News

February 23, 2015

MSE Ballistics Wins $10,000 at the 28th Annual Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition

The Senior Design Team led by Rachel Stone, Juan Rivera, Roman Motyka, Ryan Thompson and Seung-Yun Song, placed second in the Black Division of the 2015 Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition and received $10,000.

February 10, 2015

MSE Seminar - Prof. Jinsong Huang University of Nebraska Lincoln

Scaling of Diffusion Length in Organometal Trihalide Perovskites for Solar Cell Application and Beyond

February 9, 2015

PhD student Bivas Saha's work featured on the cover of Physics Status Solidi B

Development of epitaxial AlxSc1?xN for artificially structured metal/semiconductor superlattice metamaterials

January 26, 2015

A Purdue MSE Alum will be receiving a prestigious Acta Materialia award a special symposium as part of the TMS 2015 Annual Meeting & Exhibition

Tresa M. Pollock, the 2015 Acta Materialia Inc. Hollomon Materials & Society Award recipient, is the Alcoa Professor of Materials at the University of California Santa Barbara. She will deliver the presentation, "Design of New Co-base Alloy Single Crystals: The Impact of an MGI Approach." on Wednesday afternoon, March 18, at TMS2015 in Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida. Dr. Pollock will formally accept her award at the 2015 TMS-AIME Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, March 17.

January 23, 2015

Improved dendrite formation control helps lithium batteries last longer

Associate Professor Edwin Garcia is part of a group of researchers at Purdue University who are using numerical modeling to find ways to understand the complex science behind the formation of 'dendrites' that cause lithium-ion batteries to fail which will help to design better separators to create longer-lasting batteries.