Departmental Seminar Archive
Explore past topics from weekly MSE seminars held each spring and fall semester.
2026
| Date | Speaker/Institution | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 23 | Andrew Martin, NC State MSE | Inauditus Materials Processing Through Surface Asymmetries |
| Jan. 30 | Miaofang Chi, Duke University | Advancing Cryogenic Electron Microscopy: From Energy Interfaces to Quantum Matter |
| Feb. 13 | Harry Wang, Duke University | AI-Enabled Atomic Layer Engineering and Its Applications |
| Feb. 20 | Oana Jurchescu, Wake Forest University | Translating Fundamental Device Physics into Personalized Healthcare |
| Feb. 27 | Bharat Jalan, University of Minnesota | Altermagnetism in RuO?: From Conflicting Experiments to Emerging Consensus |
| Mar. 13 | Yuntian Zhu, City University of Hong Kong | Heterostructured Materials: New Science Enables Superior Properties |
| Mar. 27 | Davis Lecture: Yury Gogotsi, Drexel University | Building Blocks for Technology of the Future: MXenes and Beyond |
| Apr. 10 | Xi Wang, University of Delaware | Adaptive Nanophotonics by Novel Materials |
| Apr. 17 | Michael Dickey, NC State CBE | Shaping a Soft Future |
| Apr. 24 | Kevin Huang, University of South Carolina | Rechargeable Aqueous Zn-Ion Batteries: Materials and Mechanism |
| Aug. 24 | Special Topics Seminar: Wencan Jin, Auburn University | Disorder-Induced Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Materials |
2025
| Date | Speaker/Institution | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 17 | Kelvin Chang, Northrop Grumman Synoptics | Bulk Crystal Growth Development of New Materials |
| Jan. 31 | Zi-Kui Liu, Pennsylvania State University | Zentropy |
| Feb. 5 | Harikrishnan KP, Cornell University | Atomic-Scale Insights into Ferroic Materials with Electron Ptychography and 4D-STEM |
| Feb. 7 | Mostafa Yourdkhani, Arizona State University | Digital Manufacturing of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites |
| Feb. 14 | Honyung Lee, ORNL | Precision Synthesis and Strain Engineering of Oxide Quantum Heterostructures |
| Feb. 28 | Farzaneh Jahanbakhshi, University of Pennsylvania | Tailoring Interface and Surface Chemistry Toward Stable and Efficient Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics |
| Feb. 28 | Taylor Sparks, University of Utah | The LLM Revolution in Materials Science: From Data Extraction to Crystal Design |
| Mar. 18 | KyuJung Jun, MIT | Machine-Learning-Assisted Atomistic Modeling and Design of Complex Ionic Conductors for Next-Generation Energy Storage |
| Mar. 21 | 14th Annual Davis Lecture: Moungi Bawendi, MIT | Quantum Dots: A Synthesis Seeds a Journey of Nano-Explorations |
| Mar. 28 | Malik Wagih, LLNL | Materials Discovery and Design Through Defect Engineering |
| Apr. 4 | Sunny Gupta, Rice University | In Pursuit of Nature?s Hidden Rules for Functional Quantum and Energy Materials Design |
| Apr. 11 | Dae Sung Chung, Pohang University of Science and Technology | Organic Photodiodes: Beyond Visible Light |
| Apr. 23 | Paul Besser, Entegris, Inc. | Materials Innovations That Enable AI |
| Aug. 29 | Excellence in MSE Graduate Research | Advanced Biomimetic Materials Models: Merve Fedai; Strain-Induced Lead-Free Morphotropic Phase Boundary: Reza Ghanbari; Inorganic Materials for Phosphorus Capture and Recovery from Waters: Darrell Harry; Crystallographic Shear-Phase Transition Metal Oxides for Fast-Charging Batteries: Vincenzo Musico |
| Sept. 12 | Stephen Furst, Smart Material Solutions | Biomimicry and Beyond: How Nano-Scale Texturing Can Enhance a Material's Nature and Defy It |
| Sept. 19 | Vijay Vasudevan, University of North Texas | Novel Nickel-based Alloys for High Temperature Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor Structural Applications |
| Sept. 26 | Jinghua Guo, LBNL | Probing Interfacial Phenomena in Energy Materials via In-Situ/Operando Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy |
