The NU MRSEC develops and supports collaborative research and education in the science and engineering of nano-scale multifunctional material structures.

Northwestern University
Joined November 2011
NU-ACCESS Reveals Research at the Crossroads of Art research.northwestern.edu/ne…
$5 million five-year NSF NNCI grant awarded to NU, along with partner UC! Congratulations! bit.ly/1F2IUcK
MRSEC at the Google Geek Street Festival at Daley Plaza. Thanks to all who came out to visit!
Join us this Friday for lecture by Prof. Yossi Paltiel from Hebrew University of Jerusalem! Details here: mrsec.northwestern.edu/conte…
Reproducing Nature's Chemistry: Researchers Alter Molecular Properties in a New Way. mccormick.northwestern.edu/n…
MRSEC will host a seminar by professor Yue Wu from Purdue University, on Monday, July 22, 2-3pm, Cook 2058! Join us!
Undergraduate Research Internship (URI) program applications are now available on our website! mrsec.northwestern.edu/conte… Apply before Sept. 27!
Our REU and RET programs begin today! Welcome, everyone!
MRSEC will host a seminar by professor Takhee Lee from Seoul National University, on Monday, June 24, 2-3pm, Cook 2058!
Matthew Grayson leads breakthrough in thermoelectrics. His former REU student, Karen Heinselman, is a co-author of this work.
Chad Mirkin has been selected to receive the Linus Pauling Medal Award from the Oregon, Portland and Puget Sound local sections of the ACS
Tobin Marks (IRGs 1 and 2) is ranked among top local inventors by Crain's Chicago Business.
The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI) has awarded Tamar Seideman (SEED) the 2013 Mildred Dresselhaus Award.
The Royal Society of Chemistry's (RSC) Analytical Division will award Rick Van Duyne (IRG 3) the 2013 RSC Sir George Stokes Award.
The Royal Society of Chemistry's (RSC) Faraday Division will award George Schatz (IRG 3) the 2013 RSC S. F. Boys-A. Rahman Award.
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) will award Chad Mirkin (IRG 3) the 2013 Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
L. Marks produced 3-D images and videos of a platinum nanoparticle at atomic resolution that reveal new details of defects in nanomaterials.
Monica Olvera de la Cruz developed a mathematical model that sheds light on defects in cell nuclei frequently observed in cancer patients.
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Vinayak Dravid and partners in India recently developed a new method for amplifying signals in graphene-based electrochemical sensors.
Chad Mirkin (IRG 3) received the Walston Chubb Award for Innovation from the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society.