Superconductivity, in which electrons flow with zero resistance, has long defied simple explanation. In 1997, a team led by UIC scientist Russell Hemley showed that under pressure, sulfur becomes an elemental superconductor, making it an ideal…
New experiments by UIC scientists could advance technologies that rely on materials with an unusual property called ferroelectricity. Ferroelectric materials can spontaneously polarize and stay polarized until they’re exposed to an electric field.…
Professor Mark Schlossman has been named a 2024-2025 University Scholar. The program provides a three-year award to faculty members who have demonstrated superior performance in scholarly activities in both research and teaching and…
New materials designed by a University of Illinois Chicago graduate student may help scientists meet one of today’s biggest challenges: building superconductors that operate at normal temperatures and pressures. Superconductors are used widely…
Ir-Jene Shan has been granted a Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award to study a scattering mediated Franck-Condon electron emission processes in metal photocathodes at the Stanford…
Just 20 miles separate Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois, and the downtown campus of University of Illinois Chicago. But starting this year, the research mission of the two Chicagoland institutions that formed…
For nearly a century, a technique called liquid-liquid extraction has been standard practice in science and industry. It’s used to purify rare earth metals, treat nuclear waste and make perfumes and other consumer…
As an undergraduate, Robert Klie wanted to be an astrophysicist, studying cosmic objects with the world’s most powerful telescopes. But he soon became fascinated with the galaxies closer to home: the atomic particles that make…
Graduate student Beren Ozek has been named a Meenakshi Narain Graduate Scholar at the Fermilab Large Hadron Collider Physics Center (LPC) for 2024. This program is aimed to support exceptional Graduate Students from the…
Graduate student Francisco Lagunas has been awarded the Graduate College’s Outstanding Thesis/Dissertation Award for his dissertation titled “Utilizing Cryogenic STEM for the Study of Low Dimensional Functional Materials”. In 2019, Francisco became a…
Rick Frueh, Instrument Maker in the LAS Physical Sciences Machine Shop has been selected for the 2023 Award of Merit. The Award of Merit is designed to recognize outstanding Civil Service and Academic…
On April 28th, 2023, UIC hosted the 2nd Annual Biophysics Student Symposium. The event was organized by a group of graduate students from the departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering, and aimed…
Every year since 1996, UIC’s graduating seniors honor outstanding educators with the Silver Circle Award. This year, Prof. Adrian Barkan was chosen as one of the winners of the award. Learn more about…
Dr. Huan-Xiang Zhou’s research group publishes four papers in March. All four papers report on how proteins perform their functions in a membrane environment. A major approach of the Zhou group is molecular…
What determines the structures of simple metals has been a subject of a longstanding debate among researchers, and findings from a new study appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
On January 30, 2023, Professor Robert Klie was announced as the new Head in the Department of Physics. In an email to the Department of Physics faculty, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences…
George Crabtree, director of the UIC Energy Initiative and distinguished professor of physics and electrical and mechanical engineering, died unexpectedly Jan. 23, 2023. He was 78. Crabtree, an award-winning physicist, was widely known…
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics has named UIC physicist George Crabtree winner of its 2022 Energy Systems Award. The honor acknowledges a significant contribution in the broad field of energy systems,…
