Two articles in Science Direct’s Top 25 Hottest Articles in the materials category for the first quarter of 2006 are authored by members of the Penn State Microwave Center in the Materials Research Institute. "Anisothermal reaction synthesis of garnets, ferrites, and spinels in microwave field," an article published in Materials Research Bulletin in 2001, made the ranking at #13. Authors on the paper were R.D. Peelamedu, R. Roy, and D. Agrawal. At #14 is "Effect of powder reactivity on microwave sintering of alumina," by Y.Fang, J. Cheng, and D. Agrawal, from Materials Letters, January 2004.


Source: Penn State's Materials Research Institute Newsletter