News
Wed, 06/30/2021 | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Harvesting light like nature does
Affiliate professor James De Yoreo and Research assistant Professor Shuai Zhang are part of a research team who are creating a novel material capable of capturing light energy.
Tue, 06/29/2021
Professor Di Xiao joins MSE faculty
Professor Di Xiao, a renowned theorist in the field of quantum materials, will be joining our faculty in September 2021.
Wed, 06/16/2021
Celebrating ADVANCE and engineering equity
Christine Luscombe, associate professor of MSE, speaks on the importance of programming that promotes the advancement of women faculty.
Wed, 06/16/2021 | College of Engineering
Boeing-Roundhill Professor Lilo Pozzo named interim chair of the Department of Materials Science & Engineering
"Lilo’s dedication to leadership and service, as well as her collaborations with MSE faculty to accelerate the pace of materials discovery, make her uniquely qualified for this role."
Fri, 06/11/2021
Barnard awarded Royalty Research Fund
Arthur Barnard, joint professor of MSE and physics, is researching a 2-axis shear cell for probing emergent states in quantum materials.
Wed, 06/09/2021 | College of Engineering
Guozhong Cao honored with faculty award
The College of Engineering Awards recognized Cao's research contributions to the field of inorganic nanomaterials.
Thu, 04/29/2021 | Department of Mechanical Engineering
How Washington became a global epicenter for advanced carbon fiber
Assistant professor Navid Zobeiry discusses advances in carbon fiber materials, one of the key enabling technologies of the 21st century.
Wed, 04/07/2021 | Department of Materials Science and Engineering
MSE student-led project wins in the 2021 Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge
Nascent Diagnostics, led by UW materials science and engineering students competed in the 2021 Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge and won the $10,000 Herbert B. Jones Foundation Second Place Prize.
Wed, 03/31/2021 | College of Engineering
Unlocking data for engineers
Professor Jihui Yang discusses the industry demand for data-smart engineers.
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Sun, 03/21/2021 | Materials Research Society
Ph.D. student Guomin Zhu wins MRS Graduate Student Gold Award
MSE Ph.D. student Guomin Zhu wins Materials Research Society Graduate Student Gold Award.
Thu, 03/11/2021 | Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Yankowitz wins LOR Science Prize
Matthew Yankowitz, assistant professor of MSE and physics, has been selected as the winner of the 2021 Lee Osheroff Richardson (LOR) Science Prize.
Wed, 03/03/2021 | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Upending complex crystal formation
A team that includes MSE researchers discovered a new route to forming complex crystals.
Wed, 02/24/2021 | Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Krishnan publishes in Physical Review Letters
Kannan M. Krishnan published his paper "Configurable Artificial Spin Ice with Site-Specific Local Magnetic Fields" in Physical Review Letters.
Tue, 02/16/2021 | Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials seeks submissions for special issue on Prof. Krishnan's work
The Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials has announced a Special Issue Festschrift for Professor Kannan Krishnan entitled “Mesoscopic magnetic materials and their application in information technology & biomedicine.”
Thu, 01/21/2021 | Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Roumeli and Zhang win UW’s Royal Research Award
Assistant professor Eleftheria Roumeli and research assistant professor Shuai Zhang have been awarded UW’s Royal Research Award (RRF).
Tue, 01/12/2021 | Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Sean Krewson joins the MSE team as lab tech
MSE welcomes Sean Krewson to the department. As lab technician, Sean manages the MSE machine shop and composite lab.
Tue, 11/24/2020 | UW News
MSE faculty among most cited researchers
The annual Highly Cited Researchers 2020 list from Clarivate includes several MSE faculty: Guozhong Cao, Alex K. Y. Jen, Jun Liu, Yang-Kook Sun, and Xiaodong Xu.
Wed, 11/18/2020 | JCDREAM
Faculty win JCDREAM Seed Grants
MSE's Luscombe and Roumeli have been awarded 2020 JCDREAM Seed Grants for projects covering earth-abundant materials science.
Thu, 11/05/2020 | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Making a Protein “Multitool” for Assembly
Research by Shuai Zhang demonstrates that changing the environment of proteins directs their assembly into different types of larger structures.
Mon, 11/02/2020 | UW News
Break it up: Polymer derived from material in shrimp’s shells could deliver anti-cancer drugs to tumor sites
A research team led by MSE's Miqin Zhang has created a nanoparticle-based drug delivery system that can ferry a potent anti-cancer drug through the bloodstream safely.
Mon, 10/26/2020
Zhang recognized in NNCI image contest
MSE research assistant professor Shuai Zhang was recognized for his submission to the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) Image Contest 2020.
Tue, 10/13/2020 | UW News
All together now: Experiments with twisted 2D materials catch electrons behaving collectively
In a paper published in Nature Physics, MSE researchers report that carefully constructed stacks of graphene can exhibit highly correlated electron properties.
Thu, 10/08/2020 | Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Xiaodong Xu honored
Xiaodong Xu has won two prestigious honors from the American Physical Society and the Optical Society.
Fri, 09/04/2020 | Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Luscombe named interim MSE chair
Professor Christine Luscombe has been named interim chair of the Materials Science and Engineering Department.
Tue, 08/25/2020 | Clean Energy Institute
Designing cutting-edge materials from home
MSE's Ting Cao brings computational science to the virtual classroom during COVID-19.