Previous Events
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| Observation of flat bands in breathing kagome semiconductors |
Quantum materials with kagome lattice – comprised of corner-sharing triangles forming a hexagon in the crystal structure - have been studied as the potential playgrounds for exploring the interplay among parameters such as geometry, topology, electronic correlations… Show more Speaker: Prof. Madhab Neupane, Department of Physics, University of Central Florida |
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| Title: Plasmonics, Electronics, and Materials Science on the Nanoscale |
Abstract: The manipulation of matter on the nanoscale can enable useful technologies with interesting underlying physics. Nano-patterned graphene facilitates standing-wave plasmonic behavior that can be used for surface-sensitive chemical detection. Owing to its… Show more Speaker: Dr Damon Farmer |
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| Student "Round Table" Discussion: Life as a research scientist at IBM | Speaker: Dr Damon Farmer |
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| Effect of Nanoparticles in Rare-Earth Doped Glasses |
Glasses doped with rare-earth (RE) ions as possible opto-electronic materials have gained considerable interest. Heavy metal oxide glasses have been shown to improve the efficiency of RE ion’s fluorescence properties. The optical absorption and fluorescence… Show more Speaker: Prof. Saisudha Mallur, West Illinois University |
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| Designing correlated&topological states in semiconductor moiré |
Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) based moiré materials have been shown to host various correlated electronic phenomena including Mott insulating states and fractional filling charge orders, quantum spin Hall effects, and (fractional) quantum anomalous Hall… Show more Speaker: Prof. Yang Zhang, University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
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| Van der Waals Topological Magnets and Superconductors |
Abstract: The breaking of time-reversal symmetry in topological insulators leads to novel quantum states of matter. One prominent example at the two-dimensional limit is the Chern insulator, which hosts dissipationless chiral edge states at sample boundaries. These… Show more Speaker: Dmitry Ovchinnikov |
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| CM Seminar |
“Phases and dynamics of dipolar gases and universality of ferromagnetic superfluids”
This presentation consists of two separate parts. In the first, we will discuss the static properties and the dynamics of dipolar Dysprosium Bose-Einstein condensates subjected to… Show more Speaker: Prof. Symeon Mystakidis |
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| Peptide-Based Building Blocks: Advancing Supramolecular Catalysis and Electronic Integration in Biosensor Applications |
Abstract: Self-assembling peptides have emerged as a cutting-edge class of materials that can be engineered to form one-dimensional (1D), two-dimensional (2D), and three-dimensional (3D) nanostructures, with diverse potential applications in bioimaging, tissue… Show more Speaker: Prof. Wendel Alves from UFABC in Sao Paulo, Brazil |
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| CM Seminar | Speaker: Dr Sheng Ran |
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| CM Seminar | Speaker: Dr. Jaewon Lee |
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| CM Seminar | Speaker: Professor Tara Finegan |
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| Exploring optical material properties through quantum geometry |
Understanding and manipulating quantum superposition are important quests in quantum materials research. One exciting direction emerging in the field is to use the geometry of quantum states – the so-called quantum geometry – as a means of characterizing quantum… Show more Speaker: Junyeong Ahn, Harvard University |
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| Electron Correlation Effects in Solid-state High Harmonic Generation with First-Principles Calculations |
High harmonic generation (HHG) is an extreme non-linear phenomenon where strong laser-field pulses interact with a medium to produce coherent and high-frequency harmonics of the incident light. Since its first observation in solids in 2011, pioneering theoretical… Show more Speaker: Dr. Didarul Alam, University of Missouri |
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| Inversion and time-reversal symmetry broken Weyl semimetal |
Weyl semimetals are among the materials proposed to have significant potential in informational technologies and to harbor the necessary elements for quantum computing. They host Weyl nodes at specific points in their Brillouin zone, a pair of relativistic fermions… Show more Speaker: Prof. Halyna Hodovanets, Missouri S&T |
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| Cryo-EM Sample to Structure Pipeline @MU |
Cryo–electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has been proven a powerful tool visualizing biological specimen. Method developments in single-particle analysis (SPA) and in situ tomography have enabled more structures to be imaged and determined to attenable resolutions. Sample-… Show more Speaker: Dr. Min Su, Director of The Center for Electron Microscopy, University of Missouri |
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| Material Innovation through Freestanding Nanomembranes towards Future Electronics |
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The conventional electronic system has been developed upon Si-based thin-films because of their cost-effectiveness and mature process. However, there are fundamental limitations in using conventional systems towards future electronics such as wearable… Show more Speaker: Sang-Hoon Bae from Washington University in St. Louis |
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| Nanoscale Imaging of Catalytic Activity in Semiconductor Nanostructures Using Single-Molecule Fluorescence Microscopy |
