nanoscale views

The Kondo effect is a neat piece of physics, an archetype of a problem involving strong electronic correlations and entanglement, with a lo...

This is a compilation of posts related to some basic concepts of the physics of materials and nanoscale physics.  I realized the other day t...

How do crystalline materials deform?  When you try to shear or stretch a crystalline solid, in the elastic  regime the atoms just slightly r...

Welcome to the new year! I've written previously (see here , item #3) about the extreme ultraviolet lithography tools used in modern co...

For those in the US:  Here is a link for submitting a public comment regarding OSTP 's request for information about  "Accelerating...

The Rice Advanced Materials Institute  has an open search in the area of computational materials.   The full position posting is here .  Ple...

Are we witnessing the irreversible deconstruction of an historically successful NSF program, not because of any clear strategy or planning b...