University Research

Atomic Imperfections Move Quantum Communication Network Closer to Reality

An international team led by the University of Chicago’s Institute for Molecular Engineering has discovered how to manipulate a weird quantum interface between light and matter in silicon carbide along wavelengths used in telecommunications.

Alloying Materials of Different Structures Offers New Tool for Controlling Properties

Oregon State scientists are involved in new research that could lead to greater materials control and in turn better semiconductors, advances in nanotechnology for pharmaceuticals and improved metallic glasses for industrial applications.

UAlbany Part of First Team to Use High-Energy Beamline to Study Molecular Vibrations

Satyendra Kumar, UAlbany’s associate vice president for Research and a professor of Physics, was part of a team of researchers that studied a new way to track dynamic molecular features in soft materials, including the high-frequency molecular vibrations that transmit waves of heat, sound and other forms of energy.

How to Build an Artificial Nano-Factory to Power our Futures

Manuel Sommer and researchers at the Kerfeld lab are studying how the factories building sugar from carbon dioxide through photosynthesis, called carboxysomes, are built and work.

Researchers Send DNA on Sequential, and Consequential, Building Mission

A team of scientists at New York University have developed a method to create structures whose building blocks are a millionth of a meter in size by encoding DNA with assembly instructions.

Into the Wild: Exploring Yeast Biodiversity for Better Biofuel

Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center postdoctoral researcher David Peris is harnessing the power of yeast biodiversity in order to develop yeast strains that can address the challenges of the cellulosic biofuel industry.

Hydrology Graduate Student Wins DOE Research Award

Lauren Foster, a PhD student in the Hydrologic Science and Engineering Program at Colorado School of Mines, will spend next year researching the effects of climate change in complex terrain at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program.

High Temperature Step-by-Step Process Makes Graphene from Ethene

An international team of scientists has developed a new way to produce single-layer graphene from a simple precursor: ethene – also known as ethylene – the smallest alkene molecule, which contains just two atoms of carbon.

Shunned by Microbes, Organic Carbon Can Resist Breakdown in Underground Environments

A new study conducted by scientists at Stanford University reveals that organic matter whose breakdown would yield only minimal energy for hungry microorganisms preferentially builds up in floodplains, illuminating a new mechanism of carbon sequestration.