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Highlights

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)
Mar 15, 2011
University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Optical Hall-Effect in Graphene

T. Hofmann, A. Boosalis, and M. Schubert (Nebraska MRSEC); D. K. Gaskill and J. L. Tedesco (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC)
Mar 11, 2011
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Mesoscopically Helical Order in Chiral Block Copolymers

Supermolecular, helical assemblies are a common structural motif exploited in far-ranging biological contexts, from the flagellar appendages of swimming microorganisms to the protein coats that sheath rod-like viruses.  The screw-like structure of these
Mar 9, 2011
Colorado School of Mines

K-12 Outreach

Jennifer Strong, Linda Lung (NREL) and Barbara Moskal; Renewable Energy MRSEC, NSF DMR-0820518
The Renewable Energy MRSEC and the Adams and Meeker County Public Schools are collaborating on several partnership programs, the Bechtel K-5 Educational Excellence Initiative, the NSF funded GK-12 Learning Partnership, and the ExxonMobil Meeker Partnership. In these partnerships, CSM graduate students in mathematics, science and engineering are placed in support of elementary and middle school teachers and their students for up to fifteen hours each week throughout the academic year.
Mar 7, 2011
Colorado School of Mines

Storing Hydrogen in Novel Clathrate Materials

T. Sugahara, S. Sachdeva, D. Baker, J. Haag, M. Braniff, J. Difulvio, D. Rainey, C. A. Koh, A. M. Herring, A. K. Sum, P. C. Taylor, A. Dillon, K. O’Neill; Renewable Energy MRSEC, NSF DMR-0820518
Clathrate materials present a novel class of storage media for hydrogen. These unusual crystalline solids are comprised of a lattice of polyhedral cavities that can trap a range of different guest molecules, including hydrogen. We have successfully demonstrated that hydrogen molecules can occupy large cages of clathrate hydrates at higher pressures, covalently bonded silicon clathrate cages, and hydroquinone clathrates. Computer simulations have revealed the mechanisms of clathrate hydrate formation.
Mar 7, 2011
Colorado School of Mines

Metal Free Silicon Nanowires

Somilkumar Rathi, Joe Beach, Paul Stradins, Craig Taylor, and Reuben Collins; Renewable Energy MRSEC, NSF DMR-0820518
  Silicon nanowires are potentially transformative photovoltaic materials. Nanowire arrays are commonly synthesized using metal seeds. The growth process often introduces metal impurities into wires which degrade their electronic properties. We have used a plasma-assisted, vapor-liquid-solid process to grow silicon nanowires using tin seeds.  The tin is etched by the hydrogen plasma while the wires grow, resulting in self terminating wires which are metal free. 
Mar 7, 2011
Colorado School of Mines

Novel thin flexible hybrid inorganic/polymer films

Daniel Knauss and Andrew Herring, Renewable Energy MRSEC, NSF DMR-0820518
We have demonstrated the first ever hybrid polymer film of an insoluble polymer with an acid (top picture).  

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