News: Faculty

2024

King Group Introduces Functionalizing Method for TMDs

September 30, 2024

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.


Paul Alivisatos awarded Kavli Prize in Nanoscience

July 31, 2024

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Steve Sibener gives annual Remsen Lecture

April 30, 2024

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Bozhi Tian elected to American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows

April 30, 2024

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Greg Voth’s birthday honored with 4-day symposium by American Chemical Society

April 30, 2024

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Dmitri Talapin named a fellow the Martials Research Society

April 30, 2024

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Vincenzo Vitelli publishes “Soft Matter” with Princeton University Press

April 30, 2024

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


Dmitri Talapin-cofounded NanoPattern Technologies raises $1.5 million

April 30, 2024

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.


Steven Sibener Elected to the Royal Society of Chemistry

April 29, 2024


Vincenzo Vitelli Authors Textbook on Soft Matter

April 29, 2024


Irvine Group Creates Synthetic Active Matter System

March 31, 2024

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.


Physics With a Bang 2023 Welcomes 400 visitors

January 30, 2024

The annual Physics With A Bang MRSEC open house welcomed 400 visitors of all ages on Dec. 9 to get them excited about science. Attendees explored a hall of interactive demonstrations, toured lab spaces, and watched Heinrich Jaeger and Sidney Nagel’s double act of dazzling science presentations.


Vitelli and Gardel groups create new model to predict cell traction

January 30, 2024

The Vitelli and Gardel groups created new models for predicting cell traction forces. Their paper in Cell details how trained neural networks could predict the forces created by complex biochemistry using images of just fluorescent zyxin proteins.


Jaeger group discovers new method of observing non-Newtonian fluid

January 30, 2024

The Jaeger group discovered a new method of observing the behavior of non-Newtonian fluids. Their paper in PNAS shows how measuring the conductance of fluids made with piezoelectric nanoparticles can reveal the interactions of the particles inside.


Mazziotti group introduces a modified density theory for molecular electronic behavior

January 30, 2024

The Mazziotti group introduced a modified version of density field theory that can better describe molecular electronic behavior. Their publication in Physical Review Letters describes how they integrated two-electron reduced matrix theory to account for interactions between electrons.