2019
Prof. Jessica Rouge, U. of Connectitut
Prof. Michael Arnold, University of Wisconsin
Prof. Alexander Spokoyny, UCLA
Prof. Alexandra Boltasseva, Purdue
Prof. Matthew Sheldon, Texas A&M
Prof. Francesco Stellacci, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Prof. Trisha Andrewm, University of Massachusetts
Prof. Harry Atwater, Caltech
Prof. Michelle Louise Personick, Wesleyan University
Prof. Matteo Cargnello, Stanford University
2018
Prof. Jeff Sakamoto, U. of Michigan
Prof. Bozhi Tian, U. of Chicago
Prof. Bharat Jalan, U. of Minnesota
Prof. Jay Narayan, North Carolina State University
Prof. Akif Tezcan, U. California, San Diego
Prof. Rampi Ramprasad, Georgia Institute of Tehnology
Prof. William Chueh, Stanford
Prof. Veronica Augustyn, North Carolina State University
Prof. Jwa-Min Nam, Seoul National University
2017
Professor Jennifer Dionne, Stanford
Professor Daniel Gianolam, UCSB
Professor Julia Greer, Caltech
Dr. Sieu Ha, HRL Laboratories, LLC
Professor Sossina Haile, Northwestern
Dr. Ondrej L. Krivanek, Co-founder and President of Nion, Adjunct Professor, Arizona State University
Prof. David Mitzi, Duke
Prof. Sara Skrabalak, Indiana University
Professor Uli Wiesner, Cornell
Professor Matthew Sheldon, Texas A&M
2016
Professor Nicholas Abbott, Univerity of Wisconsin-Madison
Professor Zhengnan Boa, Stanford
Professor Supratik Guha, University of Chicago
Professor Ali Javey, Berkeley
Professor Jill Millstone, Pitt
Professor Luigi Colombo, Texas Instrument and University of Texas
Professor Joseph Davidovits, President of Geopolymer Institute & Professor, Department of Materials Design and Innovation, Institut Géopolymère, Saint--Quentin, France
Prof. Christopher B. Murray, University of Pennsylvania
Prof. Krishna Rajan, Erich Bloch Chair & Empire Innovation Professor, University at Buffalo
Prof. David Pine, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Professor of Physics, NYU College of Arts & Science
Prof. Anthony Rollett, Carnegie Mellon University
2015
Prof. Alon Gordetsky, Assistant Professor, University of California at Irvine
Professor Evan J. Reed, Stanford
Professor Hui Cao, Yale
Dr. Vladimir Liberman, Lincoln Lab
Professor Melissa Hines, Cornell
Professor Michael Ward, NYU
Professor Dr. Michael Geis
Professor Arjun Yodh, Penn
2014 (Fall only)
Professor Scott Misture, Alfred University
Professor Rajan Shriram Ramanathan, Harvard
Dr. Thilo Rehren, UCL Qatar
Spring 2011
Feb. 24 | Tim Lodge | University of Minnesota | Polymer Micelles and Gels in Ionic Liquids: New Opportunities in Science and Engineering |
March 10 | Simon Billinge | Columbia University | Material Structure in the Nano-World: The Nanostructure Problem and Modern Scattering Methods for Solving It |
March 31 | Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli | MIT | Engineering the Nanoparticle-Biology Interface |
April 14 | Arumugam Manthiram | University of Texas at Austin | Electrode Materials for Next Generation Lithium Ion Batteries |
April 28 | Oded Rabin | Univ. Maryland | Trends in the Thermoelectric Power Factor of Semiconducting Nanowires |
Fall 2010
Sept. 9 | Michael Rubner | MIT | Interdisciplinary Materials Research at MIT |
Sept. 23 | Susan Trolier-McKinstry | Penn State | Designing Piezoelectric Films for MEMS Applications |
Oct. 7 | Malcolm Stocks | ORNL | Fundamental Studies of Defects in Structural Materials: Dislocations and Displacement Cascades |
Oct. 21 | Kripa Varanasi | MIT | Nanoengineered Surfaces for Efficiency Enhancements in Energy and Water |
Nov. 4 | Daryl Chrzan | UC Berkeley | Mechanical Properties of Gum Metal |
