Siu-Wai Chan

PROFESSOR OF MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

1136 S.W. Mudd
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Tel(212) 854-8519
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Siu-Wai Chan studies size-dependent properties of nano-ceramics and crystalline interfaces. Chan’s research has focused on nano-ceramics and crystalline interfaces. Many working devices such as varistors use novel electrical transport properties of grain boundaries which is a type of crystalline interface.

Research Interests

Size-dependent Properties of Nano-Oxides, Grain Boundaries, Interfaces, and Defects in Thin Films, Super-Ionic and Superconducting Oxides as well as Materials for Energy and Environment

Research Areas

DevicesMaterialsNanoscienceSustainable Humanity

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A part of Chan’s research studies the size-dependent mechanical properties of nano-ceramics which can yield better understanding of ceramics in general. Another part identifies interfaces and boundaries that have beneficial electrical responses to facilitate the intelligent use of interfaces in devices.
While many size-dependent electronic and optical properties of nanoparticles have been thoroughly studied, the more basic properties such as compressibility and bond lengths of nano-oxides have been neglected. Recently, we have used the diamond anvil cell to study the “bulk modulus” as a function of the size of nano-oxides and have found a trend that needs to be addressed fundamentally. Bulk modulus and bond lengths are some of the fundamental properties. Understanding the size-dependent trend will help us to better understand materials in general.
Chan received her BS in materials science and metallurgy in 1980 from Columbia Engineering where she was a recipient of the Francis B.F. Rhodes Prize. In 1985, she obtained a ScD in materials science and metallurgy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chan joined Columbia Engineering in 1990 and became co-chair of the Solid State Program in 2001. As the recipient of several fellowships, Chan has lectured and conducted research at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, the University of Washington, and the University of California, San Diego, as a Guggenheim Fellow. Chan was a visiting scientist at the IBM Watson Research Lab and Bitter Magnet Lab, as well as a staff scientist at Bellcore and Bell-Labs. She is the holder of six U.S. patents.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

HONORS & AWARDS

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professor of materials science and engineering in the Department of Applied Physics and Mathematics, Columbia Engineering, 2002 –
Co-chair of the Solid State Program, Columbia Engineering, 2001 –2005
Executive committee member and outreach director, Materials Research Science & Engineering Center, 1998 – 2009
Associate professor of applied physics and applied mathematics, Columbia Engineering, 1998 – 2000
Co-chair of Materials Science and Engineering Program and Committee, Columbia Engineering, 1997 – 1999
Associate professor of chemical engineering and materials, Columbia Engineering, 1993 – 1998
Associate professor of metallurgy and mining, Columbia Engineering, 1990 – 1993
Visiting professor of materials, as Tan Fellow, Nanyang Technological Univ. (Singapore), 2004
Visiting professor of materials science and engineering, as NSF 2004 Advanced Fellow, University of Washington, 2004
Visiting professor of physics, Guggenheim Fellow, University of California San Diego, 2004 – 2008
Visiting scientist, IBM Watson Research Lab, 1999
Visiting scientist, Bitter Magnet Lab, 1993 – 1995
E Member of technical staff, Superconductors, Bellcore, Red Bank, NJ, 1986 – 1990
Member of technical staff, Surface Treatments, Bell-Labs & Bellcore, Murray Hill, NJ, 1985

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Ceramic Society
American Chemical Society
ASM International
Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST)
Materials Research Society
The Minerals, Metals, Materials Society (TMS)
American Physical Society
Society of Women Engineers
International Committee of Diffraction Data

HONORS & AWARDS

Fellow of American Physical Society, 2018
Avanessians Diversity Award, 2012
BASF Catalysis Research Award, 2008-2011
American Ceramic Society Fellow, 2008
Advance Fellow: National Science Foundation/Univ. of Washington, 2004
Tan Chin Tuan Fellow, 2004
Guggenheim Fellow, 2003
IBM Faculty Award, 1998
Outstanding Woman Scientist Award, 1997
Presidential Faculty Fellow from the White House and the National Science Foundation, 1993
Very Important Parent: Luther Lee Emerson School in Demarest, NJ, 1992
DuPont Faculty Award, 1991, 1992
Sigma Xi, 1982
Tau Beta Pi, 1979
Francis B. F. Rhodes Prize, 1980
Columbia Univ. SEAS Francis B.F. Rhodes Prize 1980

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Surface stress of nano-crystals, Materials Chemistry and Physics, vol 273, 125091, 2021
Crystallite size dependency of thermal expansion in ceria nanoparticles, Materials Chemistry and Physics, vol. 192, pp. 311–316, 2017.
Lattice Expansion in Metal Oxide Nanoparticles: MgO, Co3O4, & Fe3O4,?Journal of the American Ceramic Society, vol. 100, no. 1, pp. 384–392, 2017.
Size-Dependent Crystal Properties of Nanocuprite,?International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 389–394, 2016.
Reduction of Nano-Cu2O: Crystallite Size Dependent and the Effect of Nano-Ceria Support,?Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 119, no. 31, pp. 17667–17672, 2015.
Nano-crystals of cerium-hafnium binary oxide: Their size-dependent structure,?Journal of Alloys and Compounds, vol. 644, pp. 996–1002, 2015.
Size dependent compressibility of nano-ceria: Minimum near 33 nm,?Applied Physics Letters, vol. 106, no. 16, pp., 2015.







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