Archive for August, 2012

Ph.D. Student Charles Amos Receives NASA Grant for Battery Research

August 30th, 2012

Charles Amos, a Ph.D. student studying under the supervision of Professor John Goodenough, recently won a NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship (NSTRF) for his proposal entitled “Surface Passivation of Lithium-Ion Electrodes: A Path to High-Performance Energy Storage.”
Mr. Amos will perform his research at UT Austin and will spend some time at a NASA Center and/or [...]

Eric Danielson Selected for SPIE Student Paper Award

August 30th, 2012

Eric Danielson, a Ph.D. candidate working under the supervision of Professor Ananth Dodabalapur, won second place in the SPIE Organic Photonics + Electronics Best Student Paper Awards 2012.
Eric’s paper is entitled “Characterization of charge transport via in situ potentiometry in bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaic materials.”

Materials Professor Deji Akinwande Receives Geim and Novoselov Graphene Prize

August 25th, 2012

Assistant Professor Deji Akwinwande has been awarded the first Geim and Novoselov Graphene Prize during the gala dinner at the IEEE nano conference in Birmingham, UK. The award recognizes Dr. Akinwande’s work on ” flexible multifinger graphene device technology” and in particular his invention of graphene transistors for high speed high frequency flexible nano electronics. [...]

Portfolio Program Seminar Series Speaker: Dr. Wenshan Cai, Georgia Tech

August 23rd, 2012

[ September 26, 2012; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Speaker: Dr. Wenshan Cai Professor of Material Science and Engineering, Georgia Tech

Title: Plasmonic and Metamaterials: Manipulating Light with Nanostructured Metals

Location: FNT 1.104, 12 noon

Link for more information on speaker: http://www.mse.gatech.edu

Portfolio Program Seminar Series Speaker: Dr. Guihua Yu, The University of Texas at Austin

August 21st, 2012

[ October 31, 2012; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Speaker: Dr. Guihua Yu, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Title: Developing Nanostructured Hybrid Materials for Energy Storage Technologies

Location: FNT 1.104, 12 noon

Link for more information on speaker: http://www.me.utexas.edu/directory/faculty/yu/guihua

Portfolio Program Seminar Series Speaker: Dr. Nicole Benedek, The University of Texas at Austin

August 21st, 2012

[ October 3, 2012; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Speaker: Dr. Nicole Benedek, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Title: Why are there so few perovskite ferroelectrics?

Location: FNT 1.104, 12 Noon

Link for more information on speaker: http://www.me.utexas.edu/directory/faculty/benedek

Materials Professor Donglei Fan Receives NSF Career Award

August 18th, 2012

Assistant Professor Donglei Fan recently received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, a grant aimed at helping outstanding junior faculty make strong advances in their research and instructional careers. This prestigious award is one of the most highly sought-after science and technology research grants in the country among young tenure-track [...]

New Nanotech from an Ancient Material

August 16th, 2012

A paper from researchers at the Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Bradley University identifying carbon-based soot as a new nanotechnology has recently been accepted to the Journal of Chemical Education.

Portfolio Program/Materials Science and Engineering Seminar Series Speaker: Dr. Michael Bedzyk

August 13th, 2012

[ October 10, 2012; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Speaker: Dr. Michael Bedzyk, Northwestern University, Materials Science and Engineering

Title: X-ray atomic-scale structural studies of interfaces with chemical-state sensitivity

Location: FNT 1.104 at 12 noon

Link to speaker’s research website here: http://bedzyk.mccormick.northwestern.edu/

Portfolio Program/Materials Science and Engineering Seminar Series Speaker: Dr. Rudolph Buchheit, Ohio State University

August 7th, 2012

[ February 6, 2013; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Speaker: Dr. Rudolph Buchheit, Ohio State University, Chair,  Materials Science and Engineering

Title: The Zn2+ – Vanadate Inhibitor Pair for Corrosion-Resistant Organic Coatings: Inhibitor interaction with complex microstructures and delivery approaches using synthetic ion-exchange compound pigments

Location: FNT 1.104 at 12 noon

Link to speaker’s website here: http://mse.osu.edu/people/buchheit.8