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Dec 7
2017Natalie Larson, a current ALS doctoral fellow from Professor Zok's group in the Materials Department UC Santa Barbara, won the first prize Neville B. Smith Student Poster Award at the 2017 ALS User Meeting. Larson’s winning poster—”In-situ x-ray computed tomography of defect evolution during polymer impregnation and pyrolysis processing of ceramic matrix composites”—... read more » -
Nov 28
2017Working with scientific images is arduous, and no simple platform exists for sharing them. That is all about to change. UC Santa Barbara engineers and researchers have been awarded a $3.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure to build a large-scale distributed image-processing infrastructure (LIMPID) through a broad,... read more » -
Nov 21
20172018 Abdullah Ibrahim Alhassan, Growth, Fabrication, and Characterization of High Performance Long Wavelength C-Plane III-Nitride Light-Emitting Diodes, co-advised by Prof. Steven DenBaars and Prof. James Speck Brent Goodlet, Forward and Inverse Modeling Frameworks for Nondestructive Evaluation of Materials with Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy, advised... read more » -
Nov 17
2017UC Santa Barbara scientists are on the cusp of a major advance in topological quantum computing. In a paper that appears in the journal Nature, Chris Palmstrøm, a UCSB professor of electrical and computer engineering and of materials, and colleagues describe a method by which “hashtag”– shaped nanowires may be coaxed to generate Majorana quasiparticles. These... read more » -
Nov 17
2017A mathematician and her collaborators figured out how to predict electrons’ behavior by studying the mathematics of waves -
Oct 23
2017Monday, October 9, 2017 High-strength alloys have been critical in the development of aircraft wings and fuselages, and other high-performance applications in demanding environments where margins for error are extremely small. Many alloys could also be useful in additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, which, at the highest level, makes it possible to fabricate... read more » -
Oct 9
2017In September, 26 students from top science and engineering programs joined the Materials Department. Six students were awarded the prestigious NSF Graduate Student Fellowship, including one who was also awarded the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship.The Department is eager to see the scientific accomplishments of these new students over the... read more » -
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Sep 26
2017UCSB engineering professor Shuji Nakamura receives prestigious recognition from the Institution of Engineering and Technology Shuji Nakamura, a UC Santa Barbara professor of materials — and a Nobel laureate — has been awarded the 2017 Mountbatten Medal by the Great Britain-based Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), one of the world’s largest engineering... read more » -
Sep 20
2017The UCSB Materials Department welcomes Assistant Professor Raphaële Clément, to the Inorganic Materials area of research. The overall goal of Prof. Clément’s research is to elucidate the relationship between the structure and (photo)electrochemical properties of inorganic materials used in solar cells and rechargeable batteries, a key step towards designing new clean... read more » -
Sep 18
2017For many PhD students, working as a teaching assistant (TA) is not so much a calling as something that comes with the territory — essentially a requirement that allows them to earn some money while developing new skills. But for Levi Miller (MEd 2017, MS 2014), teaching turned out to be the passion that led him off the PhD track and into the high school classroom. Now... read more » -
Aug 2
2017The UCSB Materials Department welcomed Assistant Professor John Harter on July 1 to the Inorganic Materials area of research. Prof. Harter’s research interests are broadly focused on “quantum materials,” such as unconventional superconductors and strongly-correlated electron systems, where the consequences of quantum mechanics manifest in new and interesting ways. His... read more » -
Jun 30
2017The Materials Department at UCSB would like to congratulate our 2016-2017 Ph.D. graduates and welcome them into the Materials Alumni family. Twenty-four students had their degrees conferred in Fall 2016-Summer 2017. Take a look and see where a few of our graduates have headed as they embark on their careers. Daniel Becerra, Ph.D. '16,... read more » -
Jun 29
2017This article first appeared on June 27, 2017, on the UCSB College of Engineering webpage. In the great 21st-century energy debate, there is one incontrovertible truth: creating and using energy are inefficient processes. In fact, more than half of all energy generated — whether by fossil fuels or alternative sources — is lost to the environment, primarily as... read more » -
Jun 27
2017This article first appeared on June 22, 2017, on the UCSB College of Engineering webpage. Materials scientists around the world are working to develop “superconductors,” materials that can conduct electricity with zero resistance when cooled to a critical point known as the “transition temperature.” At that point, electrons flow across the material with 100-... read more » -
May 3
2017From the article, "An Illuminating Honor" in The UCSB Current, written by Sonia Fernandez: From UC Santa Barbara engineering professor Larry Coldren has received the 2017 Nick Holonyak, Jr. Award from the Optical Society (OSA) in recognition of his “major contributions to photonic integrated circuits.” The award is presented annually to an individual who has made... read more » -
May 3
2017The UCSB Materials Department congratulates four Ph.D. graduate students for recently being named 2017 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellows. Rhys Kennard, Brandon Leu, Sean Murray, and Claire Weaver are first years in the Materials Ph.D. program. Upon receiving the NDSEG Fellowship, Claire Weaver said, "I am so proud of the UCSB Materials... read more » -
Apr 21
2017While Materials graduate students patiently waited in the shade on Friday, April 21, Materials professors eagerly scooped ice cream for them in honor of the Department’s 2017 Graduate Student Appreciation Ice Cream Social. Along with Materials Department Chair Prof. Tresa Pollock and veteran scoopers Profs. Dan Gianola, Frank Zok, and Chris Van de Walle, Prof. Kunal... read more » -
Apr 21
2017The Materials Department is pleased to announce a new professorship, the Mehrabian Endowed Chair in Materials. Professor Carlos G. Levi will be the inaugural recipient of this Endowed Chair. Professor Levi is a dedicated educator and world-renowned researcher in the area of inorganic materials for thermo-structural applications, with emphasis on high temperature... read more » -
Apr 7
2017The Materials Department is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Ram Seshadri as the inaugural recipient of the Fred and Linda R. Wudl Chair in Materials Science. Professor Seshadri joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2002, where he currently holds appointments of Professor of Materials and and Professor of Chemistry and... read more » -
Apr 4
2017UCSB Materials professor Tresa Pollock was recently named a 2017 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow. As a Fellow, she will receive a research grant of $3 million over five years to conduct revolutionary research on structural materials. From the U.S. Department of Defense: The Department of Defense (DoD) named 13 distinguished university faculty scientists and... read more » -
Apr 4
2017UCSB Materials professor Craig Hawker will receive the 2017 Charles G. Overberger International Prize for Excellence in Polymer Research from the American Chemical Society. This is a biennial award that recognizes and encourages accomplishments of unusual merit in the field of basic or applied polymer science. The award, presented biennially, can be given to a scientist... read more » -
Mar 16
2017From The Pacific Coast Business Times: The Pacific Coast Business Times is pleased to announce this year’s Central Coast Innovation Awards winners. Each honoree is profiled in the B section of the Feb. 24-March 2 issue of the Business Times. Winners will be honored at an awards reception Thursday, March 16 at the Bacara Resort & Spa from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. The... read more » -
Feb 21
2017From the article, "In great shape" in The UCSB Current, written by Sonia Fernandez: In 2015 UC Santa Barbara mechanical engineer and materials scientist Jonathan Berger developed an idea that could change the way people think about high-performance structural materials. Two years later, his concept is paying research dividends. In a letter published in the... read more » -
Feb 9
2017From the article, "The little bacterium that could" in The UCSB Current, written by Julie Cohen: A humble bacterium first isolated in New York’s Lake Oneida almost 30 years ago could change the world. With its innate ability to generate electricity, the little powerhouse might one day pave the way for making wastewater drinkable. The bacterium, Shewanella... read more »
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