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2012-2013 |
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Plasmonics with "nano-hockey sticks" David Rossouw and Gianluigi Botton observe the lowest excitation modes at the highest spatial resolution ever reported in plasmonic nanomaterials using electron energy loss spectroscopy. The MSE team used the high resolution electron microscopes at the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy (http://ccem.mcmaster.ca ) to measure the spatial distribution of excitation modes in plasmonic waveguides and observe new phenomena of light propagation in Ag nanostructures around sharp bends and kinks. This publication (http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v110/i6/e066801) appeared in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters this week. Very appropriately for Canada, some of the nanostructures used to demonstrate these effects have the shape of ice hockey sticks! |
| Y. Su and I. Zhitomirsky published their paper on “Electrophoretic assembly of organic molecule and composites for electrochemical supercapacitors” in the Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 392 (2013) 247-255. | |
| Xiang Wang, Hatem S. Zurob, Guang Xu, Qibin Ye, Olivier Bouaziz & David Embury published their paper “Influence of Microstructural Length Scale on the Strength and Annealing Behavior of Pearlite, Bainite, and Martensite” in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 44, (2013), 1454-1461. | |
| Dr. Purdy has been named one of the 125 people of impact at McMaster University! To celebrate McMaster’s 125th anniversary, the McMaster Alumni Association asked you, our alumni and friends: which McMaster figure – professor, benefactor, administrator, staff member, or graduate – has made the greatest impact. To see all the details and the full list click here. Congratulations Dr. Purdy! |
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| Professor. I. Zhitomirsky and his students Y. Sun and Y. Wang published, “Dispersing agents for electrophoretic deposition of TiO2 and TiO2–carbon nanotube composites” in Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects 418 (2013) 131– 138. | |
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Using Mac's massive microscope, scientists open door to new technologies Guo-zhen Zhu and Gianluigi Botton with the Titan 80-300 Cubed. Housed within the Canadian Centre for Microscopy on the McMaster campus, the powerful microscope helped researchers develop a new way to study the structures of complex surfaces, opening the door to future discoveries in materials, energy and technology. |
| Ph.D. student Guo-zhen Zhu and Prof. G. Botton published a paper on the study of atomic and electronic structure of surfaces using TEM and EELS in the prestigious journal Nature, ranked #1 of all interdisciplinary scientific journals, with an impact factor of 36. Find the McMaster press release here. The paper can be found on the Nature website. | |
A great showing overall for McMaster Materials Science & Engineering at The World Steel Association regional champions of the Seventh Steel University Challenge We had four McMaster Materials Science & Engineering alumni and two undergrads finish in the top 10 in North America for the World Steel Association Electric Arc Furnace Online Simulator Challenge. This year’s competition attracted more than 42,000 attempts from 1,148 teams representing 37 different countries. 896 teams successfully completed the task. 1st – Kyle Cormier from Gerdau Kyle Cormier and his partner from Gerdau will be invited to compete for the title of World Champion at worldsteel in Brussels in February 2013. Leaders of the global steel industry will be present to watch the grand final as it unfolds. Also in the student side of the competition MSE Undergrads Josh Korol and Phillip Dykstra came in 4th place. Online results are here. |
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| Dr. Subramanian will give a plenary talk on “Process modeling of niobium microalloyed line pipe steels” at the 23rd International Conference on Thermo-mechanical Simulation and Processing of Steels (SimPro’12) conference that is running from 12-14 December 2012 in Ranchi, India. | |
Prof. Botton gives an invited lecture at the International Workshop on Advanced Electron Microscopy and Materials Research for the inauguration of the Electron Microscopy Centre for Dielectric Research in Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, and gives a talk at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, October 19 to 22, 2012.