| Oct. 3 | Jianguo Mei, Purdue | From Lab to the Market: A Journey With Organic Electronics |
| Oct. 24 | Dong Yu, University of California, Davis | Long and Fast Journey of Photogenerated Carriers in Topological Insulators |
| Oct. 31 | 3rd Annual Koch Lecture: Peter Liaw, University of Tennessee | An Introduction to High-Entropy Alloys and Superior High-Temperature Strength in a Refractory HEA |
| Nov. 7 | Jerry Floro, University of Virginia | Eutectoid Disorder/Order Transformations in Co-Pt and Fe-Pd: Microstructures, Magnetism, and a New Old Phase |
| Nov. 14 | Qian Chen, University of Illinois | Electron Videography of Soft, Biological, and Energy Materials |
| Nov. 21 | Jason Green, University of Massachusetts | Assembling Dissipative Materials by Amplifying Fluctuations |
| Dec. 5 | Megan Jackson, UNC-Chapel Hill | Spatially Resolved Mechanistic Insights into Electrode-Electrolyte and Gas-Liquid Interfaces |
2024
| Date | Speaker/Institution | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 12 | Tom Schroeder, NC State | Polymers as Tunable Kinetic Barriers in Energy Transduction and Material Synthesis |
| Jan. 19 | Zetian Mi, University of Michigan | Ultrawide-Bandgap Ferroelectric Nitride Semiconductors: Epitaxy, Properties, and Emerging Device Applications |
| Jan. 26 | Stacy Copp, UC Irvine | DNA as an Architect for Atomically Precise Silver Nanoclusters |
| Feb. 9 | Ellen Cerreta, LANL | Materials for the Future at Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Feb. 16 | Honggyu Kim, University of Florida | Unlocking Phase Complexity in Functional Materials Using 4D-STEM and Machine-Learning-Aided Digital Image Processing |
| Feb. 23 | Jordan Hachtel, ORNL | The Monochromated Smorgasbord: A Feast of New Applications for Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy at Ultrahigh Spatial and Spectral Resolution |
| Mar. 1 | John Reynolds, Georgia Tech | From Spin to Spray to Blade: Processing Pi-Conjugated Polymers for Solid-State and Redox-Active Applications |
| Mar. 8 | Albert Liu, University of Michigan | Colloidal Electronic Matter |
| Mar. 22 | Venkat Gopalan, Penn State | Probing Complex Oxides with Nonlinear Optics and Coherent X-Rays |
| Apr. 4 | 13th Annual Robert F. Davis Distinguished Lecture: Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University | Wide and Ultrawide Bandgap Semiconductors: A Journey to the Unknown World |
| Apr. 12 | Seung Sae Hong, UC Davis | Complex Oxide Membranes and Their Heterostructures |
| Apr. 19 | Alon Gorodetsky, UC Irvine | Dynamic Materials Inspired by Cephalopods |
| Apr. 30 | Varun Harbola, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Physics | Opening New Perspectives in Nanotechnology: Symmetry-Forbidden Interfaces, Vector Substrates, and Immaculate Nanocrystals |
| May 16 | Yao Yang, Cornell University | Operando Methods at Dynamic Energy Materials Interfaces |
| Jun. 18 | Arumugam Manthiram, University of Texas | What Is Ahead with Energy Storage? |
| Jun. 19 | Paul Weiss, UCLA | Nanotechnology Approaches to Biotechnology, Medicine, and Sustainability |
| Jun. 24 | Masaya Yamamoto, Tohoku University | Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine and Environmental Research |
| Jul. 8 | Ruocun ?John? Wang, Drexel University | 2D Ti?C?T? MXene for Energy Storage?Use in Passive and Active Components |
| Aug. 9 | Anand Pathak, University of Hyderabad | Interaction of Energetic Ion Beams with Solid-State Materials |
| Aug. 16 | Parvathalu Kalakonda, Osmania University | Biosynthesized Flexible Bimetallic Polymer Nanocomposites for Dip-Based Photocatalytic and Antibacterial Applications |
| Aug. 30 | Fall 2024 Excellence in NC State MSE Graduate Research Seminar | Naveen Narasimhachar Joshi: Wafer-Scale Integration and Extraordinary Functional Properties of Q-Carbon Thin Films; Konnor Koons: Low-Loss, Far-Infrared Surface Phonon Polaritons in SrTiO? Membranes; Saeed Saeed: Understanding Complex Ion Insertion Mechanisms Using In Situ and Operando Tools to Advance Electrochemical Energy Technologies |
