Building MAterials Science

My research in the history of materials science and nanotechnology as emerging interdisciplines in the 20th and 21st centuries considers the role of the built environment in fostering interdisicplinary research.  In collaboration with Hyungsub Choi, I have studied the architecture of the University of Pennsylvania's Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter and the Singh Center for Nanotechnology.  Our original paper on this topic was published in Minerva in 2015 while I was a graduate student.  More recently, I have authored a chapter, "Buildings," which appears in the edited volume Between Making and Knowing: Tools in the History of Materials Research, edited by Joseph D. Martin and Cyrus Mody.

Publications and News

Materials Science Buildings

"A Place for Materials Science: Laboratory Buildings and Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Pennsylvania," Minerva

LRSM

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Buildings

For more on the history of materials science, including my chapter on buildings, see this edited volume here.