The School of Materials Science and Engineering seminar series features exceptional speakers whose research spans the range of disciplines in the School. Through this series, our faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate researchers are exposed to a spectrum of topics.
The following list of speakers are slated for the upcoming semester. You can click on the name of the speaker for more detailed information of the seminar. Please check back often to see an updated list.
Upcoming Seminars
November 3, 2011
Prof. Ayman F. Abouraddy - Surprises in the Fabrication of Multi-material Fibers
Past Seminars
October 20, 2011
Prof. V. T. Milam - Programmable Release from Model Drug Carriers
September 29, 2011
Prof. Stephen H. Garofalini - Effect of Composition and Thickness on the Atomistic Structure of Intergranular Films in Oxide and Nitride Ceramic Materials
September 22, 2011
Jennifer S. Andrew - Nanostructured Composite Materials for Multiferroic and Biomedical Applications
November 18, 2010
Xiao-Dong Zhou - Vital or Fatal: Defect Chemistry in Energy Materials
November 11, 2010
C.L. Dennis - Magnetism and Magnetic Characterization:What can it tell us about materials?
November 4, 2010 (cancelled due to illness of speaker)
Prof. Yuris Dzenis - High-Performance Continuous Nanofibers for the Next Generation Structural Supernanocomposites
September 30, 2010
Prof. Gennady Cymbalyuk - Neurons with multiple personalities: multistability in neurodynamics
October 7, 2010
John Ballato - Everyone needs more fiber:The past, present, and future of optical fiber
September 9, 2010
Prof. S. Crittenden - Electrogenic Bacteria: Microbial Fuel Cells and Bionanowires?
May 11, 2010
Evelyne Fargin - Development
of new oxide glasses, and glass nanocomposites for use in integrated
optical systems.
April 20, 2010
Michael A. Meador - Enhancing
the Property of Aerospace Resins and Composites by Addition of
Clays, Graphenes and Carbon Nanotubes
February 4, 2010
Alexander Sidorenko - Polymer Brushes and Supramolecular
Polymer Assemblies as Chemical Reactors
March 11, 2010
Thomas M. Crawford - Magnetic
Materials for Technology Applications - An Accelerating Story
January 19, 2010
M. J. Hoffmann - Colloidal
Processing of Alumina
January 14, 2010
Wah-Keat Lee - X-ray Imaging
at the Advanced Photon Source
November 19, 2009
David Lukas - Electrospun
Nanofibrous Materials as X-ray Sources under Atmospheric Conditions
October 1, 2009
Frank Alexis - Biodegradable
Nanoparticles as a Drug Delivery Platform
September 18, 2009
Denise Krol - Fabrication
of Photonic Structures in Glass using Femtosecond Laser Pulses
August 5, 2009
Raman Seminar/Demo - Keith Rhodes
- Thermo Fisher Scientific
May 1, 2009
Sergiy Minko - Intelligent
Nanostructured Materials from Stimuli-Responsive Polymers
April 30, 2009
HanSeung Park -
Electrodeposition of nanocrystalline Ni-based alloys
Jeff Moreland
Pengyu Chen
April 23, 2009
Julie M. Trenor (Clemson University) - Characteristics
of rigorous engineering education research
April 16, 2009
Nathan Carlie - Measurement
of the refractive index of chalcogenide thin films using prism
coupling in the near and mid-infrared
April 9, 2009
Brian Morin (Innegrity, LLC) - Stopping Bullets and Saving Gas: An Entrepreneurial Experience in High Performance Fibers
April 2, 2009
C. Arnold (Princeton) - Shaping Laser Interation: Direct-Write Processing From Solar Cells to Stem Cells and Beyond
March 26, 2009
V. Tsukruk (Georgia Tech) - Nanostructured Interfaces For Organized Mesoscopic Hybrid Materials
March 5, 2009
Professor Yury Gogotsi (Drexel University) - Nanostructured Carbon-Based Materials and Applications
February 26, 2009
Nelson Bell (Sandia NL) - Ink Jet Printing for
Electronics
February 19, 2009
Professor Plamen Atanassov (UNM) - Fuel Cells & Electrochemical Biosensors
February 12, 2009
Amod Ogale (Clemson University, Chemical Engineering) - Carbon Fibers From Alternative Precursors
February 5, 2009
Christopher Kitchens (Clemson University) - The Role of Surface Chemistry on the Synthesis and Application of Metallic Nanoparticles
January 29, 2009
Professor F. Brent Neal (Milliken Research) - Emerging Technologies at Milliken
January 15, 2009
Professor Kyriaki Kalaitzidou - Multifunctional
Polymer Nanocomposites
December 12, 2008
Dr. David Musgraves - Investigations of the effects of photocatalysis on molecular assembly
behavior of titanium alkoxide materials
December 4, 2008
Suraree Kaewgun - Synthesis and polymorphic control for visible light active TiO2 nanoparticles
Oleksandr Burtovyy - Cantilever sensor based on a membrane grafted with an active nanothin coating
November 26, 2008
Dr. Viktor Balema - Organic Mechanochemistry - Scientific Trick or Tricky Science?
