Day: Wednesdays
Time: 5:00-5:50 p.m.
Location: Phelps 1417
Enrollment Code: 25304
Description:
Throughout our existence, the introduction of new materials has revolutionized our social/economic infrastructure. Metals-copper, bronze, iron, and today, aluminum and titanium-produced some of the first changes. Likewise, inorganic materials ranging from concrete to the glasses used for optical fibers have done much the same. Our life would be difficult without electronic materials: silicon and today, wide band-gap gallium nitride alloys that promise to revolutionize how we light up the world. Easily molded and blown polymers have replaced metals and glasses in many applications and now offer opportunities to replace many of the "hard" electronic materials for devices and displays. Biomolecules that form the much softer biomaterials, with complicated architectures, within our body are beginning to be produced outside of the body. Faculty researching and teaching these topics will present.
Professors: Lange (inorganic materials), Levi (metals), Safinya (biomaterials), Bazan (polymers), and Speck (electronic materials), teach a variety of interdisciplinary courses, cross-listed in different departments. It is fair to say that each is a revolutionary teacher/researcher in the respective field.
Email: flange@engineering.ucsb.edu
