Program Highlights for year 2010
Science Storms, the newest permanent exhibit at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, opened to the public on March 18th. MRSEC graduate students, postdocs, research staff and faculty assisted with the compilation of an inventory of chemical reactions for the Interactive Periodic Tables. In addition, aspects of granular materials research in IRGs 1 and 2 are featured prominently.
The video describes the Montclare lab research efforts
to fabricate nano-scaled self-assembling proteins as materials. It focuses on
the use of bacteria as the synthetic powerhouse for soft materials synthesis and
features the self-assembly behavior of these biologically-inspired materials for
potential use in therapeutic delivery and regenerative medicine.
Block copolymer/nanoparticle (BCP/NP) composites have attracted
interest because of the unique opportunities for tuning the properties
of hybrid materials arising from the control of orientation and
location of particle fillers within the copolymer matrix. However,
quiescent organized block copolymer microstructures are not
A collaboration between the CMU MRSEC and Sandia National Laboratory has permitted the first large scale comparison between experimentally measured grain boundary energies and energies calculated based on atomistic simulations.
A single electron spin in an external magnetic field forms a two-level system that can be used to create a spin qubit. However, achieving fast single spin rotations, as would be required to control a spin qubit, is a major challenge.
The NYU team, led by Jasna Brujic, an assistant professor in NYU’s
Department of Physics, developed an innovative way to tabulate the
number of spheres-they created a method for determining how spheres
Auger recombination is an important mechanism that can limit the performance of solar cells.
Graduate student Wade Luhman has demonstrated a route to enhance the short exciton diffusion length (LD) of organic semiconductors by combining fluorescent and phosphorescent materials into a single electron donating thin film.
Highly spin-polarized magnets have the potential to radically improve the performance of many spintronic devices.
Using small-angle neutron scattering, we investigated the mechanism of molecular exchange in spherical micelles formed by diblock copolymers in an organic solvent.
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