November 20, 2008
Christopher Huebner - Colloidal electroluminescence: single emmission from a binary particle
Hao Chen - Nanoclay-based Multilayers Synthesized by Self-assembly
Bonnie Zimmerman - Affects of Whitening and Etching Agents on the Mechanical Properties of Dentin and Enamel
November 13, 2008
Lisa Fuller - Production and Characterization of Shaped Fiers for Use in Oil Recovery
Ryan Roeder - Clickable Polymer Colloids: Core-Shell Particles with a Non-crosslinked Shell to Aid Characterization
Joel Barden - Synthesis an Processing of Aramid Fibers
October 30, 2008
Matt Gevaert - Intellectual Property
October 23, 2008
Mefford/Ballato/Kennedy - Types of Positions
and Getting There
October 16, 2008
John Marra - Laboratory Safety/ Development of
National Labs
October 9, 2008
Earl Wagner - Small
Buisness Development
September 25, 2008
MSE 800 - Thermal Analysis Workshop
September 18, 2008
SEM, TEM, XPS Workshop
200
Olin Hall @ 5:00PM - SEM, TEM, XPS Workshop
September 11, 2008
200
Olin Hall @ 5:00PM - AFM
Workshop Abstract
September 4, 2008
Satisch Alapati - Materials Science/ Dentistry
April 4, 2008
Manfred Stamm - Polymer
Brushes, Nanotemplates and Single Molecules – Routes to
Functional Nanodevices
April 3, 2008
Dr. Katherine T. Faber - Porous
Ceramics by Nature and by Design
March 13, 2008
Dr. Robert L. Snyder - The
New World of Materials Science & Engineering: Nano & Bio
Technology
February 29, 2008
Dr. S.K. Sundaram - Millimeter/THz
Wave Diagnostics of Materials. Processes, and Devices
February 1, 2008
Dr. Juan P. Hinestroza - Multifunctional
Fibers via Manipulation of Nanoscale Phenomena
January 17, 2008
Dr. Yury Gogotsi - Nanotubes,
Nanodiamonds and Carbide-Derived Carbons with Tunable Size, Structure,
Surface Chemistry and Properties
Due to the weather, this seminar was canceled.
2007
November 29, 2007
George Wheeler - Historical
Overview and Current Issues with the Use
of Alkoxysilanes for the Consolidation of Stone
November 8, 2007
Suzanne Huerth - Counter
Improvised Explosives Techniques and Oxygen Motion in YBCO
November 15, 2007
Dr. Jackson
October 30, 2007
Dr. Olivia Graeve - Precipitation
Processes for the Synthesis of Nanostructured Powders
October 11, 2007
Steven Morgan - Optical
Properties of Heavy-metal Oxide Glasses and Glass-Ceramics
September 27, 2007
Jacqueline Johnson - Optical
Applications of Glass Ceramics - Abstract
September 20, 2007
Dr. Xuejun Wen - Bioengineering
Strategies for Tissue Repair
September 13, 2007
Dr. Linda S. Schadler - The
Challenges of Designing Nanoparticle/ Polymer Nanocomposites -
The Infamous Interface
September 12, 2007
Dr. Anvar Zakhidov - Carbon
Nanotube Yarns and Transparent Sheets: Dry Processing and Applications
September 6, 2007
Dr. Philip D. Rack - Focused
Nanoscale Electron Beam Induced Processing: Experimentation, Simulation,
and Applications
April 5, 2007
Dr. Thomas D. Bayha - ATI
Allvac Development of Ti-5-5-5-3 for Aerospace Structural Applications
March 29, 2007
Frederick A. Rueggeberg, DDS, MS - Teeth
– Truly Amazing Engineering Structures
March 21-22, 2007
2007
Annual Conference on Opportunities & Markets for Medical Textiles
and Biomedical Polymers & Materials (conference location
is The
Westin Poinsett Hotel in Greenville SC)
March 8, 2007
Dr. Gajanan Bhat - Structure
& Properties of Nanoclay Incorporated Polymer Films, Fibers,
and Nonwovens
February 22, 2007
Dr. Ing. Claudia Fleck - Corrosion
and Fatigue Behaviour of Micro--Alloyed Mg-Alloys
February 8, 2007
Dr. Richard Groff - Gecko-inspired
Fiber Array Adhesives
January 25, 2007
Dr.Andrejs Cebers - From Chains of Magnetic
Particles to Micro-Machines
January 18, 2007
Dr. Georges Fadel - Rapid
Prototyping and Multi-material Manufacturing Technologies
2006
November 9, 2006
Dr. F. Kenneth Hopkins - Materials:
Enabling Solid-State Laser Sources
November 2, 2006
Dr. Irene J. Beyerlein - Plastic
Anisotropy of Severly Processed Materials
October 26, 2006
Dr. Steve W. Martin - Synthesis,
Structure, and Ionic Conductivity of Li2S + GeS2 + GeO2 Oxy-sulfide
Glasses
Febuary 28, 2006
Dr. Konstantin Kornev - Enginnering
Nanofibrous Materials for Micro and Nanofluidics
Febuary 27, 2006
Dr. Jason Locklin - From
Structure to Function: Designing Organic Materials for Thin Film
Electronics
Febuary 16, 2006
Dr. Yaw Obeng - What
Red Brick Wall? Opportunities for Collaborative Disruption in
Semiconductor Processing
January 9, 2006
Dr. Luis Zenteno - Trends
and Opportunities in Fiber Materials, Components and Devices
2005
November 16, 2005
Dr. Ulrich Fotheringham - Optical
Design and the Required Glass Types
November 10, 2005
Dr. Paul F. Becher - At and Below Nanoscale: Phenomena Affecting the Microstructure
and Toughness of Silicon Nitride Ceramics
October 27, 2005
Professor A. E. Siegman - "News
of the Universe . . . "
October 11, 2005
Dr. Eric G. Johnson - Micro
and Nano-Optics for Passive and Active Device Applications
September 29, 2005
Dr. Tadahiko Furuta - Advanced
Automotive Materials & Surface Treatment for Vehicle Weight
Reduction
September 21, 2005
Barry Luther-Davies - Photonic
Devices in Chalcogenide Glass Films
August 25, 2005
Dr. Robert H. Wagoner - Sheet
Springback: Prediction and Design