Congratulations to all the award winners announced at the 2nd Annual Materials Research Symposium on October 17. This year the symposium was open to all U-M graduate students engaged in materials research. Award winners will be officially recognized at the annual MSE Graduation and Awards Banquet in April.
Oral Presentations
Gold Award ($500)
Alan Olvera
Research Advisor: Ferdinand Poudeu
Title: Partial Indium Solubility Induces Chemical Stability and Colossal Thermoelectric Figure of Merit in Cu2Se
Silver Awards ($400)
Mathew Boban, Macromolecular Science and Engineering
Research Advisor: Anish Tuteja
Title: Designing Self-Healing Superhydrophobic Surfaces with Exceptional Mechanical Durability
Chengang Ji, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Advisor: L.Jay Guo
Title: Large-scale Flexible Transparent Electrodes Using High- performance Doped Silver Films
Saeed Kazemiabnavi, Mechanical Engineering
Research Advisor: Katsuyo Thornton
Title: Unveiling the Intercalation Mechanism in Core-Shell Cathode Particles for Rechargeable Lithium Batteries
Anurag Panda
Research Advisor: Stephen Forrest
Title: Fundamentals and Applications of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Semiconductors
Poster Presentations
Gold Award ($300)
William LePage, Mechanical Engineering
Research Advisors: Samantha Daly and John Shaw
Title: The Influence of Phase Transformation on Shape Memory Alloy Fatigue and Fracture
Silver Awards ($250)
Chen Li, Mechanical Engineering
Research Advisor: Kevin Pipe
Title: High thermal conductivity in electrostatically engineered polymers
Aeriel Murphy, Materials Science & Engineering
Research Advisor: John Allison
Title: The Recrystallization Behavior of Unalloyed Mg and a Mg-Al Alloy
Jill Wenderott, Materials Science & Engineering
Research Advisor: Peter Green
Title: Electronic properties at the polymer/conductor interface: effect of polymer morphology