“Takeaways from a Faculty Mini-Sabbatical at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab,” seminar, Chen Wang, Assistant Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, University of Utah, Wednesday, October 23, 2024
“Na-Ion Batteries on Fast Forward: Meeting the Demand for Sustainable Energy,” seminar, Dr. Paul Chando, Storagenergy Technologies, Salt Lake City, Utah, Wednesday, October 16, 2024
“Advances in physics-based simulations using GPUs: A particles perspective,” seminar, Nicolin Govender, Ph.D., Senior Research Software Engineer, University College London’s Advanced Research Computing Department, Wednesday, September 25, 2024
“Materials and Process Innovation for Sustainability,” seminar, Robert D. Allen, Ph.D., National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, Tuesday, September 17, 2024
“Materials, Devices, and Processes for Efficient Power Generation, H2 Production, and Electrification,” seminar, Chuancheng Duan, Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Utah, August 21, 2024
“Self-assembly models for crystal growth and phase transitions,” seminar, Dr. Julia Dshemuchadse, Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Cornell University, Friday, August 2, 2024
“Direct Reduction and Alloying (DRA)/HAMR Process for Ti64 Alloy Powder Production,” seminar, Wednesday, March 27, 2024, MD Emran Hossain, Ph.D. Candidate in Metallurgical Engineering
“Investigation of Electrophoretic Deposition of Silica Nanoparticles for Applications in Geo-inspired Nanofluidic Devices,” seminar, Wednesday, March 13, 2024, Srabani Karmakar, Ph.D. Candidate in Metallurgical Engineering
“Sintering and Densification of Nb-W Based Alloys by Electric Field Assisted Sintering,” seminar, Wednesday, March 13, 2024, Jordan Contreras, Ph.D. Candidate in Metallurgical Engineering
“Mission to Mars: One Small Step before a Giant Leap,” seminar, Thursday, February 29, 2024, Dr. S. Elango Elangovan, Chief Scientific Officer Officer, OxEon Energy
“Material Science-Based Innovations for Pollution Control,” seminar, Thursday, February 15, 2024, Dr. Willard A. Cutler, Division Vice-President and Commercial Technology Director for Corning, Inc. (Corning, NY)
“Introduction to Patents and Technology Innovation,” seminar, Thursday, February 1, 2024, J. Jeffrey Gunn, J.D., Shareholder, TraskBritt
“From Celestial Origins to Human Repair: The Remarkable Journey of Silicon Nitride,” seminar, Thursday, January 25, 2024, Byran McEntire, MBA, Ph.D., Emeritus Scientific Officer, SINTX Technologies
“Lab to Climate Venture: Solving Problems that Matter,” seminar, Tuesday, January 23, 2024, Dr. Christina Chang, Partner, Lowercarbon Capital
“Growth and Properties of Materials for LEDs ,” seminar, Thursday, January 18, 2024, Gerald B. Stringfellow, Distinguished Professor , Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and of Electrical and Computer Engineering
“Effects of NO2 aging on bismuth functionalized silica xerogels and its iodine capture capacity,” seminar, Wednesday, January 10, 2024, Karthikeyan Baskaran, Assistant Teaching Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
“Fracture Network Evolution and Response of Civil, Mining, Energy, and Environmental Geosystems,” Graduate Seminar, Wednesday, November 29, 2023, Shahrzad Roshankhah, PhD, PE, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Utah
“Battery Recycling Process Flowsheet Development Case Study: Hatch Process,” seminar, Wednesday, November 15, 2023, Fangyu Liu, Senior Process Engineer, Hydrometallurgy Lead, Hatch Ltd., Salt Lake City
“Acoustic Analog of Condensed Matter Problems,” seminar, Wednesday, November 8, 2023, Yun Jing, Professor, Graduate Program in Acoustics, Penn State University
“Development of Electrochemical Methods and Sensors for Redox Control and Impurity Detection in Molten Salt Reactors,” seminar, Wednesday, November 1, 2023, Matthew Newton, PhD Candidate in Metallurgical Engineering
