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The mission of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering is to produce B.S./M.S./Ph.D. graduates who can excel in leadership

positions in industry and academia at national and international levels.

FacTS at a Glance Three MSE Doctoral Graduates Find Academic PositionsDr. Gwénaëlle Proust (advisor: Surya Kalidindi), Dr. Davide Mattia (advisor: Yury Gogotsi),

and Dr. Matthew Cathell (advisor: Caroline Schauer), three alumni of MSE, have been appointed to faculty positions this year.

Spanier Receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

MSE Professor Jonathan E. Spanier was honored at a White House ceremony with President Bush on Thursday, November 1 as one of 58 researchers to receive a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the nation’s highest honor for professionals at the outset of their independent research careers.

Drexel MSE Number One in the Nation in NSF Graduate Fellowships in Materials

BS/MS student Holly McIlwee (advisor: Caroline Schauer), Ph.D. student in MEM and for-mer MS student in MSE Alex Moseson (advisor: Michel Barsoum), and Ph.D. student Stephen Niezgoda (advisor: Surya Kalidindi) are recipients of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP).

Drexel-France Collaboration Produces Groundbreaking Results on Supercapacitors

A group of researchers led by Prof. Yury Gogotsi published two articles this year that raise the bar for energy storage in supercapacitors and point to new avenues for further energy in-creases.

Celebrating the Career of Dr. Roger DohertyAlumni/ae, friends, family, colleagues, and distinguished guests gathered over Drexel’s Blue

and Gold Days to wish A. W. Grosvenor Professor Roger Doherty well as he moves towards his retirement.

Please read on for a comprehensive look atthe department’s activities over the past year

2007-2008 Highlights

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Tenure-Track Faculty FTE 11

Auxiliary Faculty FTE 1

Undergraduate Students 93

Graduate Students 81

Ph.D. Awarded (07-08) 12

M.S. Awarded (07-08) 12

B.S. Awarded (07-08) 10

New Research Awards $6.9M

Research Expenditures $4.1M

Refereed Journal Publications 98

Nat’l and Internat’l Awards Won 36

Drexels Materials Science and Engineering Listed Among Top Ten MSE Programs Nationwide

In January 2007, The Chronicle of Higher Education an-nounced that Drexel Universitys doctoral program in Mate-rials Science and Engineering (MSE) is rated among the top ten MSE programs nationwide, according to the 2006 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, a research initiative partly fund-ed by The State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook and produced by Academic Analytics. Academic Analytics, a for-profit company, rates faculty members’ scholarly output at nearly 7,300 doctoral programs around the country. The company examines the number of book and journal articles published by each program’s faculty, as well as journal cita-tions, awards, honors, and grants received. For more infor-mation about the 2006 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, visit http://www.materials.drexel.edu/topten/.

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It is my pleasure and privilege to report to you our continued accomplishments for the 2007-2008 academic year, a testament to

the hard work and excellence demonstrated by the students, staff, and faculty of the Department.

As of September ’08, we count 93 undergraduates, 30 MS (20 of which are BS/MS students) and 51 Ph.D. stu-dents. Last year we graduated 12 Ph.D. and 14 MS students, which tied the all-time records for both MS and Ph.D. degrees awarded from our Department. The previous records were set in 1989-90 for MS and 2004-05 for Ph.D.

Several of our graduates have received aca-demic positions. Dr. Gwénaëlle Proust (advi-sor: S. Kalidindi) and Dr. Davide Mattia (advisor: Y. Gogotsi), have received Lecturer positions at the University of Sydney, Australia and the University of Bath, UK, respectively. Matthew Cathell (advisor: C. Schauer) will be an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering at The College of New Jersey. Our graduate students continue to receive recognition. Jessica Schiff-man (advisor: C. Schauer) won the MatPAC Award and was selected as a NSF Lindau Fellow. Marko Knezevic (advisor: S. Kalidindi) received the Nicolitch Scholarship. Siddhartha Pathak (advisor S. Kalidindi) and Marko Knezevic and Jameson Detweiler and Eric Eisele (advisor M. Barsoum) placed in the 2008 Baiada Business Plan Competition. Three of our students, Holly McIlwee (advisor C. Schauer) , Alexander Mose-

son (advisor M. Barsoum), and Stephen Niez-goda (advisor S. Kalidindi), received NSF Gradu-ate Research Fellowships; that’s more than any other Materials program in the US. All of this

is evidence that our successes are not only in terms of quan-tity, but quality as well. We are producing high caliber students who excel at the national and international level.

Prof. Jonathan E. Spanier was one of 58 researchers to receive a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE is the nation’s highest

honor for professionals at the outset of their independent research careers. Jonathan is the first assistant professor at Drexel to be selected for this recognition since the inception of the program in 1996 under President Clinton.

Prof. Yury Gogotsi was one of two faculty university-wide to be named a Trustee Chair Professor. Since joining us in 2000, Yury has served as founder and director of the A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute, and the W.M. Keck Institute for Attofluidic Nanotube-based Probes. He has also served as Associate Dean of the College of Engineering, established a world-class Centralized Research Facility (CRF) and an Industry Consortium, and has raised more than $10M in funding for research and education. This year, Yury was also named a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society.

In an effort to enhance our world-class char-

acterization facility, two new major instruments were added to the CRF: a JEOL JEM2100 TEM (bought with internal funds, installed and in full operation) and a FEI DB235 FIB-SEM (bought with the support of an NSF-MRI grant, currently being installed). Prof. Surya Kalidindi took over as director of the Centralized Research Facility, despite the fact that he was on sabbatical. Dr. Ed Basgall and Dr. Craig Johnson were hired to manage SEM and TEM, respectively.

Several new projects have been funded in-cluding Prof. Caroline Schauer’s “Mechanically Robust Structural Color System based on Bio-mimetic Principles” (NSF/GOALI with Avon), Prof. Li’s “Carbon Nanotube Induced Polymer Crystallization, Structure and Morphology” from NSF, and Prof. Shih’s “Array Piezoelectric Nanocantilever Sensors to Detect Immune Re-sponses to Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies and Breast Cancer Markers” from the PA Nano-Technology Institute.

