Photos from the Saint Gobain 2023 Lecture
On Dec. 1 at 4 p.m., Professor Robert J. Cava spoke to MSE students in his lecture, “Working at the Boundary Where Solid State Chemistry, Materials Physics, Mineralogy and Materials Science Meet.”
Cava is a Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry as well as Associated Faculty Member of the Materials Institute at Princeton University.
ABSTRACT: “Until recently, Solid State Chemists have often considered themselves to be the poor cousins of “real chemists,” even though they see the scientific world through chemical eyes. Also, chemists often view physicists as weirdos or otherwise as people to fear. Those things have never been the case for me, however, presumably due to my overwhelming interest in materials science and because I have been interested in both metals and rocks since my earliest days as a scientist. I have always been scientifically rich and view materials science as being the source of great fun. In this talk I will present some of the materials that we have discovered that illustrate some simple ideas in materials science. The materials are typically non-molecular solids, ranging from those displaying frustrated magnetism, to those stabilized at pressures that geologists would consider to be laughably low, to those that my colleagues in engineering are using to make qubits for quantum computers.”