Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Cornell MS&E graduate student Ellen Keene (pictured left) was honored with a Best Poster Award at the Spring 2009 Materials Research Society (MRS) meeting. Ellen's poster was entitled The Effect of Silk Fibroin Hydrogels, Peptides, and ß-chitin on Calcium Carbonate Crystallization: A Synthetic Model for Nacre Formation.  Her research was conducted in cooperation with John S. Evans (New York University) and Lara A. Estroff. She is a member of the Estroff group.

Ellen joins a long line of MRS Poster Award winners from Cornell. Other recent winners include:

Spring 2008

Using Scanned Probe Microscopy to Probe Nanoscale Electric Field Fluctuations Showkat Yazdanian, Seppe Kuehn and John Marohn; Chemistry, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Fall 2007

Time Resolved In-Situ Diffuse X-ray Scattering Measurements of the Surface Morphology of Homoepitaxial SrTiO3 Films During Pulsed Laser Deposition. John David Ferguson 1,4 , Gokhan Arikan 2,4 , Arthur R. Woll 3 , Darren S. Dale 3 , Lena Fitting Kourkoutis 2,4 , Aram Amassian 1,4 , David A. Muller 2,4 and Joel D. Brock 2,4 ; 1 Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; 2 Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; 3 Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; 4 Cornell Center for Materials Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Porous High Temperature Ceramics Structured on Multiple Length Scales. Marleen Kamperman , Robert Weissgraeber, Andrew Burns and Ulrich Wiesner; Materials Science & Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Spring 2007

In situ Real-time Synchrotron Study of Small Molecule Organic Thin Film Growth from Hyperthermal Molecular Beams. Aram Amassian 1,3 , Sugandha Bhargava 2,3 , Arthur Woll 3 , Sukwon Hong 2 , John D Ferguson 4,3 , Aravind S Killampalli 2 , Todd W Schroeder 2 , George G Malliaras 1 and James R Engstrom 2 ; 1 Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; 2 Chemical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; 3 Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; 4 Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Fall 2004

Magnetic and Structural Characterization of Magneto-electric Epitaxial Oxide Multilayers. Rajesh Vilas Chopdekar1,2 and Yuri Suzuki2; 1School of Applied Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California.