Alexandra Navrotsky

SFI News:

The Santa Fe Institute will host a seminar, “Energy Landscapes and Emergent Phenomena in Solid State Chemistry and Materials Science,” by Alexandra Navrotsky of the University of California, Davis at 12:15 p.m., Thursday in the Collins Conference Room at SFI, 1399 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe.

Abstract. Freed from the tyranny of equilibrium, chemists and materials scientists are designing and making a wealth of new materials with controllable properties. These materials are often only modestly metastable and form a dense landscape of accessible structures.

Using examples taken from thermodynamic studies in my group over the years, I will illustrate some qualitative principles governing the energetics of glasses, nanomaterials, oxide ceramics, zeolites and metal frameworks and commonalities among these groups of materials.

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