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The LRSM, in collaboration with the Department of Ma

The monthly MRSEC-wide seminar will be held on December 21st in the Center for Soft Matter Research (4 Washington Place, Meyer building, 6th floor)

Princeton/Penn/NYU Soft Matter meetingDecember 16th @ Princeton University

'Advanced Materials: Synthesis, Characterization, and Properties'LRSM, University of Pennsylvania, 3231 Walnut St., Philadelphia PA 19104-6202All lectures are on Thursdays at 5.30 pm and are followed by pizza/refreshment

The program will address the lively field of ferroic materials. Examples include but are not limited to (anti)ferromagnets, (anti)ferroelectrics, and ferroelastics. Such materials are characterized either by long-range magnetic or dipolar orders or by a spontaneous strain deformation. In this framework, multiferroics, which display more than one ferroic property, are multifunctional materials that response to more than one external perturbation in a useful way.

This workshop will cover different aspects of the bottom-up design of electronic materials from assemblies of metal and semiconductor nanocrystals, drawing on existing expertise in organic and disordered conductors. These nanocrystalline solids combine unusual optical, electronic, magnetic and themla properties. Potential applications include photodetectors, LED, solar-cells, thermoelectric and printable electronics.