Lecture Series
Fall 2024 Seminars
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 | 10 a.m.
Dr. Min Seok Jang
School of Electrical Engineering
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
“Mid-Infrared Polaritonics in Two-Dimensional Materials “
ISE322
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 | 10:30 a.m.
Dr. Darren Lipomi
Chemical Engineering
University of Rochester
“Organic Haptics: Structured Polymers for Two-Way Communication with Biological Systems”
ISE322
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 | 10 a.m.
Dr. Steven R. Spurgeon
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
University of Colorado
“From Chaos to Clarity: Autonomous Materials Discovery for Extreme Environments”
ISE322
Previous Seminars
SPRING 2024 SEMINARS
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 | 10 a.m.
Dr. Stephen Craig
Department of Chemistry
Duke University – Durham, North Carolina
“What Single Molecule Reactivity Can Tell Us About Polymer Material Behavior (and how to change it)”
ISE322
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 | 10 a.m.
Dr. Madisen Holbrook
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Columbia University – New York, New York
“Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Characterization of Atomic Defects in Two Dimensional Semiconductors”
ISE322
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 | 10 a.m.
Dr. Matthew J. Harrington
Department of Chemistry
McGill University – Montreal, Quebec
“Biological Fabrication of Hierarchically Structured Materials from Protein Condensates”
ISE322
FALL 2023 SEMINARS
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Jinhye Bae
University of California, San Diego – San Diego, CA
“Programmable Shape Morphing and Responsiveness of Composite Hydrogels and Elastomers”
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Jonathan Gaudet
NIST Center for Neutron Research – Gaithersburg, MD
“Revealing the Magnetism of Materials with Neutron Scattering”
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Emil Hernandez-Pagan
University of Delaware
“Coupling a Molecular Understanding to the Solution Synthesis of Nanomaterials”
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Kyle Lampe
University of Virginia
“Polymer and Peptide Design for Micro-to-Nanoarchitectural Assembly of Hydrogels for Neural Tissue Engineering”
SPRING 2023 SEMINARS
Wednesday, February 8, 2023 
Dr. Chelsea Davis
School of Materials Engineering
Purdue University – West Lafayette, Indiana
“Illuminating Interfacial Materials: Micromechanical Characterization of Polymer Interfaces”
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Dr. Matthew Golder
Department of Chemistry
University of Washington – Seattle, Washington
“Masquerading Soft Materials: Anomalous Behavior in Macromolecular Design”
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Xingje Ni
Electrical Engineering and Materials Research
Penn State University – State College, PA
“Towards Large-Scale and Integrated Functional Metasurfaces”
Wednesday, March 22, 2023 
Dr. Jeffrey Elam
Applied Materials Division
Argonne National Laboratory – Lemont, Illinois
“ALD Surface Chemistry on Lithium-Ion Battery Cathodes”
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
Dr. Michael Schultz
Department of Chemistry
Virginia Tech – Blacksburg, Virginia
“Exploring the Connections Between Chelating Polymer Structure and Rare-Earth Element Binding Thermodynamics”
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Vinod Menon
Department of Physics
The City College of New York – CUNY – New York, New York
“Half-Light Half-Matter Quasiparticles: From Condensation to Quantum Nonlinearity”
FALL 2022 SEMINARS
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Dr. Xin Zhang
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Boston University – Boston, Massachusetts
“Functional Metamaterials and Metadevices”
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Dr. Nitash Balsara
University of California – Berkeley, California
“Barriers to Current Flow in Nanostructured Polymer Electrolytes and the Pesko Condition”
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Dr. Martin Thuo
North Carolina State University – Raleigh, North Carolina
“Nanointerfaces-Driven Frugal Engineering”
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Co-sponsored by Charm
Dr. Qi Lu
Delaware State University – Dover, Delaware
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Dr. Yongmin Liu
Northeastern University, Boston University
“Interfacing Photonics with Artificial Intelligence: A New Design Strategy for Photonic Metamaterials Based on Deep Learning”
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Dr. Kun Fu
University of Delaware – Newark, Delaware
“Composite Materials and Manufacturing Innovations”
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Dr. Lilo Pozzo
University of Washington – Seattle, Washington
“Opportunities in Experimental AI-Driven High-Throughput Materials Research”
Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Co-sponsored by Charm
Dr. Aristides Marcano
Delaware State University – Dover, Delaware
“Photothermal Spectroscopy – Basics and Applications”
SPRING 2022 SEMINARS
