Novel manufacturing approaches to improving Li and Na ion batteries

Refreshments and cakes will be available!

Professor Patrick Grant FREng, Department of Materials, Oxford University, UK.

Goldsmiths 2 & https://zoom.us/j/96836714124.

Thursday 16 May 2024, 15:15-16:45

Magneto-optical detection of the orbital Hall effect in a light metal Ti

Refreshments and cakes will be available!

Young Gwan Choi, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.

Goldsmiths 2 & https://zoom.us/j/96836714124.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 15:30-17:00

Electrostatic effects in nanoscale ferroelectrics

All are welcome! Refreshments provided - including cakes!

Dr Chiara Gattinoni, Dept. of Physics, Kings College London, UK.

Goldsmiths 2 & https://zoom.us/j/96836714124.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 15:00-16:00

Bragg Diffraction Imaging Analysis of Crystal Defects in GaN Substrates - Comparison of the growth method and the seed approach

All are welcome! Refreshments provided - including cakes!

Dr. Lutz Kirste, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (IAF), Freiburg, Germany .

Goldsmiths 2 & https://zoom.us/j/96836714124.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 15:15-16:15

Controlling Metal Nanoparticle Exsolution on Oxides By External Drivers – Defects, Elastic Strain and Ion Irradiation

All are welcome! Refreshments provided - including cakes!

Professor Bilge Yildiz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA..

Goldsmiths 1 & https://zoom.us/j/96836714124.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Novel Methods of Engineering and Characterizing Carbon Materials for Sustainable Applications

Dr. Gina Greenidge, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK.

Goldsmiths 1 & https://zoom.us/j/96836714124.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Exploring matter at the atomic scale by electron microscopy and spectroscopy

Refreshments available in tearoom from 3.30-4pm

Ondrej L. Krivanek, Nion R&D, Kirkland, WA and Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA .

Goldsmiths 2.

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Navigating the BCC-B2 Refractory Alloy space: Stability and thermal processing with Ru-B2 precipitates

Dr. Sebastian Kube, Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

Goldsmiths 2 & https://zoom.us/j/96836714124.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 15:15-16:15

Ferroelectric nanocomposites for enhanced photovoltaic and photoelectrocatalytic solar energy conversion

Professor Joe Briscoe.

Goldsmiths 2 & https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81688365420?pwd=b3RpdHgxNVhWbWQrbXluMUxYNWVtQT09 Meeting ID: 816 8836 5420 Passcode: 047859.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 15:15-16:15

Probing Chemistry at the Ångström-Scale via Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

Associate Professor Nan Jiang, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Chicago, USA.

Goldsmiths 2 & https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81688365420?pwd=b3RpdHgxNVhWbWQrbXluMUxYNWVtQT09 Meeting ID: 816 8836 5420 Passcode: 047859.

Thursday 15 June 2023, 15:00-16:00

Some aspects of twinning in hcp metals: twin boundary faceting, migration mechanisms, interaction with stacking faults

Andriy Ostapovets, Institute of Physics of Materials (IPM), Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Brno, Czech Republic..

Goldsmiths 2 & https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81688365420?pwd=b3RpdHgxNVhWbWQrbXluMUxYNWVtQT09 Meeting ID: 816 8836 5420 Passcode: 047859.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Anomalous toughness of elastic micro-architected solids

Prof. Vikram Deshpande.

Goldsmiths 2 & https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81688365420?pwd=b3RpdHgxNVhWbWQrbXluMUxYNWVtQT09 Meeting ID: 816 8836 5420 Passcode: 047859.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 15:00-16:00

Zirconium and hafnium oxide nanocrystals and oxo clusters

Prof. Jonathan de Roo.

Goldsmiths 1 & https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81688365420?pwd=b3RpdHgxNVhWbWQrbXluMUxYNWVtQT09 Meeting ID: 816 8836 5420 Passcode: 047859.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 15:00-16:00

Looking Beyond Crystallinity in Metal-Organic Frameworks

Prof. Thomas Bennett, Dept of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

Goldsmith's 2 & https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81688365420?pwd=b3RpdHgxNVhWbWQrbXluMUxYNWVtQT09 Meeting ID: 816 8836 5420 Passcode: 047859.

Thursday 09 February 2023, 15:00-16:00

Nanoplasmonic analysis of extracellular vesicles for cancer diagnostics

Professor Randy Carney, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, USA..