Nov. 18 | John Rogers | UIUC | Materials and Assembly Techniques for Unusual Semiconductor Devices: Applications in Photovoltaics and Bio-Integrated Electronics |
Spring 2010
Feb. 4 | Eric Fullerton | UCSD | Spin-Transfer Phenomena in High-Anisotropy Magnetic Nanostructures |
Feb. 18 | Mark Brongersma | Stanford | Si Photonics Meets Plasmonics |
March 4 | L. Mahadevan | Harvard | Soft Interfaces: Statics and Dynamics |
March 18 | Sumio Iijima | Meijo University, Japan | Atomic Structure Details of Nano-Carbon Materials |
April 1 | Andrea Hodge | USC | Nanoporous Metal Foams: Synthesis and Mechanical Behavior |
April 15 | Roberto Car | Princeton | Hydrogen Bonds: A Challenge for Ab-Initio Simulations |
Fall 2009
Sept. 10 | Richard Register | Princeton | Shear-Aligned Block Copolymer Thin Films as Nanofrabrication Templates |
Sept. 24 | Amit Misra | LANL | Design of Multifunctional Nanolayered Composites |
Oct. 1 | Stephen Forrest | U. Michigan | Nanostructured Organic Thin Films |
Oct. 15: | Sharon Glotzer | U. Michigan | Designing for Self-Assembly: The Shape of Things to Come |
Oct. 29 | Andrew Parker | Oxford | Biomimetics: Design by Nature |
Nov. 5 | Alex Zettl | UC Berkeley | Exploiting Carbon Nano-Materials for Electronic and Mechanical Applications |
Nov. 19 | Debra Rolison | NRL | Nanoarchitectures: Why More of Less is More---Especially for Energy Storage and Conversion |
Spring 2009
Feb. 6 | Monica de la Cruz | Northwestern | Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking by Electrostatics in Helical Fibers and Buckled Membranes |
Feb. 20 | Frans Spaepen | Harvard | Simulating Atomic-Scale Phenomena with Colloids |
April 24 | David Seidman | Northwestern | On the Genesis of Nuclei and Phase Decomposition on an Atomic Scale |
May 1 | Matthew Doty | U. Delaware | Quantum Dot Molecules |
May 8 | David Smith | Duke | Expanding the Realm of Electromagnetics: From Negative Refraction to Transformation Optics and Invisibility Cloaks |
Fall 2008
Oct. 3 | Paul McEuen | Cornell | Nano-Carbon: From String Theory to Atomic Drums |
Oct. 17 | David Smith | Duke | (as above) |
Oct. 24 | Taeghwan Hyeon | SNU | Large-Scale Synthesis of Uniform-Sized Nanoparticles and their Designed Assembly and Multifunctional Biomedical Applications |
Nov. 14 | Ken Sandhage | Georgia Tech | Shape-Preserving Chemical Conversion of 3-D Nanostructured Biological Assemblies |
Nov. 21 | Chekesha Liddell | Cornell | Confinement Controlled Ordering of Nonspherical Colloids for Photonic Applications |
Dec. 12 | Izabela Szlufarska | U. Wisconsin | Friction and Adhesion at the Nanoscale |
Spring 2008 Colloquia
Feb. 22 | Elise Morgan | Boston University | Measurement of the Local Mechanical Environment of Skeletal Tissues |
March 21 | Naomi Halas | Rice University | Plasmonics: Merging Nanoparticles with Light |
April 4 | Roger Hanlon | Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole | Quick-Changing Camouflage in Octopus and Squid: Potential Biomimetic and Biophotonic Applications in Engineering and Materials Science |
April 18 | Juan de Pablo | University of Wisconsin | Driven Assembly at the Nanoscale and its Application to Nanofrabrication |
April 25 | ENERGY MICROSYMPOSIUM | Harry Atwater; Gerbrand Ceder, Bob Armstrong | Frontiers of Materials Science: Role of Materials in the Energy Landscape |
May 2 | John Cumings | Univ. of Maryland | In-Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy: From Telescoping Nanotubes to Artificial Ice |
May 9 | David Srolovitz | Yeshiva University | Grain Growth, Shape, and Topology in All Dimensions: Beyond von Neumann-Mullins |
Fall 2007 Colloquia
Sept. 14th | Sergio Lozano-Perez | Oxford University | Recent Advances in Stress Corrosion Cracking Characterization |
