Summer students contribute to detonation and carbon nanomaterial research

Diarmuid Curran joined us as a visiting student from Trinity College Dublin and quickly became an integral part of our detonation team. As part of our work to understand the key physics that will unlock the next generation of propulsion, he took on responsibility for operation and improvement of the Stanford Linear Detonation Facility 2 (SLDF2). Among other contributions, his insights and innovations improved our smoke foil and schlieren diagnostics.

Alex Fisher joined the NanoEnergy lab from Cornell University. He helped with our research efforts regarding carbon nanomaterials using atomic force microscopy (AFM). He developed a powerful computational tool to improve sample identification, streamlining our data collection process. His tool will support many experiments to come, and we're looking forward to continuing this work!