TMS2022 will feature three special symposia as part of the Frontiers of Materials Award, a competitive award given to top-performing early career professionals. As part of the award, the honoree organizes a symposium on a hot or emergent technical topic and delivers a keynote lecture during the symposium. Meet this year’s awardees and make time to hear these invited presentations during TMS2022.
Nanocarbon-based Flexible Devices: Emerging Materials and Processes
Symposium Dates: Monday, February 28, and Tuesday, March 1
Symposium Organizer and Keynote Speaker: Mostafa Bedewy, University of Pittsburgh
Keynote Presentation Title: “Direct-write of Laser Induced Graphene with Spatially Varying Properties on Polymers”
Keynote Presentation Date and Time: Monday, February 28, 10:50 a.m. PST
Location: Anaheim Convention Center, Room 260A
About the Presentation
High surface area nanocarbon electrodes for batteries, supercapacitors, and biosensors have consistently been shown to have superior performance when compared to metal electrodes. Nevertheless, major challenges hinder our ability to scalably produce nanocarbon-based electrodes with tailored morphology and surface chemistry, especially on flexible substrates. This talk focuses on a unique bottom-up approach for directly growing different types of nanocarbons on polymer films by laser irradiation. First, the talk will cover how this direct-write process, often referred to as laser-induced graphene (LIG), can be controlled to produces spatially-varying morphologies and chemical compositions, by leveraging gradients of laser fluence. Secondly, a method will be introduced to control the heteroatom doping of LIG electrodes based on controlling the atomic structure of the polymer being lased. Finally, a demonstration of these functional LIG electrodes as electrochemical biosensors will be presented for the detection of the neurotransmitter dopamine with nanomolar sensitivity.
About the Presenter
Mostafa Bedewy is an assistant professor of industrial engineering, with secondary appointments in chemical & petroleum engineering, and mechanical engineering & materials science at the University of Pittsburgh, where he leads the NanoProduct Lab (http://nanoproductlab.com). Before that, he was a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the area of bionanofabrication. In 2014, he completed his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Bedewy was selected to receive the Frontiers of Materials Award from The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) in 2022. He has also received the Outstanding Young Investigator Award from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers’ Manufacturing and Design (IISE M&D) Division in 2020, Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) in 2018, the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from the Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) in 2017, the Robert A. Meyer Award from the American Carbon Society in 2016, the Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement from the University of Michigan in 2014, and the Silver Award from the Materials Research Society (MRS) in 2013. He has published 40 journal articles, three book chapters, and 21 refereed conference papers. His research interests include laser processes, chemical vapor deposition (CVD), nanocarbon materials, nanomanufacturing and micromanufactuing, and biology-assisted manufacturing.
Data-Driven, Machine-learning Augmented Design and Novel Characterization for Nano-architectured Materials
Symposium Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Symposium Organizer and Keynote Speaker: Yu-chen Karen Chen-Wiegart, Stony Brook University/Brookhaven National Laboratory
Keynote Presentation Title: “Designing Nano-architectured Materials with a Machine-learning Augmented Framework”
Keynote Presentation Date and Time: Wednesday, March 2, 2:00 p.m. PST
Location: Anaheim Convention Center, Room 260C
About the Presentation
Design parameter space for nano-architectured materials is large and complex. Even with the guidance of simulation and theoretical computation, creating nano-architectured materials, despite being at the forefront of materials science, could suffer from the common issue of intuition-driven “trial-and-error” materials discovery. While there has been a significant increase in developing data-driven, machine-learning (ML) based methods for efficient materials design, only recently have researchers begun to integrate these approaches with advanced, high-throughput characterization tools. This talk aims to provide an overview on the latest development of this exciting direction in materials science and engineering. A use case of solid-state interfacial dealloying (SSID) creating bicontinuous nanostructures will also be presented; the example will highlight the use of ML-based models and algorithms to predict materials’ synthesibility as well as the promise to apply automated and autonomous experimental approaches at synchrotron facilities to further enhance and validate the ML models.
About the Presenter
Karen Chen-Wiegart is an assistant professor of materials science and chemical engineering at Stony Brook University. She also holds a joint appointment with the National Synchrotron Light Source – II (NSLS-II) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The Chen-Wiegart research group emphasizes applying state-of-the-art synchrotron X-ray techniques to study materials kinetics such as their morphological, structural, and chemical evolution, for functional applications. Her current interests include energy storage and conversion, nano-/meso-porous materials, molten salts, thin films and surface treatments, 3D printing/additive manufacturing, and cultural heritage.
Chen-Wiegart started her career as an undergraduate researcher at National Taiwan University, where she found passion in materials science and engineering. Her Ph.D. research at Northwestern University, funded by Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, focused on studying nanoporous metals with novel X-ray nano-tomography methods. Before joining Stony Brook University, she conducted her postdoctoral research on studying energy storage and conversion materials with X-ray microscopy at Brookhaven National Laboratory and then became a beamline scientist at the Sub-Micron Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy Beamline of NSLS-II.
Chen-Wiegart was the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2018 for her study of nano-/meso-scale bicontinuous metallic structures and a participant in two Energy Frontier Research Centers supported by the Department of Energy. She has also been partnering with industrial collaborators and is active in educational and outreach programs at Stony Brook University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and local communities.
Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion - How Organisms Accelerate Materials Degradation
Symposium Dates: On-Demand Session; Presentations Available Beginning March 14
Symposium Organizer and Keynote Speaker: Andrea Koerdt, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und Prüfung (BAM)
Keynote Presentation Title: “Methanogen Induced Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion (Mi-MIC): Environmental Condition and Parameter Have a High Impact on the Corrosion Rate and Products”
About the Presentation
Microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) is a challenge for different industry sectors/infrastructure. The role of methanogen-induced-MIC (Mi-MIC) is often underestimated, due to the low corrosion rates (CR) reported so far and the suspected non-conductive corrosion product (CP), siderite. Recently, we demonstrated that corrosive methanogens have a larger impact on MIC. This difference is the result that conventional Mi-MIC studies using static incubations. This type of incubation fails to provide environmentally relevant information on the CR and CP, in particularly for methanogens. To illustrate the importance of the environment on the MIC process, we established a Multiport-Flow-Column, to simulate the natural environment. We obtained ten times higher CR than previously published under static conditions. Furthermore, we analyzed the CP with a combination of techniques (ToF-SIMS/SEM-EDS/FIB-SEM) and found that siderite is not the sole CP of Mi-MIC. This study will expand the current understanding of MIC thus aiding the development of different mitigation strategies.
About the Presenter
Andrea Koerdt is principal investigator and coordinator of the research focus microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) at “Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung” (BAM). She received her Ph.D. from Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology where she successfully characterized mechanisms of Archaeal biofilm formation. She was awarded with the prestigious Lise-Meitner (FWF) grant during her fellowship in Austria and worked as lab manager at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria. Currently, she is guiding a team of 30 scientists on the topic of MIC in collaboration with industrial and academic partners. Her research primarily focuses on interconnecting multidisciplinary scientific branches to understand the underlying phenomenon of MIC. She is part of the AMPP task group, TG 586, for developing standards on biofilm testing for MIC and biofouling applications. She holds a long-standing membership in the German Association for General and Applied Microbiology (VAAM).
Since 2020, Koerdt has organized a global webinar series about MIC, that attracted participants from all over the world. Only recently she received funding for an outstanding grant through the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST). This COST Action financially supports network activities like, webinars, conferences, trainings, and workshops associated with MIC.
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