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Jun 21, 2010
Harvard Materials Research Center (2014)

Soft Matter Science revealed through Cooking
Acclaimed chef Jose Andres visited the Harvard MRSEC to collaborate with Center researchers and speak to students in the ES139. Innovations in Science and Engineering class; the laboratory and classroom discussions were filmed for a feature on 60 Minutes through a special agreement with the
Jun 21, 2010
Harvard Materials Research Center (2014)

Entropy Favors Asymmetry in Colloidal Self-Assembly

Guangnan Meng, Natalie Arkus, Michael P. Brenner, and Vinothan N. Manoharan
Two self-assembled colloidal clusters, as seen under the optical microscope. The cluster on the left, a tri-tetrahedron, and the cluster on the right, an octahedron, have the same energy. But in an experiment where both clusters are allowed to form randomly in solution, the less symmetric tri-tetrahedron occurs more than twenty times as often as the highly symmetric octahedron because of the many more ways to form the tri-tetrahedron.
Jun 14, 2010
Princeton Center for Complex Materials (2014)

Topological Protection Against Backscattering

P. Roushan, J. Seo, C. V. Parker, Y.-S. Hor, D. Hsieh, D Qian, A. Richardella, M. Z. Hasan, R. J. Cava and A. Yazdani (Princeton University)
Topological insulators are a new class of insulators in which a bulk gap for electronic excitations is generated by strong spin-orbit coupling.
Jun 7, 2010
Carnegie Mellon University MRSEC (2005)

CMU MRSEC Hosts over 60 scientists at the 1st Summer School on 3D Microstructure Studies
On June 1st -4th, 2010, CMU hosted 67 scientists from around the world at the 1st Summer School on 3D Microstructure Studies. MRSEC Faculty, graduate students and researchers introduced the techniques that were developed and continue to be developed here at CMU to characterize of the internal structure of polycrystalline materials. The school consisted of a mix of lectures, demonstrations and hands-on interactive activities for the participants. Sections were taught on measuring the
May 27, 2010
MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering (2014)

Virus-grown battery materials

Angela Belcher, Gerbrand Ceder (MIT)
Widely used in small electronic devices and in the nascent market for HEVS (Hybrid Electric Vehicles), lithium ion batteries store more energy for theirweight, operate at a higher voltage, and hold a charge much longer thanother rechargeable batteries. As a new approach, Belcher and Ceder of the MIT MRSEC IRG-I have explored a biological way to create new charge storage materials for lithium ion batteries by using a virus as a scaffold totemplate the growth and assembly of nanoscale electrode
May 27, 2010
MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering (2014)

Stem cells with drug-loaded nanoparticles attached promote rapid recovery following bone marrow transplants

Darrell Irvine (MIT)
May 26, 2010
UMD Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (2005)

Synthesis and Characterization of Topological Insulator Materials

N. P. Butch, K. Kirshenbaum, P. Syers, A. B. Sushkov, G. S. Jenkins, H. D. Drew, J. Paglione
High-quality single crystals of Bi2Se3 grown via the Bridgeman technique.
May 26, 2010
UMD Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (2005)

Standing Plasmon Waves on Ag Grating Structures

S.H. Guo, D. Britti, J.J Heetderks, H.C. Kan and R. J. Phaneuf
Surface plasmons are light-energy propagating electromagnetic modes trapped at the interface between certain metals (notably gold and silver) and a dielectric. They are also of interest for optical processes enhanced by strong local electric fields.
May 26, 2010
UMD Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (2005)

Annual Middle School Student Science Conference (SSC)

Alex Prasertchoung, Education Coordinator and Donna Hammer, MRSEC Associate Director and Education Director
    May 2009 marked the University of Maryland MRSEC’s 12th Annual Middle School Student Science Conference, co-hosted by the American Institute of Physics.
May 26, 2010
UMD Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (2005)

Fabrication of a Non-volatile Multiferroic Memory Device

I. Takeuchi
Micron-sized non-volatile magnetoresistance devices are being pursued using ferroelectric/magnetostrictive multilayers.

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