 Army scientists and engineers continue to reach out to academia hunting for increased opportunities for technology advancement to enable the soldier of the future. Dr. Michelle Alpantoya, a Texas Tech University mechanical engineering professor, visited the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to share research and collaborate on future discoveries in materials science October 14, 2016. So anything that we can offer to help facilitate your work is is rewarding to me. Pantoya gave a seminar on energetic materials for Army scientists at the Rodman Materials Research Laboratory and toured facilities. Composite materials have so much potential as far as delivering chemical energy. But what we want to do is try to optimize the energy available in these materials. The seminar focused on the potential of composite materials delivering chemical energy, a topic of great interest to Army scientists. But in the military we look at the different kinds of fuels that we can use in these composites and the big three I like to think of are magnesium boron and aluminum. Officials said plans for expanded open campus research initiatives with Pantoya are in the works for ARL TV. I'm David McNally.