Research
Research Nuggets
These nuggets are brief highlights of the Materials Center's recent research, chosen for their potential interest to a broad audience.
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Splash Controlling Splashes by Lowering Pressure |
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Bacteria Spinning Bacterial Flagellum Makes Noise |
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Nanocrystalline Superlattices Electronic Transport Properties of Artificial Solids |
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Microfluidic Devices Controlling Reaction Networks in Time |
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Molecular Diodes Miniature electronic components |
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Crystalline Granular Arrays How an ordered sand-pack resists a push |
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Pollen-Stigma Adhesion
Understanding the nature and role of cell adhesion in plants |
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Biochips A more reliable and cost-effective method to perform laboratory tests |
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Self-Assembling Metal
Wires Decorating copolymer films with metals |
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Electrohydrodynamic Spout
How electric fields affect fluid flow |
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Buckled Surfactant
Monolayers Folding and rippling in surfactant layers |
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Step Doubling of Ni(977)
Watching a microscopic reconstruction in real-time |
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Holographic Optical Tweezers
Using light to manipulate small particles |
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Dynamic Substrates
Special surfaces that can bind and release living cells |
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AFM of Staphylococcus Aureus
Can we predict antibiotic resistance via morphology? |
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Electrochromic Crystals
Exploring the optical properties of nanocrystals |
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Dynamical Heterogeneity
New ways of controlling the rheology and molecular diffusion of viscous industrial fluids? |
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How a Sheet Crumples
Improving the design of future structural materials |
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Granular Flow Can we predict behavior of granular materials? |
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Overlayer Templating
Rational design of interfacial structure |
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Proteins Fibrils Immobilized
at SAMs New route to nanostructured materials? |
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Polymer Alignment
Self-aligning diblock copolymers |
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Encapsulation of Islet Cells
A new approach for treating diseases? |
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Quantum Annealing
Strategies for the design of actual quantum computers? |
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Structure of Nanocrystals with Dipoles |  |
Up Close and Personal with Polystyrene |
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Frictionless Beads
Can a frictionless bead pack hold itself up? |
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Nanostripes II Watching copolymer molecules organize themselves |
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Electric Dipoles Shaping light emission with electric dipoles |
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Magnetoresistive
Devices A silver compound controls electric current via magnetism. |
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How Does Turbulence Sound?
Analyzing liquid helium using sound. |
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The Step Doubling Effect
The step doubling effect of oxygen on terraced metal surfaces |
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The "Swiss Cheese"
Condition How do superconducting vortices move through a "pinscape"? |
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The Coffee Ring Effect Why do drying drops leave a ring stain? |
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Nanostripes Forcing 10-nanometer stripes to line up |
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Phonons How vibrational waves run along atomic step edges |
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Metastable Crystalites Can like-charged colloids attract? |
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Viewing Granular Flow from
Inside Three dimensional convection patterns of poppy seeds. |
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Optical Tweezers Forcing two colloidal particles with optical tweezers. |
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Crumpling Thin Sheets Stretching ridges in a crumpled sheet |
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Size-Tuned Light from
Single Nanocrystals Fluorescence of single nanocrystals via two-photon excitation. |
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Structure in a Drop Falling
from a Faucet The breakup and control of drops and their satellites. |
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Diblock Copolymers Self-assembled 6 nm gold islands on diblock copolymers. |
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Dynamics of Sand and Avalanches Avalanche in a pile of mustard seeds |
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Giant Void in a Colloidal
Crystal Microscopic dynamics of the liquid-glass transition |
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Compositional Profile of
Al-Li Alloy SIMS compositional imaging. |