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Sarah King and collaborators at UChicago, Chicago State University, and University of Illinois Chicago were awarded $4.8 million from the NIH BRAIN Initiative toward developing a novel PEEM microscope designed for brain connectomics.

The King group introduced a strategy for functionalizing a sulfur-containing transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) with multimolecular architectures.
Their article in ACS Applied Optical Materials describes how molecular adsorption in the growth and characterization of ion-linked bilayers offers a new pathway to introduce complex molecules onto sulfur-containing TMDs.

The Young group performed the first ever all-attosecond pump-probe x-ray spectroscopy of condensed matter. Their Science publication describes how the team struck liquid water with powerful, attoseconds-long x-ray pulses that took a snapshot of the electron behavior with the nuclei kept motionlessly in place

Princeton University Press published Soft Matter: Concepts, Phenomena, and Applications by Vincenzo Vitelli, Wim Van Saarlos, and Zorana Zeravcic.

NanoPattern Technologies cofounded by Dmitri Talapin has raised $1.5 million, including a $1 million NSF grant, to expand its work creating commercial quantum dot ink.

The Irvine group created a novel active matter system that can self propel, flock, and form a chiral active phase. Their publication in Nature Physics explains how a suspension of magnetic particles driven to spin at intermediate Reynolds numbers with a rotating magnetic field was able to behave as a synthetic active system.

The Vitelli group introduced a method of controlling the behavior of turbulence in a fluid. Their Nature article shows that odd viscosity, a type of viscosity which does not dissipate energy, causes turbulence in odd fluids to congregate into multiple vortices of roughly equal size.