2017 Van Horn Distinguished Lectures: Harder, cheaper, greener nanostructured metal coatings
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Date: 2017-11-14

2017 Van Horn Distinguished Lectures: 1

The Kent R. van Horn Lectureship is an endowed Lectureship at the Case Western Reserve University and dates from 1974. It honours Kent R. van Horn, an alum, who had a distinguished career as a metallurgist, director of research, and ultimately corporate vice-president of Alcoa. Three lectures on varied topics are to be delivered over three successive days. The 2017 lectures were delivered by Professor Christopher Schuh of MIT. 

These videos are reproduced courtesy of the Materials Science and Engineering Department of Case Western Reserve University and with the permission of Professor Schuh.

http://engineering.case.edu/emse/node/121
http://www.phase-trans.msm.cam.ac.uk

Abstract:

In Materials Science and Engineering, basic scientific principles can lead directly to new engineering products that are better, cheaper, and greener. Prof. Schuh will describe the connection between scientific thinking and engineering practice in the area of metal coatings, used on products ranging from automotive to consumer electronics. More specifically, he will address the replacement of legacy technologies, which have significant environmental drawbacks, with a new class of greener coatings. To do so requires new alloy-design science to control and thermodynamically stabilize material structure at
the nanometer-scale.