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Wei Gao
March 15, 2021
Wei Gao Receives 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award
Researchers placed more than 3,000 glowing moon-shaped nanoscale molecular devices into a flower-shaped instrument for indicating the polarization of light. The "moons" in each of the 12 petals points in a different direction, and only glows when struck by polarized light matching its orientation. The end result is a flower whose petals light up in sequence as the polarization of light shined upon it is rotated. The flower, which spans a distance smaller than the width of a human hair, demonstrates that thousands of molecules can be reliably oriented on the surface of a chip.
February 19, 2021
Engineers Place Molecule-Scale Devices in Precise Orientation
Photos of Wei Gao and Nick Hutzler
February 16, 2021
Caltech Professors Receive Sloan Research Fellowships
Graphene
January 21, 2021
New Property Discovered at the "Magic Angle"
Cynthia M. Friend
December 28, 2020
Cynthia M. Friend Named Incoming President of the Kavli Foundation
Michael Mazza
December 18, 2020
A Science Journey with Michael Mazza
Scott Cushing
December 15, 2020
Scott Cushing Named 2021 KNI-Wheatley Scholar in Nanoscience
Isabella Yang
December 14, 2020
Isabella Yang Named on Forbes' 30 Under 30 List
A portrait of Mikhail Shapiro in a laboratory. He wears a sweater and collared shirt. Equipment is seen in the background.
December 2, 2020
Mikhail Shapiro Receives Grant From Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for Deep Tissue Imaging
Alireza Marandi
November 5, 2020
Watson Lecture, November 11: Alireza Marandi on Using Light to Address Challenges in Sensing and Computing
Brain image
October 15, 2020
A Method to Map Brain Circuits in Real Time
Kimberly See
October 15, 2020
Kimberly See Named a 2020 Packard Fellow
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