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Results of ground-state structure search for (A) PdH at 0 GPa, (B) PdH at 150 GPa, (C) Pd3H4 at 0 GPa, (D) Pd3H4 at 150 GPa, (E) PdH8 at 0 GPa, (F) PdH10 at 0 GPa, (G) PdH12 at 0 GPa, and (H) PdH12 at 150 GPa. The gray balls represent Pd atoms, and the pink balls represent H atoms. The space groups of the corresponding structures are indicated in parentheses.

Combining pressure, electrochemistry to synthesize superhydrides

A new study featured in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a potential alternate approach that combines pressure and electrochemistry to stabilize superhydrides at moderate, perhaps even close to ordinary, pressures. Superhydrides…

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UIC scientist takes research to the extreme

UIC is home to one of the nation’s foremost scholars in physics, chemistry and materials science. In a prominent career spanning four decades, Russell Hemley has explored the behavior of matter and materials…

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Striving for inclusive excellence in STEM education

For over two years, a select group of educators at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) from the natural sciences have been meeting regularly to participate in professional development studios to help their…

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Dr. Cecilia Gerber named UIC Distinguished Professor

Professor Cecilia Gerber has been named a distinguished professor in the 2020-2021 academic year. The UIC Distinguished Professorship recognizes scholarship, creativity and leadership. Faculty members are nominated by their peers and are selected…

Russell Hemley, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Chair in the Natural Sciences and professor of physics and chemistry at UIC.

$3M Department of Defense award to support UIC STEM research program

A multidisciplinary research team from the University of Illinois Chicago has been awarded a $3 million, three-year U.S. Department of Defense award to establish an undergraduate research mentoring program in science, technology, engineering & math.

Robert Klie, UIC professor of physics.

UIC physicist earns innovation award from Microscopy Today

In two recently published studies, University of Illinois Chicago physicist Robert Klie and colleagues from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Nion Company developed and demonstrated ultra high-resolution electron energy-loss spectroscopy...

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Getting to Know Goldwater Scholar Lopa Bhatt

Lopa Bhatt, a physics major studying electron microsopy, was awarded a Barry M. Goldwater scholarship for the 2020-2021 academic year. The nationally competitive award is widely recognized as the most prestigious scholarship available…

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Shedding Light on Dark Matter

Assistant Professor James Unwin, along with collaborator Dr. Jakub Scholtz of the University of Durham, recently put forth an exciting hypothesis about a possible black hole on the edge of our solar system.…

Side-by-side images of subatomic particles. Image A on the left shows an irregular green shape labeled Fe ML on a blue and black background. Image B on the left shows the same shape with a bright outline and progressively darker center.

UIC Physicists Successfully Image Majorana Fermion

A collaboration between UIC physics researchers led by Professor Dirk Morr, the University of Melbourne (Australia), and the University of Hamburg (Germany) have theoretically predicted and successfully imaged an exotic quantum particle known…

A diverse group of scientists in the NSF ChemMatCARS lab

Mark Schlossman Receives $14.1 million NSF Grant

Professor Mark Schlossman, along with colleagues from the University of Chicago, has received a five-year grant for $14.1 million to develop new capabilities at the National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) ChemMatCARS. ChemMatCARS is a…

Serdar Ogut, Professor of Physics

Serdar Ogut Wins Excellence in Teaching Award

Professor Serdar Ogut was named a winner of the 2018 UIC Award for Excellence in Teaching. Professor Ogut’s teaching practice centers the student, with a unique commitment to mentoring those that struggle in his courses. As…

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Dirk Morr Delivers Ehrenfest Colloquium Talk

Last January, Department of Physics Professor Dirk Morr delivered a talk at the renowned Colloquium Ehrenfestii lecture series at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. An invitation to present an Ehrenfest talk is one of the…

Physics Instructors Nominated for HOPE Awards

Physics department Professor Ursula Perez-Salas and Lecturer Adrian Barkan were nominated individually for Honoring Our Professors’ Excellence (HOPE) Awards in spring 2018. The awards, sponsored by Campus Housing, “recognize faculty who have made a lasting impact on…

Phone Walking Study Gains Traction

Maybe you’ve seen them around town or around campus: people strolling along, holding—but not actually using—their phones. Maybe you even do this yourself. If this seems like a new phenomenon to you, you’re…

Physics Students Publish in Leading Journal

A team of UIC physics researchers from Professor Mark Schlossman’s lab have published research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America(PNAS),a leading science journal. Department of Physics…