Seminar Archive
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Jan 12, 2024 | Tom Schroeder, NC State | Polymers as Tunable Kinetic Barriers in Energy Transduction and Material Synthesis |
Jan 19, 2024 | Zetian Mi, Univ. of Michigan | Ultrawide-Bandgap Ferroelectric Nitride Semiconductors: Epitaxy, Properties, and Emerging Device Applications |
Jan 26, 2024 | Stacy Copp, UC Irvine | DNA as an Architect for Atomically Precise Silver Nanoclusters |
Feb 9, 2024 | Ellen Cerreta, LANL | Materials for the Future at Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Feb 16, 2024 | Honggyu Kim, Univ. of Florida | Unlocking Phase Complexity in Functional Materials Using 4D-STEM and Machine-Learning-Aided Digital Image Processing |
Feb 23, 2024 | Jordan Hatchel, ORNL | The Monochromated Smörgåsbord: A Feast of New Applications for Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy at Ultrahigh Spatial and Spectral Resolution |
March 1, 2024 | John Reynolds, Georgia Tech | From Spin to Spray to Blade: Processing Pi Conjugated Polymers for Solid State and Redox-Active Applications |
March 8, 2024 | Albert Liu, Univ. of Michigan | Colloidal Electronic Matter |
March 22, 2024 | Venkat Gopalan, Penn State | Probing Complex Oxides with Nonlinear Optics and Coherent X-rays |
April 4, 2024 | 13th Annual Robert F. Davis Distinguished Lecture Series Presenting Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University | Wide and Ultrawide Bandgap Semiconductors: A Journey to the Unknown World |
April 12, 2024 | Seung Sae Hong, UC Davis | Complex Oxide Membranes and Their Heterostructures |
April 19, 2024 | Alon Gorodetsky, UC Irvine | Dynamic Materials Inspired by Cephalopods |
April 30, 2024 | Varun Harbola, Max Planck Institute for Solid-State Physics | Opening New Perspectives in Nanotechnology: Symmetry Forbidden Interfaces, Vector Substrates and Immaculate Nanocrystals |
May 16, 2024 | Yao Yang, Cornell University | Operando Methods at Dynamic Energy Materials Interfaces |
June 18, 2024 | Arumugam Manthiram, University of Texas | What is Ahead with Energy Storage? |
June 19, 2024 | Paul Weiss, UCLA | Nanotechnology Approaches to Biotechnology, Medicine, and Sustainability |
June 24, 2024 | Masaya Yamamoto, Tohoku University, Japan | Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine and Environmental Research |
July 8, 2024 | Ruocun (John) Wang, Drexel University | 2D Ti3C2Tx MXene for Energy Storage — Use in Passive and Active Components |
August 9, 2024 | Anand Pathak, University of Hyderabad, India | Interaction of Energetic Ion Beams with Solid State Materials |
August 16, 2024 | Parvathalu Kalakonda, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India | Bio- Synthesized Flexible Bi-Metallic Polymer Nanocomposites for Dip Based Photo- Catalytic and Antibacterial Applications |
August 30, 2024 | 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 SrTiO3 membranes | Saeed Saeed: understanding complex ion insertion mechanisms using in situ and operando tools to advance electrochemical energy technologies |
Sept 6, 2024 | Yong Wei, University of North Georgia | Supercharging Materials Discovery and Beyond with Advanced Graph Machine Learning |
Sept 13, 2024 | Megan Butala, University of Florida | Atomic Structure Insights for Advancing Energy Storage and Electronic Materials |
Sept 20, 2024 | Yongmin Liu, Northeastern University | Accelerating the Design and Development of Engineered Photonic Materials Based on Deep Learning |
Sept 27, 2024 | Johan Foster, University of British Columbia | Engineering the Next Generation of Materials Using Bioproducts |
October 4, 2024 | Jason Azoulay, Georgia Tech | Narrow Bandgap Conjugated Polymers with Strong Correlations and Open-Shell Electronic Structures: Towards New Phenomena and Emergent Technologies |
October 11, 2024 | Peeyush Nandwana, ORNL | Phase Transformations in Metal Additive Manufacturing |
October 18, 2024 | Ivan Moreno-Hernandez, Duke University | |
Nov 1, 2024 | 3rd Annual Carl and Carolyn Koch Lecture Series: Enrique Lavernia | Strong and Ductile High-Entropy Alloys for Cryogenic to Elevated Temperature Applications |
Nov 8, 2024 | Lucas Caretta, Brown University | |
