Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy Seminar Series


2019-02-22 15:00: Microarchitectured materials: the role of topology and length scale (Prof. Norman Fleck, Department of Engineering, Cambridge)

2019-05-03 15:00: Understanding the role of Chloride in Corrosion: DFT, TEM and Morphological Instabilities (Prof. Laurence Marks)

2019-06-07 15:00: Polymer bioelectronics: Devices, tissue engineering and therapeutics (Dr. Rylie Green; Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London)

2019-09-18 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr. Cecilia Mattevi, Department of Materials, Imperial College London)

2019-10-18 15:00: Fibrillar protein self-assembly from a materials science and biomedical point of view (Prof. Tuomas Knowles, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge)

2019-11-08 15:00: Synthesis and assembly of atomically thin TMDs for energy conversion and energy storage (Dr. Cecilia Mattevi, Department of Materials, Imperial College London)

2019-11-22 15:00: Dislocation-Based Functionality in Oxides (Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rödel, Department of Materials and Earth Sciences, TU Darmstadt)

2020-01-16 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Clare P Grey - University of Cambridge ( Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge))

2020-02-20 15:00: Bioinspired soft composites and functional materials using self-assembly ( Ahu Gumrah Parry; University of Manchester )

2020-03-03 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Stella Pederazzini; Imperial College London)

2020-03-05 15:00: Simulating STEM images - can we see bonds? (Jonathan Yates ( Department of Materials, University of Oxford))

2020-04-23 15:00: The effects of temperature on topological materials  (Bartomeu Monserrat (University of Cambridge))

2020-05-07 15:00: Title to be confirmed (David Wallis)

2020-05-14 15:00: Genomic Materials Design: Alloys for Additive Manufacturing (Prof. Greg B. Olson; MIT )

2020-06-04 15:00: The archaeology of materials science and metallurgy: some examples (Prof Marcos Martinón-Torres (Department of Archaeology))

2020-06-18 15:00: Enabling the sustainable production of our most coveted chemicals through improved catalysis (Ifan E. L. Stephens; Imperial College London)

2020-09-24 15:00: Nanooptics with fast electrons (Mathieu Kociak, STEM@LPS, CNRS)

2020-10-08 15:00: Atom probe tomography and applications in oxidation and corrosion of metals (Stella Pedrazzini, Imperial College London)

2020-10-15 17:00: First-principles studies of recombination mechanisms in light emitters  (Chris G. Van de Walle, UC Santa Barbara)

2020-10-22 15:00: Novel tools for colloidal characterisation (Stefan Guldin, AdReNa Lab, University College London)

2020-11-05 15:00: From phase diagrams to jet engines and fusion reactors (Sandy Knowles, University of Birmingham)

2020-11-19 15:00: Scale-up of nanoparticle beam deposition to make functional materials - catalysts, sensors, light emitters, neuromorphics (Richard Palmer, Swansea University)

2020-12-03 15:00: Functionalities induced by symmetry breaking (Marin Alexe, University of Warwick)

2021-01-21 15:00: Towards Profitable Sustainability via Electrochemistry of Liquid Metals and Molten Salt (Prof. Donald R. Sadoway, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering)

2021-02-04 15:00: Objects interacting with solidification fronts: from materials science to geophysics and biology (Dr Sylvain Deville, CNRS Lyon Institut Lumière Matière)

2021-02-18 15:00: King Solomon's Metallurgy: Early Iron Age (∽1200-800 BCE) Copper Production Technologies in Timna Valley (Israel) (Prof. Erez Ben-Yosef, Tel Aviv University)

2021-03-04 15:00: The NanoMi Project (Prof. Ray Egerton, University of Alberta)

2021-03-25 15:00: Stacking and twisting 2D materials for quantum nano-optoelectronics:  Fundamentals and applications  (Prof. Frank Koppens, ICFO)

2021-05-13 15:00: Sense and sensibility: Molecular and nanoscale engineering for next generation chemical sensors (Dr William Peveler (University of Glasgow))

