http://www.syndicatemizzou.org Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:20:12 GMT en-us 40 Center for eResearch Connecting you with the University of Missouri’s innovative research and creative activity http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/images/logo.png 384 80 http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/chandrasekhar/ipod/Chandrasekhar1.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/chandrasekhar/ipod/Chandrasekhar1.m4v Meera Chandrasekhar describes herself as “a condensed matter experimentalist,” that is, a physicist who studies a class of materials called condensed matter systems (formerly known as “solids”). Within this class are three types of materials: insulators, which do not allow electricity to flow; conductors, which do allow electricity to flow; and semiconductors, which “have conducting properties that are in between that of insulators and conductors.” Chandrasekhar has spent most of her research career seeking to understand the special properties of this “in-between” class of materials. 3 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:58:03 GMT