Figure legend: Prof. Botton with graduate students from Xi'an Jiaotong University during a conference break |
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Dr. Jeff Hoyt, Chair of MSE has been chosen as the recipient of the 2013 TMS Electronic, Magnetic, & Photonic Materials Division Distinguished Service Award. This award recognizes an individual whose continuous service to EMPMD activities facilitated the Society’s capability to serve EMPMD members and supporting organizations. |
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| J.J. Hoyt will present an invited talk at MMM2012 – the 6th International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling, Oct. 15-19, in Singapore. Dr. Hoyt will present the research results of graduate students Jahidur Rahman and Wilson Song. | |
| B. Gault, M.P. Moody, J.M. Cairney, and S.P. Ringer have published a paper on “Atom Probe Crystallography”. It addresses new developments in the emerging area of “atom probe crystallography”, a materials characterization tool with the unique capacity to reveal both composition and crystallographic structure at the atomic scale. The paper is now out on MaterialsToday.com. | |
| L. Yang, X. Pang, G. Fox-Rabinovich, S. Veldhuis and I. Zhitomirsky published their paper “Electrophoretic Deposition of Polymer and Composite Films“, in Surface Engineering 2012 VOL 28 NO 8 585-589. This paper is published by Maney Publishing on behalf of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. | |
| Prof. Gord Irons, Director of the Steel Research Centre, will give an invited talk entitled Heat Transfer in Electric Arc Furnaces at the International Congress on the Science & Technology of Steelmaking (ICS 2012), to be held from Oct. 1-3 in Dresden, Germany. | |
| On Sept. 19, 2012, MSE's Adjunct Faculty Member Yves Brechet was appointed “Haut-commissaire à l’énergie atomique”. He’ll advise the French Government on Nuclear Energy Issues. http://www.gouvernement.fr/gouvernement/mesures-d-ordre-individuel-10 | |
| X. Li and I. Zhitomirsky's paper "Electrodeposition of Polypyrroleecarbon Nanotube Composites for Electrochemical Supercapacitors" has been published in the Journal of Power Sources. | |
| J.J. Hoyt, along with co-authors M. Asta and A. Karma, has published an invited chapter entitled "Atomistic Simulations of Solute Trapping and Solute Drag". The chapter appears in the volume "Solidification of Containerless Undercooled Melts" (Wiley-VCH) edited by D. M. Herlach and D.M. Matson. | |
| Baptiste Gault has recently co-authored the first textbook on atom probe tomography in more than a decade. It is part of the prestigious Springer Materials Science Series: read more | |
| G. Botton Receives Government Funding The interdisciplinary project In Situ Characterization of Electrochemical Processes in Lithium Ion Batteries represents a collaboration between project leader G. Goward, associate professor, chemistry and chemical biology, and G. Botton, Canada Research Chair in Electron Microscopy of Nanoscale Materials, garnering $380,650 for research infrastructure. The project will combine their respective research strengths in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and advanced microscopy to solve the problem of how to develop more stable and longer life batteries for hybrid vehicles. |
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2011 -2012 |
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Congratulations to McMaster's very own OCE Student Connections Winners! Ben Desclouds, Colin Murphy, Brycklin Wilson, Ryan Bridge and Laura Watkinson. Their Capstone project placed first at the OCE's Discovery 2012 conference, which took place on Monday, May 14th. Best University Project,
Plasma Cutting Machine |
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Congratulations to the following 2011-2012 scholarship recipients: Stephen Jones - The David Alan Reid Kay Memorial Prize |
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Congratultions and best wishes to the following students who convocated in November 2011! Materials Engineering, MASc - Sahar Arabi, Travis Casagrande, Sean Crawford, Charanya Krishnan, Ryan Phillips And Huajing Song |
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2010 -2011 |
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Ahmed Salman and Brycklin Wilson our 2010-2011 FeMET Scholars have made the October Issue of "Iron and Steel Technology" magazine. Their articles can be found here. Great news from the 2011 NACE Northern Region – Eastern Conference. Jenny Thuss won third prize for her poster and Mehdi Taheri shared first prize for his. |
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Congratulations and best wishes to the following students who will be convocating in June 2011! Materials Engineering, MASc - HANDE AKSEKI, MICHAEL JOBBA, YINGYING LI, PAWEL OKRUTNY, GEOFFREY RIVERS AND KANGMIN WU |
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| Ryan Phillips was awarded the "The David Alan Reid Kay Memorial Prize". This prize has been established in memory of David Alan Reid Kay, professor in MSE from 1969-1997, to perpetuate the spirit of service to the university and materials' community, as well as research excellence for which he was well know. Congratulations Ryan! | |
| David Rossouw has won a McMaster University School of Graduate Studies International Excellence Award. Congratulations David! | |
