NCMN MEMBERS CELEBRATE RESEARCH BREAKTHROUGHS IN MATERIALS & NANOSCIENCE !
....at the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience
The TEXTURED Images of NANOSCIENCE.
NCMN is a multidisciplinary organization with over 88 faculty members from UNL and other University of Nebraska campuses. We are concerned with atomic manipulation, properties affected by nanoscale dimensions, self-assembly, ordered nanoarrays, quantum dots and wires, nanoelectronics, quantum computing, nanomechanics, nanooptics, molecular design, nanoelectro-mechanical systems, and nanobiological function and life sciences.
Mathias Schubert Mathias Schubert, University of Nebraska-Lincoln associate professor of electrical engineering, has been named a fellow of the American Physical Society. Election to the fellowship is limited to no more than one-half of 1 percent of the society's membership.
The Institute of Physics (IOP) has published a news article Anomalous electron transport in ferromagnetic MnBi, based on research of Parashu Kharel and David Sellmyer and published in J. Phys. Cond. Mat. 23, 426001 (2011).
New Outreach / Edu Recognition Page highlights our NCMN Members contributions to events.
College of Engineering alumnus Don Voelte and Nancy Keegan, chair of the University of Nebraska Foundation’s board of directors, have given a $5 million campaign gift to UNL. In recognition of their gift, UNL's Nanoscience Metrology Facility will be named in their honor. (see photos below)
Chemistry professor Xiao Cheng Zeng has been named the 2011 recipient of the Midwest Award from the American Chemical Society's St. Louis section. The annual honor recognizes a scientist who has made contributions to the advancement of chemistry. He will receive the award in October. more...
The X-ray and Crystallography Facilities have been combined into one called "X-Ray Structural Characterization Facility". Shah Valloppilly phone: (402)472-3693 or
e-mail:svallopp2@unl.edu
Rhitankar Pal, a grad student in the Zeng lab, is
one of 4 UNL Ph.D. candidates to win a 2011-12
Presidential Graduate Fellowships
Rare Earth Solar will be the first solar panel manufacturer in Nebraska. Chin Li "Barry" Cheung, assistant professor of chemistry at UNL and past doctoral student Joseph Brewer developed the patent-pending technologytechnology, which replaces the typical semiconductor materials now used in solar cell manufacture with rare earth elements. NUtech Ventures and Rare Earth Solar announced an exclusive license agreement expected to lead to the development of breakthrough solar panel technology made with rare earth elements. more...
The American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists and Yigi Yang announce the Medical/Biomedical/Protective Materials and Devices poster winners -
1st Place - "Citric Acid Crosslinked Electrospun Zein Fibers for Biomedical Applications" by Qiuran Jiang & Wei Li and - 2nd Place - "Fabrication of Hollow Nanoparticles from Corn Storage Protein Zein for Potential Biomedical Applications" by Helan Xu & Yue Zhang of UNL.
Patrick Dussault, Charles Bessey professor of chemistry, has been selected the new Dean of Graduate Studies. Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Ellen Weissinger announced the appointment. Dussault will take over duties as graduate dean June 1, pending approval by the Board of Regents.
Jeffrey Lopez a junior studying chemical engineering was awarded the 2011 Goldwater scholarship and has been participating in the Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experiences program with Ravi Saraf.
Nebraska EPSCoR’s FIRST Award program is designed to help early career faculty initiate their research programs and compete more effectively for NSF CAREER grants. Xia Hong, Physics and Astronomy and Yusong Li, Civil Engineering are two of the 2011 Awardees.
J.D. Burton and Evgeny Tsymbal’s work on electrically controlled spin-valve effect made the front web page of Physical Review Letters with the synopsis of this article being featured by the PRL editor.