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Dr. Huolin Xin
University of California, Irvine
“Reducing Carbon Footprint by Single-Atom Catalysts—A Biomimetic Approach to Achieve High Selectivity and High Efficiency for Small-Molecule Activation”
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Professor Andrei Faraon
California Institute of Technology
“Metaphotonics with 2D and 3D Engineered Optical Materials”
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Dr. James Edgar
Kansas State University
“Hexagonal Boron Nitride Crystals for Advanced Electronic, Optoelectronic, and Nanophotonics”
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Dr. Mahesh Mahanthappa
University of Minnesota
“Lurking in Plain Sight: Low Symmetry Packings of Ionic Spherical Micelles”
Wednesday, May 5, 2022
Dr. Helen Zha
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
“From Proteins to Polymers and Back Again: Synthesis and Application of Silk-Inspired Materials”
Fall 2021 SEMINARS
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Dr. Ho Nyung Lee
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
“Quantum Phenomena in Correlated Oxide Heterostructures”
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Dr. Fei Ding
University of Southern Denmark
“Manipulating Circularly Polarized Optical Radiation with Functional Metasurfaces”
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Dr. Rosa Maria Espinosa-Marzal
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Soft Matter Interfaces and Confinement”
Wednesday, December 8
Dr. Meisha L. Shofner
Georgia Institute of Technology
“Using Processing Strategies to Engineer Structure and Mechanical Performance in Polymers, Nanocomposites, and Fiber Networks”
SPRING 2021 SEMINARS
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Dr. Susan Gentry
University of California
Davis, California
“Supporting Student Learning of Computational Materials Science: A Book with Many Chapters”
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Dr. Yohannes Abate
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
“Probing Local Interactions at the Nanoscale”
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Dr. Róisín M. Owens
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England
“Harnessing the Power of Electronics for Biology”
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Dr. Julianne Holloway
Arizona State University
Phoenix, Arizona
“Designing Biomaterials with Spatiotemporal Control for Tissue Engineering Applications”
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Dr. Tabbetha Dobbins
Rowan University
Glassboro, New Jersey
“New Possibilities for Understanding Complex Metal Hydrides via Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering (QENS) Studies”
FALL 2020 SEMINARS
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Dr. Alfred Crosby
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts
“Polymer Gels for Autonomous Motion and Mesoscale Assembly”
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Dr. Joan Redwing
Penn State University
State College, Pennsylvania
“Epitaxy in 2D: The path to Wafer-Scale Single Crystal Monolayers and Heterostructures”
October 21, 2020
Dr. Susanne Siebentritt
University of Luxembourg
Belval Campus, Luxembourg
“How Do We Know If a Semiconductor Film Makes a Good Solar Cell?”
October 7, 2020
Dr. Ismaila Dabo
Penn State University
State College, Pennsylvania
“First-Principles Optimization and Discovery of Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage”
SPRING 2020 SEMINARS
Wednesday, March 11, 2020 – CANCELLED
Jinsang Kim
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
“Seminar Title: Designing Conjugated Polymers and Organic Emitters for Smart Chemical and Bio Sensors”
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Tony Low, PhD
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
“Seminar Title: 2D Materials Plasmons: Physics and Applications”
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Karen I. Winey
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
“Seminar Title: Self-Assembly of Segmented Polyolefin-Based Single Ion Conductors: New Morphologies and Ion Conductivity”
FALL 2019 SEMINARS
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Dr. John Q. Xiao
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
“The Development of Spintronics: How Application-Driven Research Advances Science”
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Dr. Ebrahim Najafi
The Chemours Company
Wilmington, Delaware
“Space-Time Imaging of Charge Carriers at the Semiconductor Surfaces and Interfaces”
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Dr. Cecilia Leal
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Illinois
“Complexity in the Chemistry and Physics of Lipid Membranes as a Handle to Activate the Delivery of Cargo to Cells”
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Dr. Jason Valentine
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Vanderbilt University
“Flat Optics: From Dynamic Control to Optical Computing”
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Dr. Melissa Grunlan
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Texas A & M University
