BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Memento EPFL// BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Designing new materials and sensors by controlling nanoscale geome try DTSTART:20140929T131500 DTEND:20140929T141500 DTSTAMP:20261005T113035Z UID:9a2496996cfb5539ad33b313a1e69347a4435dd3648d291664feec8e CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars DESCRIPTION:Prof. Chiara Daraio\, ETH Zürich\, Department of Mechanical a nd Process Engineering\, Switzerland\nAbstract: We study the fundamental m echanical and electrical responses of macroscopic assemblies of nano- and micro-structures\, and we exploit this understanding to create experimenta lly novel materials and devices at different scales (for example\, for app lication in thermal distance sensing\, energy absorption and vibration mit igation). We design new materials controlling the nanoscale geometry durin g synthesis and fabrication processes. Different geometrical structures\, used as fundamental building blocks\, lead to different bulk material resp onse that present "extreme" properties\, not reported before in other natu ral or man-made materials. This talk will focus on the use of carbon nanot ubes as fundamental building blocks for novel thermal sensors and as suppe r-efficient energy absorbing foams (see image enclosed). It will also disc uss recent results in the dynamic characterization of 3-D micro-lattice ma terials for vibration absorption.\nReferences: Prof. Daraio's publications can be found at www.mechmat.ethz.ch (Most of the topics that will be discussed during the seminar have not yet been pub lished).\nBio: Professor Daraio research interests reside at the interface of materials science\, condensed matter physics and solid mechanics\, par ticularly in the design\, development and testing of multi-scale metamater ials and phononic crystals. Prof. Daraio received a Mechanical Engineering degree from the Universita' Politecnica delle Marche\, Italy (2001). She received her M.S. (2003) and Ph.D. (2006) degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California\, San Diego. She joined the California Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor 2006 and was promoted full professor in 2010. In 2013\, she joined the department of M echanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zürich\, as a chair in Mechanics and Materials. She has been a guest researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley N ational Laboratories (NCEM)\, a visiting research physicist at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography (San Diego) and won several awards. Among these \, she received a Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE) from the White House\, was elected as a Sloan Research Fellow and received an ONR Young I nvestigator Award. Her work was featured in the John F. Kennedy Presidenti al Library and Museum in Boston and it has been highlighted in numerous br oad media channels (CNN\, NBC\, Discovery Channel\, NPR\, etc.). She was a lso selected as one of the "Brilliant 10" by Popular Science magazine\, wo n an NSF CAREER award and the Richard Von Mises Prize. LOCATION:MXF 1 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==MXF%201 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR