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Georgetown research featured on the cover of Nature Physics
Prof. David Egolf and a team of three former Georgetown undergraduates, Edward Banigan (C'07), Matthew Illich (C'11), and Derick Stace-Naughton (C'11), have had their research featured on the cover o
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Landmark MoS2 Research Published in Nature – Scientific Reports
Semiconducting molybdenum disulfide is an attractive material for novel nanoscale optoelectronic devices primarily due to its inherently large direct bandgap. However, a major technological hurdle ha
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New undergraduate summer fellowship
The Department of Physics is pleased to announce the creation of the Walter Mayer Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship. This new fellowship has been established through the generous support of Dr
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Georgetown physics undergraduates presenting research at the APS March Meeting
Two Georgetown undergraduates will be giving talks about their research projects at the American Physical Society March Meeting in Baltimore next week. The March Meeting is the largest physics meetin
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Outstanding Contribution in Innovation and Commercialization Award Presented to Prof. M. Paranjape
At Georgetown University’s Patent Award ceremony (http://otc.georgetown.edu) held on Jan. 30, 2013, Dr. Claudia C. Stewart, Vice President for Technology Commercialization, presented the “Outstanding
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Blair, Urbach collaboration uncovers the physics of Oobleck.
In a paper appearing this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Profs. Blair and Urbach and postdoctoral fellow Vikram Rathee report the first measurement that visualized shear thickening fluids (also known to kids around the world as oobleck). Their work reveals that the shear thickening is actually due to the ability of the suspension to dynamically separate into two fluid phases of dramatically different mechanical properties.
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Nonequilibrium physics study published in Physical Review X
Professor Freericks is part of a team that published a study on how metals relax after an intense laser is shone on them.
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