Goldsmith's 2 & https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81688365420?pwd=b3RpdHgxNVhWbWQrbXluMUxYNWVtQT09 Meeting ID: 816 8836 5420 Passcode: 047859.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 15:00-16:00

Avalanche Dynamics in Martensitic Transitions and its influence on Caloric Effects

Prof. Eduard Vives, Dept. Física de la Matèria Condensada, Universitat de Barcelona, Catalonia.

Goldsmith's 2 & https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81688365420?pwd=b3RpdHgxNVhWbWQrbXluMUxYNWVtQT09 Meeting ID: 816 8836 5420 Passcode: 047859.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 15:00-16:00

Chemical Analysis of Lithium in Battery Materials with high spatial resolution using EDS and EELS in the Electron Microscope

Raynald Gauvin, Professor, Mining and Materials Engineering, McGill University.

Goldsmith's 2 & https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81688365420?pwd=b3RpdHgxNVhWbWQrbXluMUxYNWVtQT09 Meeting ID: 816 8836 5420 Passcode: 047859.

Tuesday 07 June 2022, 15:00-16:00

Direct Imaging of the Underlying Electrochemical Processes in Li Batteries by Operando STEM

Prof. B. Layla Mehdi, Department of Mechanical, Materials & Aerospace Engineering, University of Liverpool.

Goldsmith's 2 & https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81688365420?pwd=b3RpdHgxNVhWbWQrbXluMUxYNWVtQT09 Meeting ID: 816 8836 5420 Passcode: 047859.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Macroscopic Materials Assembled from Nanoparticle Superlattices

Prof. Robert Macfarlane, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Goldsmith's 1 & https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81688365420?pwd=b3RpdHgxNVhWbWQrbXluMUxYNWVtQT09 Meeting ID: 816 8836 5420 Passcode: 047859.

Thursday 03 March 2022, 15:00-16:00

Thermal materials for sustainable energy applications

Dr Xavier Moya, University of Cambridge.

Goldsmith's 1 & https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81688365420?pwd=b3RpdHgxNVhWbWQrbXluMUxYNWVtQT09 Meeting ID: 816 8836 5420 Passcode: 047859.

Thursday 17 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

Piezoelectric Materials: Science, Business and Legislation

Prof. Andrew Bell, University of Leeds.

Goldsmith's 2 & https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81688365420?pwd=b3RpdHgxNVhWbWQrbXluMUxYNWVtQT09 Meeting ID: 816 8836 5420 Passcode: 047859.

Monday 07 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

Innovation in Suspension Thermal Spray and Cold Spray: Building Ceramics from Liquid Feedstock & Metals Without Melting

Prof. Tanvir Hussain, University of Nottingham.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81688365420?pwd=b3RpdHgxNVhWbWQrbXluMUxYNWVtQT09 Meeting ID: 816 8836 5420 Passcode: 047859.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

High energy X-ray scattering and imaging, complementary techniques for material science

Dr Stefan Michalik, Diamond Light Source.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81688365420?pwd=b3RpdHgxNVhWbWQrbXluMUxYNWVtQT09 Meeting ID: 816 8836 5420 Passcode: 047859.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

Nanocrystal Quantum Dots: From the Flask to Photonic Devices

Dr Jennifer Hollingsworth, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Hybrid: Goldsmiths 1 Lecture Theatre & https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81688365420?pwd=b3RpdHgxNVhWbWQrbXluMUxYNWVtQT09 Meeting ID: 816 8836 5420 Passcode: 047859.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 15:15-16:15

Defect free and water based 2D material inks: from printed electronics to biomedical applications

Prof. Cinzia Casiraghi, University of Manchester.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81688365420?pwd=b3RpdHgxNVhWbWQrbXluMUxYNWVtQT09 Meeting ID: 816 8836 5420 Passcode: 047859.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 15:00-16:00

Composite Design for Novel Energy Harvesting and Sensing Structures

Prof. Chris Bowen, University of Bath.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81688365420?pwd=b3RpdHgxNVhWbWQrbXluMUxYNWVtQT09 Meeting ID: 816 8836 5420 Passcode: 047859.

Thursday 14 October 2021, 15:00-16:00

Title to be confirmed

Dr Tanvir Hussain, University of Nottingham.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86364427211?pwd=UTZGMGdMUWlKOENvNGl6NmkzbitpZz09 Meeting ID: 863 6442 7211 Passcode: 047859.

Thursday 23 September 2021, 15:00-16:00

Outreach and transition from school to university: Turning inspiration into empowerment

Dr Lisa Jardine-Wright (University of Cambridge).

