MSE Colloquium: Dr. John Mauro, Decoding the Glass Genome

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University

All dates for this event occur in the past.

264 MacQuigg Labs
105 W. Woodruff Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210
United States

Abstract

Glasses have played a critical role in the development of modern civilization and will continue to bring new solutions to global challenges from energy and the environment to healthcare and information/communication technology.  To meet the accelerated pace of modern technology delivery, a more sophisticated approach to the design of advanced glass chemistries must be developed to enable faster, cheaper, and better research and development of new glass compositions for future applications.  In the spirit of the U.S. Materials Genome Initiative, here I describe an approach for designing new glasses based on a mathematical optimization of composition-dependent glass property models.  The models combine known physical insights into glass composition-property relationships, together with data-driven approaches including machine learning techniques.  Using such a combination of physical and empirical modeling approaches, we seek to decode the “glass genome,” enabling the improved and accelerated design of new glassy materials, including chemically strengthened glasses.

Bio

 

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Dr. John Mauro

Dr. John C. Mauro is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University.  John earned a B.S. in Glass Engineering Science (2001), B.A. in Computer Science (2001), and Ph.D. in Glass Science (2006), all from Alfred University.  He joined Corning Incorporated in 1999 and served in multiple roles there, including Senior Research Manager of the Glass Research department.  John is the inventor or co-inventor of several new glass compositions for Corning, including Corning Gorilla® Glass products.  John joined the faculty at Penn State in 2017 and is currently a world-recognized expert in fundamental and applied glass science, statistical mechanics, computational and condensed matter physics, thermodynamics, and the topology of disordered networks.  John is the author of over 220 peer-reviewed publications and is Editor of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society.