Collins Conference Room
Seminar
US Mountain Time
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***CANCELLED until further notice***
Alexandra Navrotsky (University of California, Davis)
Abstract. Freed from the tyranny of equilibrium, chemists and materials scientists are designing and making a wealth of new materials with controllable properties. These materials are often only modestly metastable and form a dense landscape of accessible structures. Using examples taken from thermodynamic studies in my group over the years, I will illustrate some qualitative principles governing the energetics of glasses, nanomaterials, oxide ceramics, zeolites and metal frameworks and commonalities among these groups of materials