Highlights

Center researchers are collaborating with spin-off Displaytech (now part of Micron Technologies) to develop ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) materials for application in picoprojectors. The high-quality time sequential color and high brightness enabled by FLC switching speed, and high fill factor and ultra-small pixels achievable with FLCs makes FLC-on-silicon the choice display technology for picoprojectors.

Jun 25, 2012

University of Colorado at Boulder

Tricks with Water

Jun 20, 2012

Harvard University

Soft Matter and Innovation Workshop

Jun 20, 2012

Harvard University

Fluid Drops Impacting Solid Surfaces

Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, David A. Weitz, and Michael P. Brenner

Jun 7, 2012

Princeton University

Silicon/Organic Heterojunctions for Photovoltaics

J.C. Sturm, A. Kahn, Y.-L. Loo and J. Schwartz

In a photovoltaic cell, an incident photon creates an electron (black circle in top sketch) and a hole (open circle). For maximum efficiency, the opposite charges should be swept to opposite electrodes of the device (arrows) before they have a chance to recombine. The efficiency is further enhanced if a wide band gap organic semiconductor (e.g. P3HT) is grown on the surface of silicon.

Jun 7, 2012

Princeton University

IRG-C: Self-assembly of ionic surfactants accelerated by graphics processing units (GPUs)

D. N. LeBard, B. G. Levine, A. Jusufi, M. L. Klein (Temple), P. Mertmann, S. A. Barr, S. Sanders, and A. Z. Panagiotopoulos (Princeton)

Ionic micellar assemblies have been simulated over μs time scales on GPUs (image on cover of Soft Matter).

Jun 4, 2012

University of California, Santa Barbara

MRFN Shared Facilities Workshop

The Materials Research Facilities Network hosted a Shared Facilities Workshop, held at Northwestern University, Nov 1-2, 2011. The event brought together technical staff from 24 MRSEC and PREM institutions for 1.5 days to discuss day-to-day operations of Shared Experimental Facilities.

Jun 4, 2012

University of California, Santa Barbara

Mussel Inspired Adhesive Surfaces

Jun 1, 2012

University of Maryland - College Park

NanoFabulous, Developed by the University of Maryland MRSEC

Donna Hammer, University of Maryland MRSEC DMR 0520471

NanoFabulous, a mini-exhibition developed by the University of Maryland, College Park Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) is on display at Port Discovery Children’s Museum in Baltimore, MD. The exhibit is designed to help children and their families understand how scientists and engineers discover and invent new materials from nanoscale building-blocks.