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Dr. Chris Winkler Wins Pride of the Wolfpack Award

Congratulations to our TEM Lab Manager, Chris Winkler, for winning the NC State Pride of the Wolfpack Award!   Chris Winkler is a lab manager...

Meet Cierra DellaRova

Tell me a little about yourself! This is my first year in the Materials Science and Engineering department with Dr. Wenpei Gao as my advisor....

AIF TEM Research Associate Wins M&M Student Poster

  Aubrey Penn, President-Elect of the MSA Student Council, won the 2020 M&M Student Poster Award. Her poster, A STEM-EELS Investigation of La0.7Sr0.3CrO3/La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 Multilayer Thin...

Cool Science: Nanotubes and Lungs

Unstained alveolar macrophage containing multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT’s) in the cytoplasm. Dr. Mary Jane Thomassen’s group at East Carolina University is currently investigating the potential...

Cool Science: Plant Health

“The main innovation of this work lies in two areas: first, we use plasmonic nanostructures as a new class of sensing elements to greatly expand...

Cool Science: Solar Cell Operation

  “The stability of organic-inorganic perovskite solar cells is limited by degradation from oxygen and water. Yang et al. show that in situ reaction of...