Alineza Ostadhossein, graduate student in Engineering Science and Mechanics, under the advising of Professor Sulin Zhang, will travel in early March to San Antonio, Texas to attend The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) 2013. While at the conference, Alineza will present a paper entitled Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Crack Propagation in Silicon Nanowires/Effect of Lithiation. Further, Lithium ion batteries (LIBS) are widely used to power devices for portable electronics. Silicon represents one of the most promising anode materials for the next generation of LIBS. The effect of lithiation will be examined on the critical griffith’s load and strain energy distributions during crack propagation of Silicon NWs. To learn more about the conference, please visit their website.