November 15, 2018
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering welcomes Professor Jagdish Narayan of North Carolina State University as part of the MSE Seminar Series. His presentation was titled “Discoveries of Q-carbon and Q-BN and Direct Conversion of Carbon into Diamond and h-BN into c-BN.” Below is the abstract: Throughout human history, materials have played a critical…
April 24, 2018
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering welcomed I. Cevdet Noyan from Columbia University as part of the MSE Seminar Series. Noyan presented a seminar titled “Diffraction Analysis of Nanocrystalline Powder Samples.” Below is the abstract: Most formalisms utilized for diffraction analysis of the structure of nanocrystalline powder samples are based on basic concepts developed…
April 2, 2018
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering welcomed Matthew Tirrell from the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory to the MSE Seminar Series. Tirrell presented a seminar titled “Polyelectrolytes in Multi-valent Ionic Media: New Physics and New Materials.” Below is the abstract: Multi-valent interactions in systems of polyelectrolytes can exhibit dramatic, non-monotonic effects, for…
January 18, 2018
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering welcomed Masahiro Yoshimura of the Promotion Center for Global Materials Research and National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan for the MSE Seminar Series. Yoshumura presented a seminar titled “Formation of Un-Common Valences and Defects in Perovskite Lattice via Revisiting Madelung Energy and Site Potential.” Below is the abstract:…
January 17, 2018
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering welcomed Bryan Huey from the University of Connecticut for a seminar titled “Nanoscale 2- Dimensional and Tomographic Photovoltaic Property Mapping.” Below is the absract: The local materials properties for many classes of solar cells are often limiters for ultimate performance and reliability. Using Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) with…
January 12, 2018
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering was pleased to host Christopher Schuh from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as part of the MSE Distinguished Seminar Series. He presented “How Grain Boundary Segregation Enables 3-D Printing of Bulk Nanostructured Metals.” Below is the abstract: When the grain size of metal is refined to a scale…