“Reduction in Model Uncertainty through Adaptive Sequential Design on Predefined DFT Simulations for NMR Peak Prediction,” seminar, Wednesday, November 1, 2023, Ramsey Issa, PhD Candidate in Materials Science & Engineering
“Mapping Ion Motion, Electron Transport, and Structural Dynamics in Organic Mixed Conductors,” seminar, Wednesday, October 18, 2023, Connor Bischak, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemuistry, University of Utah
“Photopolymer Networks via Orthogonal Free-Radical/Epoxy-Acid Reactions,” seminar, Wednesday, October 25, 2023, Grant Musgrave, PhD Candidate, Materials Science and Engineering
“Quantitative Modelling of Defect Concentrations in β-Ga2O3 for Equilibrium, Full Quenching, and Generalized Quenching Scenarios,” seminar, Wednesday, October 25, 2023, Khandakar Aaditta Arnab, PhD Candidate, Materials Science and Engineering
“Low-cost tunable thin film microstructures via spray pyrolysis for lithium-ion batteries, biomaterials, and superconductor applications,” graduate seminar, Wednesday, September 20, 2023, Dr. Shadi Al Khateeb, Associate Professor and Chair, Materials Engineering Department, Al-Balqa Applied University, Jordan.
“Towards transferring medical expertise through haptics and sensing: Telementoring for needle insertion,” Wednesday, September 13, 2023, Edoardo Battaglia, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah
“Could we 3D print a light bulb or a solar panel at home? 2D nanomaterials can solve many problems, including cancer detection and electronic devices,” graduate seminar, Wednesday, September 6, 2023, Deisy Carvalho Fernandes, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Utah
“Overview from Program Directors:-E Programs on Transformational Energy Technologies and Opportunities,” seminar, Friday, April 21, 2023, Dr. Philseok Kim and Dr. Peter de Bock, Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy (ARPA-E), Department of Energy
“The Rapid Detection of Tuberculosis DNA Using an Electrochemical Polypeptide Nucleic Acid Biosensing Platform on Gold and Nanostructured TiO2 Electrodes,” graduate seminar, Wednesday, April 19, 2023, Younghwan Kim, Candidate for PhD in Materials Science & Engineering
“Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Carbon / Epoxy Composites with Micro Group 4-Diboride Particles,” Wednesday, April 19, 2023, graduate seminar, Mark Halling, Candidate for MS in Materials Science & Engineering
“Cyclic Voltammetry for Real-Time Oxide Ion Concentration Measurements of a Molten CaCl2,” graduate seminar, Forest “Indy” Felling III, MS Candidate in MSE Engineering, Wednesday, April 5, 2023
Graduate seminar, Luke Doherty, PhD Candidate in MSE Engineering, Wednesday, April 5, 2023
“Biogas Cleaning and Upgrading for Hydrogen Production,” Dr. Jan Hupka, Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland, Monday, April 3, 2023
“Vacancy and Dopant Migration in beta-Ga2O3,” Nathan Rock, MS Candidate in MSE, and “Defects in Ga2O3,” Isaac Maxfield, MS Candidate in MSE, Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Wednesday, March 22, 2023, "You have your physics results. Now what?" Dr. Samindranath Mitra, Physical Review Letters
Wednesday, March 15, 2023, “Li- and Fe–Intercalated NbS2 for High-Temperature Antiferromagnetic Memory Devices,” Erick Lawrence, M.S. Candidate in MSE, and “Multi-Principal Element Alloys: Micro-Mechanical Behavior under Crystal Structure Voronoi Diagrams,” Hayden Johnson, M.S. Candidate in MSE
Wednesday, March 22, 2023, “You have your physics results. Now what?” Dr. Samindranath Mitra, Physical Review Letters
Wednesday, March 1, 2023, "Data-Driven Materials Discovery," Sterling Baird, PhD Candidate in MSE, and "Self-Supervised Representation Learning of Semiconductor Wafer Maps," M. Faris Khan, BS MS Candidate in MSE
Wednesday, February 22, 2023, "3D Characterization of Packed Particle Beds by Micro X-ray Computed Tomography," Amanda Erskine, MS Candidate.
