Professional Preparation

University of California, Berkeley Materials Science & Engineering B.S. 1995
University of California, Berkeley Mechanical Engineering B.S. 1995
The Johns Hopkins University Materials Science & Engineering M.S. 1997
The Johns Hopkins University Materials Science & Engineering Ph.D. 2000
Max Planck Institute for Metals Research Postdoc area: Thin Film Plasticity 2000-2002
Stuttgart, Germany

Appointments

2010-present Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering

2004-2010 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

2002-2004 Staff Scientist, Department headed by Prof. Eduard Arzt

Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, Germany

Five Publications Most Related to this Proposal

• W.-C. Li and T.J. Balk, “Achieving Finer Pores and Ligaments in Nanoporous Palladium-Nickel
  Thin Films”, Scripta Materialia, 62, pp. 167-169 (2010).
• W.-C. Li and T.J. Balk, “Preparation and Hydrogen Absorption/Desorption of Nanoporous
  Palladium Thin Films”, Materials, 2, pp. 2496-2509 (2009).
• T.J. Balk, C. Eberl, Y. Sun, K.J. Hemker and D.S. Gianola, “Tensile and Compressive
  Microspecimen Testing of Bulk Nanoporous Gold”, JOM, 61, pp. 26-31 (2009).
• Y. Sun, J. Ye, A.M. Minor and T.J. Balk, “In Situ Indentation of Nanoporous Gold Thin Films in
  the Transmission Electron Microscope”, Microscopy Research and Technique, 72, pp. 232-241
  (2009)
• Y. Sun, K.P. Kucera, S.A. Burger and T.J. Balk, “Microstructure, Stability and Thermomechanical
  Behavior of Crack-Free Thin Films of Nanoporous Gold”, Scripta Materialia, 58, pp. 1018-1021
  (2008).

Five Other Significant Publications

• M. Legros, G. Dehm, E. Arzt and T.J. Balk, “Observation of Giant Diffusivity Along Dislocation
  Cores”, Science, 319, pp. 1646-1649 (2008).
• Y. Sun and T.J. Balk, “A Multi-Step Dealloying Method to Produce Nanoporous Gold with No
  Volume Change and Minimal Cracking”, Scripta Materialia, 58, pp. 727-730 (2008).
• Y. Sun, J. Ye, Z. Shan, A.M. Minor and T.J. Balk, “The Mechanical Behavior of Nanoporous Gold
  Thin Films”, JOM, 59, pp. 54-58 (2007).
• T.J. Balk, G. Dehm and E. Arzt, “Parallel Glide: Unexpected Dislocation Motion Parallel to the
  Substrate in Ultrathin Copper Films”, Acta Materialia, 51, pp. 4471-4485 (2003).
• T.J. Balk and K.J. Hemker, “High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy of Dislocation
  Core Dissociations in Gold and Iridium”, Philosophical Magazine A, 81, pp. 1507-1531 (2001).