Bioengineer Sanjay Kumar receives PECASE -- Prof. Kumar tops his NIH award (see below) with the highest honor bestowed upon early career scientists by the U.S. gov't. Kumar was nominated by the Department of Defense.
Graphene's potential applications demonstrated by UCB physicists -- In the 11 June issue of Nature our nano researchers Feng Wang, Yuanbo Zhang, and Tsung-Ta Tang from the Crommie and Zettl labs show that a graphene bilayer can have a tunable bandgap, which opens up a new range of engineering applications and physics investigations.
ACS educational video contest won by Cal grad students --the American Chemical Society's call for short videos that explain nano to a broad audience awarded their Critic's Choice and People's Choice awards to The Nano Song , which was produced by our own NSE students pursuing Ph.D.s in EECS and AST.
Material Scientist Ting Xu pioneers polymer self-assembly -- Prof. Xu's work in collaboration with U. Mass/Amherst's Thomas Russell has found a way around the limitations of photolithography to produce ordered arrays that remain defect-free over large areas. Implications for data storage: 250 DVDs will fit on a surface the size of a quarter.
Opto-electronics Researcher Constance Chang-Hasnain named National Security Science and Engineering Fellow -- Chair of our own NSE Graduate Group, Prof. Chang-Hasnain is one of eight newly awarded distinguished faculty recognized for long-term basic research on challenging technical problems of strategic national security importance.
Bioengineer Sanjay Kumar wins Young Innovator award from NIH -- Prof. Kumar's research program combines approaches from biophysics, systems biology, and oncology to study the molecular mechanisms cells use to sense and communicate.
Compressing light for improved optical communications -- Optics researchers in Xiang Zhang's lab have proposed a way to significantly improve optical fiber, overcoming a major hurdle in the race for a compact optical transistor.
New metamaterials bend light backwards -- A new Nature paper by postdocs in the SINAM lab describes nanomaterials that achieve a negative refraction coefficient.
Golden Scales: NEMS Sensor Can Be Used to Weigh Individual Atoms and Molecules -- Researchers in COINS have fashioned a nanoscale device sensitive enough to measure the mass of a single atom of gold.
Single Nanotube Makes World's Smallest Radio -- Physicists in Alex Zettl's COINS lab have built a radio from a single carbon nanotube, just 101 years after the first music transmissions by radio.
Chemist Peidong Yang wins National Science Foundation's Waterman Award -- The NSF's top prize for young researchers goes to our own head advisor for the Graduate Group in Nanoscale Science & Engineering.
A Nano-Scale Lab With Societal-Scale Impact --CITRIS's new headquarters.
Gift from Larry and Diane Bock establishes first Chair in Nanotechnology in College of Chemistry
Nanomix, University of California to develop, commercialize e-nose device
A Hail Mary against global warming peril Cal grad student working on thin solar panel
Researchers develop technique to use dirty silicon, could pave way for cheaper solar energy
Nanoscale Tubing Assembles Itself Instantly
Spinning Out the Future of Computing
Nanodevices That Assemble Themselves