Several of our faculty members serve as edi-tors or members of editorial boards of archival journals. This year Prof. Kalidindi was appoint-ed Co-Editor-in-Chief of Computers, Materials & Continua, Prof. Gogotsi continues to serve as editor of Carbon, Prof. Alan Lawley continues his long service as editor-in-chief of the Inter-national Journal of Powder Metallurgy, and Prof. Marcolongo was chosen for the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, Part A editorial board.

Our newest faculty member, Prof. Ulrike Wegst, and colleagues have received the Wer-ner-Köster-Award for 2007 for their paper “Ma-

terials for violin bows.” Also, Prof. Mitra Taheri is joining us as of September 2008.

In May, we celebrated the accomplishments of Prof. Roger Doherty, who retired after 26 years of service at Drexel. Roger also received the ASM Sauveur Award this year in recogni-tion of his pioneering materials science and engineering achievements. But beyond titles and numbers of papers and awards, Roger’s intellectual capacity and curiosity, together with a genuine care for the students and the Department, are an inspiration to all of us. Fi-nally, don’t expect Roger to stop contributing just because he has retired. He will follow the example of Prof. Emeritus Alan Lawley, who, along with his colleagues, received the “Out-standing Technical Paper” award at the World Congress on Powder Metallurgy & Particulate Materials for their work on “Development of a Dual-Phase Precipitation-Hardening PM Stain-less Steel.”

In closing, I invite you to explore this report and learn more about our recent activities. If you happen to be in the Philadelphia area, please take the opportunity to visit us and meet with me, other faculty, and students.

Best wishes for an innovative year,

Antonios Zavaliangos Interim Department Head

From The DeparTmenT heaD


Michel W. Barsoum (Ph.D., MIT)Distinguished Professor

Roger Doherty (Ph.D., Oxford, UK)A. W. Grosvenor Professor

Yury G. Gogotsi (Ph.D., Kiev Polytechnic, UA)Professor

Surya R. Kalidindi (Ph.D., MIT)Department Head and Professor

Richard Knight (Ph.D., Loughborough, UK)Auxiliary Professor

christopher Y. Li (Ph.D., University of Akron)Associate Professor

Michele Marcolongo (Ph.D., U. of Penn.)Associate Professor

caroline L. Schauer (Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook)Assistant Professor

Wei-Heng Shih (Ph.D., Ohio State University)Professor

Jonathan E. Spanier (Ph.D., Columbia University)Assistant Professor & Interim Assoc. Dept. Head

Mitra Taheri (Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon Univ.)Hoeganaes Assistant Professor of MetallurgyStarting September 2008

T.S. Venkataraman (Ph.D., WPI)Professor (50% in Physics)

Ulrike Wegst (Ph.D., U. of Cambridge)Anne Stevens Assistant Professor

antonios Zavaliangos (Ph.D., MIT)Interim Department Head and Professor

our FaculTy FaculTy news

Franco capaldiAssistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics

adam FontecchioAssistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering

alexander FridmanJohn S. Nyheim Chair Prof. of Mech. Engr. and Mechanics

Haviva GoldmanAssistant Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy

Selçuk GüçeriDean of the College of Engineering

anthony LowmanProfessor of Chemical & Biological Engineering

Bahram NabetProfessor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Giuseppe PalmeseDepartment Head of Chemical & Biological Engineering

Wan Young ShihAssociate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Karl SohlbergAssociate Professor of Chemistry

Yen WeiProfessor of Chemistry

Margaret WheatleyJohn M. Reid Prof. of Biomedical Engineering and Science

Roger corneliussen

Ihab Kamel

Jack Keverian

alan LawleyFellow of the National Academy of Engineering

Samuel K. Nash

Harry c. Rogers

EMERITUS FACULTY

AFFIL IATED FACULTY

MATERIALS FACULTY

Dr. Christopher LiDr. Christopher Li was promoted to Associate Pro-

fessor in September 2007. Prof. Li joined the Depart-ment in January 2002 after receiving his Ph.D. and working as a Post-doctoral Fellow in Poly-mer Science at the Uni-versity of Akron. Prof. Li directs the Soft Matter and Hybrid Materials re-search group.

Prof. Li has received several awards since joining Drexel University,

including: a NSF-CAREER award, a DuPont Young Fac-ulty award, an Outstanding Research Award from the Department, and an ASM Bradley Stoughton Award for Young Teachers. This year, Prof. Li and colleagues from Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Enginering and Chemical and Biological Engineering received a grant from the National Science Foundation to study long-term properties of polyethylene clay nanocomposites.

Dr. Jonathan SpanierDr. Jonathan Spanier was awarded early tenure

and promoted to Associate Professor as of September 2008. Dr. Spanier joined the Department in Sep-tember 2003 after receiv-ing his Ph.D. from Colum-bia University in Applied Physics and working as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology at Har-vard University. Prof. Spa-nier directs the MesoMa-terials Laboratory and has a courtesy appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Since joining Drexel University, Prof. Spanier has re-ceived a U.S. Army Research Office (ARO) Young Inves-tigator Award, a Nano-Bio Interface Innovation Award, and the Outstanding Research Award from the Depart-ment. Read more about Prof. Spanier’s PECASE award on page 14.

The Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University is pleased to an-nounce the tenure of two of our finest professors.

Research Facilities Gain New Equipment

Using internal funds, Drexel University acquired a JEOL JEM-2100 Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) in the fall of 2007. The JEM-2100 resides in the Centralized Research Facilities and features a LaB6 electron gun, a high-stability goni-ometer stage specifically tuned for high tilt tomographic applications, an advanced con-trol system allowing for integration of STEM, EDS, and EELS, and Windows-based software providing an easy-to-learn interface.

