BEARS (University of California, Berkeley) and CARES (University of Cambridge) team up in a new intra-CREATE programme by Daisy Hernandez March 07, 2018 A three-year programme will bring together researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, University of Cambridge, the, the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) to develop ways of…

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MSE Leads the Way in Safety at UC Berkeley by Daisy Hernandez February 27, 2018 The laboratory compound run by Professors Martin and Ramesh was named the winner of the UC Berkeley Excellence in Laboratory Safety Award in the Large Physical Sciences category. Professor Martin will represent the laboratory at the award ceremony in Feb.…

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FACILITIES There are many cutting-edge research facilities, both on campus and at partner institutions, that are available for Materials Science & Engineering research. Nanofabrication Lab BNC (BioNanoCenter) QB3 Focused Ion Beam National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) Advanced Light Source The Molecular Foundry The National Center for Electron Microscopy Contact Us Department offices are…

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ABOUT US University of California, Berkeley Material Science and Engineering Department Materials Science and Engineering encompasses all natural and synthetic materials – their extraction, synthesis, processing, properties, characterization, and development for technological applications. Optimized materials are utilized in medical device and healthcare industries, the energy industries, electronics and photonics, transportation, advanced batteries and fuel cells,…

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Professor R. Ramesh has been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The NAI Fellows Selection Committee noted that Prof. Ramesh has “demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development, and welfare of society.”  He will be officially…

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MSE’s own Professor Ting Xu was selected as the recipient of the 2022 Faculty Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring. As part of National Postdoc Appreciation Week, Prof. Xu was recognized at PostdocFest – an event organized by the Berkeley Postdoctoral Association (BPA) in collaboration with the campus’s Visiting Scholars and Postdoc Affairs (VSPA) program and the Vice Chancellor for Research – for her efforts in fostering…

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MSE’s own Prof. Zakaria Al Balushi has been highlighted as a “rising star of nanoscience” for his work in devising ways to produce next-generation nanomaterials. Prof. Al Balushi was interviewed for the Nature Index Report on Nanoscience/nanotechnology; which celebrates the institutions and individuals behind the rapidly growing research in this field which are enabling the design of new materials and…

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MSE’s own Professor R. Ramesh, together with his colleagues Profs. Agnes Barthelemy (Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales), Manuel Bibes (Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales), and Nicola Spaldin (ETH Zurich), has been named the Europhysics Prize 2022 winner for “seminal contributions to the physics and applications of multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials.” The Europhysics Prize is awarded by…

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MSE’s own Prof. R. Ramesh has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAA&S). Founded in 1780, the AAA&S honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together, as expressed in our charter, “to cultivate every…

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