Wednesday, February 15, 2023, “Magnesium Metal and Other Products Extracted from the Great Salt Lake,” Tom Tripp, Director of Technical Services Manager and Development, US Magnesium.
Wednesday, February 8, 2023, “Nevada Gold Mines: Gold Ore Types and Processing Methods,” George Benthen, Nevada Gold Mines, Elko, Nevada.
Wednesday, February 1, 2023, “Separation and characterization of engineered and environmental nanoparticles by field-flow fractionation,” Dr. Shoeleh Assemi, Imessa Research.
Wednesday, January 25, 2023, "Phyllosilicates – Primary Particles, Clusters and Flocs," Dr. Jan D. Miller, Ivor Thomas Distinguished Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, University of Utah
Wednesday, January 18, 2023, "The Energy Transition in Perspective," Dr. Sidney Green, President, Enhanced Production, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah.
Wednesday, January 11, 2023, "X-Ray Tomography for Mineral Processing Technology – 3D Particle Characterization from Mine to Mill," Jiaqi Jin, Assistant Professor.
“Advanced Characterization of Oxide Fuels,” Lingfeng He, seminar, Wednesday 4 March 2020
Wednesday 26 February 2020, Clark Nielson, “Porous Fluorapatite Bone Scaffolds: From tissue replacement towards tissue regeneration,” and Jake Graser, “Synthesis and Characterization of Machine Learning Predicted Thermoelectric Materials.”
Wednesday 19 February 2020, Zongliang Zhang, PhD Candidate, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Utah, “Finding a System for Efficient Lithium Isotope Separation with Diffusion and Electrochemical Migration.”
Wednesday, February 12, 2020, Danielle Beatty, “Multi-Principal Element Alloy design, fabrication, and characterization for use in extreme environments,” and Curtis Session, “Molecularly imprinted hydrogels for ophthalmic drug delivery.”
Wednesday, February 5, 2020, Prof. Ravi Chandran, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Utah, “Computational Design, Rapid Processing, and Characterization of Multi-Class Titanium Materials.”
Wednesday, January 29, 2020, Prof. Glenn Sjoden, Professor, Energy Solutions Presidential Endowed Chair, Nuclear Engineering Program, Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Utah, “Radiation Transport Tools Supporting Computational Simulations in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Utah.”
Wednesday, January 22. 2020, Parker Okabe, PhD candidate, Nuclear Engineering, “Volatilization of Actinides and Transition Metals,” and Haruka Pinegar, PhD candidate, Metallurgical Engineering, “Thermal Reduction Treatment of Waste Lithium-Ion Battery Cathode Material by Hydrogen.”
Wednesday, January 15 2020, Dr. Manish Wasnik, PhD Metallurgical Engineering, “Dechlorination of Radioactive Electrorefiner (ER) Salt Waste via Ion Exchange Using Ultrastable H-Y Zeolite.”
Wednesday, January 8, 2020, Dr. Alexis Clare, Professor, Glass Engineering, Inamori School of Engineering, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, “Optical Properties of Glass.”
August 21 - Jake Amoroso - Engineering Materials to Endure for Millenia in the Earth's Crust
August 28 - Jean Luc Doumont
September 4 - Mahsa Ebrahiminia, PhD candidate, Materials Science & Engineering, “Structural, Mechanical, and Dynamical Properties of Amorphous Li2CO3 from Molecular Dynamics Simulations," and Marcus Parry, PhD candidate, Materials Science & Engineering, “Lattice strain, texture development, and incompressibility of superhard Mo0.9W1.1BC and ReWC0.8"
September 11 - Dr. Dev Chidambaram, Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Nevada Reno, “Effect of metallic Li on materials."
September 18 - Dr. Eric R. Homer, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, “Using Machine Learning, Math, and Genomic Analysis to Discover the Physics Controlling Metallic Interfaces."
