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Program Highlights for year 2015

AtomTouch

A Molecular Simulation App to Change the Way Students Learn About Atoms

Complex Fluids Make Non-Spherical Particle Synthesis Easy!

Non-Spherical, patchy particles can be synthesized using liquid crystalline templates

Exceptional Exciton Spectroscopy

Novel Multidimensional Visible Light Spectroscopy Tracks Optical Excitations

Shape-Shifting Liquid Metal Becomes a Reality

Terminator 2 is widely remembered for its metal shape-shifting villain. Impervious to bullets, explosives, and fire, the T-1000 robot was capable of changing shape at will. Researchers at the North Carolina State University have taken a step towards making science fiction a

Phase Transformations in Binary Colloidal Monolayers

Diffusionless martensitic transformations are a class of solid–solid phase transitions in which the crystal unit cell changes shape and internal structure, while keeping its stoichiometry constant. Because these transformations do not require long-range diffusion, they are fast and repeatable, and thus have been exploited in a number of engineeringapplications.

MRSEC Shared Experimental Facilities Advance Nobelist’s Research

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 was shared by UCSB Professor Shuji Nakamura "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources". 

Self-Assembly of Oligomeric Block Copolymer Coatings for Use in Lithographic and Nanopatterning Applications

Postdoctoral research associate Li Yao (Hillmyer) has been exploring the self-assembly of oligomeric block copolymer coatings for use in lithographic and nanopatterning applications that push the current resolution limits.

Hall Effect and Near-Metallic Transport in Rubrene

This work represents the first unambiguous confirmation that very large charge densities can be achieved on the surface of organic crystals by using electrolyte gates. 

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