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• UNL physicists to lead $7 million research collaboration. Alexei Gruverman; Peter Dowben, CNFD associate director; Kirill Belashchenko; Xia Hong, Evgeny Tsymbal, CNFD director, and Christian Binek.

• A retirement reception for Brian Robertson, professor of mechanical and materials engineering, is 3 p.m. April 30 in W342 Nebraska Hall. The reception is free and open to the faculty, staff and students.
  
  
• Brian Robertson "was minutes from the marathon finish" reports the Scarlet." see article on NCMN Facebook.
  
  

• UNL team discovery yields supertough, strong nanofibers - Yuris Dzenis and colleagues developed an exceptionally thin polyacrilonitrile nanofiber, a type of synthetic polymer related to acrylic, using a technique called electrospinning. The process involves applying high voltage to a polymer solution until a small jet of liquid ejects, resulting in a continuous length of nanofiber.

• Individual Entry Winners of The Spring 2013 Science Art competition announced!

  1^st Place – Tyler Holm & 2^nd Place – Zhanping Xu  (SEE FACEBOOK PHOTOS)
  Honorable Mention - Qingfeng Dong, PremKumar Thirugnanam, Gilbert Mbah & Thomas Smith

  Scientist/Artist Pair Group - Wei Xiong & Joel Brehm – 1^st Place

• An international team of scientists, including Nebraska MRSEC physicists Evgeny Tsymbal, Alexei Gruverman and J. D. Burton, has discovered a new approach to realize giant resistive switching, as reported in Nature Materials and featured in the UNL press release.
  
  
• Tim Gay, professor of physics, will present the spring Nebraska Lecture titled - Football: Its Physics and Future at 12:15 p.m. on April 5 in Memorial Stadium, West Stadium Club. The lecture is free and open to the public. A live webcast will be available.
  
  

• John Woollam receives national physics prize - UNL Today press release.

• Evgeny Tsymbal was named a George W. Holmes University Professor of Physics and Astronomy.  Continue reading...

• Job Announcment: SENIOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATE POSITIONS - NANOSCALE MAGNETIC MATERIALS by NCMN

• A UNL team led by Yuris Dzenis aims to create high-quality, lower-cost nanofibers.

• Linxia Gu - Today @ UNL "Engineer aims to reduce blood vessel stent complications" Continue reading…

• Jinsong Huang's NSF CAREER project on high efficiency organic solar cells is highlighted by NSF Discoveries: Producing Solar Energy Materials That Are Affordable, Efficient and Flexible and his research is featured as the "Breaking Story" on NSF's Science 360 News Service.
  
  

• The Spring 2013 Science Art competition is sponsored by the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience. Purpose: To celebrate the aesthetic appeal and creativity of nanoscience. see ANNOUNCMENT
  Submission: Template Link 1) Upload the finished file, using the instructions on the UNL Dropbox site at http://is.unl.edu/dropbox/.  2) Email Terese Janovec (tjanovec3@unl.edu) the link to your file so your picture can be included in the competition.  See 2012 submissions at: http://www.unl.edu/ncmn/nanoart.shtml
  
               NANODAYS 2013    Saturday, April 6, 2013   1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
                                Gateway Shopping Mall (61st & O Street)
                     Journal Star: Free NanoDay event for families on April 6
  

• NSF CAREER Award Seminar

  The Office of Research and Economic Development is hosting an NSF CAREER award seminar entitled "How to Write a Competitive CAREER Proposal" on Thursday, April 11 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the East Campus Union (Prairie Suite). Eligible junior faculty members are encouraged to attend. Please visit http://research.unl.edu/events/event2.php?eventID=521 to register. 

• Graduate Studies presents 12 awards.

• Xia Hong has created Phis's World (a cartoon approach to high school physics eduation) Episode 1: "Phis wants to be a Physicist" as part of her National Science Foundation funding. Her graduate student Zhiyong Xiao has constructed a website that hosts this comic series.

• David J. Sellmyer has been quoted by C&EN article, "Powerful Pull To New Magnets" A recent article published in NANO Letters (Nano Lett., DOI: 10.1021/nl200311w) was referenced (Co-authored by Balamurugan Balasubramanian, Ralph Skomski, Xingzhong Li, Shah R. Valloppilly, Jeffrey E. Shield, George C. Hadjipanayis, and David J. Sellmyer.)
  
  

• NSF career award aids Jinsong Huang's efforts to build better solar cell.

• Xiao Cheng Zeng becomes an Associate Editor for the journal "Nanoscale" of the Royal Society of Chemistry

• David Sellmyer honored with a Distinguished Achievement Award at the 22^nd International Conference on Rare-Earth Permanent Magnets and their Applications in Nagasaki, Japan. The award was sponsored by the Iketani Science and Technology Foundation of Japan
  
  
• The Mechanical and Thermodynamical Theory of Plasticity, Mehrdad Negahban, 2012, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/ 9780849372308
  
  
• Three textile science graduate students, mentored by Professor Yiqi Yang have won three of five student research awards in the national competition of the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists' Student Research Support Grants.
  
  
• A plaque commemorating the collaboration between UNL and NIST was unveiled at the Fall 2012 UNL Research Fair. It will hang in the new VOELTE-KEEGAN Nanoscience Research Center building.
  
  
• Representatives from the National Institutes of Standards and Technology visited UNL for a celebration of the new Volte-Keegan Nanoscience Research Center.
  
  

• NCMN's Nano Center is Lead Story on NSF's Science 360 News Service
  link: http://news.science360.gov/archives/20121207

• David Sellmyer, director of the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience, thanks NIST and Lloyd Whitman, deputy director of NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, gives the keynote presentation during Fall 2012 UNL Research Fair.
  
  
• "Nebraska Ice" Leads to Three More Discoveries for Xiao Cheng Zeng and his research team. Today @ UNL
  
  
• Jaiel Bai  and Xiao Cheng Zeng discovered a square nanotube array, a new two-dimensional ice form.
  
  

• Understand ice, understand Alzheimer's? featured in JournalStar.com article Xiao Cheng Zeng
  

• Dr. Ralph Skomski  has been named APS Outstanding Referee, recognized a small percentage of our 48,000 referees
  
  
• "Pioneers Park Nature Center bridges nature, nanoscience relationship in new exhibit" details by the Daily Nebraskan
  
  

• Mechanical & Materials Engineering's Jinsong Huang uses nanocomposites to improve photodetectors.

2012 NCMN/Bright Lights Nanocamp Presenters (middle school camp: grades 6-8)

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