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 […]
MSE Seminar: “In-Situ Resistance Degradation & Switching of Bulk Fe-doped SrTiO3 and Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia”
Perovskite-type titanates are the standard dielectric used in multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs), and yttria-stabilized (YSZ) is the prototypical fast oxygen conductor used in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) and oxygen […]
MSE Seminar: “Exploring Photonic Materials with Symmetry and Topology”
Symmetry and topology are fundamental notions existing in all kinds of natural systems, from spiral galaxies and hurricanes to amino acids in molecules and non-trivial topologically protected electronic states in […]
MSE Seminar: “How Do You Make a Micro-Robot?”
MSE Seminar: “Why Industrial Research Is Critical: A Brief History in the 20th and 21st Centuries”
MSE Seminar: “Managing Intercultural Interactions in a Challenging Global Higher Education Landscape”
The rapidly diversifying face of colleges and universities in the United States including the University of Pennsylvania require that we are able to manage intercultural relationships from different backgrounds. We […]
MSE Seminar: “Science and Applications of Topological Photonics across the Electromagnetic Spectrum”
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Kosterlitz, Thouless, and Haldane for their pioneering theoretical work on the novel and counter-intuitive phases of matter that are now referred […]