Esther Sans Takeuchi, Greatbatch Professor of Advanced Power Sources and Integrated Nanostructured Systems (INS) faculty member, has recently been named by President Obama as a recipient of the prestigious National Metal of Technology and Innovation. Prof. Takeuchi will receive the honor at a White House ceremony which recognizes top scientists through the National Metal of Technology and Innovation and the National Metal of Science awards for outstanding efforts in the promotion of technology for economic, environmental, or social improvement in the United States. SUNY Distinguished Professor Eli Ruckenstein, also affiliated with INS, was awarded the National Metal of Science in 1998 by President Clinton.
For the full story: http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/2009_09_16/takeuchi_medal
Posted September 21, 2009 in INS
Cemal Basaran, a Professor in the Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering, and an adjunct Professor in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, recently had his work on single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) featured by several dozens of international newspapers, magazines, and trade publications, such as The Times of India, Semiconductor International, Science Daily and Daily News. After a press release from UB regarding his findings that SWCNTs produce only 1% of the resistive heating of metals typically used in microelectronic interconnects, Semiconductor International contacted Professor Basaran for an exclusive interview about this important discovery. Please join us in congratulating Professor Basaran on these recent publications.
To read the full text of the published articles, please follow the links below:
Semiconductor International
Science Daily
Posted April 8, 2009 in INS
Natalia Litchinitser, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at UB, and Vladimir Shalaev, Robert and Anne Burnett Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, published their commentary on developing low-loss metamaterials in the February issue of Nature Photonics. In the article, they discuss recent work proposed by Alexander Popov and Sergey Myslivets that utilizes the traditionally problematic losses of metamaterials as a pathway to transparent or amplified negative-index media. This technique of backward optical parametric amplification (OPA) which they describe could lead to exciting developments in metamaterials in areas such as invisibility and cloaking. Professor Litchinitser also recently presented her research on photonic metamaterials to other UB faculty members at one of the INS lunchtime informal seminars.
To read the full commentary in Nature Photonics, please click here: Natalia Litchinitser & Vladimir Shalaev, “Loss as a Route to Transparency” (PDF)
Posted February 3, 2009 in INS
In December 2008, at the invitation of the Russian government and Rusnano, the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies, two UB professors participated in Rusnanotech ‘08, a major, international conference about the future of nanotechnology. SUNY Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Paras N. Prasad, Ph.D., gave the invited plenary talk, addressing approximately two thousand scientists and officials from around the globe on “Nanotechnology and Engineering Challenges of the 21st Century.” He described the groundbreaking work that he and his colleagues are doing at the UB Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics. Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Natalia M. Litchinitser, Ph.D., who conducts research on nanophotonics and nonlinear optics, also attended. She presented an invited talk about her research on metamaterials entitled “Metamaterials–Unparalleled Opportunities for Light Manipulation.” Both professors work closely with the UB 2020 Strategic Strength in Integrated Nanostructured Systems.
This conference is part of a recently announced $5 billion effort by the Russian government to support nanotechnology. Talks regarding possible research collaborations between UB and Russian scientists are being pursued. Professor Prasad mentioned that UB may host some of these Russian scientists in the spring or summer of 2009.
Other WNY attendees of the conference included Keith Blakely, Chief Executive Officer of NanoDynamics, Michael Fonstein, CEO of Cleveland Biolabs, and Ravi Pandey and Andre Gudkov of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
To view selected footage of the proceedings, please click here.
Posted January 6, 2009 in INS
Several of the course offerings for the Spring 2009 semester may be of interest to graduate students working in areas related to Integrated Nanostructured Systems. Please refer to the following links or contact the appropriate professor(s) for further information:
MAE 589: Diffraction, Microscopy and Spectroscopy Techniques (PDF)
CHE 510: Materials Chemistry (PDF)
CHE 514: Polymer Chemistry (PDF)
Posted December 1, 2008 in INS
A novel nanosensor, developed by the Rutgers-JPL-UB team, offers unprecedented sensitivity in the THz range, which contains 98% of the light emitted since the Big Bang. The paper “Ultrasensitive hot-electron nanobolometers for terahertz astrophysics,” recently published in Nature Nanotechnology, 3, 496 (2008) has demonstrated that manageable electron-phonon kinetics together with ultrasmall electron heat capacity in nanostructures provide wide possibilities for significant improvement of detectors, quantum counters and calorimeters.
The developed technology will help astronomers to observe very distant galaxies as they were in the Early Universe. As a magic time-machine, the detector will allow them to see the first light in the Universe, which was generated in the processes of star and galaxy formation almost 14 billion years ago. Besides astrophysics, these nanodevices are promising for quantum information technologies and quantum metrology.
News & views articles are highlighting this research:
www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v3/n8/full/nnano.2008.221.html
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080710155246.htm
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=1783
http://www.nano.org.uk/news/july2008/latest1488.htm
Posted October 15, 2008 in INS
Folarin Erogbogbo, a current PhD student in UB’s Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, introduces a paper from Dr. Swihart’s research group that investigates the potential for using silicon quantum dots in the diagnosis and imaging of cancer cells. The video accompanies the article’s publication in ACS Nano, a prominent journal in nanoscience and related technologies. Folarin’s work with Dr. Swihart’s group represents just one of the many cutting-edge research projects taking place in Integrated Nanostructured Systems at UB that will have a great impact on our society.
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Posted August 15, 2008 in INS
