MSE Faculty Candidate Seminar: “Uncovering atomistic mechanisms of crystallization using Machine Learning”
Solid-liquid interfaces have notoriously haphazard atomic environments. While essentially amorphous, the liquid has short-range order and heterogeneous dynamics. The crystal, albeit ordered, contains a plethora of defects ranging from adatoms […]
MSE Faculty Candidate Seminar: “Engineering non-equilibrium structure and functionality in complex solids”
Unique macroscopic phenomena, such as high-temperature superconductivity and colossal magnetoresistance, emerge in many complex solids due to the interplay between their electronic, magnetic, and structural degrees of freedom. This interplay […]
MSE Faculty Candidate Seminar: “Atomically Thin Films and Superlattices”
Thin film materials and heterostructures play a key role in modern technology including electronics and photonics. Atomically precise engineering of thin film materials enables unprecedented control of their structure and […]
MSE Faculty Candidate Seminar: “Structure-property relations in hybrid 2D halide perovskites”
Two-dimensional (2D) hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites are under intense investigation due to their interesting physical properties and superior performance in thin-film based optoelectronic devices. The structural diversity embedded in the system […]
MSE Faculty Candidate Seminar: “Unsupervised Learning of Dislocation Motion”
High-performance designs that utilize metallic alloys are driving a need to quantify deformation in-situ at the finest length scales in order to reduce weight, increase operating temperatures, and improve fatigue […]
MSE Faculty Candidate Seminar: “Defect Structure Process Maps for Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing”
Additive manufacturing (AM) greatly expands the design freedom and near-net shape production of metallic components across multiple length scales. However, defects arising from starting materials, processing conditions, and post-processing may […]
MSE Materials in Practice Seminar: “So You’re an Engineer…Now What?”
Materials in Practice is a seminar series where technologists who are using materials science to shape the world we live in share their secret to doing this. We hope that […]
MEAM Seminar: “Plate Mechanical Metamaterials and their Applications”
Recently, we introduced the concept of plate mechanical metamaterials—cellular plates with carefully controlled periodic geometry and unique mechanical properties—as well as its initial realization in the form of freestanding corrugated […]
MEAM Seminar: “Liquid Crystal Elastomers”
Liquid crystal elastomers are rubbery solids with liquid crystal mesogens incorporated into their main chains. They display an isotropic to nematic phase transformation accompanied by a large spontaneous deformation. This […]
MSE Grace Hopper Lecture: “Artificial Intelligence for Generating Materials Science Knowledge”
The process of scientific inquiry involves observing a signal (data) and interpreting it to generate information (knowledge). For example, in electron microscopy the signal may be a diffraction pattern from […]