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Centurion part of team that captures groundbreaking ‘molecular movie’
Nebraska physicist Martin Centurion was part of an international research team that created an animated movie showing how molecules are structurally changed by light for the first time. Centurion said that the minute-long “molecular movie” is an important step in confirming theoretical predictions with actual experiments; “What will come out of our research is a better understanding and more accurate models of molecular reactions triggered by light.”
(6/13/24)
L-shaped metamaterials can control light direction and identify, sort molecules
Using metamaterials, a team of electrical engineering researchers from Penn State and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering created an ultrathin optical element that can control the direction of polarized electromagnetic light waves. This new control allows researchers to not only direct the light's chirality, but also to identify the chirality of molecules by determining how polarized light interacts with them.
Identifying the chirality of molecules can reveal critical information about how they will interact with other systems, such as whether specific drugs will help heal diseased or damaged tissue without harming healthy cells. The researchers' findings were published in the May 4 edition of Nature Communications. Christos Argyropoulos co-authored the paper with former Nebraska ECE colleagues including Eva Franke-Schubert and Mathias Schubert.
(6/3/24)
Dowben to be editor-in-chief of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
Peter Dowben, Charles Bessey Professor in the Department of Physics, was selected to be editor-in-chief of the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by IOP Publishing. He will lead an Editorial Board of international members who work across the journal's ten sections.
Dowben specializes in condensed matter and materials physics.
(6/3/24)
Top Sponsored Awards, April 2024
The following list includes all U.S.-issued patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers from March 16, 2024, and April 15, 2024, as reported by NUtech Ventures:
Angie Pannier, A. Ramer-Tait, $394,365, National Institutes of Health-National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Developing Outer Membranes Vesicles from Commensal Gut Bacteria as an Oral Gene Delivery Platform
Eric Markvicka, $691,771, NSF, CAREER: Universal Strategy for Manufacturing Solid Particle-Incorporated Liquid Metal Mixtures
(6/3/24)
Nebraska Women in STEM profile Shireen Adenwalla
Nebraska Women in STEM recently talked to Dr. Shireen Adenwalla, professor of physics and astronomy, about her career in the male-dominated field of physics. Adenwalla describes discovering and falling in love with physics as an eighth-grader, her first encounters with sexism at a co-ed college, and the challenges she's faced as a professional in the field. "Her advice for students considering a science career is to 'not worry too much about what other people think of you. I would worry more about doing the work in front of you, and that work can be your homework or your quizzes. Go work for someone in a lab. It is so much fun, you’ll never look back.'"
(5/10/24)
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Faculty Spotlight: Abdelghani Laraoui
Dr. Abdelghani Laraoui is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at UNL. Dr. Laraoui’s primary research focuses on developing new quantum materials based on color centers in diamond (NV, SiV, GeV), and defects in wide-bandgap semiconductors (SiC, GaN, ZnO) and two dimensional materials (hBN, TMDs) for applications in quantum sensing and quantum information processing. Read more about Dr. Laraoui's current research in the latest installment of our newsletter Interfaces.