Day: Wednesdays
Time: 5:00-5:50 p.m.
Location: Phelps 1417
Enrollment Code: 25809
Description:
Throughout our existence, the introductions 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.
Professor Fred Lange, Materials, is a revolutionary teacher/researcher in his field.
Email: flange@engineering.ucsb.edu
