The materials we use to make things have facilitated human progress and defined the epochs of history (e.g., stone age, bronze age, iron age, silicon age, etc.). History therefore suggests that new materials are likely to provide answers to the world's biggest problems in our present day, such as clean energy, safe drinking water, and regenerating diseased organs, to name just a few. This newsletter highlights students and faculty in the University of Notre Dame interdisciplinary Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) doctoral program who are tackling these problems through new materials.
The program has grown quickly due to a provision of doctoral fellowships and a strong interdisciplinary community, but there is still more to do. Now that the program is established, graduating its first doctoral students, and growing, the program steering committee, which I chair, is exploring a vision of what the program could look like in another 3-5 years. We are considering how the program can continue to grow sustainably while improving the diversity and sense of belonging of our students. We welcome input from all stakeholders!
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| Ryan Roeder
Steering Committee Chair and Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Bioengineering Graduate Program
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Growth of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program: Students, Courses, and Community |
Notre Dame's MSE program is growing rapidly. Now in its third year, the program has more than 35 students, and is on pace to reach the program projection of 50 students in five years. Read more.
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| Students to study water desalination, solar cells with Materials Science and Engineering Doctoral Program Fellowships |
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Faculty share their career journey with MSE program students |
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| Program Leadership Changes |
Three faculty committees preside over the MSE program. In alignment with the interdisciplinary nature of the program, each of the three committees has representation from the participating departments and programs. Read more.
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Sushrut Ghonge is a fifth-year graduate student in the department of Physics and Astronomy. His doctoral materials research focuses on superradiance and upconversion photoluminescence in semiconductor nanocrystals. Sushrut is advised by Professor Boldizsár Jankó and co-advised by Masaru Kuno.
To learn more about Sushrut, click here.
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Featured below is a sampling of the work published and presented as well as honors received by students in the MSE program during the 2021-2022 academic year.
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Xiuyu Jin, Kangling Ma, Jishnudas Chakkamalayath, Janeala Morsby, and Haifeng Gao. In Situ Photocatalyzed Polymerization to Stabilize Perovskite Nanocrystals in Protic Solvents, ACS Energy Lett. 2022, 7, 610–616. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.1c02660
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Xiuyu Jin, Quanhui Ye, Chien-Wei Wang, Ying Wu, Kangling Ma, Sihan Yu, Na Wei, and Haifeng Gao. Magnetic Nanoplatform for Covalent Protein Immobilization Based on Spy Chemistry, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. 2021, 13, 44147–44156. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c14670
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Kangling Ma, Xiuyu Jin, Weiping Gan, Chengkai Fan and Haifeng Gao. Chain-growth Click Copolymerization for Synthesis of Branched Copolymers with Tunable Branching Density, Polym. Chem. 2022, 13, 891-897. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1PY01635K
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Kangling Ma, Xiuyu Jin, Mingxin Zheng, and Haifeng Gao. Dissolution and functionalization of celluloses using 1, 2, 3-triazolium ionic liquid, Carbohydr. Polym. Techns. Appl. 2021, 2, 100109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carpta.2021.100109
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Kirill Kniazev, Ilia M. Pavlovetc, Shuang Zhang, Junyeol Kim, Robert L. Stevenson, Kyle Doudrick, and Masaru Kuno. Using infrared photothermal heterodyne imaging to characterize micro-and nanoplastics in complex environmental matrices, Environ. Sci. Technol. 2021, 55, 23, 15891–15899. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c05181
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Shuang Zhang, Kirill Kniazev, Ilia M. Pavlovetc, Shubin Zhang, Robert L. Stevenson, and Masaru Kuno. Deep image restoration for infrared photothermal heterodyne imaging, J Chem Phys. 2021 Dec 7;155(21):214202. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0071944
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Kirill Kniazev, Ilia Pavlovetc, Shuang Zhang, Junyeol Kim, Robert Stevenson, Kyle Doudrick, and Masaru K. Kuno. Infrared photothermal heterodyne imaging for micro- and nano-plastics characterization in environmental matrices, ACS Spring 2022.
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Tye Milazzo, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (pictured far left), and Angela Abarca Perez, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, were among 11 graduate students awarded summer fellowships by the H2O@ND faculty group. The Graduate Fellows Program allows Notre Dame to cultivate an integrated research community across disciplines to address water-related challenges through collaborative research.
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Walker Tuff, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, and Sushrut Ghonge, Physics and Astronomy, both received Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Awards for the 2021-2022 academic year. The honors were presented in April by The Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence and The Graduate School.
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What are the Materials students researching? |
This word cloud was generated from the MSE student research abstracts to provide a look into the interdisciplinary research of this group. The size of each term reflects how frequently it appeared.
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| Six Notre Dame faculty receive NSF early career awards |
This year, six researchers at the University of Notre Dame have received the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award for early career researchers. Since 2014, Notre Dame faculty have earned 61 of these nationally competitive awards. Read more.
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| A new 3D printing frontier: self-powered wearable devices |
When most people think of wearable devices, they think of smart watches, smart glasses, fitness trackers, even smart clothing. These devices, part of a fast-growing market, have two things in common: They all need an external power source, and they all require exacting manufacturing processes. Until now. Read more.
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| Jennifer Schaefer awarded Notre Dame’s Burns Award for outstanding mentorship of doctoral students |
Jennifer Schaefer, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, is a recipient of the James A. Burns, C.S.C., Graduate School Award — an award given to Notre Dame faculty members who have demonstrated outstanding mentorship of doctoral students. Read more.
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| Notre Dame partners with 11 universities to address national semiconductor shortage |
Notre Dame has signed a memorandum of understanding to establish the Midwest Regional Network to Address National Needs in Semiconductor and Microelectronics. The network will include 12 research universities in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio with the common goal of advancing semiconductor research, innovation and production. Read more.
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| Notre Dame Chemistry sees rise in graduate program ranking |
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