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CCAM Graduate Student Received 2024 Microscopy & Microanalysis Student Scholar Award Huiming Guo, IRG-1 graduate student researcher in Prof. Will Bowman’s group, was recently awarded a 2024 Microscopy & Microanalysis (M&M) Student Scholar Award, for her paper entitled: “Atomic Structure and Chemistry of High-Entropy Oxide Grain Boundaries revealed by STEM Imaging, Strain Mapping, and Spectroscopy”. …Continue Reading CCAM Graduate Student Received 2024 Microscopy & Microanalysis Student Scholar Award

CCAM Graduate Student Received 2024 NSF GRFP Award Kaitlyn Dold, a second year graduate student in the Arguilla group (MRSEC SEED 2024), received the prestigious 2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Award. As part of this fellowship, Kaitlyn will continue her efforts in discovering new types of all-inorganic 1D van der Waals crystals that…Continue Reading CCAM Graduate Student Received 2024 NSF GRFP Award

CCAM Faculty Member Received WPI Presidential Medal Award We are thrilled to share that CCAM Faculty Member, Diran Apelian, received Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s (WPI) Presidential Medal Award on Friday, March 22, 2024. He was recognized for his incredible contributions to the university (provost emeritus and founding director of the Metal Processing Institute) as well as for his…Continue Reading CCAM Faculty Member Received WPI Presidential Medal Award

CCAM Investigator Elected to 2024 Class Fellow of Microscopy Society of America CCAM IRG-1 investigator Huolin Xin, Professor of Physics, has been recently elected to 2024 Class of Fellow, Microscopy Society of America (MSA), in recognition of “his original contributions to the development of AI-powered TEM, 3D imaging, and novel imaging techniques for soft and…Continue Reading CCAM Investigator Elected to 2024 Class Fellow of Microscopy Society of America

CCAM Investigator Recognized with TMS 2024 Bruce Chalmers Award On March 6, 2024, Professor Enrique J. Lavernia, CCAM IRG-1 investigator, was recognized with the 2024 Bruce Chalmers Award from the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) at the TMS 2024 Annual Meeting (March 3-7, 2024, Orlando, FL).  TMS’s award citation states: “For innovative and pioneering…Continue Reading CCAM Investigator Recognized with TMS 2024 Bruce Chalmers Award

CCAM Investigator Awarded a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Grant CCAM investigator, Stacy Copp, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, has received a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative grant and will lead a $1.85-million, four-year program to develop molecular-scale emitters for deep-tissue imaging, with collaborators Nathan Gianneschi, a chemist and materials scientist at Northwestern University, and Petko Bogdanov,…Continue Reading CCAM Investigator Awarded a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Grant

On January 23, 2024, UCI Center for Complex and Active Materials (CCAM), an NSF MRSEC, had an external scientific advisory board (ESAB) meeting at UCI.  The ESAB members attended the meeting in person and virtually via Zoom.  Prof. Xiaoqing Pan, CCAM’s Director, presented the MRSEC program overview.  Prof. Tim Rupert, IRG-1 Lead, provided updates on…Continue Reading UCI MRSEC Held ESAB Meeting to Review the Center’s Progress

Former CCAM postdoc appointed assistant professor Former CCAM IRG-1 postdoc, Dr. Xin Wang, has been newly appointed and started her position as an assistant professor in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the University of Alabama. During her postdoctoral year at UCI, she worked with CCAM faculty, Prof. Will Bowman and Prof. Julie Schoenung, focusing on…Continue Reading Former CCAM postdoc appointed assistant professor

JRF awarded for outstanding contributions to CCAM CCAM is committed to making breakthrough discoveries of new complex and active materials with novel functionalities to address urgent needs for applications in advanced manufacturing and biotechnologies and building a strong domestic workforce by training the next generation of scientists and engineers in interdisciplinary research with an emphasis…Continue Reading JRFs awarded for outstanding contributions to CCAM

A New Class of Solid Electrolytes Discovered Compositionally complex ceramics (CCCs), including high-entropy ceramics, provide a vast compositional space for new materials discovery beyond the classical doping strategy in stoichiometric compounds. Recently, researchers from UC San Diego and UC Irvine in the Center for Complex and Active Materials (CCAM) discovered a new class of compositionally…Continue Reading A New Class of Solid Electrolytes Discovered