2021-05-27 15:00: Controlling solid state interactions in conjugated polymers (Dr Hugo Bronstein (University of Cambridge))

2021-06-10 15:00: Surface enhanced Raman scattering optophysiology: roadmap towards an implantable nanosensor  (Prof. Jean-François Masson (Université de Montréal))

2021-06-24 15:00: Outreach and transition from school to university: Turning inspiration into empowerment (Dr Lisa Jardine-Wright (University of Cambridge))

2021-09-23 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Tanvir Hussain, University of Nottingham)

2021-10-14 15:00: Composite Design for Novel Energy Harvesting and Sensing Structures  (Prof. Chris Bowen, University of Bath)

2021-10-21 15:00: Defect free and water based 2D material inks: from printed electronics to biomedical applications (Prof. Cinzia Casiraghi, University of Manchester)

2021-11-04 15:15: Nanocrystal Quantum Dots: From the Flask to Photonic Devices (Dr Jennifer Hollingsworth, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

2021-11-11 15:00: High energy X-ray scattering and imaging, complementary techniques for material science (Dr Stefan Michalik, Diamond Light Source)

2021-11-18 15:00: Innovation in Suspension Thermal Spray and Cold Spray: Building Ceramics from Liquid Feedstock & Metals Without Melting   (Prof. Tanvir Hussain, University of Nottingham)

2022-02-07 15:00: Piezoelectric Materials: Science, Business and Legislation (Prof. Andrew Bell, University of Leeds)

2022-02-17 15:00: Thermal materials for sustainable energy applications (Dr Xavier Moya, University of Cambridge)

2022-03-03 15:00: Macroscopic Materials Assembled from Nanoparticle Superlattices (Prof. Robert Macfarlane, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

2022-05-19 15:00: 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)

2022-06-07 15:00: 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)

2022-06-16 15:00: Avalanche Dynamics in Martensitic Transitions and its influence on Caloric Effects (Prof. Eduard Vives, Dept. Física de la Matèria Condensada, Universitat de Barcelona, Catalonia)

2023-01-26 15:00: Nanoplasmonic analysis of extracellular vesicles for cancer diagnostics (Professor Randy Carney, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, USA.)

2023-02-09 15:00: Looking Beyond Crystallinity in  Metal-Organic Frameworks  (Prof. Thomas Bennett, Dept of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge)

2023-03-02 15:00: Zirconium and hafnium oxide nanocrystals and oxo clusters (Prof. Jonathan de Roo)

2023-03-09 15:00: Anomalous toughness of elastic micro-architected solids (Prof. Vikram Deshpande)

2023-05-11 15:00: 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.)

2023-06-15 15:00: 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)

2023-10-12 15:15: Ferroelectric nanocomposites for enhanced photovoltaic and photoelectrocatalytic solar energy conversion (Professor Joe Briscoe)

2023-11-02 15:15: 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)

2023-11-08 16:00: Exploring matter at the atomic scale by electron microscopy and spectroscopy (Ondrej L. Krivanek, Nion R&D, Kirkland, WA and Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA )

2023-11-23 16:00: Novel Methods of Engineering and Characterizing Carbon Materials for Sustainable Applications  (Dr. Gina Greenidge, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK)

2024-01-25 16:00: Controlling Metal Nanoparticle Exsolution on Oxides By External Drivers – Defects, Elastic Strain and Ion Irradiation (Professor Bilge Yildiz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.)

2024-02-01 15:15: Bragg Diffraction Imaging Analysis of Crystal Defects in GaN Substrates - Comparison of the growth method and the seed approach (Dr. Lutz Kirste, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (IAF), Freiburg, Germany )

2024-02-22 15:00: Electrostatic effects in nanoscale ferroelectrics (Dr Chiara Gattinoni, Dept. of Physics, Kings College London, UK)

2024-05-02 15:30: Magneto-optical detection of the orbital Hall effect in a light metal Ti (Young Gwan Choi, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany)

2024-05-16 15:15: Novel manufacturing approaches to improving Li and Na ion batteries (Professor Patrick Grant FREng, Department of Materials, Oxford University, UK)