New research from the University of Illinois Chicago may help scientists move one step closer to developing superconductors that operate in ambient conditions at room temperature and pressure, a long-sought advancement in physics and engineering. Superconductors are materials that can conduct electricity without resistance,…
MXenes (pronounced like the name “Maxine”) are a class of two-dimensional materials, first identified just 14 years ago, with remarkable potential for energy storage, catalysts, ultrastrong lightweight composites, and a variety of other…
Quantum information science is booming in Chicago. At UIC, coursework, clubs and collaborative research connect students with this cutting-edge technology. Thanks to a $125 million grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of…
Barely a fraction of a second after the Big Bang, an unimaginably hot and dense mixture of particles, called “quark–gluon plasma,” filled the universe. Fast forward billions of years to today, and physicists can make this type of matter experimentally by slamming two atoms together at nearly the speed of…
Professor Misha Stephnov has been named a distinguished professor in the 2025-2026 academic year. The UIC Distinguished Professorship was created to recruit and recognize persons who have made a significant impact upon their field through…
Congratulations to Professor Huan-Xiang Zhou for being named a Biophysical Society Fellow! BPS Newsroom – https://www.biophysics.org/news-room/biophysical-society-announces-2026-society-fellows Newswise – https://www.newswise.com/articles/biophysical-society-announces-2026-society-fellows EurekAlert – https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1099454
Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago are among the winners of the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. The scientists were honored for their work with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)’s Large…
Congratulations to Kui Wang, currently a postdoctoral research associate in the Hemley group at UIC, for receiving a Distinguished Student Grant Award at the 2025 American Physical Society Global Physics Summit in Anaheim,…
Research at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) has led to the discovery of giant negative linear compressibility in copper cyanide (CuCN) in which the material behaves like a “wine rack” expanding in…
A Quantum Design Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS) has just been installed at UIC. This unique, versatile, and highly configurable instrument will measure electrical, magnetic, thermal transport, and thermodynamic properties of materials over…
Members of the Spille Lab attended the 69th Biophysical Society Meeting in Los Angeles, California, to present their research on the nanoscale organization of the cell nucleus. Graduate student Ganesh Pandey won the Student…
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…
