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 La_2-xSr_xCuO₄. Please select the research and publications page from the menu above to find out more.

Ram's CV PDF and publications PDF

2013 ICMR Summer School on Materials in 3D: Modeling and Imaging at Multiple Length Scales: PDF Flier and Website for applications.

2013 NSF Materials Genome Initiative Workshop, February 21 and 22, 2013.

Primer and Lecture by Professor Roger Pynn of IU on neutron scattering. And here is the same Primer in Korean.

Former undergraduate intern Stephanie Moffit, now a graduate students in the Materials program at Northwestern, was profiled in the Fall 2012 issue of Convergence, the magazine of science and engineering at UCSB.

Ram speaking at the 2012 NSF IGERT annual meeting (Video) on the topic of solid state lighting.

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 Journal of Materials Chemistry has a blog that recently (2012) profiled Ram.

ICMR Summer School (August 2012) on Inorganic Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage: Posting of the PDF files of available talks.

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.

After a few great years with the Journal, Ram is no longer Associate Editor of the Journal of Materials Chemistry. Please do not send him requests of any kind associated with the JMC.

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

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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.