Carbon nanoworm [1] & carbide-derived carbon [2] (P. Reddington); nanocrys-talline Si [3] (C. Johnson)

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Doctor of Philosophy Department of Materials Science & Engineering

Dustin DossTechnical Staff

andrew MarxTechnology Coordinator

Keiko NakazawaMaterials Program Coordinator

Dorilona RoseOperations Manager

Judy TrachtmanAcademic and Financial Coordinator

A. J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute (DNI)

Holly BurnsideNanotechnology Program Coordinator

Shirin KarsanNanotechnology Business Coordinator

Centralized Research Facilities (CRF)

Ed BasgallManager, Electron Microscopy

Dee BregerDirector of Microscopy

Peter FinkelDirector of Microfabrication Facilities

craig JohnsonTEM Microscopist

Zhorro NikolovManager, Materials Characterization and Microfabrication

MSE was pleased to promote Keiko Nakazawa to a full-time position, Materials Program Coordinator, in Decem-ber 2007. Keiko has played a key role in the DREAM and SENSORS NSF-REU programs this year, collecting applica-tions, arranging the logistics, and serving as the primary contact for REU students be-fore, during, and after the summer program. Keiko con-tinues to pursue her M.S. in Arts Administration at Drexel and hopes to finish by sum-mer 2009.

Dr. Edward Basgall joined Drexel in November 2007 as Manager of Electron Mi-croscopy in the Centralized Research Facilities. Ed has a Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Illinois and several years of experi-ence managing nano- and microscale materials charac-terization laboratories at the

University of Illinois, University of Massachusetts, Medi-cal College of Georgia, and Penn State University, as well as Carl ZeissSMT, Inc.

excellence in scholarshipour sTaFF

Massimiliano BinciA Novel Spectral Framework for Second-Order Homog-enization TheoriesAdvisor: Surya Kalidindi

Zarife Goknur cambazFormation of Carbide Derived Carbon Coatings of SiCAdvisor: Yury Gogotsi

Matthew David cathellStructurally Colored Biopolymer Thin Films for Detection of Dissolved Metal Ions in Aqueous SolutionAdvisor: Caroline Schauer

Hari Kishore DuvvuruSpectral Methods for Microstructure Modeling during Deformation Processes in Cubic Polycrystalline MetalsAdvisor: Surya Kalidindi

Donia Said El-KhamyProcessing Mechanics of Alternate Twist Ply (ATP) Yarn TechnologyAdvisors: Frank Ko and Christopher Li

Guzeliya KornevaFunctionalization of Carbon NanotubesAdvisors: Reinhard Schweitzer-Stenner and Yury Gogotsi

Davide MattiaTemplated Growth and Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes for Nanofluidic ApplicationsAdvisor: Yury Gogotsi

Brandon a. McWilliamsNumerical Simulation of Electric Field Assisted SinteringAdvisor: Antonios Zavaliangos

Dianne M. RothsteinProtein Mediated Attachment Mechanisms Associated with Blastocyst ImplantationAdvisor: Michele Marcolongo

Dejan StojakovicMicrostructure Evolution in Deformed and Recrystallized Electrical SteelAdvisors: Roger Doherty and Surya Kalidindi

Kishore Kumar TennetiNanoscale Hierarchical Phase Behavior of Liquid Crystal-line Block CopolymersAdvisor: Christopher Li

Wenhai WangTowards an Improved Understanding of Strength and Anisotropy of Cold Compacted PowdersAdvisor: Antonios Zavaliangos

aiguo ZhouKinking Nonlinear Elastic Solids: Theory and ExperimentsAdvisor: Michel Barsoum

Congratulations to all of our 2008 graduates!

Dr. Craig Johnson joined the Centralized Research Fa-cilities in July 2008 as Transmission Electron Microscopist. Craig received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Arizona State University in 2004 for his re-search on the applications of transmission electron mi-croscopy in solid state and physical chemistry of miner-als. He has completed two post doctoral fellowships at Brookhaven National Labora-tory’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials, and in the Nanomaterials Research Group at CEMES-CNRS, Toulouse, France. Craig manages the op-eration and training of users for the new JEOL JEM2100 TEM and the associated sample preparation equipment.

MSE Graduates Record Number of Ph.D. Students

For the second time, the Department of Materials Sci-ence and Engineering at Drexel University has graduated 12 Ph.D. students in an academic year, tying the departmental record of the 2004-2005 academic year. This brings the to-tal number of Ph.D. graduates in the department to 122, 40% of whom have graduated in the last five years.

The department celebrated all of its Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. graduates on Saturday, June 14th at the annual depart-mental commencement lunch at the University Club. Graduating students and their families gathered to be honored by the department and to roast the faculty.

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Three MSE Doctoral Graduates Find Academic Positions

Dr. Gwénaëlle Proust (advisor: Surya Kalidindi), Dr. Davide Mattia (advisor: Yury Gogotsi), and Dr. Matthew Cathell (advisor: Caroline Schauer), three alumni of MSE, have been appointed to faculty positions this year.

Proust has been appointed Lecturer in the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia. At Drexel, Proust worked with Professor Surya Kalidindi and the Mechanics of Microstruc-tures Group on identifying the complete space of feasible

anisotropic properties in polycrystalline microstruc-tures. From 2005 to 2007, Proust worked as a postdoc-toral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Mattia has been appointed Lecturer in the Depart-ment of Chemical Engineering at the University of Bath

working on mass transport at the nanoscale. Mattia worked under the mentorship of Pro-fessor Yury Gogotsi and the Nano Materials Group on the synthesis and characterization of carbon nanotubes for nano-fluidic applications. Mattia graduated in 2007.

Effective August 2008, Ph.D. student Matthew Cathell is Assistant Professor in the Department of Tech-

nological Studies in the School of Engineering at The College of New Jersey. Matthew joined the Department of Materi-als Science and Engineering in 2003. He received his B.A. degree in Chemistry and Bio-chemistry from La Salle Uni-versity. His doctoral research was focused on identifying and

modifying natural polymer materials fashioned into biomimetic thin films for the binding of aqueous heavy metal pollutants.

alumni ImpactMaster of Science

Kristopher D. Behlerarek Robert Blazejewski

John chmiolaRahul Sabu Joseph

Michael J. LaudenslagerBenjamin M. Legum

Huidong LiHolly alice McIlwee

alexander J. Mosesonadarsh Singh Sagar

Ryan Jay VanderMeulenVenkata Lakshmi Saujanya Yachamaneni

Hakki Orhan YegingilQing Zhu

Bachelor of Science

adam c. BlackfordRyan Buchs

Ryan J. carmichaelStefanie Rose JasinskiRonson James LamondMichael J. Laudenslager

carl LeeHolly alice McIlwee

adam Fredric SchvomRyan Jay VanderMeulen (cum Laude)

excellence in scholarship

Alumnus Diran Apelian Appointed 2008 TMS President

MSE alumnus Dr. Diran Apelian (B.S. 1968) has been appointed the 2008 president of TMS, The Minerals,

Metals & Materials Soci-ety. He is also the recent recipient of the 2007 Acta Materialia, Inc. J. Herbert Holloman Award. Accord-ing to the award details, this award “recognizes out-standing contributions to interactions between mate-rials science and technology and societal interests and/

or contributions to materials technology that have had a major impact on society.”

