ram seshadri group: functional inorganic materials

Materials Department, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry  &  Materials Research Laboratory University of California Santa Barbara

Ram's CV PDF and publications PDF

our research 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. Please select the research and publications page from the menu above.

poster describing research in the group, February 2009. Click on the image for a jpg file, or, if you prefer, the high resolution PDF.

support for our work comes from the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research (Career and the UCSB MRSEC), as well as from the Department of Energy. In addition, we are supported by the American Chemical Society's Petroleum Research Fund, the UC Discovery Program, and UCSB's Solid State Lighting and Energy Center.

Ram is one of two Associate Editors for North America for the Journal of Materials Chemistry (flier). Authors (North America only) are encouraged to submit articles in the area of Inorganic Materials Chemistry to Ram via http://www.rsc.org/resource

Since August 2008, Ram is PI on the NSF-supported ConvEne IGERT Program

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