Ram Seshadri Group at UC Santa Barbara

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ram seshadri group: functional inorganic materials

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

The group in February 2009.
standing: Ram, Daniel Shoemaker, Jennifer Drewes, Rashi Singh, Madeleine Grossman, Brent Melot
Dr. Won Bin Im, Dr. Serena Corr
panting: Zappa; sitting: Joshua Kurzman; missing: Brian Paden.

Ram's CV PDF and publications PDF

events, happenings, tutorials:

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.

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 are encouraged to submit articles in the area of Inorganic Materials Chemistry to Ram via http://www.rsc.org/resource