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Nov 22, 2024 | John Heron, University of Michigan | Entropy-Stabilized Oxides: Manipulating Local Structure and Charge for Macroscopic Properties |
Jan 13, 2023 | Sam Daigle, Laine Taussig and Akhlak-Ul Mahmood, NC State MSE | 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, 2023 | Franky So, NC State MSE | Organic and Perovskite Photonics: From Spontaneous Light Emission, Lasing to Superfluorescence |
Jan 27, 2023 | Fred Kish, NC State ECE | Heterogeneous Integration and Engineering of Compound Semiconductor Materials and Devices |
Feb 3, 2023 | Ekaterina Pomerantseva, Drexel University | Maneuvering the energy storage properties of nanostructured bilayered vanadium oxides through controlled synthesis |
Feb 10, 2023 | Raymond Unocic, Oak Ridge National Laboratory | In situ STEM approaches for Interpreting Atomic to Nanoscale Transformation Mechanisms and Kinetics in Functional Nanomaterials |
Feb 14, 2023 | Nairiti Sinha, University of California, Santa Barbara | Computationally-informed peptides as modular building blocks for supramolecular self-assembly |
Feb 17, 2023 | Dennis Kim, University of California, Los Angeles | |
Feb. 21, 2023 | Ziying Hu, Northwestern University | |
Feb 24, 2023 | Katherine Sytwu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Lights, Camera, Action! Understanding and Controlling Nanoparticle Transformation Dynamics |
Feb 27, 2023 | Jun Xu, University of North Carolina at Charlotte | Understanding battery safety issues from a multiphysics perspective |
Feb 28, 2023 | Martin Seifrid, University of Toronto | Evolving Materials Design Toward the Lab of the Future |
March 24, 2023 | Sergei Kalinin, University of Tennessee-Knoxville | Machine Learning and Automated Experiment in Microscopy: From Learning Physics to Making Better Materials |
March 28, 2023 | Scott Danielsen, Duke University | Mucus, Gels, Coacervates, and other “Sticky” Associative Polymers |
March 31, 2023 | Robert F. Davis Distinguished Lecture Series: Presents Dr. Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Rice University | Ultra-Low-Voltage: Beyond CMOS Microelectronics |
April 5, 2023 | Shannon Boettcher, University of Oregon | Akaline-Membrane Electrolysis: Catalyst Fundamentals to Performance, Durability, and Interface Design |
April 7, 2023 | Shelley Claridge, Purdue University | Plenty of Room at the Top: From Molecular to Macroscale Patterning of Hard and Soft Materials |
April 14, 2023 | Rajeev Mishra, University of North Texas | Deformation Induced Transformation: Revisiting Burgers Triangle with Metastability Engineered Alloys |
April 21, 2023 | Yayoi Takamura, University of California, Davis | Topotactic Transformations in Complex Oxide Thin Films |
June 13, 2023 | Kinga A. Unocic, Ph.D., Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Insight into Materials Degradation in Extreme Environments with in situ/operando Electron Microscopy |
June 30, 2023 | Shan Jiang, Iowa State University | Breaking the Symmetry: from Nanoparticle Self-Assembly to In-Space Manufacturing |
June 30, 2023 | Yuntian Zhu, City University of Hong Kong | Heterostructured Materials: A Fast-Developing New Materials Field |
July 19, 2023 | Michael Bodunrin, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, SA | Affordable Bio-Implant Materials |
July 24, 2023 | Tim Moore, University of Michigan | Exploiting Anisotropy for Materials Discovery and Design |
Aug 1, 2023 | Laurent Bellaiche, University of Arkansas | Designing New Materials and Phenomena From Ab-Initio Approaches |
Aug 25, 2023 | Andreas Fery, University of Dresden | From Bioinspired Structure Formation to Particle-Based Metamaterials |
Aug 30, 2023 | Uli Lemmer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany | Optoelectronic and Photonic Devices By Inkjet Printing |
Sept 1, 2023 | Fall 2023 Excellence in NC State MSE Graduate Research. Seminar presented by Alana Pauls, Abdullah Al Shafe, and Jack Almeter. Wang Zhang Awards presented to Venkata Bhuvaneswari Vukkum and Michael Spencer | 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, 2023 | Jay Guo, University of Michigan | Structural Colors: Principle, Design, and Realization |
Sept 15, 2023 | Qing Gu, NC State ECE and Physics | Luminescent Photonic Materials, Metamaterials and Devices |