September 25 - Hammad Malik, PhD Candidate, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Utah, “ - Tailoring the Anodically formed Titanium Nanotubes for Water Disinfection."
October 4, 2019, Dr. Taylor Sparks, Materials Science & Engineering, University of Utah, “Poster Assignment.”
October 9 - Fall Break NO SEMINAR
October 16 - Dr. David Fullwood, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, “HRDIC and EBSD Study of Slip-band Behavior."
October 23 - Dr. Troy Munro, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, “Nuclear Fuels: Material Science in Extreme Environments."
October 30 - Dr. Oliver Johnson, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University, “ - Google and Grain Boundary Networks (or, Can you Hear the Structure of a Grain Boundary Network?)”
November 6 - Dr. John Hoffman, Principal Scientist (Glass), Insulation Systems, R&D Core Technologies, Owens Corning, “Fiber Material Chemistry and Its Relationship to Disease Potential.”November 13, 2019, Dr. Jan Hupka, Professor, Department of Process Engineering and Chemical Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, “Functioning of the ASH/SFR reactor in field applications.”November 20 - Wyatt McNeil, Emma Faulkner
November 25, 2019, Levi Gardner, PhD candidate, Metallurgical Engineering, “Synthesis and Characterization of Sintered H-Y Zeolite-Derived Waste Forms for Dehalogenated Electrorefiner Salt,” and Xiaojuan Ni, PhD candidate, Materials Science & Engineering, “Percolation Model for Multicomponent Nanocarbon Composites: Synergistic Effect and the Critical Role of Nematic Transition.”
January 9 - Jun Du, Computational Design, Processing and Properties of Nanostructured TiB Ceramics
January 16 - Michael Simpson, Prospects for Use of Molton Salts in Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems
January 23 - Ahmed Degnah, Design, Synthesis and Properties of Titanium Metal Matrix Composites Based on Ti-B-Fe System
January 30 - Kaai Kauwe, An introduction to materials informatics
February 6 - Michael Simpson, Prospects for Use of Molten Salts in Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems
February 13 - Adam Burak, Study of Lithium Oxide Entrainment in Reduced Uranium Particles Formed from Electrolytic Reduction of UO2 in Molten Lithium Chloride-Lithium Oxide Salt
February 20 - Yinong Yin, Effect of Thickness on the Thermoelectric Properties of Ca3Co4O9 Thin Films
February 27 - Joe Bryan, Climate Change, Clean Energy and National Security - Why US Leadership Matters
March 6 - Dr. Raj Rajamani, Electrodynamic Sorting of Light Metals
March 13 Spring Break NO LECTURE
March 20 - Rahul Sarkar, Interactions of iron/iron oxide and David Magginetti, Solvent-based delimination
March 27 Logan Kiefer, Temperature effects on the electrochromic optical transitions of ethyl viologen diperchlorate-based electrochromic devices & Chris Hancock, High Resolution Strain Tracking of Elestomers Under Tensil Loading with the Aid of Video Capture and Computer Vision
April 3 - Joshua Winger, A model of Grain Growth in DcTe Thin Films during CdCI2 Treatment & Samuel Sprawls, Neutron and Gamma Radiation of GaN
April 10 - Ashley Kennedy, Fabrication of biodegradable, superoleophilic, kappy carrageenan-based sorbents for absorption of oil spills. Alex Szendrei, Use of Embedded Electrodes to Resolve Anode and Cathode Electrode Impedance in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells
April 17
April 24
“Engineering Materials to Endure for Millenia in the Earth’s Crust,” Dr. Jake Amoroso, Principle Engineer, Savannah River National Laboratory, seminar, Wednesday 21 August 2019“The State of the Plastics Business, Recycling, and Research Opportunities with Indian Universities and Industry,” Mr. Nanavaty, President of Reliance Plastics, seminar, Tuesday 2 July 2019
