QMC Prof. Richard Greene has been named a Distinguished University Professor—the highest academic honor bestowed by the University of Maryland. This award is in recognition of his peerless Teaching, Leadership, Service and Research Achievements. (read more)
Undergraduate researchers Emerson Hemley, Winslow Weiss and Yash Anand, as well as high school student Sarah Celaya, have been actively involved in quantum materials research in QMC. Congratulations to Winslow who is off to graduate school at Stanford, and to Sarah who off to Berkeley for undergraduate studies!
QMC Prof. Cheng Gong was awarded the University of Maryland’s annual Invention of the Year for developing a technology that allow stores, warehouses, and other users to accurately determine the freshness of meat. His tool, based on graphene, helps determine the presence of specific gas emissions from meat degradation. The announcement is found here (read more)
QMC researchers present a protocol to synthesize two types of UTe2 crystals -- those exhibiting robust superconductivity, via chemical vapor transport synthesis, and those lacking superconductivity, via molten metal flux synthesis -- in an open source publication in the journal JoVE called "Comparison of Two Different Synthesis Methods of Single Crystals of Superconducting Uranium Ditelluride". The online video tutorial is found here.