpay, “Atomistic Insights into the Hydrogen Oxidation Reaction of Palladium-Ceria Bifunctional Catalysts for Anion-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells,” ACS Catalysis 11, 2561−2571 (2021); https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.0c04646
T. K. Reid, S. K. Nayak, and S. P. Alpay, “Strain-induced Band Gap Engineering in Pnictogen Chalcogenide Topological Insulators,” J. Appl. Phys. 129, 015304 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0028231
P. Toloueinia, H. Khassaf, A. Shirazi Amin, Z. Tobin, S. P. Alpay, and S. L. Suib, “Moisture‒Induced Structural Degradation in Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskite Thin Films,” ACS Applied Energy Materials 3, 8240–8248 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.0c00638