Posts Tagged ‘mse’
Student Spotlight: Enze Chen
Why did you choose to study MSE? I loved the nanomaterials lab that I worked in during high school, and after I naively told my mentor that it inspired me to study “chemical engineering” in college, she responded, “Oh, OK, but you do know this field is called ‘materials science’ right?” Then in my undergrad,…
Read MoreStudent Spotlight: Martin Siron
Why did you choose to study MSE? I was a Chemical Engineering major with an emphasis in nanotechnology in undergrad. Part of that degree involved spending some time in a research lab and taking some materials classes. That exposed me to the big picture problems that materials scientist and engineers tackle. I’ve also always been…
Read MoreStudent Spotlight: Ann Rutt
Why did you choose to study MSE? I settled on majoring in Materials Science & Engineering in college because chemistry was my favorite subject in high school and I liked learning about science at the small scale. But I wanted to go into a field that would connect science to ‘real world’ applications so…
Read MoreProfessor Ramamoorthy Ramesh has been elected a foreign member of the Royal Society
Professor Ramamoorthy Ramesh has been elected a foreign member of the Royal Society Professor Ramesh has created nanosized materials that can power small electrical devices with minimal amounts of energy. Full news story here. Contact Us Department offices are located in 210 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, in the Northeast corner of campus. Address: Department of…
Read MoreBerkeley Lab: Machine Learning Tool Could Provide Unexpected Scientific Insights into COVID-19
Berkeley Lab: Machine Learning Tool Could Provide Unexpected Scientific Insights into COVID-19 Machine Learning Tool Could Provide Unexpected Scientific Insights into COVID-19. Berkeley Lab’s COVIDScholar uses text mining algorithms to scan hundreds of new papers every day. Read more here. Contact Us Department offices are located in 210 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, in the Northeast…
Read MoreFaculty Spotlight: Lane Martin
Where did you study? I grew up primarily in rural western Pennsylvania. After looking all around, I ultimately chose to do my undergraduate work at Carnegie Mellon University. I actually started as a Chemical Engineering major and after just a semester realized that I did like it and it didn’t like me! For a…
Read MoreWide Band Gap Chalcogenide Semiconductors
Wide Band Gap Chalcogenide Semiconductors Scientists at UC Berkeley / Berkeley Lab (R. Woods-Robinson and K. Persson) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have released a comprehensive review of a unique, emerging class of materials called “wide band gap chalcogenide semiconductors”. These are materials composed of chalcogen elements (sulfur, selenium, and tellurium) that are both…
Read MoreUltrahigh Power and Energy Density in Partially Ordered Lithium-ion Cathode Materials
Ultrahigh Power and Energy Density in Partially Ordered Lithium-ion Cathode Materials The tremendous growth of Li-ion batteries for energy storage has put strain on the supply of metals such as Ni and Co. In a recent paper in Nature Energy the Ceder Group at UC Berkeley report that oxyfluorides that contain only earth-abundant manganese and which…
Read MoreStudent Spotlight: Ruijuan Xu
Why did you choose to study MSE? During high school, I was interested in almost all the science courses, but this also makes it difficult for me to decide which college major I should focus on. One of the reasons to choose MSE at the beginning was simply because it’s an interdisciplinary field that incorporates…
Read MoreMSE Office – Shelter in Place
MSE Office – Shelter in Place Contact Us Department offices are located in 210 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, in the Northeast corner of campus. Address: Department of Materials Science and Engineering 210 Hearst Memorial Mining Building University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-1760 Phone: (510) 642-3801 Fax: (510) 643-5792
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