November 14, 2022

Husker Engineers Jongwan Eun (center left), Yuris Dzenis (center) and Seunghee Kim (center right) pose in Dzenis’ lab as Benjamin Bashtovoi (left), a junior mechanical engineering major, and Mikhail Kartashov (right), an engineering graduate student, test carbon-fiber samples. Eun, Dzenis and Kim have received $675,000 from the Department of Energy’s Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research to investigate how inorganic microfibers can make a more resilient barrier material to improve the long-term storage capabilities of vessels that contain high-level nuclear waste and spent nuclear fuel (SNF). November 14, 2022. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.