Welcome to the XTREMES Lab at UCF
Research at the XTREMES Lab is focused on developing the next generation of extreme environment materials and advanced manufacturing processes to fabricate them.
Cutting edge materials are being created, including ceramics, ceramic matrix composites (CMCs), ceramic-refractory metal interpenetrating phase composites (IPCs), and ultra-high temperature ceramic and composites (UHTCs).
The team at the XTREMES Lab will continue and foster new collaborations with university groups, industry and government labs.
UHTCs are a combination of CMCs, often C/SiC or SiC/SiC, with refractory metal elements, such as Hf, Zr, Mo, Ta, Nb, and their carbides, nitrides, borides and oxides. These amazing materials have the potential to be employed in extreme environment applications, such as hypersonic propulsion and thermal protection systems, aircraft engine and power generation gas turbines, nuclear fission and fusion energy, concentrated solar power generation, and industrial manufacturing.
The XTREMES lab is currently being created by Prof. David Mitchell in the new UCF HyperSpace center in UCF’s Research Park. The vision for the lab is to install the advanced manufacturing, chemistry, densification and analytical equipment required to develop and manufacture, via efficient processes, extreme environment materials. This fundamental and applied research will be facilitated by Dr. Mitchell and an amazing team of undergraduate, graduate, post-doctoral and research scientists with a passion for exploring the unknown, developing the unexpected, and applying that technology to real applications to help improve our World!
david.j.mitchell@ucf.edu
Equipment planned for the XTREMES Lab
