ram seshadri group: functional inorganic materials
our research at the interface of physics, chemistry, and materials science, is focused on the crystal chemistry and crystal-structure — property relations in functional inorganic materials, both bulk and nano. In addition to our traditional focus on magnetism, polar materials, and porosity, we find ourselves increasingly contributing to materials for heterogeneous catalysis and for applications in solid state lighting (semiconductors, phosphors ...) We also extensively research functional (particularly oxide) nanomaterials. A unifying theme in almost every aspect of our work is the compositional tuning of the properties of extended solids through solid solution; sometimes referred to (by us) as the game of x, as, for example, in La2-xSrxCuO4. Please select the research and publications page from the menu above to find out more.
Here is a short YouTube clip of Ram describing the general goals of the research being carried out, and why UCSB is nice (in addition to the climate and the location).
The group, Fall 2011: L to R: Ram, Dr. Maosheng Miao, Phillip Barton, Aditi Krishnapriyan, Dr. Alex Birkel, Jason Douglas (top); Zappa Kurzman, Joshua Kurzman, Stephanie Moffitt, Dr. Christina Birkel, Kimberly See, Moureen Kemei, Lauren Misch, Kristin Denault (middle); Diamond, Nathan George, Michael Gaultois, Rujirat Longloilert, Abby Goldman, Lucy Darago (bottom).
Ram's CV PDF and publications PDF
events, happenings, tutorials:ICMR Summer School (August 2012) on Inorganic Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage: Web
Summer Symposium on Chemistry and Physics of Functional Materials, Tuesday July 26th, 2011.
NSF-sponsored workshop on Materials by Design, March 17th to 19th, 2011.
Research Ethics (2 h seminar for graduate students, organized by the UCSB Office of Research): PDF
Summer School on Preparative Strategies in Solid State and Materials Chemistry: PDF and Web
UCSB Materials Colloquium April 16, 2010: Phosphors and Catalysts
Preparing figures for publications and presentations: PDF
Superconductivity talk to summer interns, June 2009: 5.6 M PDF file
Ecole Polytechnique Tutorial, January 2009 15 M PDF file
ICMR-ICMS Summer School, Bangalore, December 2008 Characterizing oxides with low cation substitution (PDF)
RET, Summer 2008: John Gonzalez and Keri Santos build levitating vehicles + PDF + movie
UCSB-MPG Workshop on Inorganic Materials for Energy Conversion, Storage and Conservation, February 2008
International Workshop on Synthesis of Functional Oxide Materials, August 2007 (Group Pic)
Nanomagnetism (PDF) tutorial talk at the ICMR-ICYS Summer School in Tsukuba, July 26, 2007.
Fall MRS 2006, Symposium QQ: Solid State Chemistry of Inorganic Materials
FestSchrift Symposium for Tony Cheetham, April 6 and 7, 2006
ICMR Summer School: Porous Materials, July 31 to August 12, 2006
ICMR Summer School: Topics in Biomaterials, August 7 to August 20, 2005
Glassmaking: Daniel Shoemaker demonstrating borate glassmaking, and Srini Thimmaiah demonstrating working with vitreous silica. This was for schoolteachers from SB county.
Magnetism, an Old Phenomena with New Suprises: Watch Ram on UC TV (YouTube). This is a nearly hour-long recording.
poster describing research in the group, February 2010. Click on the image for a larger (3MB) jpg file.
support for our work comes from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research, and from the Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences. In addition, we are supported by the UCSB Solid State Lighting and Energy Center and the Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials.
Ram is one of two Associate Editors for North America for the Journal
of Materials Chemistry (flier).
Authors are encouraged to submit articles in the area of
Inorganic Materials Chemistry, particularly Solid State Chemistry,
to Ram via
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jm
Since August 2008, Ram is PI on the NSF-supported
ConvEne IGERT Program
contact:
Ram Seshadri, ProfessorMaterials Department
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Room 3008 Materials Research Laboratory
University of California, Santa Barbara CA 93106-5121
Phone: (805) 893 6129 Fax: (805) 893 8797
email: seshadri@mrl.ucsb.edu web: http://www.mrl.ucsb.edu/~seshadri
also:
Joanne McNiePhone: (805) 893 5366 email: jmcnie@engineering.ucsb.edu
fair use policy:
Please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use. Starting from when the group was in Bangalore (1999—2002), we have made a number of resources — particularly those associated with the teaching of materials science — freely available on our website(s). Please feel free to make use of this material. However, please retain the original attributions, especially when images are re-used. Also, if you use the contents of this website in any significant way for teaching or mentoring, do drop Ram a note.