2015 – Page 3 – Materials Science & Engineering

Professor Phillip Messersmith Co-Authors Paper on Drug-Induced Tissue Regeneration by Materials Science and Engineering June 8, 2015 Professor Phillip Messersmith has co-authored groundbreaking research showing that a primitive form of tissue regeneration can be harnessed to achieve spontaneous tissue regeneration in adult mice, without the need for stem cells. The study findings were reported in Science…

Professor Digby Macdonald Awarded 2015 Olin Palladium Award of the Electrochemical Society by Materials Science and Engineering June 1, 2015 Digby Macdonald has been awarded the 2015 Olin Palladium Award of the Electrochemical Society. The award was established in 1950 and is awarded once every two years to honor “distinguished contributions of the field of…

Wu Group Study Shows Defects Can “Hulk- Up” Materials by Materials Science and Engineering May 26, 2015 As the exposure to gamma radiation transformed scientist Bruce Banner into the Hulk, exposure to alpha-particle radiation, has shown to “Hulk-Up” certain thermoelectric materials, transforming them into more powerful versions of themselves. When properly managed, a damaged thermoelectric…

Ritchie and Colleagues Publish Paper on Why Skin is Resistant to Tearing by Materials Science and Engineering May 26, 2015 A group of researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), including MSE’s Professor Robert Ritchie, and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), conducted a study showing why skin is remarkably resistant to tearing.…

Accelerating Materials Discovery With World’s Largest Database of Elastic Properties by Materials Science and Engineering May 8, 2015 A team of Berkeley Lab scientists, including MSE department’s Chair Mark Asta and Ph.D. candidate Maarten de Jong, have published the world’s largest database of the complete elastic properties of inorganic compounds. The data set is expected…

Professor Yao receives Hellman Fellowship by Materials Science and Engineering May 5, 2015 Assistant Professor Jie Yao was named a recipient of a Hellman Fellowship from the the UC Berkeley campus for 2015-16. This award was created at Berkeley in 1995 by a generous gift from the late F. Warren Hellman. The fellowship was established…

In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Victor F. Zackay by Materials Science and Engineering April 16, 2015 Professor Victor Zackay passed away on March 14, 2015, at the age of 94. Professor Zackay joined our department in 1962, and in his career he supervised over 100 graduate students. He was an Associate Dean in the College of…

UC Berkeley Student Wins Best Poster Award at MRS by Materials Science and Engineering April 8, 2015 Graduate student Shishir Pandya (adviser Lane Martin) was recognized with a Best Poster Award at the Spring 2015 Materials Research Society (MRS) meeting in San Francisco. His poster, entitled “Novel Routes to Strain Engineer Domain Structures and Properties…

Professor Minor awarded MSA Burton Medal by Materials Science and Engineering March 16, 2015 Professor Andy Minor has been named the 2015 recipient of the Burton Medal from the Microscopy Society of America (MSA). The award has been given since 1975 to recognize a scientist under the age of 40 who has made distinguished contributions…

Wu Group Discovers New 2D Semiconductor by Materials Science and Engineering February 6, 2015 Prof. Junqiao Wu’s group has discovered a new two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor, Rhenium disulfide (ReS2). Unlike molybdenum disulfide and other well studied dichalcogenides, ReS2 behaves electronically as if it were a 2D monolayer even as a 3D bulk material. This not only…