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86364427211?pwd=UTZGMGdMUWlKOENvNGl6NmkzbitpZz09 Meeting ID: 863 6442 7211 Passcode: 047859.

Thursday 24 June 2021, 15:00-16:00

Surface enhanced Raman scattering optophysiology: roadmap towards an implantable nanosensor

Prof. Jean-François Masson (Université de Montréal).

https://zoom.us/j/92811261822?pwd=ZFYxdFo0UHdHb0djTnRTS1JwYnlKZz09 Meeting ID: 928 1126 1822 Passcode: 012201 .

Thursday 10 June 2021, 15:00-16:00

Controlling solid state interactions in conjugated polymers

Dr Hugo Bronstein (University of Cambridge).

https://zoom.us/j/92811261822?pwd=ZFYxdFo0UHdHb0djTnRTS1JwYnlKZz09 Meeting ID: 928 1126 1822 Passcode: 012201 .

Thursday 27 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

Sense and sensibility: Molecular and nanoscale engineering for next generation chemical sensors

Dr William Peveler (University of Glasgow).

https://zoom.us/j/92811261822?pwd=ZFYxdFo0UHdHb0djTnRTS1JwYnlKZz09 Meeting ID: 928 1126 1822 Passcode: 012201 .

Thursday 13 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

Stacking and twisting 2D materials for quantum nano-optoelectronics: Fundamentals and applications

Prof. Frank Koppens, ICFO.

https://zoom.us/j/92811261822?pwd=ZFYxdFo0UHdHb0djTnRTS1JwYnlKZz09 Meeting ID: 928 1126 1822 Passcode: 012201 .

Thursday 25 March 2021, 15:00-16:00

The NanoMi Project

Prof. Ray Egerton, University of Alberta.

https://zoom.us/j/92811261822?pwd=ZFYxdFo0UHdHb0djTnRTS1JwYnlKZz09 Meeting ID: 928 1126 1822 Passcode: 012201 .

Thursday 04 March 2021, 15:00-16:00

King Solomon's Metallurgy: Early Iron Age (∽1200-800 BCE) Copper Production Technologies in Timna Valley (Israel)

Prof. Erez Ben-Yosef, Tel Aviv University.

https://zoom.us/j/92811261822?pwd=ZFYxdFo0UHdHb0djTnRTS1JwYnlKZz09 Meeting ID: 928 1126 1822 Passcode: 012201 .

Thursday 18 February 2021, 15:00-16:00

Objects interacting with solidification fronts: from materials science to geophysics and biology

Dr Sylvain Deville, CNRS Lyon Institut Lumière Matière.

https://zoom.us/j/92811261822?pwd=ZFYxdFo0UHdHb0djTnRTS1JwYnlKZz09 Meeting ID: 928 1126 1822 Passcode: 012201 .

Thursday 04 February 2021, 15:00-16:00

Towards Profitable Sustainability via Electrochemistry of Liquid Metals and Molten Salt

Prof. Donald R. Sadoway, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

https://zoom.us/j/92811261822?pwd=ZFYxdFo0UHdHb0djTnRTS1JwYnlKZz09 Meeting ID: 928 1126 1822 Passcode: 012201 .

Thursday 21 January 2021, 15:00-16:00

Functionalities induced by symmetry breaking

Marin Alexe, University of Warwick.

https://zoom.us/j/92811261822?pwd=ZFYxdFo0UHdHb0djTnRTS1JwYnlKZz09 Meeting ID: 928 1126 1822 Passcode: 012201 .

Thursday 03 December 2020, 15:00-16:00

Scale-up of nanoparticle beam deposition to make functional materials - catalysts, sensors, light emitters, neuromorphics

Richard Palmer, Swansea University.

https://zoom.us/j/92811261822?pwd=ZFYxdFo0UHdHb0djTnRTS1JwYnlKZz09 Meeting ID: 928 1126 1822 Passcode: 012201 .

Thursday 19 November 2020, 15:00-16:00

From phase diagrams to jet engines and fusion reactors

Sandy Knowles, University of Birmingham.

https://zoom.us/j/92811261822?pwd=ZFYxdFo0UHdHb0djTnRTS1JwYnlKZz09 Meeting ID: 928 1126 1822 Passcode: 012201 .

