News

Selected Research and Outreach Media

• Interview NY Times – Wirecutter: Expert input on nanoceramics coatings.
  February 1, 2022
• Ceramic Tech Chat: Career Interview.
  November 10, 2021
• UC Davis Unfold Podcast: Guest in ‘Science of Superheroes’ episode (Interview).
  November 9, 2021
• Ceramic Tech Today: Excess aluminum extends Hall-Petch relation in nanocrystalline ceramics.
  November 5, 2021
• Ion battery cathode:
  August 11, 2021
• Engineering Superheroes: Video series funded by crowdfunding and NSF on the science of Superheroes.
  April 07, 2021
• AZO Materials: The Benefits of the Gold Open Access Journal (Interview).
  Jun 19, 2020
• Ceramic Tech Today: Improving toughness of nanocrystalline ceramics.
  10 July, 2018
• Science Trends: The Driving Forces of Grain Growth and Densification during Sintering Evolution.
  18 January, 2018
• Materials Today by Elsevier: Dopants go against the grain in ceramics.
  13 March 2017
• Materials Today by Elsevier: Lab profile: Ricardo H. R. Castro, University of California-Davis.
  
• Ceramic Tech Today: Nanomaterials’ grain boundaries absorb defects, lengthen life of nuclear fuel.
  17 March 2015
• Ceramic Tech Today: Sintering technique processes ultrafine nanocrystalline spinel with grain sizes of less than 10 nm.
  6 December, 2016