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The Renewable Energy MRSEC and the Adams and Meeker County Public Schools are collaborating on several partnership programs, the Bechtel K-5 Educational Excellence Initiative, the NSF funded GK-12 Learning Partnership, and the ExxonMobil Meeker Partnership. In these partnerships, CSM graduate students in mathematics, science and engineering are placed in support of elementary and middle school teachers and their students for up to fifteen hours each week throughout the academic year.

To fully understand the behavior of graphene's electrons, Georgia Tech and NIST scientists employ the extremes of ultra-low temperature and large magnetic field.  In a new ultra-low temperature scanning tunneling microscope (ULT-STM) constructed at NIST, graphene remains pristine for weeks, enabling precise observations of electron energy levels and interactions.  Using multilayer epitaxial graphene prepared at Georgia Tech, the collaborato

Highly-symmetrized MnAu nanoalloys may possess high magnetic moments for potential application. The magnetic properties of MnAu nanoclusters exhibit strong dependence on the cluster sizes and morphologies.

IRG 3 has examined the orientational ordering of nematic liquid crystals (LCs) supported on organized monolayers of dipeptides with the goal of understanding how peptide-based interfaces encode intermolecular interactions that are amplified into supramolecular ordering.

  New technique produces heterojunctions in single-atom-thick graphene

On-chip optical modulation is one of the most important functionalities for integrated silicon photonic circuits. We demonstrate that sputter-deposited polycrystalline metallic thin films are promising materials for realizing ultra-low power modulators. Wafer-scale deposition of highly oriented metallic films allows CMOS-compatible, monolithic integration of active photonic elements on large scales.

Multilayer graphene grown at Georgia Tech to heights of 1 to 10 nanometers contains non-graphitic “twists” between layers. Our recent theory describes the top layer as a single, effectively isolated graphene sheet. The remaining multilayer creates a periodically varying mass of the top-layer electrons: from positive, to zero, to negative(!). This makes intuition from single-layer graphene available for the analysis of twisted multilayer graphene, and predicts a regular pattern in the electronic structure that has been observed in experiments from our GT/NIST collaboration.

The Nebraska MRSEC Professor/Student Pairs Program brings in professor/student pairs from non-research intensive four-year institutions to conduct research with Nebraska MRSEC scientists.  The goal is to provide a research experience which benefits both the participants and the MRSEC projects.  For the professor, this program provides an opportunity to conduct new research, access to facilities typically unavailable at their home institution, and make strong and lasting connections with MRSEC researchers.  For the student, this program provides an opportunity to conduct world-class research