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Department Colloquia
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering colloquium series is held at 4:00 p.m. Mondays in room 100 Materials Science and Engineering Building (MSEB). Cookies and coffee will be served at 3:30 p.m. in the T.A. Read Lounge, first floor of MSEB.

August 31, 2009
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Atomic resolution characterization of nanoscale interfaces and surfaces

September 7, 2009
Labor Day - No Colloquium

September 14, 2009
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Interfacial spectroscopy: In situ approaches to understand slippery and sticky contacts

September 21, 2009
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Davis
The role of quantum simulations in predicting materials for renewal energy applications

September 28, 2009
MRL Director Seminar
190 Engineering Sciences Building
Debra Rolison
Naval Research Laboratory
Nanoarchitectures: Why more of less is more--Especially for energy storage and conversion

October 5, 2009
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Texas at Austin
Are the electronic properties of conjugated polymers deformable

October 12, 2009
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Northwestern University
Development of the interphase in polymer nanocomposites: gradients, local properties and percolation

October 19, 2009
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
New approaches to modeling fuel cells: Catalytic activity and stability in PEMFC and SOFC

October 26, 2009
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

November 2, 2009
Department of Chemistry,
Virginia Tech
Getting recharged about charged polymers: From ionic liquids to gene delivery vectors

November 16, 2009
Rachel Segalman
Department of Chemical Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley
Molecular thermoelectrics: Insight to electronics structure and applications

November 30, 2009
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