Damon Panahi has won a PGS D NSERC. Congratulations Damon! Mark Fraser and Andrew Scullion have both won the Alexander Graham Bell Scholarship. Congratulations to both of you! |
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| Stephen Jones has won the NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Scholarship. Congratulations on your achievement Stephen! | |
| MSE Students Awarded Four of Nine Metallurgy Scholarships Congratulations goes out to B. Desclouds, A. Salman, B. Wilson and A. Briere for winning Ferrous Metallurgy Education Today Scholarships (FeMET). Congratulations for winning these very prestigious and valuable awards. |
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Ken Coley received the Canadian Materials Chemistry Award at CMSC from the MetSoc President Dr. Nathan Stubina. |
2009 -2010 |
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| Elizabeth McNally was awarded best paper award from CMSC 2009 in the Metal Physics category for her paper entitled "The Nanostructure of Cortical Bone Using Transmission Electron Microscopy". Way to go Elizabeth! | |
| Ryan Phillips was the successful recipient of one of McMaster Internal Prestige Schoalrships. He was awarded the "Eugene Bolotkin Scholarship". | |
| Damon Panahi and Anand Senguttuvan have been awarded Stelco-McMaster Graduate Fellowships for 2009-2010. | |
| Shahrzad Vajargah and Yaohui Wang have been awarded an International Excellence Award for 2009-2010. | |
| Shirin Kaboli was selected to receive "The Dante Cosma Graduate Memorial Scholarship" for the 2009-2010 academic year. | |
| Qiuping Bian was selected to receive "The Stelco Graduate Bursary" for 2009-2010. | |
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David Rossouw was presented with "The David Alan Reid Kay Memorial Prize". This prize has been established in memory of David Alan Reid Kay, professor in MSE from 1969-1997, to perpetuate the spirit of service to the university and materials' community, as well as research excellence for which he was well know. Congratulations David! |
Congratulations and best wishes to the following students who will be convocating in June 2010! Materials Science, Ph.D. - Roque Panza-Giosa Materials Engineering, MASc - Md Jahidur Rahman Materials Science, MSc - Fumiaki Hiura, XinXin Zhao | |
| Ed McCaffery is this year’s recipient of the ‘Veronika Czerneda Award’. Ed was recognized at the Awards & Accolades. Congratulations Ed on this well deserved honor! | |
| Michael Pomeroy, Stephen Jones and Stephanie Shaw were all successful in this years OGS graduate scholarship competition. | |
| Stephanie Shaw, Kathryn Grandfield and Stephen Jones were all successful in this years NSERC graduate scholarship competition. | |
| Doug Culley made the February issue of Modern Casting magazine. He submitted an image to the 2009 Nikon Small World Photomicrography competition and it won “Image of distinction honours”. | |
| Materials professor Yves Brechet appointed Chevalier de la légion d'honneur | |
AIST - Computer Applications Best Paper Award AIST - Charles W. Briggs Best Paper Award Congratulations to the authors on these notable achievements. | |
| McMaster Engineering Society Awards and Results We are proud to announce that our technologist Doug Culley was awarded one of the MES Faculty Appreciation awards. Congratulations Doug! | |
| Dr. G. Botton Advances to Tier One Standing Dr. Botton, professor of Materials Science and Engineering, is Canada Research Chair in Electron Microscopy of Nanoscale Materials. His research involves examination of the composition, structure and bonding of nanostructured materials using advanced microscopy and spectroscopy. He was first named a Canada Research Chair in 2002. | |
Congratulations and best wishes to the following students for completing their degrees in 2009-10! Materials Science, Ph.D. - Mehdi Hosseinifar Materials Engineering, MASc - Daniel Bielby, Jackie Leung,
Jun Li,
Gideon Moses Jacob,
Han Yan,
Guozhen Zhu, Materials Science, MSc - Zhan (Maggie) Gao, Damon Panahi | |
| Dean of Engineering Elected to Royal Society of Canada David Wilkinson, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and distinguished university professor, has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. | |
| Elizabeth McNally was presented with "The David Alan Reid Kay Memorial Prize". This prize has been established in memory of David Alan Reid Kay, professor in MSE from 1969-1997, to perpetuate the spirit of service to the university and materials' community, as well as research excellence for which he was well know. Congratulations Beth! |
| Stephen Jones was awarded "The Dante Cosma Graduate Memorial Scholarship" for the 2008/2009 academic year. Congratulations Steven and best wishes for success in your graduate work. | |
| Xin Pang was awarded "The Dr. Walter Smeltzer Memorial Scholarship". This scholarship is awarded to a MSE student who is deemed to have submitted the most outstanding graduate thesis over the previous two-year period. | |
Juan Kong was awarded one of the "The Stelco Graduate Bursaries" and Kai Cui was awarded one of the "Robert John Morris Bursaries" for the 2008-2009 academic year. | |
| Congratulations to Kathryn Grandfield and Michael Pomeroy for winning CGSM Scholarships. | |
| Kathryn Grandfield was also awarded "The George and Alice Rivett Ontario Graduate Scholarship" for the 2008/2009 academic year. | |
| Congratulations to Morteza Amoorezaei for winning first prize at the annual ASM student poster session held at The University of Toronto on March 10, 2009. | |
