MRSEC News Archive

Chad Mirkin (IRG 3) Leads a team that developed new nanotechnology-based tools that are 300 times more sensitive than commercial tests and define a new PSA “zero”. More>

The University of Texas at San Antonio receives Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) grant for collaborative work with NU-MRSEC and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. More>

Tobin Marks (IRG 1 & 4) wins the 2009 MRS Von Hipple award. More>

Michelle Mok (IRG 2) wins the 2009 Akzo-Nobel Award of the American Chemical Society for her work on gradient copolymers.

Alexander Flowers (REU 2002) receives the Distinguished Service Award from the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. More>

George Schatz (IRG 3) receives two honors from the American Chemical Society. More>

Tobin Marks (IRG 1 & 4) receives the 2010 William H. Nichols Medal from the American Chemical Society. More>

Jiaxing Huang (Seed) develops an "evolutionary tree" of nanoparticle synthesis to control particle morphology. Abstract> Press Release>

Tobin Marks, Mark Hersam and Lincoln Lauhon (IRG 4) receive Nanoelectronics Research Initiative grant from the Semiconductor Research Corporation. More>

Sir Fraser Stoddart (Seed) will receive an honorary doctorate from Trinity College Dublin. More>

Chad Mirkin (IRG 3) is awarded the Lemelson-MIT Prize for invention. More>

Tobin Marks (IRG 1,4) receives Nelson Taylor Award from Penn State University. More>

Mark Hersam's (IRG 4) work on functionalizing graphene is featured as a cover article in Nature Chemistry. Abstract> Press Release>

Molecular semiconductor work of Mark Ratner (IRG 4) and Tobin Marks (IRG 1,4) appears as cover article in Chemistry - A European Journal. Abstract>

Review article on molecular self-assembled monolayers and multilayers by Mark Ratner (IRG 4) and Tobin Marks (IRG 1,4) is featured in Advanced Materials. Abstract>

Chad Mirkin (IRG 3) named as member of President Obama's Science and Technology Advisory Council. More>

Vinayak Dravid (IRG 1) named Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America.

Ken Shull (IRG 2) has received a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award and will spend the next academic year at the Insituto de Física at the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico.

Michael Bedzyk (IRG 1 and 4) measures atomic structure of ferroelectric strontium titanate grown directly on silicon. Journal Article> Press Release>

Lincoln Lauhon (IRG 4) uses atom probe tomography to view dopant distribution in semiconducting nanowires. Journal Article> Press Release>

Sam Stupp (IRG 2) and Lincoln Lauhon (IRG 4) develop hybrid organic-inorganic lamellar photoconductors with environmentally friendly ZnO. Journal Article> Press Release>

Tobin Marks (IRG 1 and 4) is named winner of the 2009 Herman Pines Award for his work on homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis. More>

Tobin Marks (IRG 1 and 4) and Samuel Stupp (IRG 2) are named Fellows of the Materials Research Society. More>

Adilson Motter (Seed) is named Sloan Fellow. More>

Teri Odom (IRG 3) wins the Outstanding Young Investigator award from the Materials Research Society. More>

Chad Mirkin (IRG 3) is elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering. More>

Monica Olvera (IRG 2) describes the electrostatic origins of chiral patterns in nanofibers in a cover article of Soft Matter. Journal Article> Press Release>

Mark Hersam's (IRG 4) work on Nanoscale Conducting Oxide Writing appears as cover article in Advanced Materials. Christopher Chen, a 2007 REU, and 2007-2008 URI participant, is coauthor on the paper. More>

Chad Mirkin (IRG 3) receives the Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest from ACS, and the Havinga Medal 2009 from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. More>

Samuel Stupp (IRG 2) is awarded honorary doctorate by the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. More>

George Schatz (IRG 3) receives the 2008 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for theoretical work in nanoscience. More>

Mark Hersam (IRG 4) uses density gradient ultracentrifugation to separate double-walled carbon nanotubes from single-walled and multi-walled nanotubes. More>

Adilson Motter (Seed) finds that cells only use a small fraction of available biochemical reactions in metabolic optimization. More>

Samuel Stupp (IRG 2) shows that biologically active nanofibers can help mice paralized from spinal cord injury regain movement. More>

Katherine Faber (Seed) from Northwestern University and Francesca Casadio from the Art Institute of Chicago jointly organize a symposium on collaborative art conservation projects. More>

Tobin Marks (IRG 1 and 4) is elected as Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Research Society of India. More>

NU-MRSEC receives a Student Development and Achievement Grant from the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Chicago Foundation to support the science clubs at Chute and Nichols middle schools in Evanston. Article> JCCC Newsletter (page9)>

Teri Odom (IRG 3) receives NIH Director's Pioneer Award. More>

Lincoln Lauhon (IRG 4) named Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar. More>

Mark Hersam's (IRG 4) Gallium nanocluster experiments appear as cover article in Small. More>

Thomas Mason's (IRG 1) Nano-Grain Composite Model is featured in the Journal of the American Ceramic Society. More>

Tobin Marks (IRG 1 & 4) receives Spanish award for creating ‘Revolutionary Materials’. More>

George Schatz (IRG 3) named Ver Steeg Distinguished Research Fellow. More>

Mirkin (IRG 3) selected as member of the DOD National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellows (NSSEFF) program. More>

2007 summer MRSEC REU research contributes to Nature Physics paper on granular materials. More>

Paper of Olvera de la Cruz (IRG 2) receives PNAS prize. More>

Motter (Seed) studies the control and recovery of cellular function. More>