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Colloquium
Thursday, December 03, 2009, 12:15 p.m., SCIC 126
Materials Research at Clemson for Eco-friendly
Energy Generation, Storage and Delivery
Dr. Jian He
Clemson University
Abstract: The demand for eco-friendly energy generation, storage and
delivery has led to regimes of materials research of both fundamental and
technical importance, including the study of thermoelectric materials and
high Tc superconducting cuprates. Despite the differences in the systems of
interest and the tools of investigation (i.e., why and how), the
common goal of materials research is to understand the structure-property
correlation via materials synthesis, preparation and characterization. In
this colloquium I will address 3 major themes: (1) the quest for
high figure of merit thermoelectric materials in the past decade,
especially the emerging nanostructured
thermoelectric materials; (2) the study of complicated
magnetism-superconductivity phase diagrams of high Tc
superconducting cuprates; and (3) what
undergraduate and graduate students can learn from and contribute to these
studies. Most examples are taken from the ongoing efforts on the campus of
Clemson University.
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