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Tuesday, July 29, 2003Volume 3, Issue 9

 

Director's Message

 

MRI ANNUAL PICNIC
Friday, August 22, 2003
12:00 noon - dusk
Pine Grove Mill's Lions Club

 

Great Food!
Served 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

 

Lots of Fun
Volleyball, Baseball, Horse Shoes and
Dunking Booth

 

MRI Items will be available
T-Shirts (short sleeve $5.00 and long sleeve $7.00)
Hats $5.00

 

For directions to the Pine Grove Mill's Lions Club go to:
http://www.mri.psu.edu/ematerials/v02i12/Map.pdf

 

Regards,
Carlo Pantano

MRI Faculty Promotions

Congratulations to the following MRI faculty members who were recently promoted:

 

Leonid V. Berlyand, Professor of Mathematics

 

Vincent H. Crespi, Professor of Physics

 

Joseph P. Cusumano, Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics

 

Elizabeth C. Dickey, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

 

Cheng Dong, Professor of Bioengineering

 

John R. Hellmann, Jr., Professor of Ceramic Science and Engineering

 

Arthur T. Motta, Professor of Nuclear Engineering

 

Robert J. Santoro, Guillet Professor of Mechanical Engineering

 

Peter E. Schiffer, Professor of Physics>

 

Barbara A. Shaw, Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics

 

Chunshan Song, Professor of Fuel Science

Summer Get-Togethers


Only 3 more before school starts!

 

Meet people...Talk materials...See what others are doing...Champion your cause...Get in on the ground floor of a new research initiative or center start-up...

 

So far this summer, these casual Thursday afternoon (4 PM) "get-togethers" have explored new or proposed materials research centers - The Hydrogen Energy Center (Bruce Logan, June 5), a large MEMS initiative (Srinivas Tadigadapa, June 19), a center for sensor technology (Craig Grimes and Mike Pishko, July 10), a center for laser-integrated instrumentation systems (Judith Todd, July 17), and a center for functional polymers (Ralph Colby, July 24). Interested parties met at MRL or the Nittany Lion Inn over coffee and drinks and munched on canapés, fruit and cheese, or crudités while presentations on critical mass for collaborative programs were pitched and opportunities for team formation and funding were discussed.

 

More details...

Contracts & Grants

Materials research accounted for more than $4.7 million in contracts and grants for the month of June! 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.

 

Allcock, Harry R; Water-Impermeable Lithium-Ion-Conducting Membrane Material Development, Central Intelligence Agency

 

Lanagan, Michael T; Furman, Eugene; High-Q Tunable Microwave Filters Based on Large Displacement Actuators, Industry

 

Liu, Zi-Kui; Chen, Long Q; Multiscale Computational Tools for Predicting Thermodynamics, Microstructure Evolution, and Mechanical Properties of Single-Crystal Ni-Based Superalloys, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

 

Redwing, Joan M; Mohney, Suzanne E; Mayer, Theresa S; Mizul, A; NIRT: Semiconductor Nanowires: Building Blocks for Nanoscale Electronics, National Science Foundation

 

Schlom, Darrell G; Quantum Information Processing with Ferroelectrically Coupled Quantum Dots, Pittsburgh, University of

 

Schlom, Darrell G; Trolier-Mckinstry, Susan E; Gopalan, Venkat; Xi, Xiaoxing; Chen, Long Q; NIRT: Artificially Engineered Nanoscale Ferroelectrics, National Science Foundation

 

Varadan, Vijay K; Rose, Joseph L; A Novel Wireless System for Structural Integrity Monitoring of Aircraft, Industry

 

Wronski, Christopher R; Collins, Lance R; Optimization of Phase Engineered a-Si.H Based Multijunction Solar Cells, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

 

Xi, Xiaoxing; Redwing, Joan M; Hybrid Physical-Chemical Vapor Deposition on MgB2 Thin Films, National Science Foundation

 

Sintering 2003

An International Conference on the Science Technology and Applications of Sintering

September 15 - 17, 2003

Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel

 

The program includes more than 100 presentations from the international sintering community.

 

All Penn Staters are invited to register at the student rate which includes breaks and luncheons at the Penn Stater as well as a CD of the conference proceedings.

Dispersion of Powders in Liquids

When: October 10/11

 

Where: MRL Bldg.

 

Instructed by: James H. Adair and a host of professional faculty

 

Objective: The objective of this course is to provide practicing engineers and scientists with both the theoretical foundation as well as practical laboratory experience in characterization and dispersion of colloidal suspensions. The students will be provided with both calculational tools and standard operating procedures and approaches for the dispersion of powders in liquids. The course is oriented toward those scientists and engineers who have a need to control particulate processing.

 

By invitation only. Limited to 24 professional invitees/students on a first come basis.

 

PMC NSF/IUCRC Fall 03 NanoParticulate Dispersion Workshop

When: October 12-14

 

Where: The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel

 

Objective: To evaluate the current situation with respect to nanoparticulate manufacturing related to characterization and dispersion; to address critical issues that inhibit manufacturing materials, components and devices based on nanoparticles and to develop roadmaps for nanoparticle characterization and dispersion that project needed developments for the near term (within two years ), mid-term (within five years), and developments that require a longer term than five years. Open to all.

 

Materials Seminars

Wednesday, July 30, 2003

Time: 2:00 PM
Location: 250 MRL Bldg.
Title: LTCC Process Control & New Applications In ITRI/MRL
Speaker: Kuo-Chuang Chiu, Materials Research Laboratories Industrial Technology Research Institute

For a complete list of upcoming materials-related seminars go to:
http://www.mri.psu.edu/seminars.asp

Funding Opportunities