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Longtime physics professor honored with endowed chair

June 24, 2021

Droplet on silicone film

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New technique acts as accelerator, brake for microscopic droplets

May 28, 2021

The Nebraska EPSCoR-Emergent Quantum Materials and Technologies collaboration will revolutionize quantum science and create opportunities in education and through economic development. The Nebraska leaders in the effort are (from left): Abdelghani Laraoui, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering at Nebraska; Jonathan Wrubel, associate professor of physics at Creighton University; Xia Hong, associate professor of physics and astronomy at Nebraska; Christian Binek, Charles Bess

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NU receives $20 million grant to advance quantum research, education

May 24, 2021

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Magnetic breakthrough could lower power use, up speed of digital memory

April 5, 2021

An illustration of the magnetic vortex, known as a skyrmion, that could star in the next generation of digital memory. Each arrow indicates the direction of the magnetic axis in an individual atom.

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Husker scientists fine-tuning skyrmions in bid to improve data storage, processing

July 21, 2020

Diagram of a nanomaterial, with yellow electrodes and a scanning probe overhead.

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Symposium to explore emergent quantum materials and tech

March 3, 2020

Nebraska's Martin Centurion has earned a $2 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to capture moving images of single molecules in chemical transformations triggered by light.

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Images of molecular reactions are focus of Centurion's $2M grant

October 21, 2019

Christian Binek, professor of physics and astronomy, has been named interim director of the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience.

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Binek named interim center director for materials and nanoscience

October 11, 2019

The University of Nebraska State Museum will host the NASA exhibition “Sun, Earth, Universe” from April 28, 2019, through June 2020.

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NASA exhibition coming to Morrill Hall

April 11, 2019

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Nebraska-Tuskegee collaboration to expand minority opportunities in materials science

November 1, 2018

Colored arrows forming a spiral pattern, transitioning from blue in the center to pink at the edges.

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Smallest-ever magnetic vortexes mark step toward new digital memory

July 12, 2018

Blue surface with rows of black molecules connected by white spheres forming geometric patterns.

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New graphene nano-ribbons lend sensors unprecedented sensitivity

October 20, 2017