CNAM Lab Safety Presentations
2016 Presentation (Karen Kelly)
2015 Presentation (Karen Kelly)
2010 Presentation (Rob Galemba)
2016 Presentation (Karen Kelly)
2015 Presentation (Karen Kelly)
2010 Presentation (Rob Galemba)
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The search for new materials with interesting physical properties is a wide-open and exciting domain of condensed matter physics.
Nature has found innumerable ways to arrange atoms and molecules into structures that have fascinating emergent properties. An example is multi-ferroic materials that have simultaneous ferroelectric and ferromagnetic ordering. Such materials have magnetization that can be controlled by electric fields, and dielectric properties that can be influenced by magnetic fields.
The discovery and development of advanced materials like this is one of the chief objectives of CNAM. Many CNAM scientists are involved in a very active NSF-supported Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) here at the University of Maryland. This Center explores the basic physics, materials physics, and applications of novel materials, including properties of materials at the nano-scale.
In 1959, Richard Feynman delivered a lecture entitled “There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom.” In that lecture he pointed out that the science and technology of the 20th century was generally dwelling on the features of matter at the macroscopic scale, and there were many factors of 10 smaller entities that could be explored and eventually utilized for technological purposes.
We are now engaged in that exploration of physical properties of matter leading down to the scale of single atoms. The physics of the very small is what we call Nanophysics.
As objects get smaller, their quantum mechanical properties become more prominent. small grapheneThey also display properties that are sometimes governed by the position or motion of a single atom or electron.
These situations produce qualitatively new physical properties, as well as unique opportunities for novel and potentially disruptive technologies.
Our Center has broad and comprehensive talent to understand nanophysics through both theory and experiment.
QMC scientists are actively engaged in nanoparticle synthesis and physical property measurement, surface physics, molecular electronics, as well as nanotube and graphene physics.
