Life Science

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 Join us for a series of lectures featuring materials sciences expert Prof. Rigoberto Advincula of Case Western Reserve University! Our new series with Prof. Advincula aims to a beginner's friendly first foray into a new materials science field each month. By exploring the basics and fundamental science of each featured field, we hope to expand your appreciation for the research and engineering helping us craft the world of tomorrow by improving the one we live in today.

Our next entry in this series is focused on paints and coatings. Paints have a history nearly as long as humanity's. Modern paints are typically made of pigment, resin, solvent, and additives and are applied to a substrate (like a wall) and convert to a solid film upon drying. Paint and the coatings that we apply to protect them are a major contributor to the US economy and projected to have a value of around $30 billion by 2019.

Join us as Prof. Advincula surveys the field of paints and coatings research and development and gives us a tour on how we work with these materials today, characterize their properties, and usher in next-generation technologies via the latest techniques in chemical, electrical, materials, and mechanical engineering.

About the Beidaghi Lab at Auburn University

Prof. Rigoberto Advincula, Director of the Petro Case Consortium, is recognized industry-wide as an expert regarding polymer and materials challenges of the oil-gas industry. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University and is the recipient of numerous awards including Fellow of the American Chemical Society, Herman Mark Scholar Award of the Polymer Division, and Humboldt Fellow.

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Thursday, July 6, 2017

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Join us for a webinar to learn about one of the cutting-edge applications of nanoscientific research:

 The applications staff of Park Systems is proud to present an introduction to Piezoelectric Force Microscopy (PFM), a characterization technique derived from Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) that utilizes the piezoelectric effect of materials to generate contrast.

From the day that AFM was introduced to the contemporary research frontier, new modes, and applications have emerged with unprecdented speed, allowing this veratile tool to look into ever-increasing aspects of local material properties at nanoscale. PFM is one such novel mode which has gained recognition for the unique information it can offer on the electromechanical coupling characteristics of various ferroelectric, piezoelectric, polymer, and biological materials.

Join us as Dr. Christina Newcomb, Applications Scientist here at Park Systems, explains the basics of PFM, common uses of the technique, and even a breakdown of an actual PFM study on the properties of multilayer ceramic capacitors.

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Thursday, May 18, 2017

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