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Jena-Xing Group Taps Cornell's Intellectual Newsletter Page 4 Page 10 Page 20 MSEDecember 2017 Faculty Research MSE Spotlight Faculty Awards and Honors JENA-XING GROUP TAPS CORNELL’S INTELLECTUAL POWER TO PUSH LIMITS OF MATERIALS PAGE 10 TABLE OF MSE GREETINGS CONTENTS some of whom are featured on Pages 16-19. Andrej also notes Cornell’s exceptional DEAR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS researchinfrastructure, such as the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source TABLE OF CONTENTS (CHESS). I’d also like to acknowledge OF THE DEPARTMENT the prominence of the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility, which is Welcome Faculty .........................................................2 I invite you to read about Jin’s work now directed by former MSE director Chris and other research projects on Pages 4-9, Ober and recently celebrated its 40-year the variety of which demonstrates the anniversary (Page 5). Welcome Staff ..............................................................3 wide impact we as materials scientists and There are many other accolades to engineers have on the world. Whether it’s give—too many to list them all here. Faculty Research ..........................................................4 gaining a deeper understanding of how But I can’t avoid using this opportunity breast cancer metastasizes or developing to congratulate former MSE director an oleophobic coating for stain-resistant Darrell Schlom on his induction into the MSE Spotlight ..............................................................10 clothing, we pride ourselves on being National Academy of Engineering—an problem solvers in all realms. extraordinary honor which you can read On Pages 10-11, we take you about on Page 20. And speaking of friends Alumni and Student Awards .....................................16 inside the laboratory of Grace Xing and in high places, former MSE director Debdeep Jena—two faculty members who Emmanuel Giannelis has been named Faculty Awards and Honors ......................................20 joined us in 2015 and have since been Cornell’s senior vice provost for research making waves, literally. Among their and vice president for technology transfer, breakthroughs has been the fabrication intellectual property and research policy Reunion.........................................................................24 of gallium-nitride-based LEDs that emit (Page 22). Congratulations Emmanuel! the shortest ultraviolet wavelengths ever Please enjoy this newsletter and find Giving Opportunities .................................................25 recorded. A group from the lab is now us online to keep up on even more MSE commercializing the technology for use in news. If you’d like to be more directly medical and food sterilization. involved with our faculty, students and Through PARADIM we’ve also facilities, I encourage you to review the launched an on-campus, full-year giving opportunities listed on Page 25. materials engineering program for local high school students, which you can read about on Page 13. The New Visions GREETINGS FROM PROFESSOR R. Sincerely, ABOUT THE COVER program has become a great opportunity Debdeep Jena and Huili Grace Xing, BRUCE VAN DOVER, MSE CHAIR for our own students to engage with professors of electrical and computer the high school students and provide engineering, and materials science and ast year we launched the and our partners. mentoring, promoting the leadership skills Newsletter Page 4 Page 10 Page 20 engineering. MSEDecember 2017 Faculty Research MSE Spotlight Faculty Awards and Honors Platform for the Accelerated It’s been exciting to watch PARADIM we seek to instill in our young scholars. Realization, Analysis and blossom since that time, with many of This year we welcomed several R. Bruce van Dover Discovery of Interface our own faculty and students making new faculty and staff to our MSE family, MSE Department Chair Materials (PARADIM), an discoveries using the platform. For including Andrej Singer, a tenure- NSF-supported five-year, example, assistant professor Jin Suntivich JENA-XING GROUP track faculty member who uses X-ray TAPS CORNELL’S $25 million initiative in which users from is growing single-crystal transition-metal INTELLECTUAL characterization to better understand POWER TO Lthroughout the nation can design and oxides to gain a better understanding PUSH LIMITS OF nanoscale structure and its dynamics in MATERIALS synthesize new interface materials using of what makes for the perfect fuel cell complex materials. On Page 3 he notes the PAGE 10 facilities and expertise located at Cornell catalyst. exceptional strengths of MSE’s students, 1 | MSE Newsletter MSE WELCOME properties of new X-ray sources and was says Singer, referring to the Cornell High In Singer’s second area of