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Mar 28, 2011
Harvard University

Softer-than-Skin Electronics, Sensors, and Adaptive Materials

R.J. Wood, G.M. Whitesides, and Z. Suo
Soft robotics, wearable computing, and mechanically adaptive structures will lead to revolutionary tools for exploration, disaster relief, personal electronics, and assistive medicine. Progress demands innovative solutions to current challenges: electronic skin for tactile sensing, and soft, hyperelastic circuits for stretchable computing. These new materials will enable next-generation machines and electronics to be soft, durable, impact resistant, and capable of adapting their shape, mechanical properties, and functionality to rapid changes in user environmental conditions.
Mar 25, 2011
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Ionic liquids as media for bioconjugation

Water soluble polymers, once reserved for commodity applications (i.e., shaving cream, emulsification processes, etc.) have emerged as valuable materials for medicine.  Combining synthetic polymers with therapeutic proteins and cancer drugs improves the “therapeutic index” of the drugs, preventing their fast elimination from the body, and improving their availability for treating the disease.  Emrick at the UMass Materials Research Science and Engineering Center found that ionic liquids
Mar 16, 2011
Cornell University

Synthetic Molecular Brushes Slipperier Than Natural Lubricants

Mar 16, 2011
Cornell University

Molecular Wires Transmit Electricity Between Nanocrystals

J. J. Choi et al., Nano Letters 10, 1805 (2010)  
Connections between “quantum dots” may enable new types of solar cells
Mar 16, 2011
University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Putting an Organic Spin on Ferroelectric Tunnel Junctions

J. D. Burton and E. Y. Tsymbal (Nebraska MRSEC); J. M. López-Encarnación and J. P. Velev (University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras)
Mar 16, 2011
University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Cluster Synthesis of High-Anisotropy Nanomagnets

D. J. Sellmyer, J. E. Shield, and R. Skomski (Nebraska MRSEC); G. C. Hadjipanayis (University of Delaware)
Mar 16, 2011
University of Nebraska - Lincoln

A Low-Cost Scanning Tunneling Microscope for Education and Outreach

Roger D. Kirby (Nebraska MRSEC)
Mar 16, 2011
University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Visualization of Quantum States

R. Skomski, X. C. Zeng, and A. Enders (Nebraska MRSEC); A. Solanki and A. Kashyap (LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur, India)
Mar 16, 2011
University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Quantum Entanglement in Magnetic Nanoparticles

P. Lougovski and R. Skomski (Nebraska MRSEC)
Mar 16, 2011
New York University

Tying the Knot -- with Computer-Generated Holograms

Elizabeth Shanblatt (NYU undergraduate) and David Grier (NYU Physics)

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