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The Center for the Chemical Design of Materials (CDM) is a National
Science Foundation-funded interdisciplinary forum for integrated
research, education, and public engagement in the chemistry of multifunctional
materials.
The
goals of the Center are:
- to
use principles of chemical bonding to obtain a scientific understanding
of smart phenomena in solids
- to
design and prepare materials that combine multiple contraindicated
functionalities
- to
enhance the public's appreciation of chemistry as the fundamental
science driving modern innovation.
The CDM research team consists of four Chemists [Halasyamani
(U. Houston), Woodward
(Ohio State) and Seshadri
and Spaldin
(UCSB)] and two Materials Scientists [Salvador
(Carnegie Mellon) and Stemmer
(UCSB)], with expertise spanning chemical synthesis, structural
characterization, optical, magnetic and dielectric property measurement,
thin film growth and first-principles computation.
Tamar
Raviv leads the education effort, which focuses on students
and teachers in the 5th Grade; the level at which principles of
Chemical Bonding are introduced in the California standards.
NSF-CBC Review, February/March 2006, Posters
(password protected)
New tellurite materials (Presented by P. Shiv Halasyamani):
PDF
Geometric ferroelectrics (Presented by Paul A. Salvador):
PDF
Outreach (Presented by Lauren Benz):
PDF
Interfaces (Presented by Dimitri Klenov):
PDF
Multiferroics (Presented by P. M. Woodward):
PDF
For
further information please contact Nicola Spaldin at nicola@mrl.ucsb.edu
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