Tuesday, December 10, 2002Volume 2, Issue 18
Director's Message
Please mark your calendars:
- Tuesday, February 18th, 3:30 p.m., MRI Faculty Meeting (Campus-wide)
- Tuesday, April 15th, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m., Materials Day
MRI wishes everyone Happy Holidays and a relaxing semester break.
Regards,
Carlo Pantano
MRI Faculty Spotlight
Professor Elizabeth Dickey and her research group focus efforts on understanding internal interfaces in solid-state materials. Through support from NSF, one area of interest to Professor Dickey is grain boundary segregation in oxide ceramics. Using TiO2 as a model system, Professor Dickey couples analytical transmission electron microscopy (TEM), atomistic modeling (performed by Susan Sinnott at the University of Florida) and thermodynamic modeling to better understand the effect of various acceptor and donor dopants on the properties of grain boundaries.
For the full story go to:
http://www.mri.psu.edu/articles/BethDickey/
Contracts & Grants
Materials research accounted for more than $11.1 million in contracts and grants for the month of November! The largest of these contracts and grants (those greater than $200K) are listed below, along with a link to the complete list of contracts and grants. These data are provided by OSPs Strategic Information Management System.
Chan, Moses H; Crespi, Vincent H; Weiss, Paul S; Penn State MRSEC/Center for Nano/molecular Structures (CNS) REVISIONS, National Science Foundation
Harris, Karl A; Management of the Navy's Electro-Optics, U.S. Department of the Navy
Snyder, David W; Freyvogel, Kenneth S; MCRU/Novel Crystals for Imaging and Communication/DARPA, United States Marine Corps
Uchino, Kenji; High Power Piezoelectric Materials, U.S. Department of the Navy
Wang, Chao-Yang; Streit, Donald A; Thynell, Stefan T; Development of Scalable Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Stacks for Trucks and Buses, COP: Department of Environmental Protection
Zhang, Xumu; Memorandum of Agreement, Industry
Materials Seminars
Tuesday, December 10, 2002Time: 11:15 AMThursday, December 12, 2002
Location: 108 Wartik Laboratory
Title: Cells, Gels, and Tissue Engineering
Speaker: Dr. Kristi S. Anseth, University of Colorado
Time: 11:15 AMFriday, December 20, 2002
Location: 22 Deike Bldg
Title: High-Cycle Fatigue of Polycrystalline Silicon: The Role of the Silica/Silicon Interface
Speaker: Chris Muhlstein, Asst. Professor of MATSE, PSU
Time: 2:00 PMMonday, December 23, 2002
Location: C213 Coal Utilization Laboratory
Title: The Holy Grail of the Hydrogen Economy
Speaker: Dale Simbeck, Vice President Technology, SFA Pacific, Inc
Time: 12:00 PM
Location: 108 Wartik Lab (teleconference)
Title: Deformation of Negative Poisson's Ratio Materials and Composites
Speaker: Dr Roderic Lakes, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Funding Opportunities
Air Force: High Dynamic Range Photonics White papers due December 30, 2002
DOE: Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Research Program