focus, he MSE WELCOMES THREE NEW FACULTY especially interested in their ability to Energy Synchrotron Source. “My research uses the recently developed X-ray free- generate interference patterns, similar interests align well with the philosophy of electron lasers to study ultrafast processes LISA THOMPSON PETER BOCKO ANDREJ SINGER to lasers in optics. In 2012, Singer took a Cornell Engineering: Apply a ‘break the in strongly correlated electron systems. ADJUNCT PROFESSOR ADJUNCT PROFESSOR ASSISTANT PROFESSOR postdoctoral research position in the lab of rules’ attitude to help solve some of the He seeks to drive the systems out of professor Oleg Shpyrko at UCSD. While world’s most pressing problems.” equilibrium and explore new phases hompson teaches fter a 35- inger has there, he applied coherent X-ray scattering Singer has three active research of matter, which have the potential for a laboratory year career joined MSE as techniques to study materials. projects underway. The first uses state- technological applications. T course that A in research S an assistant Now that he is at Cornell, Singer of-the-art X-ray scattering and imaging The third research project underway spans both the fall and development professor after is excited to expand his work applying techniques in situ to see just what is in Singer’s lab uses coherent X-ray and spring semesters. at Corning, Inc., completing a X-rays to a wide range of materials. happening inside real devices, for example, imaging and ptychography to study the Thompson’s focus Bocko, Ph.D. ’79, has postdoctoral position “Cornell is one of the top engineering batteries, as we charge and discharge self-assembly processes underpinning the is to help MSE returned to Cornell at the University of schools in the world. The students here are them. Until scientists better understand the formation of biological photonic crystals in undergraduates to teach a graduate California, San Diego exceptional and the research infrastructure mechanisms at work, it will be difficult to various species. The process is interesting build skills in careful experimentation, course in glass theory and technology. (UCSD). Singer uses X-ray characterization on campus is unique worldwide. Access to create electrode materials with advanced in its own right, but could also have formal data analysis, publication quality At the time of his retirement as to better understand nanoscale structure the CHESS facility is a big selling point,” functionality. applications in metamaterial research. plotting and technical communication chief technology officer of Corning and its dynamics in complex materials. that will prepare students for senior Glass Technologies in 2014, Bocko was He then aims to use what he learns about research, internships, graduate school considered one of the foremost leaders in mesoscale phenomena to improve material and employment in materials science and glass innovation for consumer electronics. functionality. MSE WELCOMES THREE NEW STAFF engineering. He joined Corning in 1979 as a glass Singer, who earned his undergraduate ALEXANDER DEYHIM Practice in Aerospace Engineering at She joined MSE in 2015, bringing Thompson received a B.S. in chemist and was a principal in Corning’s degrees in physics and math at the ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, Cornell for a number of years, taking with her knowledge of material synthesis materials science and engineering from participation in the flat-panel display University of Muenster in Germany, found M.ENG. PROGRAM the course from the lowest ranked in the and purification, safety and laboratory Northwestern University in 1987 while revolution. He focused most of his career himself drawn to mathematics before he department to above-average student management. She stays busy at home with fter working in working as a co-op engineer for a year and on technology applications for engineered even started secondary school. ratings. He loves challenging himself and her three young-spirited daughters. manufacturing a half at National Steel in Portage, Indiana. glass in the information age, including “I was always good at math,” says being back at Cornell as the associate at Ford Motor CORINNE RUSSELL She received an M.S. and Ph.D. from optical amplifiers, LCD substrates and Singer. “By the time I was in high school I A director of the MSE M.Eng. Program. He Company, Deyhim ACCOUNTS Cornell University in 1993 doing research glass for semiconductor packaging. started to see the beauty of mathematical intends to grow the program and work earned his MBA from in the area of microstructural scale design Bocko was the technical advisor for theorems and proofs.” Singer received his with students to help them become leaders REPRESENTATIVE Cornell’s Johnson of metal-ceramic composites. Corning’s acclaimed “A Day Made
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