Apr. 10, 2015: Installation of a spin coater
A spin coater has been installed in a fume hood.
Apr. 9, 2015: Advanced optical materials
Research paper, “Thermally tunable metallodielectric photonic crystals from the self-assembly of brush block copolymers and gold nanoparticles” has been published in Advanced Optical …
Apr. 1, 2015: Installation of an argon sputter coater
An Argon ion sputter deposition chamber has been installed.
Mar. 25, 2015: Installation of a FT-IR spectrometer
A Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) spectrometer has been installed for thermal radiometry. Model: Nexus 6700 with a MCT and a DTGS detector
Mar. 12, 2015: Installation of a milling machine.
A mini milling machine is fully installed.
Feb. 20, 2015: Installation of a high-vacuum furnace
A high vacuum furnace is installed. This furnace can reach a temperature up to 1500C and high vacuum down to 10^-6 torr. …
Jan. 29, 2015: Public news media
Nature Materials, “Supersonic impact” / WIRED, “Why Iron man ditched iron for graphene”/ COSMOS, (Australian Magazine) “The myriad uses of amazing graphene” /EET India, “Impact test shows …
Jan. 1, 2015: Wanting joins the group.
Wanting Xie joined our group for her PhD study in Condensed Matter Physics.
Dec. 12, 2014: Public media
UMass Research Next In Pictures “Bullet-Proof: Demonstrating the superior performance of nanometer-thin graphene” Optics & Photonics, Optical Society of America “Testing graphene’s …
Dec. 4, 2014: Public media
Nature News, “Bullet-proof armour and hydrogen sieve add to graphene’s promise” Scientific American, “In a bulletproof test graphene is stronger than …
Nov. 29, 2014: Public media
BBC News, “Graphene shows promise for bulletproof armour” ChemistryWorld, “Graphene’s showdown with the man with the golden gun” Popular Mechanics, “Single layers of …
Nov. 28, 2014: Science paper published!
Our micro-ballistic paper showing the strength of multilayer graphene is published in Science.