Passive daytime radiative cooling (PDRC) coatings provide an eco-friendly and cost-effective alternative to cool surfaces and structures. Ideally, these coatings would have excellent cooling performance in thin, mechanically robust layers that could switch from rejecting heat to accepting heat during periods of low sunlight and would be produced by low-cost and scalable methods.  

Experimenta con PREM is a two-week hands-on research program for high school students run annually at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) Humacao & Cayey campuses. It remains a core program for the UPR-Penn PREM program with a history of attracting talented and motivated high school students to materials research; since its inception in 2005, 100% of students have graduated from high school and 78% pursue STEM after.

The race to build smaller and more efficient computer chips and batteries faces major challenges in materials organization.   Current smart phones, for example, are based upon layered  (“2-D”) materials, but nanoscale designs that utilize 3-D architecture are envisioned.  To access this third dimension in materials organization,  scientists must find ways to direct the flow of atoms before locking in structure.

  Interacting electron ripples provide clues to superconductivity A theoretical prediction is confirmed by atomic-scale microscopy

The Renewable Energy MRSEC and the Adams and Meeker County Public Schools are collaborating on several partnership programs, the Bechtel K-5 Educational Excellence Initiative, the NSF funded GK-12 Learning Partnership, and the ExxonMobil Meeker Partnership. In these partnerships, CSM graduate students in mathematics, science and engineering are placed in support of elementary and middle school teachers and their students for up to fifteen hours each week throughout the academic year.

To fully understand the behavior of graphene's electrons, Georgia Tech and NIST scientists employ the extremes of ultra-low temperature and large magnetic field.  In a new ultra-low temperature scanning tunneling microscope (ULT-STM) constructed at NIST, graphene remains pristine for weeks, enabling precise observations of electron energy levels and interactions.  Using multilayer epitaxial graphene prepared at Georgia Tech, the collaborato

Highly-symmetrized MnAu nanoalloys may possess high magnetic moments for potential application. The magnetic properties of MnAu nanoclusters exhibit strong dependence on the cluster sizes and morphologies.

IRG 3 has examined the orientational ordering of nematic liquid crystals (LCs) supported on organized monolayers of dipeptides with the goal of understanding how peptide-based interfaces encode intermolecular interactions that are amplified into supramolecular ordering.

  New technique produces heterojunctions in single-atom-thick graphene