Dr. Apelian is the Howmet Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of the Metal Processing In-stitute (MPI) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. In ad-dition to graduating from Drexel in 1968, he served as a faculty member and in several administrative positions at Drexel University from 1976 until 1990.

Laughlin Receives Distinguished Alumnus Award

The 2008 Department of Materials Science and Engi-neering Distinguished Alumnus Award went to Professor David E. Laughlin (B.S., ‘69) for “outstanding contribu-tions to the science and practice of materials science and engineering and to engineering education in materials and related industries.”

Laughlin received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently ALCOA Profes-sor of Metallurgy in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, with a courtesy appointment in Electri-cal and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon Uni-versity. He is also Editor of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions. He has authored more than 350 techni-

cal publications in the field of phase transfor-mations, physi-cal metallurgy and magnetic materials, and has coedited five books. Since 1986 he has been in-vestigating the magnetic prop-erties and microstructure of soft magnets (HITPERM), hard magnets (FePt and CoPt) and magnetic thin films for recording media and heads.

Graduating Ph.D. Students Receive Best Dissertation

and Most Likely to Enhance Drexel’s Reputation Awards

Two graduating MSE Ph.D. students have received Drexel University’s highest awards for graduating doc-toral students.

Davide Mattia (advisor: Yury Gogotsi) was one of two students selected to receive the award for graduates deemed to show the most promise in enhancing Drexel’s reputation in the field of Mathematical Sciences and En-gineering.

Aiguo Zhou (advisor: Michel Barsoum) was one of two students to receive the best dissertation in Math-ematical Sciences and Engineering award.

Previous award winners from MSE include Thomas Juliano for best dissertation in 2005 and Ranjan Dash in 2006 and María Pía Rossi in 2007 for the most likely to enhance Drexel’s reputation award, all advised by Pro-fessor Yury Gogotsi.

Dr. David Laughlin is awarded the 2008 Distinguished Alumnus Award by Professor

Roger Roherty


Professor Ulrike Wegst and colleagues have received the Werner-Köster-Award for 2007 for their paper “Materials for violin bows.” [U.G.K. Wegst, S. Oberhoff, M. Weller, M.F. Ashby: Int. J. Mat. Res. 98 (2007) 1230-1237]

This prestigious award is presented every year by the Deutsche Gesell-schaft für Materialkunde (DGM, the German Materials Research Society) and the Carl Hanser Verlag for the best paper published in the International Journal of Materials Research.

The paper reports a study of the material properties of pernambuco, a tropical wood, and thirteen alternative materials. Pernambuco, indigenous to Brazil, is the preferred material for violin bows. However, it is practically extinct in the wild. The authors found that, on purely mechanical grounds, other materials exist that could make as good violin bows as pernambuco.

“Little did we expect that this paper would be so successful, because the topic is so unusual and quite specific,” said Wegst. “We are delighted that our niche research, which all of us enjoyed so very much, is gaining this recognition.”

An earlier article on the same theme, “Wood for sound,” pub-lished in the American Journal of Botany [U.G.K. Wegst: American Journal of Botany 93(10): 1439-1448. 2006], was the inspiration for a column by Philip Ball in Nature Materials journal’s “News and Views” section, “Material witness: virtuosi’s choice.” The “Wood for Sound” article also resulted in an invitation to write a related piece, “Bamboo and Wood in Musical Instruments,” for the 2008 edition of the Annual Review of Materials Research [38 (2008) 323-349].

The award was presented on September 1, 2008 dur-ing the DGM Day banquet in Nürnberg, Ger-many.

Dr. Stefan Oberhoff, Dr. Ulrike Wegst, Dr. Frank Heinricht, and Dr. Manfred Weller

(a) Optical micrograph of a transverse cross section of a bamboo culm. (b) Optical micrograph of the wall of the bamboo culm showing the radial distribution of vascular bundles. (c) Scanning electron micrograph of the culm wall at higher magnification. Vascular bundles, fibers, and parenchy-

ma are aligned with the longitudinal axis of the culm. The bundles have become almost totally sclerified in the tissue at the periphery. (d) Micro-graph of the vascular bundles at higher magnification. (e) Micrograph of

a transverse cross section of individual fiber cells in a fiber bundle.

A material property chart for bamboo and woods, plotting the speed of sound, c, against density, ρ, allowing two additional acoustical proper-

ties to be read from this chart. Lines of slope 1 represent the sound radiation coefficient, R = c /ρ. Lines of slope –1 represent the charac-

teristic impedance, z = c × ρ. All materials on an individual line of slope 1 or slope –1 have the same value of this property and thus radiate the same amount of sound or have the same impedance. Materials above a line have a higher value of the respective property than do those below.

Natural MaterialsBaMBoo & Wood iN Musical iNstruMeNtsMaterials In Action

Y-Carbon Inc. (www.y-carbon.us) was founded by Prof. Yury Gogotsi, former research assistant professor Dr. Gleb Yushin (now at Georgia Tech) and Ph.D. advisee, Dr. Ranjan Dash, to commercialize carbide-derived carbon (CDC) technology, which was the focus of Ranjan’s thesis as well as Ph.D. dissertations of John Chmiola, Z. Goknur Cambaz, and other students that Gogotsi advised.

“[Y-Carbon Inc.] will be able to solve a large number of en-ergy, environmental and health problems ... that don’t have a good solution at the moment,” said Prof. Gogotsi, in a July 2008 article in the Philadelphia Business Journal.

To date, Y-Carbon has licensed 10 patents from Drexel University, established headquarters at the Philadel-phia Navy Yard Keystone Innovation Zone, and received funding from the NanoTechnology Institute (NTI), Penn-sylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center, and BAE Systems. Y-Carbon started paying royalties within six months of licensing the patents from Drexel, and has relocated to the Arkema Facility in King of Prussia.

