News (click here) 

May 2026. Cleya Whiting recipient of the VSGC Undergraduate STEM Research Scholarship 

May 2026. Congratulations to our new graduates!

May 2026. Our Senior Design Team awarded 2nd place

May 2026. Sophia Veltri named outstanding MSE senior.

April 2026. Hui-Chun (June) Yu presents at the ACerS Spring meeting. 

December 2025. Hannah Blaha completes her M.S.

Welcome to Tallon Research

Our group focus on the material science, engineering and advanced manufacturing of CERAMICS.

We work and develop innovative near-net-shaping techniques to  develop components to face extreme applications.

We pursue establishing techniques and understanding how we can achieve the complicated geometry and desired outstanding properties while keeping an exhaustive control of the microstructure and inter-particle forces between ceramic particles.

Dr. Carolina Tallon
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
​[email protected]

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Current Research Interests

Colloidal Surface Chemistry
Suspension Rheology
Near-Net-Shaping
Ultra High Temperature Ceramics
Multi-Scale Porous Materials
Materials Properties Modelling
Extreme Applications