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ACADEMIC YEAR 2019 - 2020 TMI: Materials Science & Engineering Greetings from the Director NEWSLETTER ACADEMIC YEAR 2019 - 2020 TMI: Materials Science & Engineering Greetings from the Director ON THE COVER The cover image this year is an annular dark field scanning TEM image of the atomic lattice of BaTiO3 in (210) plane obtained with the JEOL NeoARM at 200 kV. The cross- sectional sample was prepared by Focused Ion Beam (FIB) milling with the Thermo Scios 2. The bright inten- sities from the columns of Ba atoms, and the weak from the columns of Ti atoms. The image was taken by Dr. Hyoju Park, a postdoctoral scholar with TMI and working with Dr. Jamie Warner. You can read more about our new TEM Facility on pages 8-9. Greetings! During Fall 2019, the Cockrell the adaptability and understanding I am pleased to present to you the School of Engineering broke ground of our students as we transitioned to Materials Science and Engineering for the new Gary L. Thomas Energy a virtual learning environment. Program and Texas Materials Institute Engineering Building (GLT). GLT will As I look back this year, I want to (TMI) Newsletter for the 2019 - 2020 be home to many MS&E Graduate thank everyone at TMI for their active academic year. This year we celebrat- Program faculty and bring the entire role in the success of our research ed the many accomplishments of UT campus together in pursuit of unit and graduate program while we our students, faculty, and staff while innovative solutions to solve our shifted to a new normal. It is a chal- navigating through unprecedented current energy challenges. GLT will lenging moment for our university times. The COVID-19 pandemic was have 184,000 square feet of space all community and for people across unexpected and tragic but our unit dedicated to energy research. the nation and their dedication truly was resilient and continued to keep As we strive to maintain top-tier reflects the character of our unit. TMI running and sustain our mission. research facilities, I am proud to We received the extraordinary announce our new JEOL NeoARM Sincerely, news this year when Professor John Scanning Transmission Electron Mi- B. Goodenough was awarded the croscope (STEM) became operational Arumugam Manthiram 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his this year. This is an upgrade to UT’s Director, Texas Materials Institute development of lithium-ion batteries. electron microscopy capabilities, giv- This is a monumental achievement ing researchers cutting-edge tools for reflecting the impact of Professor deeper analysis of their materials. Goodenough’s research over the Our faculty and students continue years. It is hard to imagine a contem- to excel in regards to awards and rec- porary society without his discover- ognitions, which you can read more ies, and the lives of so many people about. It is not an easy time during a Editing and Design have been touched by his work. global pandemic, but I am proud of Krista Seidel www.tmi.utexas.edu | Page 2 TMI: Materials Science & Engineering CONGRATULATIONS IN THIS TO OUR 2019-2020 ISSUE GRADUATES! Greetings ................................... 2 FALL 2019 On the Cover ............................ 2 Tushar Chitrakar, Ph.D. Predicting Deformation Mechanisms During High Speed Impct of Ag Nanoparticles MS&E Graduates ..................... 3 Supervisor: Dr. Desiderio Kovar Szu-Tung Hu, Ph.D. Scaling Effects on Microstructure and John B. Goodenough Wins Resistivity for Cu and Co Nano- Interconnects the Nobel Prize ....................... 4 Co-Supervisors: Dr. Donglei Fan and Dr. Paul S. Ho New Gary L. Thomas SPRING 2020 Energy Engineering Building ..................................... 6 Jeremiah McCallister, Ph.D. Influence of Processing Parameters on Microstructure of Metal Films Produced from TMI Launches New TEM High Velocity Impact of Nonoparticle Aerosols Facility ........................................ 8 Supervisor: Dr. Desiderio Kovar SUMMER 2020 Facilities Spotlight ............... 10 Ruijing Ge, Ph.D. Memory Effect in Two Dimensional Goodenough Atomically-Thin Sheets Materials Innovation Supervisor: Dr. Deji Akinwande Lecture Series ........................ 12 Sanjay Nanda, Ph.D. Dynamics of Lithium Deposition in Lithium- Awards and Sulfur Batteries and Strategies for Improving Recognition ........................... 14 Lithium Cycling Efficiencies Supervisor: Dr. Arumugam Manthiram www.tmi.utexas.edu | Page 3 TMI: Materials Science & Engineering John B. Goodenough Wins the Nobel Prize John B. Goodenough at a Nobel Laureate gathering in Stolkholm, Sweden. Photo by Alexander Mahmoud, Nobel Media. John B. Goodenough, a faculty “Billions of people around the in lithium-ion batteries. member with Texas Materials Insti- world benefit every day from John’s “Professor John Goodenough is an tute and our Materials Science and innovations,” said Gregory L. Fenves, extraordinary man and engineer, and Engineering program was awarded former president of The University of I am delighted that his world-chang- the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry Texas at Austin and former dean of ing work is being recognized