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MRSEC Director, Monica Olvera de la Cruz (Seed 2), has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. More>
Matthew Grayson (IRG 2) received the Humboldt Alumni Award 2012 for Innovative Networking Initiatives from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. More>
Nature published a special Outlook section on graphene, featuring the research of Jiaxing Huang (IRG 3), on crumpled graphene balls. More>
Emilie Ringe, MRSEC graduate student of Richard Van Duyne (IRG 3) and Laurence Marks (IRG 3), has been selected for the 2012 Iota Sigma Pi Anna Louise Hoffman Award for Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Research. More>
The research group of Mark Hersam (IRGs 1 and 3) and coworkers in France have developed a process for making flexible graphene transistors. More>
Mark Ratner (IRG 1) and Chad Mirkin (IRG 3) are featured in a special issue of National Geographic titled "100 Scientific Discoveries That Changed the World." More>
Derk Joester (Seed 3) hosted a high-school outreach student, Haley Sproull, who has been named a finalist in 2012 ISEF (Intel International Science and Enginnering Fair). More>
Tobin Marks (IRG 1) has been elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering. More>
Mark Hersam (IRGs 1 and 3) has been elected as a Materials Research Society Fellow.
NPR's Eight Forty-Eight - "The Perfect Hard-boiled Egg"- featuring Monica Olvera de la Cruz (SEED) and William Kung, makes top-25 most popular WBEZ stories of 2011. More>
Chad Mirkin (IRG 3) joins world leaders, including President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in Honolulu this weekend to discuss the changing technologies in energy and nanotechnology that are likely to transform business and markets in the Asia-Pacific region. More>
Matthew Grayson (IRG 2) produces the celebrated Caryl Churchill play, "A Number," for 2011 Engineering Transdisciplinary Outreach Project in the Arts (ETOPiA), with support of NU-MRSEC outreach. More>
Mark Hersam (IRGs 1 and 3) and Tobin J. Marks (IRGs 1 and 2) use carbon nanotubes to make solar cells affordable and flexible. More>
Tobin J. Marks (IRGs 1 and 2) receives the 2011 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences, awarded by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. More>
Emilie Ringe, Richard Van Duyne (IRG 3) and Laurence Marks (IRG 3) describe the use of the modified Wulff construction to determine shape of alloy nanoparticles based on size and composition. Their work has been featured by Editors' Choice in Science. More>
Tobin J. Marks (IRG 3), a world leader in the fields of organometallic chemistry, chemical catalysis, materials science, organic electronics, solar energy, photovoltaics and nanotechnology, has received the 2011 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. More>
Mark Hersam (IRGs 1 and 2) will be more interested than most Americans when the space shuttle Endeavour lifts off for the last time Friday, April 29. His carbon nanotube and graphene thin films will spend at least six months mounted on the outside of the International Space Station to see if they degrade in the harsh environment of outer space or are stable. More>
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