Research Overview

The research avenues being explored in Dlott lab have been detailed in separate sections. You can explore specific interests by exploring the topics in the sidebar.

Current active research support:

NNSA., 413 DOE DE-NA000. $200,000. July 1 2024-June 30, 2028, University of Illinois Chicago, Prime. PI: Russell Hemley/Dlott. “Chicago/DOE Alliance Center – A Center of Excellence for Materials at Extremes”. Shock metallization of solids and liquids.

ARO, W911NF-25-2-0180 “More powerful detonations with Aluminum and Boron”, $400,000. Aug. 28,2025-Aug 27, 2027. Tabletop experiments to study shocked explosives with Al and B.

(Abbreviations NNSA = National Nuclear Security Administration, DOE = Department of Energy, ARO = Army Research Office)

Expired grants:

ARO MURI via NC State University, “Multi-modal Energy Flow at Atomically Engineering Interfaces”, 6/1/2016-5/31/2021, $1042,708.

ARO, “Detonation on a tabletop”, 6/15/2019-5/14/2023, $720,000.

AFOSR, “Watching the microstructure during shock initiation of energetic materials”, 5/1/2019-4/31/2022, $750,000.

AFOSR MURI, “Integrating Multiscale Modeling and Experiments to Develop a Meso-Informed Predictive Capability for Explosives Safety and Performance. Subcontract from University of Missouri. 7/1/19-6/30/24, $1,326,250

AFOSR DURIP, “Fast multiframe camera to measure hot spots in shocked energetic microstructures”, $405,093.

ARO, Detonation and fragmentation on a tabletop”, 10/1/2022-9/30/25, $540,000.

(Abbreviations ARO = Army Research Office, and AFOSR = Air Force Office of Scientific Research)