Department of Materials Science & Engineering

	EVENTS
	May 17, 2012 Hilliard Symposium; Alumni Awards Celebration Banquet - link to schedule

	NEWS
	5/15/2012 William D. Nix , the Lee Otterson Professor Emeritus of Engineering at Stanford University, will be one of four honorary degree recipients at Commencement. More.
	5/8/2012 John Torkelson has been awarded a 2012 Charles Deering McCormick Award for teaching excellence. More.
	5/1/2012 Monica Olvera de la Cruz has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. More.
	5/1/2012 Weinberg MatSci/ ISP junior Zhibo Zhao (Huang) has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
	4/27/2012 Graduate student Julian McMorrow (Hersam and Marks) has been awarded a 2012 NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship.
	4/17/2012 Greg Olson has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. More.
	4/16/2012 Graduate students Kayla Culver and Alex Hryn (Odom) have been awarded National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships.
	3/30/2012 Graduate students Mike Geier (Hersam), Sarah Howell (Lauhon), Kyle Luck (Hersam & T. Marks), Michael Rawlings (Dunand) and Lauren Sturdy (Shull) have been awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. Graduate student Niki Mansukhani (Hersam) and alumnus Ryan Brock received honorable mention.
	2/9/2012 Samuel Stupp and Tobin Marks have been elected as members of the National Academy of Engineering. More.
	2/6/2012 Mark Hersam has been selected as a 2012 MRS Fellow.
	more news and events
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NanoLetters, April 2012 Typical arrangement (center) of charge-functionalized colloidal tetrapods in the presence of a low concentration of negatively charged nanoparticles. In the absence of nanoparticles, the tetrapods display tip-to-center bonding (top left). Upon addition of nanoparticles, they are attracted to the positively charged tips, thus binding tetrapods via one (top right), two (bottom right), or three (bottom left) pairs of tips. The aggregate structure can be controlled through variation of nanoparticle charge and concentration. These simulation results could be obtained thanks to a novel Monte Carlo algorithm. Daniel W. Sinkovits and Erik Luijten, p 1743. View the article.