Highlights
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.
Jun 1, 2012
University of Maryland - College Park
Greatest Show on Earth: Big Top Physics USA Science and Engineering Festival, Washington DC
Donna Hammer, University of Maryland MRSEC DMR 0520471
April 27-29, 2012: The University of Maryland MRSEC collaborated with partners to present a fun, science-packed three days at the Convention Center in Washington, DC.
Jun 1, 2012
University of Maryland - College Park
Electric Potential Metrology on the Nanoscale, University of Maryland
K. Burson, Y. Wei, W. G. Cullen, M. S. Fuhrer and J. E. Reutt-Robey, MRSEC, University of Maryland
Nanomaterials offer innovative approaches to problems from energy production to information storage. A major challenge for nanomaterial use is limited knowledge of their local electrical properties. The electric potential sets the charge-transport pathway through a material. Maryland researchers have profiled this potential for nanostructured films found in organic transistors and solar cells.
Jun 1, 2012
University of Maryland - College Park
Bilayer Graphene Photon Detector
J. Y. Yan, M.-H. Kim, J. A. Elle, A. B. Sushkov, G. S. Jenkins, H. M. Milchberg, M. S. Fuhrer and H. D. Drew
Detection of long-wavelength light is central to security and military applications, and widely used in chemical analysis. Available detectors, based upon inorganic materials, have limited sensitivity and working speeds. Graphene is a unique material with strong, nearly wavelength-independent interaction with light.
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.
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