| Sept. 6 | Yong Wei, University of North Georgia | Supercharging Materials Discovery and Beyond with Advanced Graph Machine Learning |
| Sept. 13 | Megan Butala, University of Florida | Atomic Structure Insights for Advancing Energy Storage and Electronic Materials |
| Sept. 20 | Yongmin Liu, Northeastern University | Accelerating the Design and Development of Engineered Photonic Materials Based on Deep Learning |
| Sept. 27 | Johan Foster, University of British Columbia | Engineering the Next Generation of Materials Using Bioproducts |
| Oct. 4 | Andrew Ang, Swinburne University of Technology | Unlocking the Potential of High-Entropy Alloys: Innovations in Surface Coating Technology at Swinburne |
| Oct. 4 | Jason Azoulay, Georgia Tech | Narrow Bandgap Conjugated Polymers with Strong Correlations and Open-Shell Electronic Structures: Toward New Phenomena and Emergent Technologies |
| Oct. 11 | Peeyush Nandwana, ORNL | Phase Transformations in Metal Additive Manufacturing |
| Oct. 18 | Ivan Moreno-Hernandez, Duke University | Understanding Activation and Degradation Pathways of Oxygen-Evolving Electrocatalysts Across Spatiotemporal Domains |
| Nov. 1 | 3rd Annual Carl and Carolyn Koch Lecture Series: Enrique Lavernia | Strong and Ductile High-Entropy Alloys for Cryogenic to Elevated-Temperature Applications |
| Nov. 7 | Jerry Floro, University of Virginia | Eutectoid Disorder/Order Transformations in Co-Pt and Fe-Pd: Microstructures, Magnetism, and a New Old Phase |
| Nov. 8 | Lucas Caretta, Brown University | Unconventional Polar Phenomena in Epitaxial Magnetic Heterostructures |
| Nov. 14 | Qian Chen, University of Illinois | Electron Videography of Soft, Biological, and Energy Materials |
| Nov. 15 | Nicholas Kotov, University of Michigan | Understanding Complex Particle Systems Through Graph Theory |
| Nov. 21 | Jason Green, University of Massachusetts | Assembling Dissipative Materials by Amplifying Fluctuations |
| Nov. 22 | John Heron, University of Michigan | Entropy-Stabilized Oxides: Manipulating Local Structure and Charge for Macroscopic Properties |
| Dec. 5 | Megan Jackson, UNC-Chapel Hill | Spatially Resolved Mechanistic Insights into Electrode-Electrolyte and Gas-Liquid Interfaces |
2023
| Date | Speaker/Institution | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 13 | Spring 2023 Excellence in NC State MSE Graduate Research | Sam Daigle: Computational Studies of High Entropy Ceramics; Laine Taussig: Electrostatic Self-Assembly Induces Water-Stabilized PEDOT:PSS for High-Performance OECTs; Akhlak-Ul Mahmood: New Molecular Models and Methods for Simulations of Magnetic Nanoparticles |
| Jan. 20 | Franky So, NC State MSE | Organic and Perovskite Photonics: From Spontaneous Light Emission, Lasing to Superfluorescence |
| Jan. 27 | Fred Kish, NC State ECE | Heterogeneous Integration and Engineering of Compound Semiconductor Materials and Devices |
| Feb. 3 | Ekaterina Pomerantseva, Drexel University | Maneuvering the Energy Storage Properties of Nanostructured Bilayered Vanadium Oxides Through Controlled Synthesis |
| Feb. 10 | Raymond Unocic, Oak Ridge National Laboratory | In Situ STEM Approaches for Interpreting Atomic to Nanoscale Transformation Mechanisms and Kinetics in Functional Nanomaterials |
| Feb. 14 | Nairiti Sinha, University of California, Santa Barbara | Computationally Informed Peptides as Modular Building Blocks for Supramolecular Self-Assembly |
| Feb. 17 | Dennis Kim, University of California, Los Angeles | Finding Order in Disorder: Atomic-Scale Understanding of Phase Transformations |
| Feb. 21 | Ziying Hu, Northwestern University | Soft Materials and Bioresorbable Electronics/Materials for Sustainable Development |
