Solid-State Chemistry

Benny Chan, asssistant professor of chemistry, collaborated with chemistry students Sergio Pulido '09 and Sarah Wehrhan '11 on a solid-state chemistry project involving chalcogenide materials, funded by National Starch and MUSE. The team studied the properties of frustrated materials with magnetic centers that, due to their structures, don't align in the way they are predicted and could lead to a bettter understanding of superconducting materials. The also began a fundamental study of how to synthesize solid state chalcogenide materials to apply to thermoelectrics and an experiment in making nitride nanostructures for use in nanotechnology.

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