Liquid crystal takes page from steel in surprising phase transition
Rice researchers have shown that an organic semiconductor can transform from a liquid crystal into a solid crystal through a rapid, highly coordinated process resembling a Martensitic transformation.
Securing tomorrow: Rice hosts key leaders for inaugural summit on quantum and national security
Rice’s Defense Research Advancement initiative and the Smalley-Curl Institute recently hosted the inaugural Quantum Frontiers Summit, a first-of-its-kind gathering that brought together leaders from industry, academia and government to build a collaborative future vision for the rapid evolution of cutting-edge quantum technologies.
Smalley-Curl hosts 40th annual colloquium to ‘encapsulate Rice’s interdisciplinary drive’
Rice’s Smalley-Curl Institute recently hosted its 40th annual summer colloquium.
Rice researchers discover new way to tune electron flow in altermagnet material
Rice’s Pengcheng Dai recently published a paper in Physical Review X describing the first successful efforts to put a proposed altermagnet material into a single magnetic domain state, allowing the research team to characterize the material’s intrinsic magnetic structure.
A small squeeze reveals new clues about an unusual kind of magnet
Researchers at Rice have found that gently squeezing a crystal of iron sulfide can change two of its unusual properties at the same time: its tiny magnetic signal and the way electricity moves through it.
Rice lab develops new technique for rapid production of advanced materials
Rice professor James Tour developed an ultrafast method for producing MXenes.
New controls allow researchers to incorporate thermal effects in quantum simulation
Rice physicist Guido Pagano unveiled a new, two-knob control for a trapped-ion quantum simulator that allows individual control of temperature and dissipation.
Shedding light on new type of magnetism in quantum materials
Rice's Ming Yi recently showed that the quantum material ruthenium dioxide potentially displays this new altermagnetism in its ultrathin film form in which the material is prepared as a very thin slice only a few atomic layers thick.
New detector design has potential to expand search for dark matter
Rice researchers’ detector concept uses engineered semiconductor materials to search for axions in a range of possible masses that has remained difficult to probe with existing experiments.
Rice-led team reveals how trios of quantum particles form checkerboard patterns
Rice's Kaden Hazzard and his team recently developed a theory on how trions in quantum particles form and behave.
Rice unites global quantum materials synthesis leaders in Paris for cutting-edge workshop
The Rice Center for Quantum Materials hosted a workshop on quantum materials synthesis at the Rice Global Paris Center, bringing together global researchers in physics, materials science, chemistry and quantum research to identify new directions and address urgent challenges facing the quantum materials synthesis community.
Stressed crystal creates nanoscale patterns on chip materials at room temperature
A new chip-making technique pioneered by Rice scientists exploits a material’s crystal structure to create nanoscale patterns at room temperature directly onto hard materials used in devices, including silica.
Researchers measure giant light-conversion effect in chiral carbon nanotubes
Rice scientists successfully assembled carbon nanotubes with the same chiral orientation into large high-quality crystals that can manipulate light with an efficiency two to three orders of magnitude greater than conventional materials.
Rice professor awarded Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship
Rice professor Qimiao Si has been awarded a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship for the 2026-27 academic year.
Rice hosts global quantum experts in Paris for cutting-edge conference
A Rice-led conference in Paris convened global experts in cavity quantum electrodynamics to explore new approaches to controlling light-matter interactions and advancing quantum technologies.
