Dr. Chmielus’ Lab is focused on the influences and relationship of composition, impurities, manufacturing, and processing parameters on the microstructure and properties of structural and multifunctional metals in bulk, foam, thin films, and single crystalline form with a focus on 3D structures produced by additive manufacturing.

Current projects involve different materials, such as Copper, Ni-based superalloys and Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys (MSMAs), as well as different Additive Manufacturing techniques such as Binder Jet Printing (BJP) and Laser-Engineered Net Shape (LENS), and a variety of characterization techniques.

Current collaborations include other Pitt faculty, researchers from Ohio State University, Boise State University, England, Poland, Finland, Spain, Germany, ExOne and General Carbide.