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Arial view of campus bell tower and library.

NCMN faculty, staff to earn service awards

September 29, 2025

A 3-D rendering of a Perfluorooctanesulfonic Acid molecule.

Team discovers potential bacterial solution to 'forever' chemicals

September 29, 2025

Using diamond quantum sensors based on nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers, Ilja Fescenko, Carlos A. Meriles, Abdelghani Laraoui, and co-workers visualize room-temperature stray magnetic fields localized at the edges of tungsten disulfide (WS2) flakes.

Cutting-Edge Research on 2D Magnets Featured on Journal Cover

September 26, 2025

Lucia Fernandez Ballester, Eric Markvicka, and Herman Batelaan.

Top Sponsored Awards, July 2025

September 8, 2025

Yanan (Laura) Wang

Wang named senior member of Optica

September 4, 2025

Christian Binek (second from right) is principal investigator of a new National Science Foundation-funded program exploring novel two-dimensional materials. Team members on the project are (from left) Xia Hong, professor of physics and astronomy; Abdelghani Laraoui, associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering; Peter Dowben, Charles Bessey Professor of physics and astronomy; and Kirill Belashchenko, professor of physics and astronomy.

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Grant provides critical support for university's materials science research

August 29, 2025

Collage of five men in individual portraits against a red background.

Researchers Demonstrate Giant Topological Hall Effect Across Broad Temperature Range in Novel Magnetic Heterostructures

August 14, 2025

Adam Erickson from Abdelghani Laraoui’s lab in the Engineering Research Center aligns a nitrogen vacancy scanning probe microscope

Scientists Discover New Way to Control Magnetic Skyrmions, Paving the Way for Future Data Storage Tech

August 6, 2025

Ravi Saraf

Top Sponsored Awards, June 2025

August 1, 2025

Figure from the study on left and photo of Abdelghani Laraoui on right.

Revealing Hidden Magnetism at the Edges of WS₂ Flakes: International Team Publishes Breakthrough in Advanced Functional Materials

July 9, 2025

Professor Shudipto Dishari presenting her research at the 2025 ASEE Annual Conference.

Dishari team wins ASEE Best Overall Zone Paper Award

July 1, 2025

Stephen Morin, associate professor of chemistry, and Brennan Watts, a fourth-year doctoral student in chemistry, hold two colorful hydrogel skins that can act similarly to the color-changing skin of cephalopods such as octopi and cuttlefish. Their research article on the topic published in Advanced Materials in May.

Husker researchers developing cephalopod-inspired synthetic skins

June 24, 2025