Highlights
Apr 30, 2014
International Activities with German Partner Organization IRTG 1524
Carol Hall, NCSU
Research
Triangle MRSEC investigators have
numerous ( >30) international research collaborations with scientists
in Europe, Scandinavia, Canada, Russia, China and Korea. Most prominent among these interactions is
Apr 30, 2014
Supporting STEM Education, Career Development, and Collaboration through the REU Program
Catherine Reyes, Duke University
The
long term goals
of
the Research
Triangle MRSEC REU program are to maximize opportunities
for undergraduate involvement in
MRSEC research, recruit diverse
undergraduate students from across the country, and support future careers in
Apr 23, 2014
Next Generation Materials for Plasmonics and Organic Spintronics (2011)
Design, fabrication and characterization of Mie resonance-based three-dimensional metamaterials for tuning thermal radiative properties
Spencer J. Petersen, University of Utah Graduate Student Bart Raeymaekers, University of Utah Mechanical Engineering A Mathieu Francoeur
Objective:
Demonstrate that Mie resonance-based metamaterials with isotropic electromagnetic responses
Apr 23, 2014
Next Generation Materials for Plasmonics and Organic Spintronics (2011)
Utah MRSEC Teaching the Teachers
Debra Mascaro, Education & Outreach Director, Utah MRSEC Chelsey Short, Education & Outreach Program Manager, Utah MRSEC
Utah MRSEC taught fifth-grade
teachers to build electromagnetic ping pong ball launchers to demonstrate
electromagnetism to their students.
Apr 16, 2014
MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering (2014)
Better Batteries Through Biology
Angela Belcher (MIT), Yang Shao-Horn (MIT)
Lithium-oxygen
batteries have a great potential to enhance the gravimetric energy density of
fully packaged batteries by 2-3 times that of lithium-ion cells,
thus
greatly increasing the range of electric vehicles.
Apr 16, 2014
UChicago Materials Research Center (2014)
Soft nanoscale epitaxy
Sara M. Rupich, Fernando C. Castro, William T.M. Irvine, Dmitri V. Talapin
Researchers in the Irvine and Talapin groups at the University of Chicago MRSEC used nanoparticle membranes discovered by the Jaeger and Lin groups to develop a platform for studies of homo= and heteroepitaxy in nanocrystal assemblies.
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