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Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Fall 2005 Seminar Series

Refreshments at 3:00 p.m., Presentation at 3:30 p.m.
100 Hancock Hall

Date Title Speaker/Affiliation
August 26 (Joint with Geosciences) Materials Science in the Geosciences: Examples of Properties, Behaviors, and Consequences of Natural Nanomaterials in the Environment

Prof. Mike Hochella
Geological Sciences
Virginia Tech
September 2 Transition on Electron Microscopy: Characterization Methods in the Nano-world

Prof. Joerg R. Jinschek
MSE/Geosciences
Virginia Tech
September 9 One-Dimensional Nanostructures: Nanotubes, Nanowires, Nanobelts, and Nano/Micro Hybrid Structures Dr. Zhengwei Pan (K. Lu)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
September 16 Carbon Nanosheets - A Novel, Free-Standing Two-Dimensional Carbon Nanostructure

Prof. Brian Holloway
College of William & Mary

September 23 Exploring Ultra-shallow Doping Techniques for Advanced Microelectronic Device Fabrication Prof. Kevin Jones
MSE, University of Florida
September 30 High Energy Density Capacitors

Dr. Qi Tan
General Electric
October 7 Developing Mechanism-Based Models of the Mechanical Behavior of Wrought Magnesium Alloys (With a View Towards Metal Forming Prof. Sean R. Agnew
MSE, University of Virginia
October 14 Electric Field Redistribution of Polar Nano-regions in a Relaxor Ferroelectric Dr. Guangyong Xu
Brookhaven National Lab
October 21

Theory of Cyclotron Resonance and Magneto-optics of Narrow Gap Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors at Ultrahigh Magnetic Fields

Prof. Chris Stanton
Physics, University of Florida
October 28
(Joint with ESM) **

Watching Nanotubes Grow

Dr. David B. Geohegan
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

November 4 High Performance Thermoplastic Composite Bipolar Plates for Fuel Cells Prof. Donald G. Baird
Chemical Engineering
Virginia Tech
November 11

Aluminum Oxidation: SHS Reaction Kinetic Controlling Parameter

Development of Environmentally Friendly Non-Chrome Conversion Coatings for Cold-Rolled Steel

Intermediate Ferroelectric Orthorhombic and Monoclinic MB Phases in [110]-Electric Field Cooled Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-30%PbTiO3 Crystals

Mr. Jairaj Payyapilly
MSE, Graduate Student

Mr. Jialin Wang
MSE, Graduate Student

Mr. Hu Cao
MSE, Graduate Student

November 18 Plastic Deformation of Metallic Glasses Prof. Michael Atzmon
MSE, University of Michigan
November 25 Thanksgiving Holiday, no seminar  
December 2

Exotic Single Crystal Thin Films Made From Cobalt Ferrite

Prof. Abdellah Lisfi
Morgan State University
Baltimore
December 8 (Thursday)

Influence of Surface Relaxation on the Elastic behavior of Nanoporous Metals

Optimization of Nanophase Suspension for Freeze Casting

Temperature and Free Surace Effects on Grain boundary Migration in Nanocrystalline Nickel

Mr. Douglas Crowson
MSE, Graduate Student

Mr. Christopher Kessler
MSE, Graduate Student

Mr. Somadatta Mohanty
MSE, Graduate Student

For additional seminar information, contact Dr. A.O. Aning, at 540-231-6849, or by email at aaning@vt.edu
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