Y-Carbon’s technology allows the production of nanoporous carbon of uniform and controlled pore size. By varying different precursor and processing parameters, pore size can be tuned between 0.5 and 2.2 nm with 0.1

nm or better precision. The technology also allows porous car-bon of pores up to 30 nm. CDC can be produced in large quanti-ties and at a low cost, successfully competing with activated car-bons and other porous materials used in current technologies.

Y-Carbon’s current focus is on the application of CDC tech-nology in supercapacitors, rechargeable devices for storing electrical energy. Supercapacitors can charge and discharge much faster than a battery, are able to operate at a wider range of temperatures, and have longer life cycles (up to 1,000,000 cycles). Some known applications for supercapacitors include cell phones, VCRs, CD/DVD players, security systems, back-up power storage, and power boosters for hybrid/electric vehicles. Recent applications of supercapacitors include the largest pas-senger aircraft in the world, Airbus 380, specifically the emer-gency door mechanism, and wind turbines to adjust the blade angles for optimal performance. Their wide use in a variety of

other electrical energy storage and harvesting applications is expected in the near future.

Other possible applications of Y-Carbon’s technology include blood filtration, for the treatment of acet-aminophen poisoning, liver failure, and sepsis; water purification and desalination; and storage of gases such as methane and hydrogen.

A small button cell supercapicator, which is just 1.6 mm in height and stores 5 F. It operates at 2.7 V. (Photo courtesy

of Y-Carbon, US, www.y-carbon.us.)

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Spanier Receives Presidential Early Career Award for

Scientists and EngineersProfessor Jonathan Spanier was honored at a White

House ceremony with President Bush in November 2007 as one of 58 researchers to receive a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE is the nation’s highest honor for professionals at the outset of their independent research careers. Span-ier is the first assistant professor at Drexel to be selected for this recognition since the inception of the program in 1996 under President Clinton.

Nine federal departments and agencies annually nominate beginning scientists and engineers whose work shows exceptional promise for leadership at the fron-tiers of scientific knowledge. PECASE awardees receive funding for up to five years to further their research in support of critical government missions. As part of his PECASE, Spanier will receive $1 million over five years.

According to John H. Marburger III, Director of the Office of Science & Technology Policy, “Selection for this award is based on the combination of innovative

research at the frontiers of science and technology and community service demonstrated through scientific leadership and community outreach.” Nominated by the Department of Defense, Spanier is cited for “inno-vative research in materials science and engineering to improve synthesis strategies to produce novel and ad-vanced hybrid nanostructures with specific properties and multifunctional capabilities.” He is also cited “for his exceptional teaching of graduate and undergraduate stu-dents from diverse backgrounds.”

Spanier received a B.A. from Drew University in 1990 and a Ph.D. with Distinction from Columbia University in 2001. Prior to joining the College of Engineering in 2003, Spanier held a postdoctoral position at Harvard Univer-sity.

Gogotsi Named Fellow of the Electrochemical Society

Professor Yury Gogotsi has been named a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society in rec-ognition of his scientific achieve-ments and service to the society.

Gogotsi is being recognized for “development of new nano-structured carbon materials with tunable structure and proper-ties, which advanced the area of electrochemical capacitors, and major contributions to understanding high-temperature corrosion of nonoxide

ceramics.” His nomination was supported by three divisions within the society: High Tem-perature Materials, Fullerenes/Nanotubes, and Batteries.

New Fellows were recog-nized at the Plenary Session of

the Electrochemical Society’s 214th Meeting in Honolu-lu, HI on Monday, October 13, 2008.

Kalidindi Appointed Co-Editor-in-Chief of Computers,

Materials & ContinuaDr. Surya Kalidindi has been

appointed Co-Editor-in-Chief of Computers, Materials & Con-tinua (CMC), an international journal publishing original re-search papers in the areas of computational materials science

and engineering, at various length scales (quan-tum, nano, micro, meso, macro) and var-ious time scales (picoseconds to hours). Kalidindi is one of four editors-in-chief. CMC is published in 2 volumes and 6 is-sues per year by Tech Science Press.

Knight Receives Drexel University Myers Award for

Distinguished ServiceAuxiliary professor Richard Knight is the 2007-2008

recipient of the Drexel University Harold M. Myers Award for Distinguished Service. This is the highest service award at Drexel presented to a faculty or staff member of the Drex-el community who has gone above and beyond their posi-tion in service to the university community.

Rick was recognized by colleagues and students as an

integral member of department, college, and university life in the area of service. He was particularly cited for his position as the Department of Materials Science and Engineering Chemical Hygiene Officer, his work in help-ing to transition the Centralized Research Facility from a departmental to a college and university facility, and his role as faculty advisor to student groups.

The previous departmental recipient of the Myers Award, academic and financial coordinator Judy Tracht-

man, received the award in 2002.

The award, consisting of a certificate of recognition and $2000, was presented at a Faculty Recognition Din-ner on Wednesday, June 4 in Behrakis Grand Hall.

Drexel MSE Number One in the Nation in NSF Graduate

Fellowships in MaterialsThree materials science and engineering students

have received federal fellowships.

BS/MS student Holly McIlwee (advisor: Caroline Schauer), Ph.D. student in MEM and former MS student in MSE Alex Moseson (advisor: Michel Barsoum), and Ph.D. student Stephen Niezgoda (ad-visor: Surya Kalidindi) are re-cipients of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP). In ad-dition, Niezgoda is the recipi-ent of a Department of Defense National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate fel-lowship (NDSEG). Department of Chemical and Biologi-cal Engineering Ph.D. student Amy Peterson is the fourth recipient of the NSF GRFP at Drexel.

Honorable mention for the NSF GRFP went to MSE Ph.D. student Christopher Hobson (advisor: Yury Gogot-si) and MSE B.S. student and Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. student Jameson De-tweiler.

The NSF GRFP is a prestigious and highly competi-tive fellowship which provides three years of support for graduate study leading to research-based master’s or doctoral degrees. McIlwee, Moseson, and Niezgoda are three of only 30 materials students who received the fellowship nationwide. With three recipients, our de-partment represents the largest number of awardees in materials for students receiving their B.S. at a particular institution.

