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6/02
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Scientific American - "Spintronics"
Spintronics has important implications toward information
storage and CNSI professor David
Awschalom describes how spintronic devices create spin-polarized
currents to control current flow.
5/28/02 -
Howard Hughes Medical Institute News - "HHMI
Announces Selection of New Investigators Who Conduct Patient-Oriented
Research"
CNSI professor Charles
Sawyers was named an investigator for the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute for "an innovative program to improve
the translation of basic science discoveries into enhanced
treatments for patients".
5/2/02
IEEE Spectrum On-line -
"The Toughest Transistor Yet"
CNSI Professor Umesh
Mishra is co-author of IEEE Spectrum's feature article
that describes the prospects of gallium nitride transistors.
GaN holds promises for high power and energy-efficient transistors.
4/30/02
Small Times - "Genefluidics
counts on glass to break into nanobio market"
At the Southern California Technology Venture Forum (SCTVF),
CNSI professor Chih-Ming Ho, spoke about what's happening
between biological sciences and nanotechnology and of sensitive
methods for analyzing material at the nanoscale.
4/17/02
UCLA News - "UCLA
Undergraduates Selected to Present Research on Capitol Hill"
Two UCLA undergraduates were seleceted to present their research
on Capitol Hill. One of them, Gilmer Youn, is a senior who
conducts research in organic chemistry and nanotechnology,
designing and synthesizing chemical compounds that function
as molecular machines on the nano scale. "In every respect,
Gilmer has simply blown me away," said CNSI Professor
J.
Fraser Stoddart.
4/2/02
UCLA Today -
"People"
CNSI professor Eli
Yablonovitch was awarded the 2001 Julius Springer Prize
for Applied Physics for his work on photonic crystals. The
prize is awarded annually by the Springer-Verlag publishing
company to scientists who have made an outstanding and innovative
contribution to the field of applied physics.
3/5/02
New York Times - "Scientists
Develop Plastic That Mends Itself" (login
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CNSI Professor Fred
Wudl describes the invention of a self-healing plastic.
3/4/02
C & EN News: Science Concentrates - "Polymer,
heal thyself!" (requires subscription)
CNSI Professor Fred
Wudl and coworkers have created a new polymeric material
of thermally reversible covalent bonds.
2/22/02
Nanotech Bulletin - "Nano-East
Meets Nano-West at JETRO LA"
Nano-diamonds and the production of nanotubes are a few of
the topics highlighted in the half-day conference, "Japan
Meets the Nano-Republic of LA". CNSI Prof. Jim
Gimzewski participated in the conference and provided
an overview of the California NanoSystems Institute.
1/29/02
Nature - "Cylinders
make circuits spontaneously"
CNSI Professor James
Heath and colleagues develop conducting grids of carbon
nanotubes to function as a diode.
1/24/02
Small Times - "Researchers
create electric-chemical system of "traffic lights" for
molecular computing grid"
The Hewlett-Packard-UCLA team propose an electric-chemical process
to control the intersections of their computer grid circuitry.
1/24/02
Wall Street Journal
- "H-P, UCLA Receive a Patent for New
Technology"
