News : Bacteria research inspires students' creative artwork
By Krishna Ramanujan Provided Shayna Anderson '16, "Untitled," lithograph. This image, inspired by Ruth Ley's research, appeared as the cover art for the November...
View ArticleNews : Tiny tool measures heat at the nanoscale
Robinson Group Design of the spectrometer to probe phonon transmission through silicon nanosheet arrays. How heat flows at the nanoscale can be ve...
View ArticleNews : B.U. Students Talk Energy Research at Lost Dog Cafe
There was a science cafandeacute; at the Lost Dog Cafe in Binghamton last night. A group of Binghamton University students and professors talked about energy research and how to mee...
View ArticleNews : 'Exotic' material is like a switch when super thin
By Anne Ju Hanfei Wei An artist's rendering of the thickness-driven, metal-insulator transition in sub-nanometer films of a lanthanum nickelate. Nickel atoms a...
View ArticleNews : Cornell synchrotron receives up to $100M in NSF support
By Anne JuArduous, year-plus-long scrutiny by the National Science Foundation (NSF) has found the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) rich in scientific discovery and exemplary in...
View ArticleNews : Prof. Robinson named as an emerging top scientist in Materials Chemistry
MSE Professor and emc2 faculty member, Richard Robinson, has been selected by the Editorial and International Editorial Advisory Boards of the Journal of Materials Chemistry A as one of the e...
View ArticleNews : Mesoporous Carbons for More Kick
Researchers tune the pore size in carbon materials for next-generation batteriesFrontiers in Energy Research: April 2014 A scanning electron microscopy image ...
View ArticleNews : In the wake of high-profile battery fires, a safer approach emerges
ACS News Service Weekly PressPac "Suppression of Lithium Dendrite Growth Using Cross-Linked Polyethylene/Polyethylene Oxide Electrolytes: A New Approach for Practical Lithium-Metal Polyme...
View ArticleNews : Postdoc brings open access issue to the table
By Anne Ju Robert Barker/University Photography Jimmy O'Dea helped start a discussion at Cornell about an open-access policy. Cornell scientists repo...
View ArticleNews : Cornell boasts 22 'highly cited' researchers
Sciencewatch named 22 Cornell scientists to its list of Highly Cited Researchers in science and social sciences fields. "These researchers earned the distinction by writing the greate...
View ArticleNews : The perfect atom sandwich requires an extra layer
By Anne Ju Yuefeng Nie The left figure demonstrates why the first double layer of strontium oxide is missing when growing a Ruddlesden-Popper oxide thin film. Titan...
View ArticleNews : Grad student aims to improve particle accelerators
By Linda B. Glaser Lindsay France/University Photography Siddharth Karkare, left, and Laurent Boulet '14 in the Newman Hall photocathode research lab. ...
View ArticleNews : 2014 Symposium Agenda Announced
emc2's annual Energy Materials Symposium will feature Dr. Eric Isaacs, formerly head of the Argonne National Laboratory, and now Professor of Physics and Provost of the University of Chicago, as ou...
View ArticleNews : To bolster lithium battery life, add a little salt
By Blaine Friedlander Archer Lu Tu Cornell chemical engineers have achieved a breakthrough in the r...
View ArticleNews : Forty-Six-Foot Tall Needle Sculpture Rises Over Arts Quad
By ANUSHKA MEHROTRA Students walking around campus this weekend may have noticed a new addition to the University's Arts Quad: A 46-foot tall blue, needle-shaped sculpture. The structu...
View ArticleNews : CHESS X-rays show how to grow crystals from crystals
By Anne Ju Way too small to see, nanocrystals - tiny crystals that are at least 1,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair - exhibit unprecedented properties that intrigue...
View ArticleNews : Lena Kourkoutis wins Packard fellowship
By Anne Ju Kourkoutis Lena Kourkoutis, assistant professor of applied and engineering physics, has received a Packard Fellowship for Science and ...
View ArticleNews : Billions of 'nanoreactors' inform materials design
By Anne Ju Provided/Hanrath group A schematic of lead selenide nanocrystals enclosed in iron oxide boxes. Imagine building a chemical reactor small ...
View ArticleNews : Cornell-developed polymer has commercial debut
By Anne Ju A sustainable, low-cost polymer developed by Cornell chemists has had its commercial debut. The polymer, called polypropylene carbonate, is made using a class of catalysts ...
View ArticleNews : Multiferroic heroics put instant-on computing in sight
By Anne Ju John Heron A conceptual illustration of magnetization reversal, given by the compasses, with an electric field (blue) applied across the gold capacitors...
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