Sept 22, 2023 | Julia Dshemuchadse, Cornell University | Understanding the Self-Assembly of Complex Crystal Structures Through Minimalistic Simulations |
Sept 29, 2023 | Luisa Whittaker-Brooks, University of Utah | Chirality/Iionic/Spin-Induced Electronic Transfer in Organometal Halide Semiconductors |
Oct 11, 2023 | Paul Besser, Entegris | Materials Innovations Driving Microprocessor Performance |
Oct 13, 2023 | Junqiao Wu, UC Berkeley | What One Material Can Do |
Oct 20, 2023 | 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, 2023 | Dongwon Shin, Oakridge National Laboratory | Modern Supercomputing and Data Analytics for Accelerating the Design of Structural Materials |
Nov 3, 2023 | David Kisailus, UC Irvine | From Nature to Engineering: Biological Blueprints for Next Generation Advanced Materials |
Nov 10, 2023 | Lane W. Martin, UC Berkeley | Ferroic Complex Oxides for Next-Generation Applications and Devices |
Nov 17, 2023 | Peter Sushko, Pacific Northwest National Lab | Towards Atomic Precision in Superconducting Qubits: Mechanisms of Ta Oxidation and Strategies for Oxidation Suppression |
Dec 1, 2023 | Jiyun Kim, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology | Digitizing Soft Machine |
January 14, 2022 | Farshid Ramezanipour, University of Louisville | Material Design for Energy Conversion and Storage: Impact of Structure-Property Relationships |
January 28, 2022 | Richard Spontak, NC State University | An Integrated Materials Approach to Ultraselective Polymer Membranes for Carbon Capture: Breaking through the Upper Bound |
February 11, 2022 | Martin Thuo, Iowa State University | Interfaces-Driven Frugal Engineering: From Heat-free Solders to Graphitic Macrotubes |
February 18, 2022 | Xiaodan Gu, University of Southern Mississippi | Harnessing Polymer Physics To Achieve Predictable Design of Soft Electronic Materials For Wearable Applications |
February 25, 2022 | Michael Ford, Lawrence Livermore National Lab | Toward Physical Intelligence Using Functional Soft Matter |
March 4, 2022 | Andy Nieto, Naval Postgraduate School | Designing Materials for Extreme Environments: Functionally Graded Composites and Coatings using Nanomaterial Reinforcement |
March 11, 2022 | Aleeza Farrukh, University of California, Irvine | From Biomaterials to Bioelectronic Devices: Precise Control Over Cell Fate |
March 25, 2022 | Jason Patrick, NC State CCEE | Sustained Self-healing of Woven Fiber-Composite Laminates via In Situ Thermal Remending |
April 15 , 2022 | Bharat Gwalani, PNNL | Deformation-Induced Modification of Phase Transformation Pathways in Metallic Systems |
April 22, 2022 | Pegah Bagheri, NC State MSE Ph.D. Candidate | Point Defect Management in Ultrawide Bandgap Materials |
April 27, 2022 | Eric McLamore, Clemson University | Data-Informed Decision Support: Point of Need Sensors for Testing Water |
Aug 26, 2022 | Jennifer Andrew, University of Florida | Magnetoelectric Nanowires: Synthesis, Assembly, and Applications in Electronics and Biomedicine |
Sept 2, 2022 | 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, 2022 | Xiaoyue Ni, Duke University | Human-Centered Materials Intelligence |
Sept 16, 2022 | Sindee Simon, NC State CBE | The Glass Transition and Structural Recovery: Effects of Pressure and Nanoconfinement |
Sept 23, 2022 | Scott McCormack, University of California, Davis | In-situ phase equilibria and thermal expansion up to 3000 C and beyond |
Sept 30, 2022 | Christopher Rock, NC State ISE | Metallurgical Considerations for Additive Manufacturing of Metals and Alloy Development for AM |
Oct 7, 2022 | Veerle Keppens, University of Tennessee, Knoxville | Compositionally complex oxides: synthesis, characterization, challenges, and opportunities |
Oct 14, 2022 | Bilge Yildiz, MIT | Understanding and tuning the surface chemistry of perovskite oxides to activate oxygen exchange and water splitting |
Oct 21, 2022 | Ichiro Takeuchi, University of Maryland | Autonomous combinatorial experimentation for streamlined materials discovery |
Oct 28, 2022 | Jie Yin, NC State MAE | Leveraging Physical Intelligence for High-Performance Soft Robots |
Nov 4, 2022 | Carl Koch, NC State MSE | First Annual Koch Distinguished Lecture |
