MSE’s own Prof. Zakaria Al Balushi has been highlighted as a “rising star of nanoscience” for his work in devising ways to produce next-generation nanomaterials. Prof. Al Balushi was interviewed for the Nature Index Report on Nanoscience/nanotechnology; which celebrates the institutions and individuals behind the rapidly growing research in this field which are enabling the design of new materials and…

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MSE’s own Professor R. Ramesh, together with his colleagues Profs. Agnes Barthelemy (Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales), Manuel Bibes (Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales), and Nicola Spaldin (ETH Zurich), has been named the Europhysics Prize 2022 winner for “seminal contributions to the physics and applications of multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials.” The Europhysics Prize is awarded by…

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MSE’s own Prof. R. Ramesh has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAA&S). Founded in 1780, the AAA&S honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together, as expressed in our charter, “to cultivate every…

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  The podcast “A Day in the Half-Life” is a podcast about the surprising and often unexpected ways that science evolves. Host Aliyah Kovner at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory featured MSE’s own, Prof. R. Ramesh in the Feb. 9, 2022 episode entitled “More Microchips, Moore Problems”. The episode focuses on efforts to make the next generation…

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Prof. Zakaria Al Balushi of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering has been awarded the prestigious NSF CAREER award for his project entitled “Phase Control in Synthetic Two-dimensional Materials.” The five-year grant (totaling $600,000) is from the Division of Civil, Mechanical & Manufacturing Innovation and will support Prof. Al Balushi’s efforts to advance the manufacturing of…

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Prof. Junqiao Wu’s research group has developed an all-season smart-roof coating that keeps homes warm during the winter and cool during the summer without consuming natural gas or electricity. Research findings reported in the journal Science point to a groundbreaking technology that outperforms commercial cool-roof systems in energy savings. The technology uses a photonically amplified metal-insulator phase transition to switch…

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MSE’s own Professor Kristin Persson and Professor Gerd Ceder were featured on an episode of Marketplace radio’s climate technology podcast “How We Survive.” During the episode, they discuss the future of batteries, new materials, and self-driving labs (among other things). Head here to find the episode and listen for yourself to two world leaders in this…

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It is with great sadness that we pass on the news that Didier de Fontaine, a pioneer in the field of first principles Materials Science and Emeritus Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, passed away on November 20, 2021. Professor de Fontaine received his PhD from Northwestern in 1967 and joined the University of California…

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