Luke Eric Thornley

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  • Title
    Staff Scientist
  • Email
    thornley1@llnl.gov
  • Phone
    (925) 422-6173
  • Organization
    PLS-MSD-MATERIALS SCIENCE DIVISION

Research interests 

  • Development of a material agnostic metal jetting 3D printing system. 

  • Hot press sintering of advanced ceramics, including ceramic powder pre-processing 

  • Hydriding of Li 

Highlights 

https://www.llnl.gov/news/lawrence-livermore-reinventing-metal-3d-printing-new-direct-writing-process

Subject Matter Expertise  

Glovebox operation and maintenance 

Induction heating and induction coils 

Operation and commissioning of capital equipment 

Working with hazardous materials 

MS, Materials Science, UC Davis, ongoing

BS, Materials Engineering, Cal Poly SLO, 2015

Swetha Chandrasekaran, Ryan Lu, Richard Landingham, James T. Cahill, Luke Thornley, Wyatt Du Frane, Marcus A. Worsley, Joshua D. Kuntz, Additive manufacturing of graded B4C-Al cermets with complex shapes, Materials & Design, Volume 188, 2020, 108516, ISSN 0264-1275, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2020.108516. 

 

Elton, Eric & Reeve, Thomas & Thornley, Luke & Joshipura, Ishan & Paul, Phillip & Pascall, Andrew & Jeffries, Jason. (2020). Dramatic effect of oxide on measured liquid metal rheology. Journal of Rheology. 64. 119-128. https://doi.org/10.1122/1.5117144. 

 

Chen, Wen & Thornley, Luke & Coe, Hannah & Tonneslan, Samuel & Vericella, John & Zhu, Cheng & Duoss, Eric & Hunt, Ryan & Wight, Michael & Apelian, Diran & Pascall, Andrew & Kuntz, Joshua & Spadaccini, Christopher. (2017). Direct metal writing: Controlling the rheology through microstructure. Applied Physics Letters. 110. 094104. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4977555.