News
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.
Thu, 07/23/2020 | Clean Energy Institute
De Yoreo named DOE fellow
Affiliate professor James De Yoreo has been named a 2020 “Distinguished Scientist Fellow” by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science
Thu, 07/16/2020
Luscombe elected to WA Academy of Sciences
MSE professor Christine Luscombe has been elected a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences for her scientific and technical achievements.
Thu, 07/09/2020 | Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Yankowitz receives prestigious YIP award
MSE's Matthew Yankowitz has received the Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award from the Army Research Office. The award will support Matt’s research developing new experimental techniques to control the properties of van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures using high pressure.
Tue, 06/23/2020 | UW News
Laser cools a semiconductor material
MSE researchers have demonstrated solid-state laser refrigeration of nanoscale sensors.
Mon, 06/01/2020
MSE student researcher named to Husky 100
Grad student Samantha Phan, a researcher with Professor Christine Luscombe's group, was named to the 2020 Husky 100.
Fri, 05/22/2020 | College of Engineering
Quantum edge
Through strategic partnerships and the QuantumX initiative, the UW aims itself to be a leader in the coming quantum age.
Thu, 05/07/2020 | Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Galenko receives teaching award
MSE's outstanding labs manager, Tatyana Galenko, was recognized with a 2020 FACET Award.
Fri, 05/01/2020 | UW News
Fewer microplastics found in Pacific oysters
The abundance of tiny microplastic contaminants in Pacific oysters is much lower than previously thought.
Fri, 05/01/2020 | Department of Materials Science and Engineering
ChocoLED wins award
MSE student's start up wins a prize in the Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge.
Tue, 04/28/2020 | Comotion
MSE researchers developing mobile device that destroys viruses and bacteria on surfaces
An innovative device in development by MSE researchers will use UV and IR light to help minimize the spread of disease by disinfecting common surfaces.
Mon, 04/06/2020
Coronavirus information
The College of Engineering has pulled together resources to help our community navigate changes to learning, teaching and working.
Thu, 03/19/2020 | Nature
Hinds' lab pioneers dialysis innovation
Professor Bruce Hinds' lab, working with the UW Center for Dialysis Innovation, has invented a system to regenerate the cleaning water in dialysis using nanowires of photocatalyst.
Wed, 02/05/2020 | Clean Energy Institute
Powering the future of transportation
Professors Liu, Yang work with Nobel laureates to build a better battery for electric vehicles.
Wed, 01/08/2020 | Materials Science & Engineering
Alum Dylan Faherty wins NASA award
MSE congratulates Dylan Faherty (B.S. ’17) for winning the Trailblazer award from the NASA Spaceflight Awareness Directorate, an arm of NASA dedicated to outreach and recognition for support of manned spaceflight activities.
Fri, 12/20/2019 | CEI News
MSE faculty among world’s most influential researchers
Four MSE faculty members are among the most influential researchers in the world, according to the annual Highly Cited Researchers list published by the Web of Science Group.
Wed, 11/20/2019 | Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Matthew Yankowitz recognized as a finalist for the Blavatnik Regional Award
MSE is proud to announce that Assistant Professor Matthew Yankowitz was a finalist for the Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists. Yankowitz was recognized for his groundbreaking experimental work with a new class of two-dimensional materials known as van der Waal (vdW) materials.
Mon, 11/04/2019 | UW News
Light-based ‘tractor beam’ assembles materials at the nanoscale
MSE associate professor Peter Pauzauskie and a team of researchers that have developed a method that could make reproducible manufacturing at the nanoscale possible.