Delower Hossain

Assistant Professor

Biography

2024 – Present
Assistant Professor
MABE UT Space Institute
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

2023 – 2024
Materials Scientist                                 
National Energy Technology Laboratory, Albany, OR

2021 – 2023
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA  

2018 – 2021
Graduate Research Assistant   
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 

2014 – 2016
Graduate Teaching Assistant  
Missouri State University, Springfield, MO

Research

• Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics
• High Entropy Alloys and Ceramics
• Processing-Microstructure-Property Relationship
• First-Principle Calculations
• Physical Vapor Deposition
• Data Driven Materials Discovery
• Thin Films
• Electronic Materials

Education

• PhD Materials Science and Engineering – Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 2021
• MS Materials Science – Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, 2016
• BS Materials and Metallurgical Engineering – Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh, 2013

Publications

• MD Hossain, T Borman, NS Mcllwaine, J-P Maria. High power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) synthesis of high entropy carbides. J Am Ceram Soc. 105: 3862– 3873, 2022
• MD Hossain, T Borman, C Oses, MEsters, C Toher, L Feng, A Kumar, WG Fahrenholtz, S. Curtarolo, D Brenner, JM LeBeau, J-P Maria. Entropy landscaping of high entropy carbides. Mater. 33, 2102904, 2021.
• MD Hossain, T Borman, A Kumar, X Chen, A Khosravani, S. R.Kalidindi, B Paisley, M. Esters, C. Oses, C. Toher, S. Curtarolo, J.M. LeBeau, D Brenner, J-P Maria. Carbon stoichiometry and mechanical properties of high entropy carbides. Acta Materialia, 215, 117051, 2021.
• M Esters, C Oses, D Hicks, MJ Mehl, M Jahnatek, MD Hossain, J-P Maria, D Brenner, C Toher, S Curtarolo. Settling the matter of the role of vibrations in the stability of high-entropy carbides. Nat Commun12, 5747 (2021)
• CM Rost, T Borman, MD Hossain, M Lim, KFQ Tomko, J Tomko, DW Brenner, J-P Maria, PE Hopkins. Electron and phonon thermal conductivity in high entropy carbides with variable carbon content. Acta Materialia, June 2020
• J Hayden, MD Hossain, Y Xiong, K Ferri, W Zhu, MV Imperatore, N Giebink, S Trolier-Mckinstry, I Dabo, J-P Maria. Ferroelectricity in boron substituted aluminium nitride thin films. Rev. Materials 5, 044412, 2021.