News and Highlights

Last Update: April 6, 2009 11:20 AM   

Introducing the 2008 CNMS User Executive Committee

CNMS Advisory Committee Member, Mostafa El-Sayed, winner of The 2007 National Medal of Science. The National Medal of Science honors individuals for pioneering scientific research that has led to a better understanding of the world around us, as well as to innovations and technologies that give the United States its global economic edge. The National Academies

CNMS Research Highlights

• Gordon Bell Prize Emerges From Ongoing Computational Nanoscience Endstation Effort (February 2009)
• A New Class of Supramolecular Wires (January 2009)
• Directed Assembly of Patterned Thin Films into Nanoparticle Ensembles (December 2008)
• Intrinsic Nucleation Mechanism of Polarization Switching on Ferroelectric Surfaces (November 2008)
• Novel Method to Reversibly and Uniformly Strain Epitaxial Oxide Thin Films Using a Piezoelectric Substrate (October 2008)
• User Project Brings New Understanding to Magnetic Tunnel Junctions (October 2008)
• Nanoscale Measurements of Glass Transition Temperature and Temperature-Dependent Mechanical Properties in Polymers (September 2008)
• Charge Order Fluctuations in One-Dimensional Silicides (September 2008)
• Environment-Dependent Oxygen Adsorption on Transition Metal Surfaces and Its Implications for Surface Reactivity (August 2008)
• In Situ Phase Separation of NiAu Alloy Nanoparticles for Preparing Highly Active Au/NiO CO Oxidation Catalysts (August 2008)
• Theory of Nonspecular Tunneling in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions (July 2008)
• Standing Friedel Waves, Standing Spin Waves, and Indirect Bandgap Optical Transition in Nanostructures (July 2008)
• Synthesis of Well-defined Poly(amino acids): Polytyrosine Derivatives (July 2008)
• Actuatable Membranes Based on Polypyrrole-Coated Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofibers (April 2008)
• Atomistic Branching Mechanism for Carbon Nanotubes: Sulfur as the Triggering Agent (April 2008)
• Rapid Growth of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes by Pulsed Laser CVD (April 2008)
• Journal Cover - Journal of Applied Physics (March 2008)
• Transient-Mediated Fate Determination in a Transcriptional Circuit of HIV (March 2008)
• Spin Injection in Conjugated Polymer for Enhanced Solid-State Lighting Efficiency (January 2008)
• Molecular Simulations of Stretching Gold Nanowires in Solvents (September 2007)
• Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofibers Arrays Record Electrophysiological Signals (July 2007)
• Role of Sub-stoichiometric Defects in the Formation of Nano-particles (June 2007)
• Direct Synthesis of Mesoporous Carbon Microwires and Nanowires (May 2007)
• Formation of Single-Crystalline ZnO Nanotubes without Catalysts or Templates (April 2007)
• Using Neutron Reflectometry to Investigate Interactions across Polymer Thin Films (March 2007)
• Designing New Materials with Nanostructures as Building Blocks (February 2007)
• Nanoscale Control of Silica Morphology During Diatom Cell Wall Formation (October 2006)
• Nature of the Pairing Interaction in the Hubbard Model of High-Temperature Superconductors (September 2006)
• Probing Spin Flip Scattering in Ballistic Nanosystems (September 2006)
• Synthesis and Directed Growth of Single-Crystal TCNQ-Cu Organic Nanowires (July 2006)
• An Atomic Level Understanding of Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (I): Structure and Defects (June 2006)
• Gene Network Shaping of Inherent Noise Spectra (February 2006)
• Understanding the Interaction Between Nanoscale Building Blocks and Biologically Relevant Molecules (September 2005)
• Well-Defined Deuterated Polymers for Neutron Scattering (2004)
• Novel Self-Assembled Nanostructures from Well-defined Amphiphilic Block Copolymers (2003)

CNMS in the News

"Sergei V. Kalinin Wins ACerS Robert L. Coble Award for Young Scholars" (April 2009)

“Using (really) fast computers to simulate materials,” Atomic City Underground at knoxnews.com (January 22, 2009)

“Gerhardt Completes Sabbatical at CNMS/ORNL,” Georgia Tech MSE News 2008

“Flawed nanotubes could be perfect silicon replacement,” New Scientist (December 15, 2008)

“Asylum Research and ORNL Offer New Monograph on Piezoresponse Force Microscopy for Electromechanical Studies,” Nanotechnology Now (December 13, 2008)

“ORNL supercomputer simulation wins Gordon Bell Prize,” ORNL News Release (November 20, 2008)
     -- team members from CNMS include Thomas Schulthess, Thomas Maier,
        Michael Summers, and Gonzalo Alvarez

"ORNL researchers win six R&D 100 awards," ORNL News Release (July 1, 2008)
    -- winners include Adaptive Band Excitation Spectroscopy which was developed
        for scanning probe microscopy instruments at the CNMS and is now offered as
        an advanced capability for CNMS users

"The Next Small Thing: A problem found in one lab is solved in another," ORNL Review (May 2008)

"Nano center tightens focus to build on early success," KnoxNews (January 9, 2008)

"Couple explores polymers at nanoscience center," DOE Pulse (December 3, 2007)

"Nanofibres under control," NanotechWeb-Technology Update (November 2007)

"Simpson elected as IEEE Fellow" (November 2007)

"Cummings elected as AAAS Fellow" (November 2007)

"Carbon nanofibres: On the brain," Nature Nanotechnology (August 2007)

"Cummings to receive 2007 AIChE Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum Award" (August 2007)

"Next-generation LEDs will be developed with nanotechnology," Nanowerk News (March 20, 2007)

"A&M-Commerce student gains 'valuable' insight at top lab," North Texas e-News (February 21, 2007)

"Designing new materials with nanostructures as building blocks," Nanowerk Spotlight (January 4, 2007)

"Scientifically Super Sites," KnoxNews (November 6, 2006)

"Nano competition debuts at Oak Ridge National Laboratory," ORNL News Release (October 11, 2006)

"Flipping the spin...," Nanowerk Spotlight (September 27, 2006)

"ORNL nanoscience center officially complete," ORNL News Release (September 25, 2006)

"Virginia Tech Researchers Design Polymer Macromolecules As Gene Transfer Agents," Medical News Today (September 17, 2006)

"Small and Strong," Editor's Choice, Science (November 24, 2006)

"The Next Small Thing," Oak Ridge National Laboratory REVIEW (November 3, 2005)

"Audio Spot: ORNL to be leader in nanotechnology," ORNL News Release (June 28, 2005)

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