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SUMMARY:Theodosios Famprikis - 'One man’s mess\, another man’s materia
 l: Exploiting disorder in materials chemistry'
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260707T170000
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DESCRIPTION:Materials are matter with a purpose\; that is a set of propert
 ies that make them useful\, functional and purposeful. The properties of a
 ny given material derive from the arrangement and identity of atoms that m
 ake it up (structure)\, and the business of materials chemistry is to unde
 rstand these structure-property interrelationships and leverage them to de
 sign and synthesise new\, ever better materials. \n\n​This paradigm has 
 been fruitful for over 100 years\, underpinning technology development suc
 h as electronics\, batteries\, plastics\, medical implants etc. But it has
  a glaring blind spot: like people\, no material is perfect\, and structur
 al imperfections can critically modulate properties (positively or negativ
 ely). \n\n​In July's Balliol Online Lecture\, Theodosios Famprikis will 
 explore the conceptual advance from tidy\, symmetric\, ideal materials to 
 messy\, disordered and real materials\, providing examples of how said dis
 order can be a feature\, not a bug\, enabling improvement and control over
  materials properties.\n\nTheodosios Famprikis is originally from Thessalo
 niki\, Greece. He obtained a BSc in Chemical Engineering from the Rose-Hul
 man Institute of Technology and subsequently a double MSc in Materials Sci
 ence from Grenoble INP and TU Darmstadt. \n\n​Theo obtained his PhD in 2
 020 in Solid-State Chemistry and Materials Science from the University of 
 Picardie for work on ion conductors for solid-state batteries supervised b
 y Profs. Christian Masquelier and M. Saiful Islam in the context of the AL
 ISTORE ERI (alistore.eu). After a short stay with Prof. Wolfgang Zeier in 
 Giessen\, he joined the group of Prof. Marnix Wagemaker in TU Delft where 
 he was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. \n\n​I
 n 2024 he moved to Oxford where he holds a Royal Society Newton Internatio
 nal Fellowship in the Department of Chemistry and the Malcolm Green Early 
 Career Fellowship in Inorganic Chemistry at Balliol College.
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