| Feb. 24 | Katherine Sytwu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Lights, Camera, Action! Understanding and Controlling Nanoparticle Transformation Dynamics |
| Feb. 27 | Jun Xu, University of North Carolina at Charlotte | Understanding Battery Safety Issues From a Multiphysics Perspective |
| Feb. 28 | Martin Seifrid, University of Toronto | Evolving Materials Design Toward the Lab of the Future |
| Mar. 24 | Sergei Kalinin, University of Tennessee?Knoxville | Machine Learning and Automated Experiment in Microscopy: From Learning Physics to Making Better Materials |
| Mar. 28 | Scott Danielsen, Duke University | Mucus, Gels, Coacervates, and Other ?Sticky? Associative Polymers |
| Mar. 31 | Robert F. Davis Distinguished Lecture: Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Rice University | Ultra-Low-Voltage: Beyond CMOS Microelectronics |
| Apr. 5 | Shannon Boettcher, University of Oregon | Alkaline-Membrane Electrolysis: Catalyst Fundamentals to Performance, Durability, and Interface Design |
| Apr. 7 | Shelley Claridge, Purdue University | Plenty of Room at the Top: From Molecular to Macroscale Patterning of Hard and Soft Materials |
| Apr. 14 | Rajeev Mishra, University of North Texas | Deformation-Induced Transformation: Revisiting Burgers Triangle With Metastability-Engineered Alloys |
| Apr. 21 | Yayoi Takamura, University of California, Davis | Topotactic Transformations in Complex Oxide Thin Films |
| Jun. 13 | Kinga A. Unocic, Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Insight Into Materials Degradation in Extreme Environments With In Situ/Operando Electron Microscopy |
| Jun. 30 | Shan Jiang, Iowa State University | Breaking the Symmetry: From Nanoparticle Self-Assembly to In-Space Manufacturing |
| Jun. 30 | Yuntian Zhu, City University of Hong Kong | Heterostructured Materials: A Fast-Developing New Materials Field |
| Jul. 19 | Michael Bodunrin, University of the Witwatersrand | Affordable Bio-Implant Materials |
| Jul. 24 | Tim Moore, University of Michigan | Exploiting Anisotropy for Materials Discovery and Design |
| Aug. 1 | Laurent Bellaiche, University of Arkansas | Designing New Materials and Phenomena From Ab-Initio Approaches |
| Aug. 25 | Andreas Fery, University of Dresden | From Bioinspired Structure Formation to Particle-Based Metamaterials |
| Aug. 30 | Uli Lemmer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Optoelectronic and Photonic Devices by Inkjet Printing |
| Sept. 1 | Fall 2023 Excellence in NC State MSE Graduate Research | Alana Pauls: Interface Driven High Fidelity Lithography via Metastable Material States; Abdullah Al Shafe: Rubber Toughened Organic Solar Cells: Miscibility?Morphology?Performance Relations; Jack Almeter: Relaxed AlGaN via Misfit Dislocation Engineering |
| Sept. 8 | Jay Guo, University of Michigan | Structural Colors: Principle, Design, and Realization |
| Sept. 15 | Qing Gu, NC State ECE and Physics | Luminescent Photonic Materials, Metamaterials and Devices |
| Sept. 22 | Julia Dshemuchadse, Cornell University | Understanding the Self-Assembly of Complex Crystal Structures Through Minimalistic Simulations |
| Sept. 29 | Luisa Whittaker-Brooks, University of Utah | Chirality/Ionic/Spin-Induced Electronic Transfer in Organometal Halide Semiconductors |
| Oct. 11 | Paul Besser, Entegris | Materials Innovations Driving Microprocessor Performance |
| Oct. 13 | Junqiao Wu, UC Berkeley | What One Material Can Do |
| Oct. 20 | Carl and Carolyn Koch Lecture Series: Alan Taub, University of Michigan | Elucidating the Formation Mechanisms and Resulting Microstructures of In Situ Al?TiC Nanocomposites |
| Oct. 27 | Dongwon Shin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Modern Supercomputing and Data Analytics for Accelerating the Design of Structural Materials |
| Nov. 3 | David Kisailus, UC Irvine | From Nature to Engineering: Biological Blueprints for Next-Generation Advanced Materials |
