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Hareesh Tippur<\/a>, McWane professor in the department, and Xinyu Zhang<\/a>, assistant professor in polymer and fiber engineering, have been awarded a three-year, $300,000 National Science Foundation grant for their research, \u201cNovel Lightweight Syntactic Foams: Synthesis, Processing and Characterization.\u201d They are investigating ways to develop structural foams that are stronger, as well as more energy efficient and energy absorbent, than similar materials on the market. Their engineered foams \u2014 or syntactic foams \u2014 are filled with hollow micron-sized ceramic balloons that have carbon nanotubes grown via an innovative microwave irradiation process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hareesh Tippur, McWane professor in the department, and Xinyu Zhang, assistant professor in polymer and fiber engineering, have been awarded a three-year, $300,000 National Science Foundation grant for their research, \u201cNovel Lightweight Syntactic Foams: Synthesis, Processing and Characterization.\u201d They are investigating ways to develop structural foams that are stronger, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nInto the Lab: Mechanical » Auburn Engineer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/?p=740\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Into the 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