ARPA-E funds UVA-led team to develop new coating for turbine engin
E-Mail Elizabeth J. Opila, professor of materials science and engineering and director of the Rolls-Royce University Technology Center on Advanced Material Systems at the University of Virginia, has earned a grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy to increase turbine engine materials temperature tolerance by 200 degrees Celsius. "This is an audacious goal for the materials science and engineering community," Opila said. "In the turbine engine industry, a ten-degree improvement...
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