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UA Engineer Predicts Materials Failure From the Tiniest of Grains

Researcher Katerina Aifantis is probing mechanical processes at the nanoscale with a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Katerina Aifantis, whose father was teaching her about negative numbers when she was 3 years old, started college at 16, earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering at 19 and a master’s degree in materials engineering at 20. (more…)

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