Announcing the 2024 Dresselhaus Lecturer: Clare Grey

MIT.nano is thrilled to announce the 2024 Mildred S. Dresselhaus Lecturer: Clare Grey!

Clare P. Grey, DBE, FRS is a Royal Society Research Professor and the Geoffrey Moorhouse-Gibson Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge University.

New material sports wavy layers of atoms

MIT physicists and colleagues have created a new material with unusual superconducting and metallic properties thanks to wavy layers of atoms only billionths of a meter thick that repeat themselves over and over to create a macroscopic sample that can be manipulated by hand. The large size of the sample makes it much easier to explore its quantum behavior, or interactions at the atomic scale that give rise to its properties.

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Nanoscale Imaging Contest—Submit by Sept. 25!

In celebration of National Nanotechnology Day and National Chemistry Week, three scientific organizations are holding a joint image contest. The American Chemical Society (ACS) is sponsoring the prizes for NanoInFocus. The top three winning images will receive prizes of up to $1,000. The winning images may also be featured in the NNI Supplement to the President’s Budget, which will be sent to Congress, and in Chemical & Engineering News, a weekly news magazine published by ACS.

Submissions due Sept. 25!