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Seminars

Materials Research Lectures 2006-2007

Fall 2006-07

October 25, 2006
Stuart Adler, University of Washington
Studies of Oxygen Exchange on a La0.6Sr0.4CoO3-delta Thin Film Using Nonlinear Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (NLEIS)

November 1, 2006
Kenneth S. Vecchio, UCSD
Synthetic MULTI-FUNCTIONAL Metallic-Intermetallic Laminate (MIL) Composites

November 8, 2006
David Mooney, Harvard University
Biology-driven Material Design for Tissue Regeneration

November 15, 2006
Xiang Zhang, University of California Berkeley
Photonic Meta Materials, Nano-scale Plasmonics and Super Lens

November 29, 2006
Lenny Rome, UCLA

Vaults: Biologically-Based Nanocapsules for Cell Targeting

Winter 2006-07

January 16, 2007 (Tuesday)
Krystyn Van Vliet, MIT
Chemomechanics of Metastable Material Surfaces & Interfaces: Exploring the Molecular Scale When Far From Equilibrium

January 16, 2007 (Tuesday, 2:00 pm)
Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Stan Whittingham
Recent Trends in Lithium Ion Batteries for Energy Storage

January 24, 2007
Michal Lipson, Cornell University
Manipulating Light on a Silicon Chip

January 31, 2007
Pat Woodward, Ohio State University
Electrical and Magnetic Properties of Complex Perovskites: Predicting Structure and Controlling Propertie

February 2, 2007
(104 Watson, 1:00 pm)
Michel Latroche, CNRS, Thiais, France
New Mg-based Intermetallic Compounds Used as Negative Electrodes in Ni-MH Batteries

February 14, 2007
Nicola Spaldin, UC Santa Barbara
Computational Design of Contraindicated Multifunctional Materials; Combining Magnetism with Additional Functionalities

February 21, 2007
Erkki Ruoslahti, Burnham Institute for Medical Research at University of
California, Santa Barbara
Multifunctional Nanoparticles: Vascular Zip Codes in Targeted Delivery of Nanodevices

March 7, 2007
Shuming Nie, Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology
Biomedical Nanotechnology for Targeted Cancer Imaging and Therapy

March 14, 2007
John B. Goodenough, The University of Texas at Austin
Orbital Ordering in Perovskites



Spring 2006-07

March 28, 2007
Markus J. Buehler, MIT
Protein Materials Balance Strength, Energy Dissipation and Robustness by Selecting Nanopatterned, Hierarchical Features

April 4, 2007
Ying Shirley Meng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Advanced Micro & Nano Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion: a hybrid approach with Ab Initio computation and selected experiments

April 11, 2007
H. Patrick Gillis, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA
LOW ENERGY ELECTRON ENHANCED ETCHING (LE4) for Damage-Free Fabrication of Semiconductor Devices

April 18, 2007
Jeffrey R. Long, University of California, Berkeley
Hydrogen Storage in Microporous Coordination Solids with Exposed Metal Sites

May 9, 2007

Terrance P. Smith, Technical Director, 3M Corporate Research Materials Laboratory
Advances in Lithium Ion Battery Materials

May 16, 2007
Chiara Daraio, Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Applied Physics, Caltech
Highly Nonlinear Dynamics in Solids: a new Horizon in Wave Propagation

May 29, 2007

Cora Lind, University of Toledo
Shrinking from the Heat: Negative Thermal Expansion Materials

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