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Throughout his tenure as UC Berkeley chancellor, Robert Birgeneau has sustained a research interest in new materials, maintaining labs both on campus and at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Upon his recent receipt of the Shull Prize from the Neutron Scattering Society of America, Birgeneau reflected on the role research has played in his life at Berkeley.
Tag: material science
Theorem unifies superfluids and other weird materials
June 8, 2012:
UC Berkeley physicists Hitoshi Murayama and Haruki Watanabe have proved that counting the number of Nambu-Goldstone bosons in a material reveals the material’s behavior at low temperatures, unifying the description of weird materials such as superfluids, magnets and Bose-Einstein condensates, and allowing the design of new materials with spooky properties.
Metallic glass: The strongest, toughest material yet?
March 17, 2011:
Robert Ritchie, a professor and scientist at UC Berkeley and at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is highlighted in a CBS Interactive SmartPlanet.com video about his work developing and testing metallic glass. He and his students strive to create structural materials that are resistant to fracture, yet strong.
