EFree sponsors weekly talks at the Geophysical Laboratory, which are also broadcast via the internet to all the broader EFree community. Pdfs from many of the presentations are archived here.
- Amol Karandikar (Carnegie) "Flash heating in diamond cells: Melting of refractory metals"
September 24, 2014 - John Badding (Penn State) "sp3 carbon nanothread from benzene"
October 15, 2014 - Kai Landskron (Lehigh) "New directions in high-pressure chemistry with periodic mesostructured materials"
October 22, 2014 - Brent Fultz (Caltech) "1) Gas adsoprtion studies, and 2) Motions of ions and molecules in crystals and on nanostructured surfaces"
October 29, 2014 - P. Craig Taylor (Colorado School of Mines) "Novel materials for renewable energy applications: EFree"
November 12, 2014 - Tim Strobel (Carnegie) "Si24: A new low-density allotrope of silicon (how high-pressure precursors are useful for novel energy materials)"
November 19, 2014 - Roald Hoffmann (Cornell) "High pressure electrides: A predictive chemical and physical theory"
December 3, 2014 - Stevce Stefanoski (Carnegie) "Inorganic open-framework materials for energy-related applications"
December 10, 2014 - Ji Hoon Shim (POSTEC) "Evolution of heavy fermion under temperature and pressure changes in heavy fermion compounds and topological Kondo insulators"
December 18, 2014 - Rajasekarakumar Vadapoo (Carnegie) "Structural and electronic properties of antimony selenide nanostructures"
January 7, 2015 - Ivan Naumov (Carnegie) "Chemical bonding forces and metallization of hydrogen"
January 21, 2015 - Guoyin Shen (HPCAT) "Studies of matter under fast compression and decompression"
January 23, 2015 - Wenge Yang (HPSynC) "High pressure nano-imaging"
January 28, 2015 - Chris Tulk (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) "An overview of high pressure activities in the Neutron Sciences Directorate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory"
February 4, 2015 - Alexander Goncharov (Carnegie) "Phonon localization by mass disorder in dense hydrogen-deuterium binary alloy"
February 6, 2015 - Reinhard Boehler (Carnegie) "Technical news for EFree"
February 11, 2015 - Vincent Crespi (Penn State) "Carbon nanothreads: Insights and ideas on next steps from theory & computation"
February 18, 2015 - Zhisheng Zhao (Carnegie) "Crossed graphene microlattice in superelastic, hard, conductive amorphous carbon"
February 27, 2015 - DuckYoung Kim (Carnegie) "Computational predictions on novel functional materials"
March 4, 2015 - Max Murialdo (Caltech) "Anomalous properties of krypton adsorption on nanostructured carbon”
March 11, 2015 - Venkat Bhadram (Carnegie) "Raman studies on functional perovskite oxides"
March 18, 2015 - Zack Geballe (Carnegie) "Heat capacity measurements at high pressure: diamond-cell design and prototypes"
April 1, 2015 - Lakshmi Krishna (Colorado School of Mines) "Group IV clathrates for renewable energy applications"
April 15, 2015 - Maria Baldini (Carnegie) "EFree synchrotron x-ray opportunities"
April 22, 2015 - Morten Nielsen (Aarhus University) "High presure cyrstallography on SrMnO3 and Bi2Te2Se"
April 29, 2015 - Chen Li (Carnegie) “Opportunities for neutron scattering techniques in EFree"
May 6, 2015 - Zhenxian Liu (Carnegie) "Synchrotron infrared facility at NSLS and NSLS-II for spectroscopic studies at extreme conditions"
May 20, 2015 - Takaki Muramatsu (Carnegie) "Development of low-temperature electrical resistivity under quasi-hydrostatic pressure"
May 27, 2015 - Tianshu Li (George Washington University) "Gaining insight into the nucleation of ice and hydrates by advanced molecular simulations"
June 3, 2015 - YongJae Lee (Yonsei University) "Novel high-pressure chemistry and application of zeolites and MOF"
June 11, 2015 - Jianju Ying (Carnegie) "Understanding superconductivity of Ba1-xKxFe2As2 (x=0-1) upon compression"
June 24, 2015 - Changyong Park (Carnegie) “Corrosion and interfacial hydration of materials in nuclear power plants with high-resolution x-ray reflectivity”
July 1, 2015 - Kadek Hemawan (Carnegie) "Atmospheric pressure microwave plasma CVD for diamond and micro carbon synthesis"
July 8, 2015 - Hanyu Liu (Carnegie) "Potentially high superconductivity in H2S and other hydrides under high pressure"
July 15, 2015 - Sergei Lobanov (Carnegie) "Marrying crystal structure predictions to experiments"
July 22, 2015 - Bianca Haberl (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) “Synthesis of novel metastable phases of Si and Ge via different methods of high pressure application”
July 29, 2015 - Steve Juhl (Penn State) "Dispersion and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy of carbon nanothreads"
September 23, 2015 - John Badding (Penn State) "MCL at Penn State"
October 7, 2015 - Shi Liu (Carnegie) "Mulitscale modeling of ferroelectrics: From mulitstate memory to next-generation solar cells"
October 14, 2015 - Konstantin Lokshin (University of Tennesssee) "Synthesis, structure, and electronic properties of low valent nickelates - analogs of superconducting cuprates"
October 22, 2015 - Yiqun Liu (Lehigh University) "Synthesis of periodict mespoprous silica with crystalline pore walls"
November 10, 2015 - Dhanya Radhakrishnan (Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research) "Brillouin scattering as a probe to study elastic properties of metal organic frameworks and second sound phenomenon in CNTs"
November 17, 2015 - Martin Rahm (Cornell) "Toward expermimental quantum chemistry, exploring a new energy partitioning and distinguishing bonds"
December 2, 2015 - Russell Hemley (Carnegie) "Discussion of EFree Review"
January 20, 2016 - Venkat Bhadram (Carnegie) "How the search for new semiconductor photocatalysts led to the discovery of an ultraincompressible metal"
February 10, 2016 - Candace Chan (Arizona State University) "New approaches for next generation battery material
March 9. 2016 - Santiago Solares (George Washington University) "Application of strains and stresses with scanning probes to manipulate nanoscale behaviors in graphene and conductive polymers"
March 16, 2016 - Tianshu Li (George Washington University) "Exploring electronic structures at the interfaces in low dimensional materials"
March 23, 2016