Now Showing in 3D: Quasicrystal Growth and Dissolution
Assistant Professor Ashwin Shahani and his team recently captured the real-time growth and dissolution of decagonal (2D) and icosahedral (3D) […]
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Holography and LIDAR on the cheap with nanoparticle gel
“Help me, Obi Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope.” For many of those around at the release of Star Wars […]
Semiconductor breakthrough may be game-changer for organic solar cells
In an advance that could push cheap, ubiquitous solar power closer to reality, University of Michigan researchers have found a […]
MSE’s Katsuyo Thornton part of team whose Surprising discovery could lead to better batteries
A collaboration led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has observed an unexpected phenomenon […]
Metals that court chaos could be the future of computing (video)
U-M assistant professor of materials science and engineering John Heron believes that entropy-stabilized oxides–metal mixtures that contain as many as […]
Electricity, eel-style: Soft power cells could run tomorrow’s implantables
Inspired by the electric eel, a flexible, transparent electrical device could lead to body-friendly power sources for implanted health monitors […]
Article: Controlling dislocation near material surfaces with atomic segregation
In an article recently published in Nature Materials, Assistant Professor Liang Qi and MSE Ph.D. candidate Chaoming Yang detail a […]
U-M grad student wins gold medal from Materials Research Society
MSE congratulates ME Ph.D. candidate Longji Cui for being one of only nine graduate students from across the globe to […]
John (Chip) Keough ’77 awarded the Pangborn Gold Medal from AFS
On Monday the American Foundry Society (AFS) Board of Awards unanimously awarded John (Chip) Keough (BS ’77 Materials and Metallurgical […]
Atomistic calculations predict that boron incorporation increases the efficiency of LEDs
High-power white LEDs face the same problem that Michigan Stadium faces on game day — too many people in too […]