Crystal with a twist: scientists grow spiraling new material Prof. Jie Yao’s team have created new inorganic crystals made of stacks of atomically thin sheets that unexpectedly spiral like a nanoscale card deck. Their surprising structures, reported in a new study appearing in the Wednesday, June 20 issue of the journal Nature, may yield unique optical, electronic and…

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Professor Martin and Colleagues Take Big Step Towards Making Graphene Electronics by Materials Science and Engineering January 29, 2015 In a recent report in the journal Nature Communications, a Berkeley MSE team led by Professor Lane Martin, together with colleagues form the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, have found a way…

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 Subject: Big Give is coming on March 14 – Join me!   Dear alumni, colleagues, and friends of UC Berkeley Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), Berkeley’s annual day of giving — Big Give — is happening next week, starting at 9 pm on Wednesday, March 13th and ending at 9 pm on Thursday,…

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As reported in Nature today, the research groups of Professor Ceder and Persson collaborated on the creation of an Autonomous Laboratory for the Synthesis of New Inorganic Materials.  Using integration with the Materials Project (materialsproject.org), text-mined synthesis knowledge from over 5Million research papers, and data from Google Deepmind, the A-lab demonstrated the autonomous synthesis of…

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  The Bakar Fellows program selects Professor Phillip Messersmith’s project, “Gel Protection During Tumor Ablation” for Spark Awards. You can find the full story here: https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/08/31/Bakar-Fellows-program-selects-seven-projects-for-Spark-Awards?utm_source=Berkeleyan&utm_campaign=877452a58e-berkeleyan_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_99ee3800d7-877452a58e-388726349

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