These three students now make a total of six stu-dents from the Department of Materials Science and En-gineering at Drexel University to receive the NSF fellow-ships. Past recipients include Ph.D. students Kris Behler,

for a complete list of awards, visit www.materials.drexel.edu/ar/awards

&aWaRDS acHIEVEMENTS

Dr. Jonathan Spanier (2nd from left) receiving the PECASE award from Dr. John H. Marburger III (Director of the Office of Science & Technol-

ogy), Dr. Alan Shaffer (Principal Deputy Director, Defense Research and Engineering), and Dr. William Rees, Jr. (Undersecretary of Defense)

(from left to right)

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Siddhartha Pathak’s Image Wins Second Prize in MRS

“Science as Art” CompetitionPh.D. student Siddhartha Pathak’s (advisors: Surya

Kalidindi and Haviva Goldman) image entitled “Growth Steps on La0.8Ca0.2CoO3,” has won second prize in the “Sci-ence as Art” competition at the 2007 MRS Fall Meeting. One of an initial 50 finalists, Pathak’s image was chosen from among 200 to compete at the annual meeting in Boston, MA for multiple first prizes of $500 and second prizes of $300 each.

This work was done at the High Temperature Materi-als Laboratory (HTML) at Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) under the SURA (Southeastern Universities Research As-sociation)/ORNL Summer 2005 Program in Materials Re-search.

This image has previously been selected as the Grand Prize Winner of the 50th International Conference on Electron, Ion and Photon Beam Technology Nanofab-rication Bizarre/Beautiful Micrograph Contest.

B.S./Ph.D. Student Jameson Detweiler Sweeps Senior Design and Business Plan Competitions

B.S. (MSE)/Ph.D. (CAEE) student Jameson Detwei-ler came in first in both the College of Engineering Se-nior Design Competition and LeBow College of Business Baiada Center for Entrepreneurship in Technology 2008 Business Plan Competition, along with B.S. student Eric Eisele (advisor: Michel Barsoum). Ph.D. students Marko Knezevic and Siddhartha Pathak (both advised by Surya

Kalidindi) came in third in the Business Plan Competition. Both competitions were held on June 4, 2008.

Detweiler’s winning senior design team project, “Composite Solar Lighting – A Fiber-Optic LED Daylight-ing Solution,” is part of the Drexel Smart House initiative. Other members of the senior design team include Thad-deus Konicki, James McCann, and Luke McCrone, all from the Department of Electrical & Com-puter Engineering (ECE). MSE junior Eisele contributed design work to this project. Professors Caroline Schauer (MSE) and Adam Fontecchio (ECE) served as advisors to this senior design team. There were 121 senior design teams and, ulti-mately, six were chosen to compete in the final College of Engineering competition.

“Summalux Technologies,” Detweiler’s and co-team member Eisele’s winning entry in the Business Plan Com-petition, will receive $12,000 in seed funding and $40,800 in in-kind support. To learn more about the Drexel Smart House project, visit www.drexelsmarthouse.com.

Chmiola and Gogotsi’s Work on Supercapacitors Featured

as an NSF DiscoveryThe groundbreaking work on supercapacitors by

Ph.D. student, NSF Fellow, and former IGERT Fellow John Chmiola and MSE Professor Yury Gogotsi has been featured in the “Discoveries” section of the Na-tional Science Foundation (NSF) Web site.

The article details the energy saving importance of supercapacitors and the novel applications Chmiola and Gogotsi are currently pursuing.

The Discoveries section of the NSF Web site fea-tures recent innovations and breakthroughs in science, engineering, technology, and education research cur-rently or formerly funded by the NSF.

María Pía Rossi, and John Chmiola (all advised by Prof. Yury Gogotsi).

Holly McIlwee ’08While at Drexel University, Holly has worked in the

Natural Polymers and Photonics Laboratory under the direction of Professor Caro-line Schauer. Her research involves creating novel sen-sors while incorporating thin films of biopolymer, chitosan, and gold nanoparticles to attract and detect the pres-ence of toxic metal ions, such as mercury or lead in water. Post-graduation, Holly was funded by NSF-International Research and Education in

Engineering (IREE) to conduct research in France and will pursue her Ph.D. in Bioengineering at Harvard University.

alexander Moseson ‘07Alex is working toward his doctorate in MEM with

research in MSE under the direction of Professor Mi-chel Barsoum. Alex was inspired by the technology used

by the ancient Egyptians to cast parts of the pyramids in place, which has led him to work towards develop-ing alternative concrete. The concrete will be affordable, easy to make, and produces little CO2, which will benefit developing communities. As an undergraduate, Alex was a member of 8 To The Bar, Drexel’s all male a capella

group, and Campus Crusade For Christ. Alex is a found-ing member and former president of the Drexel chapter for Engineers Without Borders (EWB).

Stephen Niezgoda ‘06Stephen is a member of the Mechanics of Micro-

structures Group (MMG), led by Professor Surya Kalidin-di. The MMG approach considers micro-scale structure in the development of new materials for particular ap-plications. Stephen’s mathematical analysis of micro-

structure will take much of the guesswork out of mate-rial design. Stephen’s practical experience as an aircraft mechanic taught him how to analyze and solve problems and inspired him to learn more. Now, as a Ph.D. stu-dent, he is able to address the “why” questions. Stephen has published two papers in peer-reviewed journals, and has more in production. He is involved with several vol-unteer activities, including tutoring and mentoring un-dergraduate students, and designing and running a hands-on demonstration for the ASM Materials Camp. He plans to graduate in 2009 with his doctorate in MSE. Stephen has been funded by the NSF IGERT program for the past two years.

Marko Knezevic Receives Nicolitch Scholarship from

Studenica FoundationPh.D. candidate Marko Knezevic (advisor: Surya Ka-

lidindi) has received the $5,000 Dragomir Nicolitch Char-itable Trust Scholarship from the Studenica Foundation to support him in the 2007-2008 academic year.

The Dragomir Nicolitch Scholarship Fund was estab-lished in part to provide basic support to students of Ser-bian background from any of the states that made up the former Yugoslav nation for graduate study at an institu-tion of higher learning in the United States of America.

