MSE March Newsletter

MARCH 2019

Christopher Murray Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Christopher Murray, Richard Perry University Professor and Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) “for invention and development of solvothermal synthesis of monodisperse nanocrystal quantum dots for displays, photovoltaics and memory”. READ MORE

Learning from Patterns in Pollen
Shu Yang, Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has a long-standing collaboration with Alison Sweeney, Associate Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy in Penn Arts & Sciences. They are interested in the way evolution has produced materials with unique optical properties, like the iridocytes in giant clams that allow them to efficiently harness solar energy. The collaboration's latest work focuses on another microscopic biological structure: pollen. READ MORE

Liang Feng Receives 2019 NSF CAREER Award
Liang Feng, Assistant Professor in Materials Science and Engineering and in Electrical and Systems Engineering, has been selected to receive a 2019 NSF CAREER Award. This award will fund research on “Topological Engineering for Active Photonic Structures and Devices” and aims to advance the field of photonic computing and communications systems. READ MORE

Turning Silicon into Nanometallic Memristors

from Device & Materials Engineering
What makes a metal conducting and an insulator insulating? This question is easily answered for metals that form band gaps with sharp edges, but the answer is unclear for amorphous materials that have many electron states inside the gap. Members from the research group of I-Wei Chen, Skirkanich Professor of Innovation in Materials Science and Engineering, work to find an answer. READ MORE

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