Smalley Institute at Rice University

03/13/2015

10/29/2013

Take some cool nano pictures! Enter the contest! Win some money!!

07/22/2013

Nano onion rings! Cool stuff!!

http://news.rice.edu/2013/07/18/graphene-onion-rings-have-delicious-potential-2/

Hexagonal graphene “onion rings” created at Rice are the product of growing two-dimensional carbon in a high-pressure, hydrogen-rich environment.

06/19/2013

Upcoming October workshop on surface plasmons, metamaterials, and catalysis. Register and submit your abstracts by July 21, 2013 at http://PlasEnhCat2013.rice.edu

06/19/2013

Check out our May 2013 NanoArt Contest winning image by Minjie Wang! Don't forget to submit your own NanoArt designs by the end of this month!

06/04/2013

Don't forget to come!! Smalley-Curl Celebration coming up THIS Thursday, June 6 in Duncan Hall! Lecture at 4 pm followed by a reception at 5:15.

05/17/2013

Mark your calendars! Upcoming celebration in honor of Professor Smalley's 70th anniversary birthday and Professor Curl's 80th birthday. June 6, Lecture entitled "Personalized Medicine and Cancer" by Professor James Heath of Caltech at 4 pm, McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall. Reception to follow at 5:15 pm, Martel Hall. Come join us!

03/15/2013

03/11/2013

Mark your calendars! Upcoming lecture in April by Professor Yonggang Huang on the mechanics of stretchable electronics.

01/30/2013

Upcoming lecture by Professor Yeshayahu (Ishi) Talmon of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology! This Friday, 4 pm, McMurtry Auditorium in Duncan Hall. Reception to follow.

01/14/2013

Rice scientists led by Matteo Pasquali help discover a new tougher, more flexible and highly conductive nanotube fiber. Take a look! http://www.technologyreview.com/news/509766/nanotubes-turned-into-super-fibers/

Fibers spun from carbon nanotubes have the conductivity of copper and the strength of advanced composites.

01/07/2013

Here is our festive December winner of the NanoArts contest. Congratulations Sravani Gullapalli! And don't forget to submit your own NanoArts works by the end of January for a chance to win $200!