NEWARK, N.J., Oct. 19 -- New Jersey Institute of Technology issued the following news release:

Nutth Tuchinda, an assistant professor of chemical and materials engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has been selected for the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) 2026 Early Career Research Program, a competitive national initiative supporting promising scientists in the early stages of their research careers.

Tuchinda is among 67 scientists selected nationwide for the program, which provides five years of research support. His project, "The Role of Entropy in the Interfacial Cohesion of Metals and Alloys," aims to improve scientists' ability to predict how and why metals fail, potentially contributing to the development of s...