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Miqin Zhang is working to improve cancer treatment with nanoparticles made from the same material found in crustacean shells.

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Finding Additional Ways that Proteins Rotate

Materials scientists, including Research Assistant Professor Shuai Zhang, are taking inspiration from biological materials like bones, teeth and seashells to create a new generation of advanced materials made from proteins and minerals. This research was highlighted in the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science's CommUnique newsletter.

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Making Earth-friendly electronics

In honor of Earth Day, UW News conducted a Q&A with three University of Washington faculty members, including MSE's Eleftheria Roumeli, who are researching innovative methods to design and manufacture sustainable electronics.

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Lasers trigger magnetism in atomically thin quantum materials

MSE professor Xiaodong Xu and a team of researchers have discovered that light — in the form of a laser — can trigger a form of magnetism in a normally nonmagnetic material.

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Novel nanoparticle shows promise for treating breast cancer

MSE Professor Miqin Zhang and her lab team in NanoES have developed a targeted nanoparticle that kills cancer cells by simultaneously delivering chemotherapeutic drugs and activating the immune system

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