with — jointly with Stanley Whittingham the Cockrell School of Engineering. the Nobel Prize,” said Cockrell School of the State University of New York “In addition to being a world-class Dean Sharon L. Wood. “Today, every- at Binghamton and Akira Yoshino of inventor, he’s an outstanding teacher, one in the Texas Engineering com- Meijo University — “for the develop- mentor and researcher. We are grate- munity — our faculty, staff, students ment of lithium-ion batteries.” ful for John’s three decades of contri- and alumni around the world — are In the words of the Nobel Founda- butions to UT Austin’s mission.” proud of his accomplishment and tion, “Through their work, they have “Live to 97 (years old) and you can inspired by the example he has set.” created the right conditions for a do anything,” said Goodenough. “I’m Goodenough began his career at wireless and fossil fuel-free society, honored and humbled to win the the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- and so brought the greatest benefit Nobel prize. I thank all my friends for nology’s Lincoln Laboratory in 1952, to humankind.” the support and assistance through- where he laid the groundwork for Goodenough, who was born in out my life.” the development of random-access 1922, identified and developed the In 1979, Goodenough showed that memory (RAM) for the digital com- critical materials that provided the by using lithium cobalt oxide as the puter. After leaving MIT, he became high-energy density needed to pow- cathode of a lithium-ion recharge- professor and head of the Inorganic er portable electronics, initiating the able battery, it would be possible Chemistry Laboratory at the Universi- wireless revolution. Today, batteries to achieve a high density of stored ty of Oxford. During this time, Good- incorporating Goodenough’s cath- energy with an anode other than enough made the lithium-ion battery ode materials are used worldwide for metallic lithium. This discovery led to cathode discovery. mobile phones, power tools, laptops, the development of carbon-rich ma- After retiring from Oxford in 1986, tablets and other wireless devices, as terials that allow for the use of stable Goodenough joined UT Austin, well as electric and hybrid vehicles. and manageable negative electrodes www.tmi.utexas.edu | Page 4 TMI: Materials Science & Engineering “LIVE TO 97 (YEARS OLD) AND YOU CAN DO ANYTHING” - John B. Goodenough where he serves as the Virginia H. sity of Chicago. He is the recipient of alumnus J.M. Coetzee won the Nobel Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engi- numerous national and international Prize in literature in 2003. In the past neering in the Cockrell School. In honors, including the Japan Prize, the two years, two UT Austin alumni have addition to his work with TMI, he Enrico Fermi Award, the Charles Stark also won Nobel Prizes — Michael holds faculty positions in the Walker Draper Prize and the National Medal Young and Jim Allison, who respec- Department of Mechanical Engineer- of Science. tively won the prize for medicine or ing and the Department of Electrical Goodenough joins physicist Ste- physiology in 2017 and 2018. and Computer Engineering. ven Weinberg as one of two current The Nobels are considered to be At 97 years old, Goodenough Nobel laureates at UT Austin. Wein- among the most prestigious prizes in continues to push the boundaries berg won the prize in 1979 for contri- the world and have been awarded for of materials science with the goal butions to the theory of the unified achievements in physics, chemistry, of inventing more sustainable and weak and electromagnetic interac- physiology or medicine, literature energy-efficient battery materials. tion between elementary particles. and peace since 1901 by the Nobel Goodenough and his team recently Two other UT Austin professors, both Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. identified a new safe cathode mate- now deceased, also won Nobel Prizes: Goodenough received a medal, cash rial for use in sodium-ion batteries. Hermann J. Muller in medicine and prize and diploma at a ceremony in Goodenough received a bach- physiology (1946) and Ilya Prigogine Stockholm in December 2019. elor’s degree in mathematics from in chemistry (1977). Alumnus E. Don- Yale University in 1944 and holds a nall Thomas won the Nobel Prize in Article by Cockrell School of Engineering doctorate in physics from the Univer- physiology or medicine in 1990, and Communications Team. John B. Goodenough pictured (from Lto R) with Jianshi Zhou, Arumugam John B. Goodenough receives his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gus- Manthiram, Sharon L. Wood, Gregory L. Fenves, and Hadi Khani. Photo taf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm. Photo by Alexander Mahmoud, courtesy of Nobel Media. Nobel Media. www.tmi.utexas.edu | Page 5 TMI: Materials Science & Engineering Breaking Ground on New Engineering Building Thanks to an extraordinary com- Materials Institute faculty. Depression. His father left school in mitment from alumnus and former UT engineering has been a global the sixth grade to work on the family EOG Resources Inc.
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