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LRSM Science Café @ World Cafe Live
The LRSM Science Café has formed a new partnership with World Cafe Live (3025 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA), just off the Penn campus and only two blocks from the LRSM building. Beginning in January, 2013, our Science Cafés will be held in the upstairs room at WCL, starting at 6:30 pm. This is a larger venue than usual and we encourage attendees to come early for dinner before the presentation which will last, typically, 30-45 minutes and be followed by an open discussion session between speaker and the audience. The WCL is readily accessible by train, 30th St. Station, bus, 9, 21 and 42, and car, by on-street Pay and Display parking.
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Russell J. Composto receives NSF Special Creativity Award
The award recognizes his pioneering research on the dispersion and assembly of gold nanorods confined to polymer nanolayers and their potential applications for optical property control.
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Dennis Discher Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Dennis E. Discher, Robert D. Bent Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. For elucidation of the effects of mechanical forces on cell physiology and stem cell development.
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Philly Materials Science and Engineering Day, February 4, 2012
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Charlie Kane, 2012 Oliver E. Buckley Prize
Prof. Charlie Kane will be awarded the 2012 Oliver E. Buckley Prize in Condensed Matter Physics by the American Physical Society. Professor Kane and two other researchers are being recognized "For the prediction and subsequent discovery of the new phase of matter known as topological insulators in two dimensions, also known as quantum spin Hall insulators, which lead to its generalization and prediction in three dimensional system." The Buckley Prize will be presented at the APS March 2012 meeting in Boston, MA Feb. 27-March 2, 2012 at a special Ceremonial session.
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Lukes and Winkelstein named 2012 Penn Fellows
LRSM-NIMS Materials Workshop
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Andrew Rappe: "Stressing the Most Important (Dirac) Points"
"Editor's Suggestion" Physical Review B, v84
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Inside cover Advanced Materials, December 8, 2011
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LRSM awarded a six-year MRSEC grant from the NSF
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Daniel A. Hammer
Sensing membrane stress with near IR-emissive porphyrins
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Signing Ceremony of the Comprehensive Collaborative Agreement between LRSM and the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)Advanced Materials inside cover article, Kamien, Stebe & YangPillar-Assisted Epitaxial Assembly of Toric Focal Conic Domains of Smectic-A Liquid Crystals, December 8, 2011
Philly Materials Science and Engineering Day
Physical Review Focusarticle on "How Thin Films Melt", Arjun Yodh and Yilong Han
SCIENCE MAGAZINE (5/21/10)Self-Assembly of Janus Dendrimers into Uniform Dendrimersomes and Other Complex Architectures, Hammer/Percec/Klein
Nanotechnologists at Penn and Columbia Reveal the Frictional Characteristics of Atomically Thin Sheets
Soft Matter Cover / April 7, 2010
The group of Prof. Chris Murray (Chemistry and Materials Science) has created a method to rapidly grow centimeter-scale membranes of binary nanocrystal superlattices by crystallizing a mixture of nanocrystals on a liquid surface. In a MRSEC collaboration involving the group of Prof. Jay Kikkawa (Physics) and the Property Measurement Shared Equipment Facility, they have studied the hybrid magnetic properties of these new materials.
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Dendrimersomes Debut
Supramolecular Chemistry: Self-assembled dendrimer-based structures could deliver drugs, other substances. Virgil Percec
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Janus Dendrimers
LRSM work on the Janus dendrimers is highlighted on NSF.GOV
Science, May 2010
SCIENCE MAGAZINE (5/21/10)
1st COMPASS Symposium, April 29, 2010
Burstein Lecture Series in Materials Science
Arjun Yodh
The James M. Skinner Professor of Science, and newest director if the LRSM featured in the Penn Current.