Previous Drexel recipi-ents of the award include

former Ph.D. students Svetlana Dimovski (advisor: Yury Gogotsi), Milan Ivosevic (advisors: Richard Knight and Richard Cairncross), and Dejan Stojakovic (advisor: Surya Kalidindi).

The Drexel Smart House, a 4,500 square foot duplex, is located on the corner of

35th and Race Streets

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Drexel-France Collaboration Produces Groundbreaking Results on Supercapacitors

The efficient use of electrical energy generated from low-emission or renewable sources such as solar, wind or moving equipment is often limited by inade-quate batteries having a short lifetime. As an article in the January 2008 issue of The Economist points out, capacitive energy storage devices, so-called superca-pacitors or ultracapacitors, are beginning to supplant, rather than just supplement batteries in applications that have grown tired of the long and expensive search for the better battery. The growing popularity of su-percapacitors in hybrid electric vehicles, home appli-ances and back-up power sources is due to a number of desirable properties in-cluding: an order of mag-nitude higher power than batteries, short charging times, and maybe most im-portantly, nearly infinite cycle life – far longer than the devices they are power-ing. Work continues, how-ever, to increase the energy stored in supercapacitors.

A group of researchers led by Prof. Yury Gogotsi from Drexel University and Prof. Patrice Simon from the Université Paul Sabatier in France recently published two articles in the Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition, that raise the bar for energy storage in supercapacitors and point to new avenues for further energy increases.

In a supercapacitor, energy is stored via the electro-static adsorption of ions into a charged porous carbon electrode. The energy of the devices increases with the square of the operating voltage of the supercapacitor

and linearly with capacitance.

In the work published in the Journal of the Ameri-can Chemical Society, a solvent-free ionic liquid was investigated as the electrolyte and a series of nanopo-rous carbons with average pore size tuned to be small-er than 1 nm was used as the electrodes. Ionic liquids offer the possibility to work with a higher voltage than traditional electrolytes (it means, higher energy) and at much higher temperature, for example, in the en-gine compartment of a car. This work showed that by decreasing the pore size of the carbon electrode to the electrolyte ion size, it is possible to double the amount of energy stored as compared to the state-of-the art for ionic liquid supercapacitors. It means that, for ex-ample, electric cars using such supercapacitors can go

further on a single charge.

Work published in An-gewandte Chemie Inter-national Edition highlights fundamental misunder-standings in describing double layer capacitance. By controlling the pore size of the electrode precisely between ~0.5 – 1 nm and studying the behavior of the cations and anions of a typical supercapacitor electrolyte, tetraethylam-monium tetrafluoroborate in acetonitrile, individually, unexpected correlations

between pore size and performance were obtained. Decreasing the pore size was expected to decrease the ion accessibility and, hence, energy storage capac-ity of the supercapacitors. In reality, as the pore size was decreased, the capacity increased. More experi-ments are needed to precisely understand this anoma-lous mechanism, but the results speak for themselves. Small pores are not the enemy in designing high en-ergy supercapacitors.

Thus, careful design of the carbon pore size and understanding the atomistic mechanisms of capaci-tance can potentially lead to tremendous improve-ment in the performance of electrical double-layer ca-pacitors and their wide use in a variety of applications ranging from public transportation (trains and buses) to electric cars, home appliances, and even toys and flashlights. The development of this technology was supported in part by the US Department of Energy and is being currently commercialized by Drexel spin-off company Y-Carbon.

Schauer Awarded NSF-GOALI Grant

Professor Caroline Schauer has been awarded an NSF-GOALI grant in the amount of $293,786 in a part-nership with Avon. The three year award, GOALI: Mechan-ically Robust Structural Color System Based on Biomimetic Principles, will work to de-velop a mechanically robust color system based on the structural mechanisms which

give butterfly wings and beetle shells such intense color. The research ap-proach combines thin film model-ing to design a range of biomimetic structures with laboratory created analogs of single and multilayered

thin films. If successful, this proposed work advances the knowledge of structural coloration and the me-chanical properties of such materials, which are typi-cally mechanically weak in nature.

Schauer serves as the PI and Steve Carlo serves as the Co-PI for Avon. The National Science Foundation’s Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Indus-try (GOALI) program provides funding for university-industry partnerships.

Li Awarded NSF GrantProfessor Christopher Li is the recipient of a $300K

three-year grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research. The grant is entitled “Carbon Nanotube Induced Polymer Crystallization, Structure and Morphology.”

Professor Li and his lab recently discovered that polymer single crystals could grow on carbon nano-tubes (CNT) in a controllable manner. Since polymers can be easily end-functionalized, this discovery immedi-ately leads to a unique CNT functionalization technique which is different from all existing methods. The hybrid structure generated, called nano hybrid shish kebabs (NHSK), possesses much higher specific surface area compared to that of pristine CNTs. This could facilitate using CNTs in sensor and catalysis support applications.

Spanier Leads Grant to Acquire New Instrument

Dr. Jonathan E. Spanier, Assistant Professor of Ma-terials Science & Engineering (PI) received a $498,073 award from the NSF Division of Materials Research un-der the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program entitled “MRI: Acquisition of Systems for the Integration of Raman Scattering, Luminescence and Scanning Electron Mi-croscopies.” Drs. Caroline L. Schauer (MSE), Yury Gogotsi (MSE), Zhorro Nikolov (CoE), and Elisabeth S. Papazoglou (BIOMED) are Co-PIs on this award. The award will support the acquisition of a metrology and nano-fabrication system that will inte-grate scanning electron imaging and focused-ion beam processing with local optical excitation, emission, and scattering spectroscopies within a single experimental platform. The FIB/SEM instrument has been procured and will be installed in the College of Engineering’s Cen-tralized Research Facility (CRF).

major research initiatives & activities

for a complete list of grants visit www.materials.drexel.edu/ar/grants

Geometric confinement of ions in extremely small pores. Both anions and cations enter the pores with no solvent-molecule

screening charge at pore sizes below 1.5 and 1 nm, respectively. Therefore, it can be asserted that, in the experiments, the ions

enter the pores either bare or with partial solvent shells(TEA+ = tetraethylammonium, AN = acetonitrile).


celebraTing The career oF

Dr. roger DoherTyAlumni/ae, friends, family, colleagues, and distinguished guests gathered over Drexel’s Blue and Gold Days to wish

Department of Materials Science and Engineering A. W. Grosvenor Professor Roger Doherty well as he moves towards his retirement.