Thursday 05 November 2020, 15:00-16:00

Novel tools for colloidal characterisation

Stefan Guldin, AdReNa Lab, University College London.

https://zoom.us/j/92811261822?pwd=ZFYxdFo0UHdHb0djTnRTS1JwYnlKZz09 Meeting ID: 928 1126 1822 Passcode: 012201 .

Thursday 22 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

First-principles studies of recombination mechanisms in light emitters

Chris G. Van de Walle, UC Santa Barbara.

https://zoom.us/j/92811261822?pwd=ZFYxdFo0UHdHb0djTnRTS1JwYnlKZz09 Meeting ID: 928 1126 1822 Passcode: 012201 .

Thursday 15 October 2020, 17:00-18:00

Atom probe tomography and applications in oxidation and corrosion of metals

Stella Pedrazzini, Imperial College London.

https://zoom.us/j/92811261822?pwd=ZFYxdFo0UHdHb0djTnRTS1JwYnlKZz09 Meeting ID: 928 1126 1822 Passcode: 012201 .

Thursday 08 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

Nanooptics with fast electrons

Mathieu Kociak, STEM@LPS, CNRS.

https://zoom.us/j/92811261822?pwd=ZFYxdFo0UHdHb0djTnRTS1JwYnlKZz09 Meeting ID: 928 1126 1822 Passcode: 012201 .

Thursday 24 September 2020, 15:00-16:00

Enabling the sustainable production of our most coveted chemicals through improved catalysis

Ifan E. L. Stephens; Imperial College London.

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Thursday 18 June 2020, 15:00-16:00

The archaeology of materials science and metallurgy: some examples

Prof Marcos Martinón-Torres (Department of Archaeology).

Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/91400137765?pwd=VVVONkNmMnQ1SjdBdDl1S0pUbkdidz09 Meeting ID: 914 0013 7765 Password: 605456.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 15:00-16:00

Genomic Materials Design: Alloys for Additive Manufacturing

Prof. Greg B. Olson; MIT .

Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/98438422757?pwd=ZEpSWk9DWEJvSm5RWGtrd1pwUkp6dz09 Meeting ID: 984 3842 2757 Password: 095177.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 15:00-16:00

Title to be confirmed

David Wallis.

Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/95657179076?pwd=YkZpcUdYWEl4MUkzR05FQ05aaDBuQT09 Meeting ID: 956 5717 9076 Password: 397592.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 15:00-16:00

The effects of temperature on topological materials

Bartomeu Monserrat (University of Cambridge).

Goldsmiths 1, Lecture Theatre, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 15:00-16:00

Simulating STEM images - can we see bonds?

Jonathan Yates ( Department of Materials, University of Oxford).

Goldsmiths 1, Lecture Theatre, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

Title to be confirmed

Stella Pederazzini; Imperial College London.

Goldsmiths 1, Lecture Theatre, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

Bioinspired soft composites and functional materials using self-assembly

Ahu Gumrah Parry; University of Manchester .

Goldsmiths 1, Lecture Theatre, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

Title to be confirmed

Professor Clare P Grey - University of Cambridge ( Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

Goldsmiths 1, Lecture Theatre, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 15:00-16:00

Dislocation-Based Functionality in Oxides

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rödel, Department of Materials and Earth Sciences, TU Darmstadt.

Goldsmiths 1, Lecture Theatre, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Friday 22 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

Synthesis and assembly of atomically thin TMDs for energy conversion and energy storage

Dr. Cecilia Mattevi, Department of Materials, Imperial College London.

Goldsmiths 1, Lecture Theatre, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Friday 08 November 2019, 15:00-16:00

Fibrillar protein self-assembly from a materials science and biomedical point of view

Prof. Tuomas Knowles, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB3 0AS.

Friday 18 October 2019, 15:00-16:00

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Cecilia Mattevi, Department of Materials, Imperial College London.

Goldsmiths 2, Lecture Theatre, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Wednesday 18 September 2019, 15:00-16:00

Polymer bioelectronics: Devices, tissue engineering and therapeutics

Dr. Rylie Green; Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London.

Goldsmiths 1, Lecture Theatre, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Friday 07 June 2019, 15:00-16:00

Understanding the role of Chloride in Corrosion: DFT, TEM and Morphological Instabilities

Prof. Laurence Marks.

Goldsmiths 1, Lecture Theatre, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Friday 03 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

Microarchitectured materials: the role of topology and length scale

Prof. Norman Fleck, Department of Engineering, Cambridge.

Goldsmiths 1, Lecture Theatre, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Friday 22 February 2019, 15:00-16:00