MSE connection to Nobel Prize in Chemistry Congratulations to Professor Jennifer Doudna for winning the Nobel Prize for CRISPR-cas9 technology developed in her lab.  In her news conference, Professor Jennifer Doudna credits our own Jillian Banfield for sparking her interest in the problem that led to CRISPR. Read full news conference here. Contact Us Department offices are…

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Professor Peidong Yang receives Global Energy Prize Professor Peidong Yang received the 2020 Global Energy Prize in the Non-Conventional Energy category for the invention of the nanoparticle-based solar cell and artificial photosynthesis. Congratulations Professor Yang! Please read full article here. Contact Us Department offices are located in 210 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, in the Northeast…

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Novel Materials Processing Enables Ultrahigh Capacitive Energy Storage Density Researchers from the Martin group in Materials Science and Engineering have developed a new approach to improve the capacitive energy storage density of materials. Capacitors that rapidly store and release electric energy are key components in modern electronics and power systems. However, the most commonly used ones…

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Where did you study? I went back to school after working and restarted my education at American River Community College in Sacramento, CA. Then I transferred to UC Berkeley and majored in Materials Science and Mineral Engineering and Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Enjoying school, I decided to stay at…

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Professor Xu has been named a fellow of ACS in PMSE! Professor Ting Xu has been named a 2020 fellow of the American Chemical Society in the division of Polymer Materials Science and Engineering! Congratulations Professor Xu!  Read more here. Contact Us Department offices are located in 210 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, in the Northeast…

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It is with great sadness that we pass on the news that Wladyslaw (Wladek) Walukiewicz, a leading mind in the field of semiconductor materials, passed away on November 9, 2022. Wladek received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, and spent a few years working at the National…

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MSE’s own Professor Kristin Persson has been chosen as recipient of the Cyril Stanley Smith Award. This award, which is given by the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), recognizes an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the science and/or technology of materials structure. Prof. Persson will receive this honor at TMS-AIME Annual Awards Ceremony at…

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  MSE’s own Professor Gerd Ceder was recently named a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society, Class of 2022. The Fellow of The Electrochemical Society was established in 1989 for advanced individual technological contributions in the field of electrochemical and solid state science and technology; and active membership and involvement in the affairs of The Electrochemical Society.…

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