It’s a small(er) world – looking at materials at the atomic level
William Clark
Department of Material Science and Engineering
"It’s a small(er) world – looking at materials at the atomic level"
March 3, 2021
4-5:15 p.m.
CarmenZoom: link to be distributed via email to registered participants
Programming note: this lecture will begin with brief remarks from Executive Vice President and Provost Bruce McPheron.
Understanding the complex processes that occur inside materials means imaging them at the atomic level, and this has led to the current generation of transmission electron microscopes (TEMs). Ohio State is fortunate to have on this campus the Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis (CEMAS), the most advanced microscopy center at any university in the US. This talk will show some of the power and beauty of looking at materials at this atomic scale, with examples drawn from a lifetime of meandering around in the submicroscopic world. These cover topics as diverse as the development of improved alloys for jet engine turbine blades, to advances in the understanding of cancer. Detailed technical content will be kept to a minimum – rather the attention will be on the power and versatility of these instruments, and the beauty of the images and science they produce. As an aside we will look at the important, and underappreciated, role Ohio State has played in the development of the TEM in the United States.
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