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Semiconductor nanocrystals are promising candidates for generating chemical feedstocks through photocatalysis in which photoexcited charge carriers are used to perform charge-transfer reactions. However, the fate of photoexcited charges once they reach the… Show more Speaker: Bryce Sadtler |
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| Realization of surface properties of two-dimensional material on metal substrate: A step towards wonder material for future applications |
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Surfaces and interfaces, also referred to as phase boundaries, play an important role in material performance for the application in nanodevices. When the surface of a material comes in contact with another phase, interaction occurs at the interface… Show more Speaker: Prof. Farhana Tuli |
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| CP-ICE: A New Tool for Laboratory Studies of Interstellar Ice Chemistry |
Zoom link available upon request- email sekhrn@missouri.edu
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A new instrument is described that employs buffer gas cooling with mm-wave rotational spectroscopy to probe molecules desorbed from interstellar ice analogues. The unique combination… Show more Speaker: Dr. Bernadette Broderick |
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| Enhanced irradiation tolerance of steels via nanostructuring |
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Steels have important applications in current and advanced nuclear reactors, however, their irradiation tolerance and mechanical properties need to be improved. Bulk ultrafine-grained and nanocrystalline metals possess drastically higher strength… Show more Speaker: Prof. Haiming Wen |
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| Search for New Quantum Materials |
Quantum materials such as topological, 2D and nanostructured materials have attracted tremendous attention due to their exotic quantum properties. In this presentation, we will talk about our findings of chemical doping effect in inducing magnetism and… Show more Speaker: Prof. Yew San Hor, Missouri S&T |
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| Switching of control mechanisms during the rapid solidification of alloys |
Switching of control mechanisms during the rapid solidification of alloys
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The formation of complex solidification patterns is an intrinsic non-equilibrium phenomenon. It is the interplay between capillary and kinetic effects at the solidification front (… Show more Speaker: Dr. Yijia Gu |
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| Radiative cooling: harness sustainable coldness from the universe for passive cooling on the Earth |
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Radiative cooling is a passive cooling technique featured with zero-energy consumption by emitting terrestrial heat to the universe in form of blackbody thermal radiation. Nocturnal radiative cooling is an ordinary phenomenon of radiative cooling effect… Show more Speaker: Professor Yao Zhai |
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| Materials and Device Physics for Solid-State Lighting and Renewable Energy Generation |
Materials and Device Physics for Solid-State Lighting and Renewable Energy Generation
Peifen Zhu
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri
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Efficient use of energy and renewable energy production are of paramount… Show more Speaker: Prof. Peifen Zhu |
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| High-spin quasiparticles in topological semimetal YPtBi |
Quasiparticles with total angular momentum greater than j=1/2 can emerge in a solid state with strong spin-orbit interaction. While the existence of such high-spin quasiparticles has been known for decades, their implication has been largely overlooked. The… Show more Speaker: Prof. Hyunsoo Kim, Department of Physics, Missouri S&T |
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| Synthesis, Magnetic Behavior and Neutron Diffraction of Triangular Magnetic Materials |
Triangular magnetic structures have gained considerable interest due to their rich magnetic behavior and structural simplicity. These structures contain the motif of a triangle as the main structural feature, leading to geometric frustration and implicitly to… Show more Speaker: Prof. Duminda Sanjeewa, MURR |
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| Nanopore Unzip-Sequencing – exploration in biomolecular interactome and next generation information storage |
DNA is a new generation material for molecular data storage, with a potential storage capacity several orders of magnitude greater than current methods. Data stored in DNA can be encoded (written) and decoded (read) using sequencing technologies. Advantages of DNA… Show more Speaker: Andrew Gu, MU Bioengineering |
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| A soft X-ray coherent view of electronic properties in correlated systems, via Resonant X-ray Scattering |
Claudio Mazzoli will present some opportunities of scientific investigation by micro-spectro-scattering in the soft X-ray regime of Resonant X-ray Scattering, as implemented and developed at CSX (the Coherent Soft X-ray scattering beamline of NSLS-II, BNL). The… Show more Speaker: Claudio Mazzoli, BNL |
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| Spontaneous cluster formation in stoichiometric quantum critical systems |
Metallic systems with magnetic ions embedded which have been prepared to undergo a second-order phase transition at zero Kelvin, namely the quantum critical systems, historically appear to fall into two distinct categories: (chemically) heavily-doped systems in which… Show more Speaker: Alex Bretana |
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| Using machine-learning methods to model RNA-ligand interactions |
Convolutional neural network (CNN) and graph convolutional network (GCN) has gained huge success in various tasks, from image classification, video processing to speech recognition and natural language understanding. The success stems from both the well-designed… Show more Speaker: Yuanzhe Zhou, MU Physics |