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• Imaging methodology reveals nano details not seen before
  

  A team of scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Northwestern University has produced 3-D images and videos of a tiny platinum nanoparticle at atomic resolution that reveal new details of defects in nanomaterials that have not been seen before. Prior to this work, scien more

• Nanoparticles digging the world’s smallest tunnels

  The world’s smallest tunnels have a width of a few nanometers only. Researchers from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Rice University, USA, have dug such tunnels into graphite samples. This will allow structuring of the interior of materials through self-organization in the nanometer rang more

• New nanotech fiber: Robust handling, shocking performance

  Rice University's latest nanotechnology breakthrough was more than 10 years in the making, but it still came with a shock. Scientists from Rice, the Dutch firm Teijin Aramid, the U.S. Air Force and Israel's Technion Institute this week unveiled a new carbon nanotube (CNT) fiber that looks and acts l more

Publications Rice University

• Plasmonic Materials: A Plethora of Plasmonics from the Laboratory for Nanophotonics at Rice University (Adv. Mater. 36/2012)

  Plasmonic materials have properties that arise from their hybridized plasmons, a rigorous analogy with the molecular orbitals of quantum systems – a principle discovered at the Laboratory for Nanophotonics at Rice. The ensuing creation of plasmonic‐nanostructure based media by a variety of synthe more

• Materials Research at Rice University: Materials Research at Rice University (Adv. Mater. 36/2012)

  On the cover of this special issue is Lovett Hall, the first building erected on the campus of Rice University in Houston, which celebrates the centenary of its founding in 1912. The owl is the university's mascot, chosen as the symbol of wisdom. The hexagonal pattern represents the lattice struc more

• Strongly Correlated Materials

  Abstract Strongly correlated materials are profoundly affected by the repulsive electron‐electron interaction. This stands in contrast to many commonly used materials such as silicon and aluminum, whose properties are comparatively unaffected by the Coulomb repulsion. Correlated materials often more

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