NU Materials Research Science and Engineering Center @ Northwestern University
The Northwestern University Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (NU-MRSEC) is a cross-disciplinary enterprise built on existing institutional strengths, which will support innovative, leading-edge research an education, and by addressing fundamental nanoscale materials science and engineering issues, benefit our society and the global community. NU-MRSEC understands, creates and develops materials with new properties by combining different organic and inorganic materials into nanoscale hybrids where charge and energy transfer might be controlled independently (IRG 1), by combining different elements to create oxide materials that are both transparent and conducting (IRG 2), and by controlling the size and shape of nanoparticles with precision to engineer interactions with light (IRG 3). Applications of such materials would include new information processing capabilities, high performance electronic devices that are both flexible and transparent and new sensing technologies.
Research Groups
- IRG I Controlling Fluxes of Charge and Energy at Hybrid Interfaces
- IRG II Fundamentals of Amorphous Oxide Semiconductors
- IRG III Plasmonically Encoded Materials for Amplified Sensing and Information Manipulation
- Seed I Normal and superfluid atoms in optical lattices
- Seed II “Nanoionic” crystals: rationalizing electrostatic self-assembly at the nanoscale
- Seed III Atomic-scale Imaging of Orgnanic/Inorganic Heterostructures: from Single Molecules to Devices
Program Highlights
- April 22, 2013 Plasmonic Bowtie Nanolaser Arrays
- February 20, 2013 Thermal Stability of Amorphous Zn-In-Sn-O Films Diana
- February 20, 2013 A Range of Amorphous Structures
- February 20, 2013 High Performance Carbon Nanotube Thin-Film Transistors Enabled by Hybrid Molecular Dielectrics
- January 19, 2013 X-ray Standing Wave Mapping of Graphene/SiC
- February 20, 2012 NSF-Nanoelectronics Research Initiative
- February 20, 2012 Collaboration with Public Institutions: Art Conservation
- February 20, 2012 Sharing Science through the Arts