New Materials: What, Why . . . and How

Time: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 2:15pm - 3:30pm
Type: Seminar Series
Presenter: John Mitchell - Argonne National Laboratory
Room/Office:
Location:
Mason Lab
9 Hillhouse Avenue - Rm. 107
New Haven, CT 06510
United States

Scientific and technological advances thrive on new materials discoveries -- high temperature superconductors, high energy-density lithium ion battery cathodes, graphene, the list goes on.  To the community of materials chemists and physicists, what becomes ever more clear is that our notion of what 'new material' means is very much in the eye of the beholder.  Is it an undiscovered arrangement of atoms?  An assembly of clusters?  The interface between dissimilar phases?  Or all of the above and more.  In this talk I will discuss what we can mean broadly by the simple word 'materials,' and illustrate just a small slice of the universe of new  materials frameworks with a few stories from my laboratory in transition metal oxide physics research.  Finally I will step back to discuss the broader problem of materials prediction and discovery and motivate how new concepts and tools (many of them being developed at Argonne) are needed to push the frontier of understanding not just where to put the atoms but how to put them there.

  

 

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

2:30 – 3:30 pm

 

Location – Mason 107

Host:   Professor Charles Ahn

 

Refreshments served at 2:15 pm