| Nov. 10 | Lane W. Martin, UC Berkeley | Ferroic Complex Oxides for Next-Generation Applications and Devices |
| Nov. 17 | Peter Sushko, Pacific Northwest National Lab | Towards Atomic Precision in Superconducting Qubits: Mechanisms of Ta Oxidation and Strategies for Oxidation Suppression |
| Dec. 1 | Jiyun Kim, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology | Digitizing Soft Machine |
2022
| Date | Speaker/Institution | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 14 | Farshid Ramezanipour, University of Louisville | Material Design for Energy Conversion and Storage: Impact of Structure-Property Relationships |
| Jan. 28 | Richard Spontak, NC State University | An Integrated Materials Approach to Ultraselective Polymer Membranes for Carbon Capture: Breaking Through the Upper Bound |
| Feb. 11 | Martin Thuo, Iowa State University | Interfaces-Driven Frugal Engineering: From Heat-Free Solders to Graphitic Macrotubes |
| Feb. 18 | Xiaodan Gu, University of Southern Mississippi | Harnessing Polymer Physics to Achieve Predictable Design of Soft Electronic Materials for Wearable Applications |
| Feb. 25 | Michael Ford, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Toward Physical Intelligence Using Functional Soft Matter |
| Mar. 4 | Andy Nieto, Naval Postgraduate School | Designing Materials for Extreme Environments: Functionally Graded Composites and Coatings Using Nanomaterial Reinforcement |
| Mar. 11 | Aleeza Farrukh, University of California, Irvine | From Biomaterials to Bioelectronic Devices: Precise Control Over Cell Fate |
| Mar. 25 | Jason Patrick, NC State CCEE | Sustained Self-Healing of Woven Fiber-Composite Laminates via In Situ Thermal Remending |
| Apr. 15 | Bharat Gwalani, PNNL | Deformation-Induced Modification of Phase Transformation Pathways in Metallic Systems |
| Apr. 22 | Pegah Bagheri, NC State MSE Ph.D. Candidate | Point Defect Management in Ultrawide Bandgap Materials |
| Apr. 27 | Eric McLamore, Clemson University | Data-Informed Decision Support: Point-of-Need Sensors for Testing Water |
| Aug. 26 | Jennifer Andrew, University of Florida | Magnetoelectric Nanowires: Synthesis, Assembly, and Applications in Electronics and Biomedicine |
| Sept. 2 | Kelsey Mirrielees, Michael Spencer, and Shichen ?Mason? Yin, NC State MSE | Kelsey Mirrielees: Predicting Oxide Reconstructions at AlN and GaN (0001) Surfaces; Michael Spencer: Electrochemical Proton Insertion Modulates the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction on Tungsten Oxides; Shichen ?Mason? Yin: PbS QD for Short-Wave Infrared Photodetectors |
| Sept. 9 | Xiaoyue Ni, Duke University | Human-Centered Materials Intelligence |
| Sept. 16 | Sindee Simon, NC State CBE | The Glass Transition and Structural Recovery: Effects of Pressure and Nanoconfinement |
| Sept. 23 | Scott McCormack, University of California, Davis | In Situ Phase Equilibria and Thermal Expansion up to 3000 ?C and Beyond |
| Sept. 30 | Christopher Rock, NC State ISE | Metallurgical Considerations for Additive Manufacturing of Metals and Alloy Development for AM |
| Oct. 7 | Veerle Keppens, University of Tennessee, Knoxville | Compositionally Complex Oxides: Synthesis, Characterization, Challenges, and Opportunities |
| Oct. 14 | Bilge Yildiz, MIT | Understanding and Tuning the Surface Chemistry of Perovskite Oxides to Activate Oxygen Exchange and Water Splitting |
| Oct. 21 | Ichiro Takeuchi, University of Maryland | Autonomous Combinatorial Experimentation for Streamlined Materials Discovery |
| Oct. 28 | Jie Yin, NC State MAE | Leveraging Physical Intelligence for High-Performance Soft Robots |
| Nov. 4 | First Annual Koch Distinguished Lecture: Carl Koch, NC State MSE | First Annual Koch Distinguished Lecture |
| Nov. 11 | Beth Opila, University of Virginia | Materials Design for Extreme-Environment Applications Using Rare-Earth Silicates and Oxides |
| Dec. 2 | James LeBeau, MIT | Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy in Materials Science: Past, Present, and Future |
