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Program Highlights

Novel thin flexible hybrid inorganic/polymer films

We have demonstrated the first ever hybrid polymer film of an insoluble polymer with an acid (top picture).  

Printed, Flexible Carbon Nanotube Digital Circuits

Graduate student Mingjing Ha working with Optomec, Inc. and Northwestern University collaborators (Mark Hersam) has demonstrated low voltage, fast carbon nanotube (CNT) circuits printed on flexible plastic substrates. The circuits are fabricated by aerosol jet printing from a liquid dielectric ink (ion gel) and a purified semiconducting CNT ink (Northwestern).

ZnO Nanowires for DNA Electrophoresis

Our team has developed a simple solution-based method to fabricate arrays of ZnO nanowires inside of a glass microchannel. 

Discovery of a Frank-Kasper σ Phase in Sphere-Forming Block Copolymer Melts

Ordering of spherical particles represents a fundamental topic in materials science and engineering ranging from the sub-nanometer scale packing of atoms in simple crystals to micron sized assemblies of colloids.

Pleats on Crystals on Curved Surfaces

Electrically charged polymer colloids attracted to the surface of water droplets of different shapes crystallize on their curved surfaces.

Multimaterial acoustic fibers

Following up on their recent creation of light-sensitive fibers, Professors Yoel Fink and Joannopoulos and their research teams have developed fibers that can detect ("hear") and produce sound ("sing").

Lateral Organic Devices

Background: Most organic devices, from organic light emitting diodes to organic spintronic devices vertical devices, where the essential interfaces are buried and thus not subject to investigation. 

Theory of Chiral Smectic A Twisted Ribbons

1 The Martin Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University 2 Department of Physics, Brown University

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