University of Tennessee Research Foundation
Technology Transfer & Licensing
Steven Zinkle, Ph.D.
UTK-ORNL Governor’s Chair Professor for Nuclear Materials, University of Tennessee
Dr. Zinkle holds a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, after which he joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) as a Wigner Fellow, eventually rising to Corporate Fellow and holding various research, group leadership, and division director roles before joining UT in 2013. His research spans materials behavior under extreme conditions, advanced and additive manufacturing, physical metallurgy, radiation effects in ceramics and metallic alloys, and materials R&D for fission, fusion, and space reactor energy systems.
Available Technologies
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Expanding Metal Compatibility in Ultrasonic Additive ManufacturingResearchers at the University of Tennessee have developed and patented (US12551970B2) a novel metallic interlayer method that enables the successful UAM of tita ... (read more)
