Noyce Conference Room
Seminar
US Mountain Time
Our campus is closed to the public for this event.
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