2023
Nagel awarded APS Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research
January 12, 2023

This year, Sidney Nagel, the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago, is accepting the 2023 American Physical Society Medal for Exceptional Achievement in Research. The award, sometimes referred to as the ‘lifetime achievement Oscar of physics,’ recognizes “contributions of the highest level that advance our knowledge and understanding of the physical universe in all its facets.”
2022
Host matrix engineering for enhanced molecular qubit coherence
April 12, 2022

Machine learning active nematic hydrodynamics​
April 12, 2022

Extremely anisotropic van der Waals thermal conductors
April 11, 2022

Random twists between layers of crystalline sheets block heat going through the layers, but still maintain good heat flow along the sheets. Researchers measure an astonishing factor of 900 in the difference in heat flow.
Sculpting and Predicting Flows in Active Nematics
April 11, 2022

Multi qubit entaglement in a Quantum Network
April 11, 2022

Strong electronic coupling of nanocrystal arrays
April 11, 2022

2020
Schedule for Rising Stars in Soft & Biological Matter Symposium
July 1, 2020

Synthetic tissue inspired by hand-pulled noodles
February 11, 2020

Hidden Symmetries open new avenues for material design
February 11, 2020

2019
Glimpses of phenomena that underlie black holes, other extreme physics
June 28, 2019

A team of physicists at the University of Chicago has built a quantum system to simulate the physics of this Unruh radiation.
Scientists recreate cell division—outside a cell
June 28, 2019

Discovery accelerates understanding of the physics of living matter
Monolayer Two-Dimensional Polymers for Wafer-Scale Heterostructures
May 28, 2019

The MRSEC team developed synthesis of two-dimensional polymers (2DP) with wafer-scale homogeneity in the ultimate limit of monolayer thickness using a general and scalable growth method called laminar assembly polymerization.
Building Strongly Interacting Photonic Materials
May 27, 2019

A collaboration of the Simon and Schuster group have realized a photonic strongly interacting Mott insulator using a 1D lattice of superconducting qubits.
2018
Auxetic metamaterials from disordered networks
June 28, 2018

A collaboration between the groups of Sid Nagel, Juan de Pablo and Heinrich Jaeger explored opportunities for designing strain transmission in disordered, network-based meta-materials.