Highlights
May 23, 2012
Brandeis University
Discovering Nanolife - Partnership with the Discovery Museum
MRSEC scientists from Brandeis visited the Discovery
Museum in Acton for a full day of Microscope-themed activities on March 30th. We led hands-on activities that allowed
students to see and build their own mutant Drosophila, assemble their own
polymer chain and explore freezing techniques like dry ice and liquid
nitrogen. We had over 150 museum
guests participate in our activities.
May 19, 2012
Ohio State University
Nonmagnetic elements turn graphene magnetic
K. M. McCreary, K. Pi, A. G. Swartz, W. Han, W. Bao, C. N. Lau, F. Guinea, M. I. Katsnelson and R. K. Kawakami University of California, Riverside.
Physicists have predicted that
graphene, a single atomic sheet of carbon, could be turned magnetic simply by
attaching a hydrogen atom (or removing a carbon atom). However, detecting this
magnetism has been elusive due to many pitfalls that arise using traditional
methods.
Kawakami has developed a new method
to detect magnetism in graphene. Pure spin currents are injected into graphene,
which then depolarize in a particular and recognizable way if magnetic moments
May 16, 2012
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Multiblock Polymers: Panacea or Pandora’s Box
F.S. Bates, M.A. Hillmyer, T.P. Lodge (UMN); G.H. Fredrickson (UCSB)
Advances in polymer synthesis have enabled access to a vast array of multiblock polymer architectures, with rich opportunities for designing multiple functionalities into a single self-assembled material.
May 7, 2012
Cornell University
A Better Type of Computer Memory Demonstrated
L. Liu, C.-F. Pai, Y. Li, H. W. Tseng, D. C. Ralph, and R. A. Buhrman, Science 336, 555-558, (2012).
Newly discovered “giant” spin Hall effect enables simple and efficient magnetic memory
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