by pme-asw | Mar 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
A team of University of Chicago alumni & students organized and presented an interactive fluids demo at the 2024 APS March Meeting in Minneapolis as part of ”Squishy Science Sunday,” a public outreach event. The pattern-formation activity was originally developed...
by pme-asw | Feb 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Research at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering developed a material called a “pluripotent plastic,” which has the ability to take on many forms. Pictured above (from left): Graduate student Nicholas Boynton, Asst. Prof. Shrayesh Patel...
by pme-asw | Sep 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
The U.S. National Science Foundation awarded new seed grants through PREM, Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials, to support ten collaborative research teams across the United States that will lay the groundwork for full-fledged PREM awards at these...
by pme-asw | Jan 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
Physicists have a reputation for caring about the grandest questions: the formation of the universe, the collisions of black holes, the nature of time and space. But Sidney Nagel was also curious about the more modest things that make up the texture of our world. The...
by lisaghisolfsandbox | Dec 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
The next time you sink your teeth into a soft slice of bread, think about the material training that went into making that bread. Material training is one of many approaches to designing new materials and involves taking a material and applying a repeated training...
by lisaghisolfsandbox | Apr 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
Optically-addressable molecular qubits are a new frontier in the study of materials-based quantum bits. They provide a promising scalable platform for quantum technology, and have exceptional scalability tunability via chemical synthetic control and functionalization...