Faculty of Engineering & Natural Sciences &
Nanotechnology Research and Application Center
Orta Mah. Universite
Cad. No:27, 34956 Tuzla/Istanbul, TURKEY
+90 (216) 483-9592 (phone)
+ 90 (216) 483-9550 (fax)
PhD Materials Science & Engineering,
MS Materials Science & Engineering,
BS Materials Science & Engineering, M. I. T.,
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Research
Interests
The main
thrust of our research activity is focused on Manipulation and Management of
Light through Materials Engineering. By developing structural models of
materials that exhibit extremely long duration persistent luminescence, we are
designing materials for zero energy consumption lighting. Our model systems are
rare-earth co-doped alkali earth aluminates, which we analyze by applying
advanced TEM, Raman, and other characterization methods.
Based on
the insight that we have gained into the formation of boroaluminate crystal
structures, we apply our models of thermodynamic and kinetic control to tune crystal
structure in functional ceramics for energy storage and more sustainable cement
processing. This work further motivates us to develop hubs of circularity for
more sustainable, carbon-negative, high-volume materials processing.
By
harnessing physical phenomena arising from cooperative behavior and
localization, we are developing plasmonic materials for sensor and antenna
applications, with a recent emphasis on developing new
inorganic materials exhibiting plasmonic behavior.
To address
the interdisciplinary nature of our work, team members are active in many
collaborative national and international projects (see project details below
and in publications).
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Publications: Google Scholar, ResearchGate Profile
Latest News from the Team
07/03/2022 Our
latest contribution to the structural model of boron extending afterglos has be published! Congratulations to Arzu, Sirous, and Ece (Deniz) for their excellent work in, “Borate polyanions
tuning persistent luminescence in Eu and Dy co-eoped
strontium aluminate”
February 2022 We
celebrate the graduation of Asad-ur-Rehman
Shahzad on his graduation with a B.Sc. in Materials Science and
Nano-engineering
18/02/2022 Ece
Günay was awarded a Mobility Fellowship
from the Journal of the European Ceramics Society Trust for a research
collaboration visit to Dr. Andraž Kočjan
at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana,
Slovenia—go Ece!
January 2022 We celebrate the
graduation of Yasemin Akyol on her graduation with a B.Sc. in Materials Science
and Nano-Engineering
January 2022 We
celebrate the graduation of Faiqa Dawood on her
graduation with a B.Sc. in Materials Science and Nano-engineering
January 2022 Congratulations,
Dr. Ali Ansari Hamedani, for successfully defending
your PhD dissertation!
23/08/2021 Ali’s
first publication from his dissertation work has just been published: “Mechanisms of Si Nanoparticle Formation by Molten Salt Magnesiothermic Reduction of Silica for Lithium-ion Battery
Anodes” Congratulations
also to Serap Hoca!
30/06/21 Congratulations,
Ece, for an excellent senior thesis and earning a
B.Sc. in Materials Science and Nano-Engineering!
01/04/21 Welcome
Metehan Kırşanlı, our
newest team member
01/02/21 Welcome
to the team, Yasemin Akyol
18/12/20 Congratulations
to Dr. Sirous for successfully defending his PhD
dissertation
30/06/20 Congratulations,
Elif, on earning a B.Sc. in Materials Engineering,
and best wishes for the next adventure in Lausanne!
04/20 Our
manuscript, “Effect of
Sintering and Boron Content on Rare Earth Dopant Distribution in Long Afterglow
Strontium Aluminate,” has just been accepted for publication in the
Journal of the European Ceramic Society. It’s the product of a lengthy
collaboration between team members Sirous, Arzu and Cleva with Jožef Stefan
Institute — Andraž Kocjan,
Zoran Samardžija, Sašo Šturm — and the University of Nova Gorica
— Mattia Fanetti — and Meltem
Sezen of SUNUM. Many thanks to our collaborators for
deepening our understanding of the material structure supporting extreme
persistent luminescence
14/04/20 Thanks
to David McCandless of Information is Beautiful for hosting a most informative data
visualization workshop, Data is Beautiful. Despite the challenges of conducting
a remote workshop on Zoom, it was a welcomed break to the routine of isolation
and a pleasure to meet the other fascinating participants
03/20 Congratulations
to Ahmet Alper Ozkan for
successfully developing an app for analysis of Raman maps
02/20 We
welcome new team members Faiqa Dawood, Mehmet Can Dursun, Defne Circi, Deniz Albayrak, Selin Memikoğlu, and Selen Ezgi Cankutaran
11/19 The
team joined in kicking off a new ERA-MIN2 project, RECEMENT, in which we
develop new supplementary cementitious materials for cement, regenerated from
end-of-life materials from mining and whiteware industries
Funded
Projects
Teaching
Involvement
Spring 2021: MAT
206, Kinetics (UG)
Spring 2003-2021: MAT
204, Electrical, Optical, and Magnetic Properties of Materials (UG)
Fall 2003-2020: MAT 312, Materials Characterization (UG)
Fall 2020: PROJ 201, Freshman project course—“Designing Hubs of Circularity
for Sustainable Materials Processing”
Fall 2020, 2017, 2008: MAT 408
Introduction to Ceramics (UG)
Spring 2011, 2013, 2015: MAT 405, Advanced Materials
Characterization (UG)
Spring 2014: NT 506, Advanced Materials Characterization Module (Advanced TEM
lectures for the Nanotechnology Master’s program)
Spring 2014: MAT 680, Special Topics (G)
Fall 2003-2013: ENS 202, Thermodynamics
(UG)
Fall 2013: NT 505, Materials Characterization Module (DLS and TEM lectures for
the Nanotechnology Master’s program)
Fall 2009: 3.014
Materials Characterization (UG, at M.I.T.)
Fall 2003-7: MAT 509, Material
Science & Engineering I: Structure and Properties of Materials (G)
Spring 2006: MAT 308, Phase
Equilibria (UG)
Other Work Experience:
Visiting Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
USA
R&D Engineer at JDS Uniphase (formerly SDL,
Inc.), San Jose, California, USA
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Max-Planck-Institut
für Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany
Chateaubriand Science & Technology Fellow at Thales
(formerly Thomson-CSF, LCR), Orsay, France
Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant at Brown
University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Other Professional Activities
The most profound impact on my education was by the Summer Science Program (www.summerscience.org), during a fateful summer in Ojai, California.