2024-2025 Heilmeier Award and Lecture
March 31 at 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
“Colloidal Nanocrystal Materials and Devices with Extraordinary Structures and Functions”
Colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) can serve as “artificial atoms” to construct materials and devices with extraordinary structures and functions.
This talk will discuss the process of designing materials and devices from single- and multiple-types of NCs. These designs can leverage the unique characteristics of NCs, in particular their size- and composition-dependent physical properties.
This approach has already led to several advancements, including flexible NC electronics, the first NC integrated circuits and magnetically and acoustically driven active matter.
Cherie Kagan
Stephen J. Angello Professor, Electrical and Systems Engineering
Cherie Kagan is the Stephen J. Angello Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering, in Materials Science and Engineering, and in Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania.
She directs the U.S. National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for the Internet of Things for Precision Agriculture (IoT4Ag) and served as Penn Engineering’s Associate Dean for Research (2019-2024).
Kagan’s group studies the chemical and physical properties of nanostructured materials and the integration of materials with optical, electrical, magnetic, mechanical and thermal properties in (multi-)functional devices.
Kagan is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and of the IEEE, MRS, Optica and APS societies; received the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award; and served as the 2021 President of the Materials Research Society.