2021
| Date | Speaker/Institution | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 22 | Early Career Lecture Series: Corey Oses, Duke University | High-Entropy Ceramics |
| Jan. 29 | Anand Bhattacharya, Argonne National Laboratory | Discovery of Two-Dimensional Superconductivity and Nematic Electronic States at KTaO? (111) Interfaces |
| Feb. 5 | Javad Shabani, NYU | Realizing Topological Superconductivity in Planar Josephson Junctions |
| Feb. 12 | Early Career Lecture Series: Kent Griffith, Northwestern University | Understanding Intrinsically Rapid Electrochemical Charge Storage in Complex Inorganic Oxides |
| Feb. 19 | Harold Hwang, Stanford University | Soft Chemistry Approaches to Superconductivity in Infinite-Layer Nickelates |
| Feb. 26 | Early Career Lecture Series: Salva Rezaie, University of California, Santa Barbara | Atomic-Scale Understanding of Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Materials |
| Mar. 12 | James Rondinelli, Northwestern University | Designing Electronic Phase Transitions With Multiple Anions |
| Mar. 19 | Ruijuan Xu, Stanford University | Controlling Ferroelectricity at the Nanoscale: From Oxide Heterostructures to Freestanding Crystalline Membranes |
| Mar. 26 | Betul Akkopru Akgun, Penn State University | The Role of Defect Chemistry in DC Resistance Degradation of Lead Zirconate Titanate Thin Films |
| Mar. 30 | Alp Sehirlioglu, Case Western Reserve University | Guiding the Search for High-Temperature Ferroelectric Perovskites |
| Apr. 2 | Alexei Gruverman, University of Nebraska?Lincoln | Nanoelectronic Phenomena in Low-Dimensional Ferroelectrics |
| Apr. 9 | Kyle Webber, Florida Atlantic University | Stress-Modulated Electromechanical Properties of Lead-Free Ferroelectrics |
| Apr. 16 | Early Career Lecture Series: Jill Wenderott, Northwestern University | Elucidating Synthesis Pathways to Molybdenum Oxynitrides for Use in Catalysis Applications |
| Apr. 23 | Debdeep Jena, Cornell University | Polarization-Induced Doping in Ultra-Wide-Bandgap Semiconductor Quantum Structures |
| Aug. 27 | Arun Kumar Kota, NC State MAE | Superomniphobic Surfaces: Design and Applications |
| Sept. 10 | Richard Superfine, UNC-Chapel Hill | Combining Volumetric Morphodynamics and Force Measurements for Understanding Cell Mechanobiology in Space and Time |
| Sept. 17 | Dali Sun, NC State Physics | Spintronic Terahertz Emission From Two-Dimensional Hybrid Metal Halides |
| Sept. 24 | Kris Darling, U.S. Army Research Laboratory | Thermodynamic and Practical Aspects of Mechanical Alloying and the Mechanical Response of Stabilized Nanocrystalline CuTa Alloys |
| Oct. 1 | Krishna Rajan, University at Buffalo | Advancing Materials Science Through the Lens of Information Science |
| Oct. 8 | Andrea Hodge, University of Southern California | Designing Microstructures via Nanomultilayers |
| Oct. 15 | Ram?n Collazo, NC State MSE | Growth and Point Defect Control of AlGaN for UV Laser Diodes |
| Oct. 22 | Saniya LeBlanc, George Washington University | Tackling Energy Sector Challenges by Intersecting Materials, Manufacturing, and Systems |
| Oct. 29 | Kenan Gundogdu, NC State Physics | Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena at Room Temperature |
| Nov. 5 | Amit Misra, University of Michigan | Interface-Microstructure-Enabled Mechanical Behavior of Metallic Nanocomposites |
| Nov. 12 | Russell Holmes, University of Minnesota | Engineering Molecular Orientation and Polarization in Organic Semiconductor Thin Films: Impact on Optoelectronic Device Design and Performance |
| Nov. 19 | Saad Khan, NC State Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | Functional Soft Solids: A Foray Into Gels, Aerogels, and Nanofibrous Structures |
| Dec. 10 | Olivier Delaire, Duke University | Atomic Dynamics in Energy and Functional Materials: Vibrations, Diffusion, and Phase Transitions |