Nov 11, 2022 | Beth Opila, University of Virginia | Materials Design for Extreme Environment Applications using Rare Earth Silicates and Oxides |
Dec 2, 2022 | James LeBeau, MIT | Scanning transmission electron microscopy in materials science: past, present, and future |
January 22, 2021 | Early Career Lecture Series: Corey Oses, Duke University | High-Entropy Ceramics |
January 29, 2021 | Anand Bhattacharya, Argonne National Lab. | Discovery of two-dimensional superconductivity and nematic electronic states at KTaO3 (111) interfaces |
February 5, 2021 | Javad Shabani, NYU | Realizing topological superconductivity in planar Josephson junctions |
February 12, 2021 | Early Career Lecture Series: Kent Griffith, Northwestern University | Understanding Intrinsically Rapid Electrochemical Charge Storage in Complex Inorganic Oxides |
February 19, 2021 | Harold Hwang, Stanford University | Soft chemistry approaches to superconductivity in infinite layer nickelates |
February 26, 2021 | Early Career Lecture Series: Salva Rezaie, UCSB | Atomic-scale Understanding of Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Materials |
March 12, 2021 | James Rondinelli, Northwestern | Designing Electronic Phase Transitions with Multiple Anions |
March 19, 2021 | Ruijuan Xu, Stanford University | Controlling ferroelectricity at the nanoscale: from oxide heterostructures to freestanding crystalline membranes |
March 26, 2021 | Betul Akkopru Akgun, Penn State University | The Role of Defect Chemistry in DC Resistance Degradation of Lead Zirconate Titanate Thin Films |
March 30, 2021 | Alp Sehirlioglu, Case Western Reserve University | Guiding the search for high-temperature ferroelectric perovskites |
April 2, 2021 | Alexei Gruverman, University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Nanoelectronic Phenomena in Low-Dimensional Ferroelectrics |
April 9, 2021 | Kyle Webber, FAU | Stress-Modulated Electromechanical Properties of Lead-Free Ferroelectrics |
April 16, 2021 | Early Career Lecture Series: Jill Wenderott, Northwestern | Elucidating Synthesis Pathways to Molybdenum Oxynitrides for Use in Catalysis Applications |
April 23, 2021 | Debdeep Jena, Cornell University | Polarization-induced doping in ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor quantum structures |
August 27, 2021 | Arun Kumar Kota, NC State MAE | Superomniphobic Surfaces: Design & Applications |
September 10, 2021 | Richard Superfine, UNC-CH | Combining Volumetric Morphodynamics and Force Measurements for Understanding Cell Mechanobiology in Space and Time |
September 17, 2021 | Dali Sun, NC State Dept of Physics | Spintronic Terahertz Emission from Two-Dimensional Hybrid Metal Halides |
September 24, 2021 | Kris Darling, U.S. Army Research Laboratory | Thermodynamic and Practical Aspects of Mechanical Alloying and the Mechanical Response of Stabilized Nano Crystalline CuTa Alloys |
October 1, 2021 | Krishna Rajan, University of Buffalo | Advancing Materials Science Through the Lens of Information Science |
October 8, 2021 | Andrea Hodge, University of Southern California | Designing Microstructures via Nano Multilayers |
October 15, 2021 | Ramón Collazo, NC State MSE | Growth and Point Defect Control of AlGaN for UV Laser Diodes |
October 22, 2021 | Saniya LeBlanc, George Washington University | Tackling Energy Sector Challenges by Intersecting Materials, Manufacturing, and Systems |
October 29, 2021 | Kenan Gundogdu, NC State Physics | Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena at Room Temperature |
November 5, 2021 | Amit Misra, University of Michigan | Interface-Microstructure-Enabled Mechanical Behavior of Metallic Nanocomposites |
November 12, 2021 | Russell Holmes, University of Minnesota | Engineering molecular orientation and polarization in organic semiconductor thin films – Impact on optoelectronic device design and performance |
November 19, 2021 | Saad Khan, NC State Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | Functional Soft Solids: A Foray into Gels, Aerogels and Nanofibrous Structures |
December 10, 2021 | Olivier Delaire, Duke University | Atomic Dynamics in Energy and Functional Materials: Vibrations, Diffusion, and Phase Transitions |