NCMN MEMBERS CELEBRATE MANY RECENT RESEARCH BREAKTHROUGHS IN NANOSCIENCE ! |
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at the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience |
Dr. Sitaram Jaswal, UNL's Professor Emeritus with the Department of Physics & Astronomy, is one of 360 journal reviewers receiving the American Physical Society's Outstanding Referee designation, a lifetime honor, in 2009. The APS has 47,000 physicist members worldwide. |
DOE funds Prof Saraf's work to engineer electronic interface between living cell and nanodevice |
P. Frazer Williams, UNL's Lott Distinguished Professor Emeritus with the Department of Electrical Engineering, is one of 360 journal reviewers receiving the American Physical Society's Outstanding Referee designation, a lifetime honor, in 2009. The APS has 47,000 physicist members worldwide |
| Dr. Shireen Adenwalla, NCMN member involved in a newly awarded $3 million, five-year grant from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence |
Dr. Xiao Zeng's research highlighted on NSF's Science 360 News Service for web and email (See "Live from Studio 8") |
Dzenis part of $7.5M Army grant to develop fibers for stronger defense materials. |
| NCMN welcomes new member: Dr. Jinsong Huang, Mechanical Engineering and the following new members since July 2009: Dr. Rebecca Y. Lai Chemistry, Dr. Shadi Othman Biological Systems Engineering, and Dr. Angela K. Pannier Biological Systems Engineering |
MRSEC's nanotechnology video featured on NSF's Science 360 News Service for web and email (See "Live from Studio 8") |
Professor YShadi Othman, assistant professor, biological systems engineering, and Joseph Turner, professor, engineering mechanics are one of twelve fellows and senior faculty mentors selected for the Inaugural Research Development Fellows Program, an initiative to help pre-tenure faculty successfully compete for grants.Yongfeng Lu leads research team working with self-aligning carbon nanotubes |
Karolina Janicka, Julian P. Velev, and Evgeny Y. Tsymbal's "Quantum Nature of Two-Dimensional Electron Gas Confinement at LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Interfaces" makes the cover of PRL 102 |
Vortex Ferroelectric Domains, authored by A. Gruverman, D. Wu, H-J. Fan, I. Vrejoiu, M. Alexe, R.J. Harrison and J.F. Scott has been selected as one of the 2008 Top Papers in the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter |
Dr. Timothy J. Gay has joined the select list of Outstanding Referees of the Physical Review and Physical Review Letters journals, as chosen by the journal editors for 2009! |
UNL Laser-Assisted Nano-Engineering Lab researchers led by Yongfeng Lu, professor of electrical engineering, uses a laser to create self-aligning carbon nanotubes. Nanotechnology Jan. 14 Cover Story, LaserFocusWorld, Nanowerk and nanotechweb.org |
Xiao Cheng Zeng Research gives clues for self-cleaning materials, water-striding robots |
Evgeny Tsymbal (Physics) Named Fellow of the American Physical Society, October 2008 and appointed a Charles Bessey Professor, April 2009. |
Stephen DiMagno (Chemistry) Elected Vice-Chair/Membership of the ACS Division of Fluorine Chemistry, 2009. |
Xiao Cheng Zeng (Chemistry) Journal of the American Chemical Society highlights research in JACS Select website on Self-Assembly of Surfactants and Polymorphic Transition in Nanotubes, Arai, N., Yasuoka, K., Zeng, X.C., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130 (25), 7916-7920, Publication Date (Web): May 30, 2008 Article) DOI: 10.1021/ja7108739. |
Gerard Harbison (Chemistry) Bomb detection research featured at 2009 American Chemical Society national news conference, March. |
David Berkowitz (Chemistry) Awarded a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship for 2008-09. |
NCMN welcomes the following new members: |
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