“Orthopedic Biomaterials Enabled by Network Architecture”
FALL 2018 SEMINARS
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Dr. Michael Yakes
Naval Research Lab
Washington, DC
Website: https://www.nrl.navy.mil/
“Understanding Diffusion and Phase Separation in InGaAs Lattice Matched to InP”
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Dr. Paul J. Simmonds
Physics – Micron School of Materials Science & Engineering
Boise State University
Website: https://coen.boisestate.edu/faculty-staff/paulsimmonds/
Joint Seminar with Physics
“Tensile-Strained Self-Assembly of Quantum Dots for Entangled Photon Sources and Band Structure Engineering”
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Dr. Tingyi Gu
Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Delaware
Website: http://www.ece.udel.edu/research/by-faculty.Tingyi%20Gu.html
“Integrated photonics of advanced materials”
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Dr. Zubin Jacob
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Purdue University
Website: http://www.zjresearchgroup.org/
“Photon Spin Quantization in New Topological Phases of Matter”
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Dr. Kyle Lampe
Chemical Engineering
University of Virginia
Website: https://engineering.virginia.edu/faculty/kyle-j-lampe
Joint Seminar with Biomedical Engineering
“Biomaterial Design for 3D Hydrogel Microenvironments and Neural Tissue Engineering”
Wednesday, November 14. 2018
Dr. Edo Waks
Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Maryland
Website: https://ece.umd.edu/faculty/waks
“Quantum Nanophotonics: Controlling Spin With Light on a Semiconductor Chip”
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Dr. Chekesha M. Liddell Watson
Materials Science & Engineering
Cornell University
Website: http://www.mse.cornell.edu/people/profile.cfm?netid=cml66
SPRING 2018 SEMINARS
February 7, 2018
Dr. Russell Composto
Materials Science and Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Website: https://polymer.seas.upenn.edu/
“Using Nanoparticle Diffusion to Reveal the Nanostructure in Polymer Hydrogels”
March 14, 2018
Dr. Derek Patton
Polymer Science & Engineering
University of Southern Mississippi
Website: https://www.usm.edu/polymer/faculty/derek-l-patton
“Degradable, Pro-Active Polymer Networks via Thiol-Mediated Photopolymerization”
April 18, 2018
Dr. Peter J, Schuck
Mechanical Engineering
Columbia University
Website: http://engineering.columbia.edu/web/faculty/content/peter-j-schuck
“From Band Gaps to Bound Excitons: Disentangling Optical Transitions and Localized Emitters in Tmdcs Even at Nanoscale Dimensions”
May 9, 2018
Dr. Susan Sinnott
Materials Science & Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
Website: http://www.matse.psu.edu/directory/faculty/susan-sinnott
“Material Design and Discovery”
FALL 2017 SEMINARS
October 11, 2017
Dr. Jane Chang
William F. Seyer Chair in Materials Electrochemistry
University of California, Los Angeles
Website: http://www.seas.ucla.edu/Chang/
November 1, 2017
Dr. Glen Solomon
Joint Quantum Institute
National Institute of Standards & Technology & University of Maryland
Website: http://jqi.umd.edu/people/glenn-solomon
“Measuring Photon Non-Classicality Using Quantum-Dot Light Sources”
October 25, 2017
Dr. Jamie Phillips
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Michigan
Website: http://web.eecs.umich.edu/faculty/phillips/
“Photovoltaics for Self-Powered mm-Scale Systems and Recent Advances for IR Imaging Technologies”
November 8, 2017
Dr. Jennifer Mass
President, Scientific Analysis of Fine Art, LLC
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Cultural Heritage Science, Bard Graduate Center
Website: http://scienceforfineart.com/index.php/about-us/
“Capturing Artists’ Intent in Works of the Impressionists through the Expressionists: Pigment Manufacture and Alteration”
November 15, 2017
Dr. Erik Luijten
Chair of Materials Science and Engineering
Northwestern University
Website: http://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/research-faculty/directory/profiles/luijten-erik.html
“Dynamics of Passive and Active Colloids”
December 1, 2017
Dr. Andreas Offenhauser
Institute of Complex Systems, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Website: http://www.fz-juelich.de/ics/ics-8/EN/Home/_node.html
SPRING 2017 SEMINARS
February 8, 2017
Luis Campos
Chemistry, Colombia University
“Polyelectrolytes from Cyclopropenium Ions”
February 15, 2017
Maria Tamargo
City College of NY, Chemistry
“Heterovalent and Heterocrystalline Epitaxy for Device Applications and New Physical Phenomena”
February 22, 2017
Ioannis (John) Kymissis
Columbia University SEAS, Electrical Engineering
“Electronics On Anything: How Thin Film Electronics can Instrument the World”
March 2, 2017
Stephanie Tomasulo
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
“Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Wide-Bandgap Solar Cells for Future Multi-Junction Schemes”
March 8, 2017
Stuart Rowan
University of Chicago Institute for Molecular Engineering
“Using Dynamic Chemistry to Access Stimuli-Responsive Materials”
March 22, 2017
Timothy Scott
University of Michigan, Chemical Engineering
April 12, 2017
Joshua Caldwell
Naval Research Lab