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17 graduate students at Rice University have been named 2022 Fellows of the National GEM (Graduate Education for Minorities) Consortium.

Record 17 Rice University graduate students named GEM Fellows

August 15, 2022

A record 17 graduate students at Rice University have been named 2022 Fellows of the National Graduate Education for Minorities Consortium.

SCI symposium overview

Smalley-Curl Institute rewards students’ summer research

August 9, 2022

The Smalley-Curl Institute held its annual Summer Research Colloquium Aug. 5.

Peter Nordlander and Naomi Halas

Halas, Nordlander win prestigious Eni Energy Transition Award

August 8, 2022

Rice’s Naomi Halas and Peter Nordlander have won the prestigious 2022 Eni Energy Transition Award.

Rice University applied physics graduate student Catherine Arndt

Rice ‘metalens’ could disrupt vacuum UV market

May 5, 2022

Rice photonics researchers have created a potentially disruptive technology for the ultraviolet optics market.

NSF Fellowship winners Take the Cake

NSF awards 38 Graduate Research Fellowships to Rice students

April 22, 2022

The National Science Foundation has awarded 38 Graduate Research Fellowships to Rice University students.

Rice University postdoctoral researcher Andrey Baydin.

Strong magnets put new twist on phonons

February 15, 2022

Phonons, quasiparticles in a crystal lattice that are usually hard to control by external fields, can be manipulated by a magnetic field -- but it takes a very strong magnet.

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Rice’s Technology Development Fund backs faculty projects

December 10, 2021

Nine projects proposed by Rice researchers have been granted seed funding by Creative Ventures' Technology Development Fund.

A two-dimensional coat of a perovskite compound is the basis for an efficient solar cell that might stand up to environmental wear and tear

Ultrathin solar cells get a boost

November 22, 2021

Rice University engineers boost the efficiency while retaining the toughness of solar cells made of two-dimensional perovskites.

Patterns adorns a static model used to test Rice University’s Hyperspectral Stripe Projector, which combines spectroscopic and 3D imaging. Barcode-like black and white patterns are displayed on the DMD to generate the hyperspectral stripes. (Credit: Kelly Lab/Rice University)

3D camera earns its stripes at Rice

July 22, 2021

The Hyperspectral Stripe Projector captures spectroscopic and 3D imaging data.

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Pristine quantum criticality found

May 24, 2021

U.S. and Austrian physicists searching for evidence of quantum criticality in topological materials have found one of the most pristine examples yet observed.

A color map illustrates the inherent colors of 466 types of carbon nanotubes with unique (n,m) designations based their chiral angle and diameter.

Sheets of carbon nanotubes come in a rainbow of colors

December 14, 2020

Nanomaterials researchers in Finland, the United States and China have created a color atlas for 466 unique varieties of single-walled carbon nanotubes.

Films made of highly aligned nanotubes like those developed at Rice in 2016 will be part of advanced tissue imaging systems. (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)

Rice physicist shares grant to advance imaging

December 3, 2020

The lab of physicist Junichiro Kono will share in a $1 million grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to improve imaging of proteins, cells and tissues.

A pictorial schematic depicts the structure and action of a nanopatterned plasmonic metasurface that modulates polarized light at terahertz frequencies.

A trillion turns of light nets terahertz polarized bytes

October 19, 2020

Nanophotonics researchers at Rice University, the Polytechnic University of Milan and the Italian Institute of Technology have demonstrated a novel technique for modulating light at terahertz frequencies with plasmonic metasurfaces.

A photo and infographic of the RAMBO system

Rice’s RAMBO-II: A sequel better than the original

August 24, 2020

First-of-its-kind spectrometer is getting stronger magnets, wider range of lasers.

Models by Rice University chemists calculate the chemical and mechanical energies involved in “bursty” RNA production in cells. Their models show how RNA polymerases create supercoils of DNA that allow production of RNA that goes on to produce proteins.

Cells’ springy coils pump bursts of RNA

January 30, 2020

Models by Rice chemists calculate the chemical and mechanical energies involved in “bursty” RNA production in cells.

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