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Program Highlights

RT-MRSEC Wins Dean's Award for Inclusive Excellence

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

Hierarchical organization of chiral colloidal

Liquid–liquid phase separation in bulk proceeds through the continuous coalescence of droplets until the system undergoes complete phase separation. But when

In 3D – Molecules of Life

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 Traveling Salesman Enables the Rapid Synthesis of Repetitive Polypeptides

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

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 os

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.  

Semiconductor Double Quantum Dot Maser

A conventional laser consists of three main components: a gain medium, a cavity, and an energy source. Researchers at Princeton and the University of Maryland Joint Quantum Institute have demonstrated a nanoscale laser that is driven by a single electron tunneling events.

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