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• 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
  
  
• 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.

• The Sellmyer Group's nanostructure design figure in print with highlight sentence as a cover image of Magnetic Technology International 2012.
  
  

• 'Nano to Nature' is now on display at Pioneers Park Nature Center from NCMN's Outreach / Education (Terese Janovec, Coordinator Education-Outreach).

• Dr. Redepenning's night at The Mill imakes front page Daily Nebraskan coverage.
  
  
• The UNL Research Fair ends today with a celebratory workshop on the Voelte-Keegan Nanoscience Research Center.  The event is 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. in the Nebraska Union Colonial Room.
  
  

• Don't miss the NanoScience Cafe on "Biomaterials for Battlefield Trauma" with Dr. Jody Redepenning at The Mill location: 800 P St., at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15.

• UNL’s Behlen Observatory near Mead will be open to the public from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Nov. 16. Continue reading…
  
  
• NCMN ELECTRON MICROSCOPY FACILITY-Research Services and Fee Structure

• FAST Faculty technology showcase online

• UNL Lectures this week (Oct. 20-26)

• JournalStar.com Editorial, 10/02: Expecting Big Things

• Small is the New Big Columns article
  
• WoPhy Conference Oct 18-Oct 20
  
  
• September 27, 2012 Building Dedication of the NEW VOELTE-KEEGAN Nanoscience Research Center. Dr. David Sellmyer, Director - Located at 855 N. 16th St.,University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0298  UNL NEWS
  
  
• Lincoln Journal Star "New building boosts UNL nanoscience research
  
  
• The Daily Nebraskan .com news article on the Nano Building Dedication
  
  
• New class of materials discovered; could boost computer memory - Dr. Evgeny Tsymbal and international team of scientists have discovered that a new class of materials boasts a very attractive property — ferroelectricity, which may be used to create new types of data storage devices.
  
  
• Simple Models of Magnetism by Dr. Ralph Skomski, first published in 2008, is now available in paperback format. The book has been welcomed by the scientific community as a "highly readable and thorough account" and of "great use to graduate students and experts in the field alike".  More...
  
  
• Nebraska Research and Innovation Conference hosted by EPSCoR
  
  
• Dr. Xiao Zeng group paper is featured in the Cover Art of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation  (IP > 5).
  
  
• Dr. Alexandar Sinitskii has contributed to the chapter on graphene oxide One of the first books on Graphene titled: "Graphene Nanoelectronics" published by Springer.
  
  
• Dr. Jinsong Huang's image of Organic Solar Cells is on the cover of a Energy & Environmental Science magazine this month. MME article: MME’s Huang uses nanocomposites to improve photodetectors.
  

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

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