Seok-Woo Lee
Seok-Woo Lee
Assistant Professor, Castleman Term Professor in Engineering Innovation
Ph.D., Stanford University (2011)
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
97 North Eagleville Road, Unit 3136
Storrs, CT 06269-3136
Office: IMS-009A
Phone: (860) 486-8028
Email: seok-woo.lee@uconn.edu Web: http://swlee.engr.uconn.edu
Research Interests
- Mechanical behavior of advanced structural materials
- in-situ nanomechanics: nanoindentation and micropillar compression/tension
- Dislocation simulations: discrete dislocation dynamics and molecular dynamics
- Single crystal growth of novel intermetallic compounds
- Laser lithography fabrication of three dimensional periodic nano-architectures
- High strain-rate deformation of metals and alloys
- Strong-but-compliant polymer nanocomposites
Awards & Honors
| 2020 | Castleman Term Professor in Engineering Innovation (UConn) |
| 2019 | Mentorship Excellence Award (UConn) |
| 2018 | MSE Teaching Excellence of the Year (UConn) |
| 2018 | Research Excellence Award (UConn) |
| 2017 | MSE Teaching Excellence of the Year (UConn) |
| 2016 | Research Excellence Award (UConn) |
| 2016 | NASA Early Career Faculty Award |
| 2011 | Kavli Nanoscience Institute Postdoc Fellowship (Caltech) |
| 2007 | Advisory Board Fellowship (Stanford) |
Recent Publications
Tyler J. Flanagan, Sriram Vijayan, Sergey Galitskiy, Jacob Davis, Benjamin Bedard, Avinash Dongare, Mark Aindow, Cyril L. Williams, Seok-Woo Lee, “Shock-induced deformation twinning and softening in magnesium single crystals,” Materials & Design 194, 108884, (2020).
Jessica M. Maita, Gyuho Song, Mariel Colby, Seok-Woo Lee, “Atomic arrangement and mechanical properties of amorphous boron,” Materials & Design 193, 108856 (2020).
Cain J. Hung, Sanjeev K. Nayak, Yu Sun, Colette Fennessy, Venkat K. Vedula, Sonia Tulyani, Seok-Woo Lee, Pamir Alpay, “Novel Al-X alloys with improved hardness,” Materials & Design, 192, 108699 (2020).
Sumit Suresh, Seok-Woo Lee, Mark Aindow, Harold D Brody, Victor K Champagne, “Mesoscale evolution of jet initiation behavior and microstructure evolution during cold spray single particle impact,” Acta Materialia – 182, 197-206 (2020).
Hetal D. Patel, Seok-Woo Lee, “Spherical indentation on tungsten single crystal: transition from source-controlled plasticity to bulk plasticity,” Scripta Materialia, 175, 16-19 (2020).
Tyler J. Flanagan, Oleg Kovalenko, Eugen Rabkin, Seok-Woo Lee, “The effect of defects on strength of gold microparticles,”Scripta Materialia, 171, 83-86 (2019).
Tyler J. Flanagan, Benjamin Bedard, Alex Ernst, Avinash M. Dongare, Seok-Woo Lee, Harold D. Brody, Victor K. Champagne Jr, Mark Aindow, “Mechanical properties of supersonic-impacted Al6061 microparticles,” – Scripta Materialia, 171, 52-56 (2019).
Gyuho Song, Vladislav Borisov, William R. Meier, Mingyu Xu, Keith J. Dusoe, John T. Sypek, Roser Valenti, Paul C. Canfield, Seok-Woo Lee*, “Ultrahigh elastically compressible and strain-engineerable intermetallic compounds under uni-axial mechanical loading,” APL Materials, 7, 061104 (2019).
Gyuho Song, Seok-Woo Lee, “Effect of temperature on surface-controlled dislocation multiplication in body-centered-cubic metal micropillars,” Computational Materials Science, 168, 172-179 (2019).
Benjamin Bedard, Alex Ernst, Tyler J. Flanagan, Avinash M. Dongare, Seok-Woo Lee, Harold D. Brody, Victor K. Champagne Jr, Mark Aindow, “Microstructure and micromechanical response in gas-atomized Al6061 alloy powder and cold-sprayed splats,” Journal of Thermal Spray Technology, 27, 1563-1578 (2018).
Ian N. Bakst, Keith J. Dusoe, Gil Drachuk, James R. Neilson, Paul C. Canfield, Seok-Woo Lee, Christopher R. Weinberger, “Effects of point defects on the mechanical response of LaRu2P2,” Acta Materialia, 160, 224-234 (2018).
Ian N. Bakst, Hang Yu, Mohammadreza Bahadori, Haibo Yu, Seok-Woo Lee, Mark Aindow, Christopher R. Weinberger, “Insights into the plasticity of Ag3Sn from Density Functional Theory,” International Journal of Plasticity, 110, 57-73 (2018).
Sumit Suresh, Seok-Woo Lee, Mark Aindow, Harold Brody, Victor R. Champagne, Avinash M. Dongare, “Unraveling the mesoscale evolution of microstructure during supersonic in aluminum powder particles,” Scientific Report, 8, 10075 (2018).
Ian N. Bakst, John T. Sypek, Seok-Woo Lee, James R. Neilson, Christopher R. Weinberger, “Modeling pseudo-elastic behavior in small-scale ThCr2Si2-type crystals,” Computational Materials Science, 150, 86-95 (2018).
Keara Frawley, Ian Bakst, John T. Sypek, Sriram Vijayan, Christopher R. Weinberger, Paul C. Canfield, Mark Aindow, Seok-Woo Lee, “A nanoindentation study on plastic deformation and fracture behaviors of [0 0 1] CaFe2As2intermetallic compound,” JOM 70, 1074-1080 (2018) – featured in journal cover
Gyuho Song, Tai Kong, Keith J. Dusoe, Paul C. Canfield, Seok-Woo Lee, “Shear localization and size-dependent strength of of YCd6quasicrystal approximant at the micrometer scale,” Journal of Materials Science, 53, 6980-6990 (2018).
Keith J. Dusoe, Xinyi Ye, Kim Kisslinger, Aaron Stein, Chang-Young Nam, Seok-Woo Lee, “Ultra-high elastic energy storage in metal-oxide-infiltrated hybrid polymer nanocomposite,” Nano Letters, 17, 7416–7423 (2017).
John T. Sypek, Hang Yu, Keith J. Dusoe, Gil Drachuck, Hetal Petal, Amanda M. Giroux, Alan I. Goldman, Andreas Kreyssig, Paul C. Canfield, Sergey L. Bud’ko, Christopher R. Weinberger, Seok-Woo Lee, “Superelasticity and cryogenic linear shape memory effects in CaFe2As2,” Nature Communications, 8, 1083 (2017).
John T. Sypek, Christopher R. Weinberger, Sriram Vijayan, Mark Aindow, Paul C. Canfield, Seok-Woo Lee, “Superelastic and micaceous deformation in the intermetallic compound CaFe2As2,” Scripta Materialia 141 10-14 (2017).
Keith J. Dusoe, Sriram Vijayan, Thomas R. Bissell, Jie Chen, Jack E. Morley, Leopoldo Valencia, Avinash M. Dongare, Mark Aindow & Seok-Woo Lee, “Strong, ductile and thermally stable Cu-based metal-intermetallic nanocomposites,” Scientific Reports 7 40409 (2017).
