THE STEPHEN B. KLEIN FACULTY OF |AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

Avia Rosenfeld | Nanostructured thermites offer unique opportunities for controlling ignition and energy release through engineered material architectures. This seminar presents the fabrication and characterization of Al/SiO₂ multilayer nanothermites produced by physical vapor deposition and examines their thermal and laser-induced ignition behavior.

Nour Aldeen Nasrallah | Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are nanoporous materials with strong potential for sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting, owing to their exceptionally high surface areas (~5,000 m²/g) and easy regeneration at low temperatures (~70 °C). However, their practical implementation is limited by slow heat and mass transport, poor sorbent utilization, and the difficulty of integrating MOF nanopowders into scalable macroscopic thermofluid systems.