A dinner and department fundraiser in Roger’s honor was held on Friday, May 2nd, 2008 in the Bossone Research Enterprise Center Atrium to coincide with Drexel’s alumni weekend. Over $10,560 was raised to support the Depart-ment of Materials Science and Engineering Endowment Fund. The Endowment, launched in 2003 in honor of Professor Alan Lawley’s retirement, was established to help recruit and retain high quality materials students and faculty. Alcoa, one of Roger’s long-time industry collaborators, sponsored a table at the event.

The department also celebrated the accomplishments of alumni, faculty, staff, and students with its Distinguished Alumnus Award and departmental awards. The 2008 Department of Materials Science and Engineering Distinguished Alumnus Award went to Professor David E. Laughlin (B.S., ‘69). Distinguished Professor Michel Barsoum received the 2008 Outstanding Research Award (7). The 2008 Outstanding Teaching Award went to Professor Caroline Schauer. For exceptional service, the 2008 Outstanding Service Award was given to Interim Department Head and Professor Anto-nios Zavaliangos (3). Keiko Nakazawa was a recipient of the 2008 Outstanding Staff Award (8). The 2008 Outstanding Graduate Student Award was awarded to Dianne Rothstein (4, advisor: Michele Marcolongo) and the tie for the 2008 Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award went to B.S./M.S. students Holly McIlwee (advisor: Caroline Schauer) and Rahul Joseph (5, advisor: Jonathan Spanier).

Additionally, Roger presented several special guests with signed copies of his latest co-authored book, Thermo-Mechanical Processing of Metallic Materials, a textbook published by Elsevier in the Pergamon Materials Series in 2007.

Barsoum’s Paper Reaches 500

CitationsA paper by Dr. Michel Barsoum,

A.W. Grosvenor Professor of Mate-rials Science and Engineering; and Tamer El Raghy, Ph.D. ’97; has ex-ceeded 500 citations. This is the

first paper ever from the Col-lege of Engineer-ing to reach that mark. The paper, “Synthesis and characterization of a remarkable

ceramic: Ti3SiC2” appeared in the July 1996 issue of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society.

Dr. Barsoum’s h-index (a mea-sure of the impact of a scientist’s publications) has reached 34, which is also a College of Engineering re-cord. Though the various measures of publication impact may differ, it is unquestionable that Dr. Barsoum’s work on MAX phases has been pio-neering, as evidenced by the large body of relevant literature, as well as the commercial production of MAX-THAL® by Kanthal/Sandvik (www.kanthal.com; www.3one2.com).

Pertaining to another promi-nent area of Professor Barsoum’s research, he was invited to deliver a lecture entitled “The Mystery of the Great Pyramids of Egypt: The role of scientific research in arriving at a partial solution” at MIT’s annual Sig-ma Xi lecture on Wednesday, May 7, 2008.

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supporTing mseDr. Diran Apelian

ArcelorMittal

Mr. David A. Armbruster

Dr. Michel W. Barsoum

Ms. Cynthia S. Best

Boeing Philadelphia

Center for Powder Metallurgy Technology, Inc.

Central Machine Products Co.

Mr. Young Soo Chung

Mr. Roland C. Cochran

Mr. Matthew E. Coda

Mr. John F. Copeland

Mr. William Crawford

Dr. George E. Dieter, Jr.

Mrs. Nancy Russell Dieter

Dr. Roger D. Doherty

Mr. George H. Drayton

Mr. Hari Kishore Duvvuru

E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.

Dr. Mahmoud A. El-Sherif

Exponent, Inc.

Dr. Peter Finkel

Dr. John P. Foster

Mr. Eric J. Franco

General Motors Corporation

GKN Foundation

Dr. and Mrs. Yury Gogotsi

Ms. Barbara Graves

GUROK Turizm ve Madencilik A.S.

Hoeganaes Corporation

Dr. Milan Ivosevic

Dr. Natraj C. Iyer

Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research &

Development, L.L.C

Mr. Rahul Sabu Joseph

Dr. Surya Kalidindi

Kensey Nash Corporation

Professor Jack Keverian

Mr. Marko Knezevic

Ms. Pamela J. Knight

Mr. K. Sharvan Kumar

Dr. Hoa L. Lam

Dr. Alan C. W. Lau

Dr. Alan Lawley

Dr. Christopher Y. Li

Ms. Poey Koon Lim

Mr. Donald R. Lundy

Dr. Hongyu Luo

Dr. Michele Marcolongo

Materials Strategies

Mr. Michael J. Micklus

Mr. and Mrs. Diego F. Luzuriaga

Prof. Eugene P. Munday III

Mrs. Harriet S. Nash

Dr. Samuel K. Nash

Dr. Carl T. Necker

Dr. Yu-Hsun Nien

Dr. Zhorro Nikolov

Dr. Frank L. Nowicke, Jr.

Mr. Michael J. Pechulis

Mrs. Annette C. Pennoni

Mr. C. R. Pennoni

Dr. Athina P. Petropulu

Dr. Gwenaelle Proust

Dr. Harry C. Rogers, Jr.

Dr. Anthony D. Rollett

Dr. Caroline L. Schauer

Mr. Ernest L. Schwenk

Dr. Eugene Shapiro

Mrs. Janice Marquart Shapiro

Dr. Wan Y. Shih

Dr. Johnathan Spainer

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Dr. Mitra L. Taheri

Dr. Jonathan David Thomas

Mrs. Judith L. Trachtman

Mr. Chris Vargas

Mr. David J. VonRohr

Dr. Ulrike Wegst

Mr. J. Richard Yourtee

Dr. Antonios Zavaliangos

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• Departmental endowment fund (faculty development and graduate fellowships)

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If you have donated to MSE in FY 2008 and are not listed here, we apologize for the oversight.Please contact us if you wish to be recognized in future publications.

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5: Coccolith (A. Sakulich)

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8: Carbon nanoworm (P. Reddington)

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