2010 OSU Materials Week Poster Winners

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Please join us in congratulating the Best Poster Award winners from the 2010 OSU Materials Week Poster competition.

2010 OSU Materials Week was a great success, with over 330 participants representing OSU and 15 other universities, over a dozen industry collaborators, and several government labs. Many thanks to our Program Planning Committee, session coordinators, speakers, corporate sponsors, and participants for making this such a fun and informative conference.

A highlight again this year was the student poster sessions, where 80 research posters were presented by OSU students and postdoctoral researchers. On Wednesday, September 15, ten award winners were announced at the Materials Week luncheon. OSU President Gordon Gee joined the group and presented plaques and Barnes and Noble gift cards to each of the ten winners, listed below. Congratulations to the ten students, their advisors, and colleagues on an excellent presentation of your research.

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2010 OSU Materials Week – Spetember 13-15 at the Ohio Union

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2010 OSU Materials Week
September 13 – 15, 2010

at the new Ohio Union on OSU’s Columbus campus

This fall, the Institute for Materials Research (IMR) and the Center for Emergent Materials (CEM), OSU’s NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), bring you the 3rd annual showcase of materials-allied research at The Ohio State University and beyond. This year’s Materials Week has an exciting, full schedule, with 3 Plenary Sessions, 3 Cross-Cutting Topics Sessions, 5 Technical Sessions, and 2 Student Poster Sessions. Continue reading →

CEM Researchers help ‘stretch’ a lackluster material into a possible electronics revolution

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Ho-hum to high performance: Researchers ‘stretch’ a lackluster material into a possible electronics revolution

ITHACA, N.Y. — It’s the Clark Kent of oxide compounds, europium titanate and – on its own – it is pretty boring. But slice it nanometers thin and chemically stretch it, europium titanate takes on super hero-like properties that could revolutionize electronics, according to new Cornell research. (Nature, Aug. 19, 2010.)

Publishing in the journal Nature Aug. 19, researchers report that thin films of europium titanate become both ferroelectric (electrically polarized) and ferromagnetic (exhibiting a permanent magnetic field) when stretched across a substrate of dysprosium scandate, another type of oxide. Up until now, the best simultaneously ferroelectric, ferromagnetic material to date pales in comparison by a factor of 1,000.

Simultaneous ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism is rare in nature and coveted by electronics visionaries. A material with this magical combination could form the basis for low-power, highly sensitive magnetic memory, magnetic sensors or highly tunable microwave devices. Continue reading →

CEM co-sponsors “Shaping the Future” at COSI Materials Science Day: Saturday Aug 14, 11am-3pm

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The Center for Emergent Materials is teaming up with COSI to present “Shaping the Future,” a materials science-themed day of hands-on activities for visitors to COSI. From 10am-3:30pm, activity carts will be set up in the museum’s atrium. For more information, directions, hours, etc please see the COSI website at www.cosi.org.

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