Highlights

M. W. Tate, P. Purohit, D. Chamberlain, K. X. Nguyen, R. Hovden, C. S. Chang, P. Deb, E. Turgut, J. T. Heron, D. G. Schlom, D. C. Ralph, G. D. Fuchs, K. S. Shanks, H. T. Philipp, D. A. Muller, and S. M. Gruner, Microscopy Microanal., (2016)

Imaging Magnetic and Electric Fields with an Electron Microscope A new high-speed detector for electron microscopes uses every transmitted electron to measure electric and magnetic fields

Feb 1, 2016

RT-MRSEC Wins Dean's Award for Inclusive Excellence

Kelly Chavez, Executive Director, RT-MRSEC

We are excited to announce that the Research Triangle MRSEC has won the Dean’s Award for Inclusive Excellence in Graduate Education!

Jan 28, 2016

The Bioinspired Soft Materials Center (2014)

Hierarchical organization of chiral colloidal

P. Sharma, A. W. Ward, T. Gibaud, M. F. Hagan and Z. Dogic

Liquid–liquid phase separation in bulk proceeds through the continuous coalescence of droplets until the system undergoes complete phase separation. But when colloids, nanoparticles or proteins are confined to interfaces, surfaces or membranes, their interactions differ fundamentally from those mediated by

Jan 28, 2016

The Bioinspired Soft Materials Center (2014)

In 3D – Molecules of Life

A.Olivier-Mason, D. Pomeranz Krummel, I. Roy

In 2015, the MRSEC led the development of an outreach course at Brandeis for Waltham High School students to strengthen our engagement with the WHS community. The course was structured to teach the students biochemistry using 3D molecular models, hands-on activities, CAD, and 3D printing. The class sessions were taught by graduate student and postdoc instructors who received extensive one-on-one curriculum-development mentoring by the

Jan 8, 2016

Harvard Materials Research Center (2014)

Amorphous Salt

David Weitz (Applied Physics), Frans Spaepen (Materials Science) and Michael Brenner (Applied Math)

Jan 8, 2016

UChicago Materials Research Center (2014)

Joint AlChe Workshop with Particulate Solid Research, Inc.

Heinrich M. Jaeger (University of Chicago)Ka Yee Lee (University of Chicago)

Jan 8, 2016

UChicago Materials Research Center (2014)

Impact Dynamics of Granular Jets with Noncircular Cross Sections

Xiang Cheng (University of Minnesota, University of Chicago) Leonardo Gordillo (University of Chicago, CNRS, University of Paris 7)Wendy W. Zhang (University of Chicago) Heinrich M. Jaeger (University of Chicago)Sidney R. Nagel (University of Chicago

Jan 6, 2016

The Traveling Salesman Enables the Rapid Synthesis of Repetitive Polypeptides

Ashutosh Chilkoti, Duke UniversityNicholas C. Tang, Duke University

A codon-scrambling algorithm enables the PCR-based synthesis of repetitive proteins by finding the least-repetitive synonymous gene sequence

Dec 23, 2015

CU Boulder Soft Materials Research Center (2014)

Dynamic Self-Pattering of Archimedes Spirals

A thin liquid crystal film on a surface of photoactive dye turns into a wonderland of exotic moving patterns if just illuminated by a simple lamp. Spirals move and oscillate across the surface in the form of advancing wavefronts, encountering and annihilating each other.

Dec 23, 2015

CU Boulder Soft Materials Research Center (2014)

Quantum Dot / DNA Necklaces

Researchers at the Soft Materials Research Center of the University of Colorado have made hybrid bio-semiconductor nano-necklaces consisting of strings of nanometer size quantum dots (QDs) tethered by nano-length DNA chains. When the necklaces are connected between electrodes and illuminated, the alignment of the energetic states of the QDs and DNA