Mauricio Terrones receives Faculty Scholar Medal

Mauricio Terrones, Professor of Physics, Chemistry, and Materials Science & Engineering, has been selected to receive the 2016 Penn State Faculty Scholar Medal in Physical Sciences. Established in 1980, the award recognizes scholarly or creative excellence represented by a single contribution or a series of contributions around a coherent theme. A committee of faculty peers reviews nominations and recommends candidates to Penn State's president.

Research in Terrones group is focused on understanding the Physics and Chemistry of materials at the nanoscale. The group concentrates on challenging synthesis of novel nanoscale materials with unprecedented physico-chemical properties. Within the group and with close collaborators, they perform theoretical first-principles calculations that predict electronic, chemical, optical and magnetic properties. They also focus their research on performing state of-the-art characterization of the produced materials using electronic transport, photo-transport, Raman spectroscopy, aberration corrected transmission electron microscopy, photoluminescence, electron energy loss spectroscopy, and others.