Congratulations to all the award winners announced at the 2^nd Annual Materials Research Symposium on October 17. This year the symposium was open to all U-M graduate students engaged in materials research. Award winners will be officially recognized at the annual MSE Graduation and Awards Banquet in April.

Oral Presentations 

Gold Award ($500)

Alan Olvera

Research Advisor: Ferdinand Poudeu

Title:  Partial Indium Solubility Induces Chemical Stability and Colossal Thermoelectric Figure of Merit in Cu2Se

Silver Awards ($400)

Mathew Boban, Macromolecular Science and Engineering

Research Advisor: Anish Tuteja

Title:  Designing Self-Healing Superhydrophobic Surfaces with Exceptional Mechanical Durability

Chengang Ji, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Research Advisor: L.Jay Guo

Title:  Large-scale Flexible Transparent Electrodes Using High- performance Doped Silver Films

Saeed Kazemiabnavi, Mechanical Engineering

Research Advisor: Katsuyo Thornton

Title:  Unveiling the Intercalation Mechanism in Core-Shell Cathode Particles for Rechargeable Lithium Batteries

Anurag Panda

Research Advisor: Stephen Forrest

Title:  Fundamentals and Applications of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Semiconductors

Poster Presentations

Gold Award ($300)

William LePage, Mechanical Engineering

Research Advisors: Samantha Daly and John Shaw

Title:  The Influence of Phase Transformation on Shape Memory Alloy Fatigue and Fracture

Silver Awards ($250)

Chen Li, Mechanical Engineering

Research Advisor: Kevin Pipe

Title: High thermal conductivity in electrostatically engineered polymers

Aeriel Murphy, Materials Science & Engineering

Research Advisor: John Allison

Title: The Recrystallization Behavior of Unalloyed Mg and a Mg-Al Alloy

Jill Wenderott, Materials Science & Engineering

Research Advisor: Peter Green

Title: Electronic properties at the polymer/conductor interface: effect of polymer morphology