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2022 Accomplishments: Ryan Finkelstein

Ryan working in the glovebox
Ryan working in the glovebox

We’re spending the last days of 2022 celebrating our best research accomplishments of the year! Graduate student Ryan Finkelstein shares his best accomplishment below:

“This year I was awarded a $100K proposal to 3D print ZrC for nuclear thermal propulsion applications. I also nitrided dysprosium using a carbothermic reduction process, which will eventually be used to make uranium nitride.”

A flake of nitrided dysprosium
A flake of nitrided dysprosium