Sept. 21st | Sara Majetich | Carnegie Mellon Univ. | Nanoscale Imaging of Magnetic Nanoparticles |
Nov. 2nd | Frederico Capasso | Harvard Univ. | The Bright Future of Nanophotonics: Recent Advances and Challenges |
Nov. 9th | Energy Microsymposium | Gerd Ceder, Yet-Ming Chiang, Moniz, Mukerjee | Materials for Energy: Materials challenges, new developments, and potential solutions to the energy problem |
Nov. 16th | Craig Hawker | UC Santa Barbara | Design Strategies for the Synthesis and Commercial Application of Tailor-Made Polymeric Nanostructures |
Nov. 30th | Joerg Lahann | Univ. of Michigan | Engineering the Biointerface: From Switchable Surfaces to Multiphasic Polymer Particles |
Spring 2007
Feb. 23rd | John Cahn | Univ. of Washington | The Unexpected Coupling of Shear to the Motion of Interfaces Between Crystalline Grains |
March 9th | Darrin Pochan | Univ. of Delaware | Construction of Nano-Structures and Materials Through Polypeptide or Charged Block Copolymer Self-Assembly |
March 23rd | Michael Graetzel | Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne | Mesoscopic Junctions and Nanocrystalline Solar Cells |
April 6th | Shu Yang | UPenn | Directed Assembly on Patterned Polymer Substrates: From Soft Robotics to Photonics |
April 20th | Mauro Ferrari | Univ. Texas Health Science Center at Houston | Silicon Nanotechnologies for Medical Applications |
May 4th | Mark Asta | UC Davis | The Crystal-Melt Interface: Insights from Atomic-Scale Modeling |
Fall 2006
Sept. 15 | Julia Kornfield | Caltech | Making them Faster and Better: Flow-Induced Crystallization of Polymers |
Sept. 29 | Ainissa Ramirez | Yale | The Crystallization of NiTi Shape Memory Thin Films |
Oct. 13 | Gerard Wong | U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Molecular "Hole-Punchers" and their Mechanisms: From Synthetic Antimicrobials to HIV Protein Transduction Domains |
Oct. 27 | Vincent Pigot | U. College London | The Spread of Tin-Bronze in the Old World: A Pan-Asian Technological Phenomenon |
Nov. 17 | Rachel Goldman | U. Michigan | Tailoring the Nanometer-Scale Structure and Properties of Dilute Semiconductor Alloys |
Dec. 8 | Miguel Salmeron | LBNL | Liquids, Wetting and Surface Reactions at the Nanometer Scale |
Spring 2006
Feb. 17 | Jay Kikkawa | U. Penn |
Feb. 24 | Joanna Aizenberg | Lucent |
March 3 | Rachel Goldman | U. Michigan |
March 10 | Daniel Nocera | MIT |
March 17 | Orlin Velev | NC State |
March 24 | David Pine | NYU |
April 7 | Joanna Millunchick | U. Michigan |
April 14 | Emmanuel Giannelis | Cornell |
April 21 | Elizabeth Holm | Sandia |
April 28 | David Goodstein | Caltech |
May 5 | Paul Alivisatos | UC Berkeley |
May 19 | Galen Stucky | UC Santa Barbara |
Fall 2005
Sept. 9 | Jerry Tersoff | IBM |
Sept. 16 | Natalie Stingelin-Stutzmann | Queen Mary College, U. of London |
Sept. 23 | Jennifer Lewis | Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
Sept. 30 | Sossina Haile | Caltech |
Oct. 7 | Paul Nealy | Univ. Wisconsin |
Oct. 14 | Chris Wolverton | Ford |
Oct. 21 | Frances Ross | IBM |
Oct. 26 | Chad Mirkin | Northwestern |
Nov. 4 | Giulia Galli | LLNL |
Nov. 18 | Mike Aziz | Harvard |
May 5 | Paul Alivisatos | UC Berkeley |
Dec. 9 | Thomas Russell | UMass Amherst |
Spring 2005
Feb. 4 | Paul Braun | U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
Feb. 18 | Eric Wachsman | U. Florida |
March 4 | Chris Murray | IBM |
April 8 | Todd Hufnagel | Johns Hopkins |
April 15 | James Im | Columbia |
April 22 | Uli Wiesner | Cornell |
April 29 | Christopher Chen | U. Penn |
May 6 | David Vanderbilt | Rutgers |
May 13 | Erio Tosatti | SISSA/ICTP (Italy) |
May 16 | Chad Mirkin | Northwestern |