MSE News
Scanning Thermoelectric Microscopy Locates Extra Electrons Outside Quantum Dots
Semiconducting quantum dots (QDs) can be used to enhance the performance of a variety of devices encompassing optoelectronic, thermoelectric, and alternative energy technologies. Often, a...
Art-inspired solar cells
Solar cells capture up to 40 percent more energy when they can track the sun across the sky, but conventional, motorized trackers are too heavy...
Rick Laine Named American Chemical Society Fellow
Professor Rick Laine has been named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS) as part of the 2015 class.
The ACS Fellows Program recognize...
Course asks students to imagine the campus of the future
If you want to transform the campus learning experience to suit the needs of today's students, who better to ask what that should look like...
Regenerative medicine: Injectable stem cell incubator
Some tissue damage is too extensive for the body to heal well, such as a bad slipped disc or the muscle death that follows a...
Forrest, Glotzer named Distinguished University Professors
Stephen Forrest and Sharon Glotzer are among nine faculty members have received one of the University of Michigan's top honors as Distinguished University Professors.
The...
The Kim Lab Made Light Up Supercooled Liquid
A new material developed at the University of Michigan stays liquid more than 200 degrees Fahrenheit below its expected freezing point, but a light touch...
Olga Shalev receives Best Poster Award at Fall 2014 MRS Meeting
Olga Shalev, and graduate student in the Shtein group, received a Best Poster Award at the 2014 Fall MRS Meeting. The poster "Predicting Surface Morphology...
MSE alum Aaron Crumm joins UM Center for Entrepreneurship as first Entrepreneur is Residence
The appointment of Aaron Crumm (MSE MSE '97,PhD '00), is the first installment of a $1 million program designed for CFE to house an Entrepreneur...
Katsuyo Thornton Receives TMS Distinguished Service Award
Associate Professor Katsuyo Thornton has received the Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division (MPMD) Distinguished Service Award from TMS. The award is given to "An individual whose...
Ultra-small block M’s lead to big ideas in drug delivery
University of Michigan researchers have created what might be the world’s smallest three-dimensional (unofficial) “block M’s” using a new nanoparticle manufacturing process. The new technique...
MSE alum Jon Madison wins Black Engineer of the Year award
Growing up in Wichita, Kansas, Jon Madison had a strong sense of who he was and where he was going. “I wasn’t an average kid,”...
Beyond Silicon: New Semiconductor Moves "Spintronics" Toward Reality
A groundbreaking semiconductor compound is bringing fresh momentum to the field of spintronics, a new breed of computing device that may lead to smaller, faster,...
Liang Qi joins UM MSE as Assistant Professor
Liang Qi joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering as an Assistant Professor in Winter 2015. Qi studied Materials Science and Engineering at Tsinghua...