2015 – Materials Science & Engineering

Professors Evans and Wright Receive Award from BASF for Printed Batteries by Daisy Hernandez December 15, 2015 MSE Emeritus Professor Jim Evans, and ME Professor and Berkeley Energy and Climate Institute (BECI) Director Paul Wright, have received a 100,000 Euro award from BASF for their work on a novel printable rechargeable zinc battery. The award…

Professor Xu Develops Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery by Daisy Hernandez December 14, 2015 Professor Xu’s group has developed a new family of nanoparticles that have been shown to be successful in carrying therapeutics across the brain/blood barrier. These new nanocarriers, which are formed from the self-assembly of amphiphilic peptides and polymer, have been shown to…

Professor Healy’s Research Featured by Daisy Hernandez December 14, 2015 Professor Healy’s research, involving the the development of templates for growing beating cardiac tissue from stem cells, is featured in this months edition of Berkeley Engineering. The work has led to the development of systems that can serve as a model for early heart development,…

Professor Ceder in the Economist by Daisy Hernandez December 8, 2015 Professor Ceder is quoted in an article entitled “New Materials for Manufacturing” in the December Technology Quarterly section of the Economist. The article discusses how materials science is “rapidly transforming the way that everything from cars to lightbulbs is made” and the Materials Project…

Professor Gronsky Named Amongst Top 10 University Professors by Daisy Hernandez November 25, 2015 Professor Ron Gronsky was named in the top-ten of the 2014-15 list of Highest Rated University Professors based on student feedback on the “Rate My Professors” website. This award adds to other recognitions received by Professor Gronsky for his teaching, including…

Big Thanks for Supporting MSE by Ariana Castro November 23, 2015 A Big Thanks for all of you who supported MSE during the Nov. 19 Big Give campaign. With your generous support we raised over $12,000 for MSE. We greatly appreciate all of your support. The funds will support directly our academic programs and will…

Professor Yao Awarded NSF CAREER Grant by Ariana Castro November 12, 2015 Professor Yao has been awarded an NSF CAREER grant for work his proposal “Electric Field Localization and Enhancement at Optical Frequencies Enabled by Material’s Dissipation.” The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program is a National Science Foundation (NSF) wide program that supports outstanding…

Professor Ceder Honored by TMS and the Royal Flemish Academy by Ariana Castro October 29, 2015 Professor Gerbrand Ceder was recently elected as a foreign member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts. In addition, he has also been named the 2016 Recipient of the Morris Cohen Award from The…

Professor Wu Discovers New Thermal Properties of Black Phosphorous by Ariana Castro October 15, 2015 Professors Junqiao Wu, along with MSE postdoc Sangwook Lee and student Joonki Suh, and LBNL postdoc Fan Yang, have discovered that the thermal conductivity in the zigzag direction in black phosphorous is two times higher than along its armchair direction…

Professor Birgeneau Receives the Darius and Sarah Anderson Distinguished Service Award by Ariana Castro October 16, 2015 Robert Birgeneau, the Arnold and Barbara Silverman Distinguished Professor of Physics, Materials Science and Engineering, and Public Policy, and Chancellor Emeritus, was awarded the 2015 Darius and Sarah Anderson Distinguished Service Award from Berkeley’s Institute for Governmental Studies. …