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Wennie Wang Awarded 2025 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award
The American Physical Society (APS) has awarded Wennie Wang of the University of Texas at Austin the prestigious 2025 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award.
Samanta Receives Packard Fellowship
Devleena Samanta is the first faculty member from the University of Texas at Austin to receive the early-career award in the chemistry category.
Predicting Electron Transport Under Surface Scattering
Surface is a common scatterer to electron transport. The surface scattering is critical to many applications such as interconnects and sensors. For example, as the demands of microelectronics push for increasingly smaller interconnects, the need for higher electrical conductivity becomes more pronounced.
Professor Manthiram Delivers Plenary Talk at the Italian Chemical Society National Congress
At the prestigious Societa Chimica Italiana (SCI) National Congress, held during August 26-30, 2024, in Italy, Professor Manthiram from the University of Texas at Austin took center stage to deliver a plenary talk on "Elements of Future for Sustainable Energy Storage."
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Texas Materials Seminar Series
The Texas Materials Seminar Series features MSE 397 Seminars, TMI Distinguished Lectureships, and TMI Special Seminars, where leading faculty and professionals from around the world share cutting-edge innovations and advancements in materials engineering with our students.
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Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2024
Congratulations to the 11 faculty affiliated with the Texas Materials Institute that were acknowledge by Clarivate as Highly Cited Researchers for 2024.
AI Faculty Cluster Hire (APPLY HERE)
The Cockrell School of Engineering and College of Natural Sciences at UT Austin are hiring four tenure-track Assistant Professors in the "AI for Materials" cluster initiative, starting Fall 2025.
Electrochemical Simulations Made More Accurate
Dr. Yuanyue Liu and his research group at the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering and Texas Materials Institute at the University of Texas at Austin have released CP-VASP, a patch for the Vienna Ab-Initio Simulation Package (VASP) that enables Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations under constant electrode potential.
New Thermal Interface Material Could Cool Down Energy-Hungry Data Centers
A new cooling technology could change how heat is managed in electronic devices — from tiny semiconductors to massive data centers.
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