“Future Automation Systems in Context of Process Systems and Minerals Engineering,” Sirkka-Liisa Jämsä-Jounela, Prof. Process Control, School of Chemical Technology, Aalto University, Finland, seminar, Wednesday 12 June 2019
“Fatigue Crack Growth under Spectrum Loading: Modeling & Fractographic Observations,” Dr. R. Sunder, Research Director, Bangalore Integrated Systems Solutions (P) Ltd, Bangalore, India, seminar, Tuesday 14 May 2019
“Use of Embedded Electrodes to Resolve Anode and Cathode Electrode Impedance in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells,” Alex Szendrei, PhD candidate MSE, seminar, Wednesday 10 April 2019
“Fabrication of Biodegradable, Superoleophilic, Kappa Carrageenan-Based Sorbents for Adsorption of Oil Spills,” Ashley Kennedy, BS/MS candidate MSE, seminar, Wednesday 10 April 2019
“A Model of Grain Growth in CdTe Thin Films during CdCl Treatment,” Joshua Winger, BS/MS candidate MSE, and “Neutron and Gamma Radiation of GaN,” Samuel Sprawls, PhD candidate MSE, seminar, Wednesday 3 April 2019
“Interactions of Iron/Iron Oxide and Slags with Pure Al2O3 Refractory under Flash Ironmaking Conditions,” Rahul Sarkar, Metallurgical Engineering, University of Utah, seminar, Wednesday 20 March 2019
“Electrodynamic Sorting of Light Metals,” Raj K. Rajamani, Professor, Metallurgical Engineering, University of Utah, seminar, Wednesday 6 March 2019
“Climate Change, Clean Energy and National Security: Why US Leadership Matters,” Joe Bryan, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council's Global Energy Center, Principal, Muswell Orange, LLC, seminar, Wednesday 27 February 2019
“Nanoscale Probing Brittle/Ductile Behavior,” Professor William W. Gerberich, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, seminar, Monday 25 February 2019
August 22 - Taylor Sparks, How to Lose an Audience in 10 Minutes: Changing the Way We Communicate Science
August 29 - Brian Van Devner, Nano-Imaging and Surface Analysis Lab: A Materials Characterization Lab with Ultra High Resolution Imaging and Spectroscopic Instruments
September 5 - Dengpan Dong, Role of Molecular Dynamics Simulations in the Study of Energy-storage Materials
September 12 - Mark England & Alfred Mowdood, Willing Suspension of Integrity: Research Misconduct & Academic Pitfalls
September 19 - Venkata Atluri, Hydrophobic Surface State of Talc Structures and the Influence of Polysaccharide Adsorption
September 26 - Weiping Liu, Surface Chemistry Characteristics Associated with Bastnaesite Flotation by Lauryl Phosphate
October 3 - Nadine Kabengi, Using Microcalorimetry and Reactions Energetics to Probe the Surface of Metal Oxides Nanomaterials
October 10 - Fall Break NO SEMINAR
October 17 - Wenda Tan, Multi-scale Modeling of Thermo-fluid Dynamics and Microstrucutre Evolution in Laser-based Manufacturing
October 24 - Xiaojuan Ni, Instrinsic Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Two-dimensional Anilato-based Lattice
October 31 - Ashley Spear, A multi-scale, multi-physics modeling framework to predict spatial variation of properties in additive-manufactured metals
November 7 - Benjamin Fransen, Investigations of Local Atomic and Magnetic Structure in Complex Materials
November 14 - Qingxia Liu, Dynamic Interaction between a Millimeter-Sized Bubble and Surface Microbubbles in Water
November 21 - Nora Alnajjar, Electrodeposition of U and Th from Molten LiCl-KCI onto a Pt Surface for Actinide Monitoring Using Alpha Spectroscopy & Jake Graser, Breadth vs Accuracy of Predicting Across Many Crystal Structures
November 28 - Jim Steppan, Industrial Applications of Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Materials Science and Engineering
December 5 - Yinong Yin, Thermoelectric properties of zinc oxide dually doped by trivalent elements M (M=In, Al, Ga, Bi, B)
December 12 - Chett Boxley