国产原创

Last December a trio of 国产原创 researchers 鈥� Rick Haselton, professor of biomedical engineering, David Wright, associate professor of chemistry, and Ray Mernaugh, associate professor of biochemistry 鈥� snagged a $1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a 鈥渓ow tech, high… Read More

With the age of the incandescent light bulb fading rapidly, the holy grail of the lighting industry is to develop a highly efficient form of solid-state lighting that produces high quality white light. One of the few alternative technologies that produce pure white light is white-light quantum dots. These are… Read More

A group of 国产原创 students, faculty and staff will share their research and passion for science and technology with middle and high school students at the nation鈥檚 largest science fair April 27-29 in Washington, D.C. The second annual USA Science & Engineering Festival and Book Fair, held… Read More

Tony Hmelo鈥檚 research has taken him from NASA to nanoscience and from New York to Nashville. Hmelo is associate director for operations and outreach for the 国产原创 Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, the interdisciplinary group researching new science and technology based on tiny鈥攏anoscale鈥攎aterials. (Nanotechnology is widely considered… Read More

Five faculty members were recognized for their achievements in and out of the classroom by Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos at the Spring Faculty Assembly. Professors Paul Laibinis, Emily Nacol, Sohee Park, Suzanna Sherry and Janos Sztipanovits were selected for the awards by… Read More

These days, graphene is the rock star of materials science, but it has an Achilles heel: It is exceptionally sensitive to its electrical environment. This single-atom-thick honeycomb of carbon atoms is lighter than aluminum, stronger than steel and conducts heat and electricity better than copper. As a result, scientists around… Read More

During a visit to campus on March 12, members of the Joelton Middle School Art2STEM club 鈥� an after-school organization for middle school girls that highlights the importance of creativity in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics 鈥� got to see what a real future… Read More

Vanadium dioxide crystal lattice (A. Julia St盲hler / Fritz Haber Institute) An international team of physicists has developed a method for taking ultrafast 鈥渟onograms鈥� that can track the structural changes that take place within solid materials in trillionth-of-a-second intervals as they go through an important physical… Read More

Physicist聽Kirill Bolotin聽has won a two-year, $50,000 research fellowship from the聽Alfred P. Sloan Foundation聽aimed at encouraging promising young scholars. He is one of 126 researchers from 51 different colleges and universities in the United States selected to receive the Foundation鈥檚聽… Read More

国产原创 professor Sokrates T. Pantelides has been selected as a 2012 Materials Research Society Fellow. The MRS Fellows will be recognized at the MRS spring meeting in San Francisco in April. Pantelides is a University Distinguished Professor of Physics and Engineering, the William A. and Nancy F. McMinn Professor of… Read More