September 4

Indiana Jones and the Search for Apollo-Modern Day Adventures in Materials Science
Dr. D. Elizabeth Pugel
NASA-Goddard
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September 11

High Magnetoresistance Mg-B-O Tunnel Junctions with Ni-Fe-B and Fe-Co-B Free Electrodes
Dr. John C. Read
NIST
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September 18

Soft and Fuzzy Conjugated Polymers for Interfacing Electronic Biomedical Devices with Living Tissue
David Martin
Professor
Karl W. and Renate Boer Chair
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Delaware
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September 25

Development of a Lower Temperature SOFC
Eric Wachsman
Professor
Director, UMERC
Department of Materials Science and Engineering/Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Maryland
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Oct. 2

Ge/Si: Quantum Dots, Films and Magnetism
Jerrold Floro
Associate Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Virginia
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Oct. 9  

Correlated Oxide Heterostructures
R. Ramesh
Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering/Department of Physics
University of California, Berkeley
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Oct. 16

Plasmon Resonances in Nanoparticles
Isaak D. Mayergoyz
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Maryland
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Oct. 23

Angular Trapping of Micro-Particles: Rotating and Applying Torque to Biological Molecules with Optical Tweezers
Arthur La Porta
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
University of Maryland
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Oct. 30

TWO SEMINARS
We are pleased to announce we are hosting two guests on October 30!

Special Time/Location:
10:00 a.m.
Room 2110, Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building

First Principles Modeling of Oxygen Incorporation Into Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Cathode
Dr. Eugene A. Kotomin
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, and
University of of Latvia
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Regular Time/Location:

Seeding and Templated Grain Growth for Control of Phase Formation, Microstructure, and Properties of Piezoelectric and Structural Ceramics
Gary L. Messing
Distinguished Professor of Ceramic Science
Head, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Penn State University
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Nov. 6

Power of Dynamic Observations in Understanding the Role of Catalyst in the Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes and Nanowires
Dr. Renu Sharma
Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Science and Technology and Center for Solid State Science, Arizona State University
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Nov. 13

The Shape of Polymers: From Thin Films to RNA
Robert M. Briber
Professor and Chair
Materials Science and Engineering
University of Maryland
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Nov. 20

Functional Nanoparticle Assemblies Based on Layer-by-Layer Assembly and Microfluidics
Daeyeon Lee
Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
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Dec. 4

No Seminar

Dec. 11

Self Assembly, Phase Behavior and Dynamics in Block Copolymer Complexes and Nanocomposites
Dr. Pappannan Thiyagarajan
Program Manager, Neutron Scattering
Division of Materials Science and Engineering
DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences
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