Utah MRSEC taught fifth-grade teachers to build electromagnetic ping pong ball launchers to demonstrate electromagnetism to their students.

Objective:  Demonstrate that Mie resonance-based metamaterials with isotropic electromagnetic responses

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

Intellectual Merit: We developed a colloid-scale model for detailed investigations

Triangle MRSEC investigators Zauscher,

Triangle MRSEC investigators Zauscher,

Diblock copolymers in selective solvents self-assemble in

Objective:  Develop plasmonic structures in which the spatial conductivity can be varied

Guided by hierarchical materials design principles evolved by bacteria, which include the use of curvature-induced strain to dynamically position amphiphiles, proteins and other biomolecules within single cells, IRG3 of the Wisconsin MRSEC has recently recapitulated these design principles in synthetic LC systems. In one set of approaches, the IRG has explored the complex interplay of curvature strain, surface anchoring and topological defects within LC droplets to achieve the synthesis of