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2009 Materials Research Facilities Network: Facilities

2009 UCSB Research Interns Win Awards at SACNAS: Educational Outreach

2009 New n-type materials for photovoltaics: IRG4

2009 New in-situ Growth and Characterization System at UCSB: IRG4

2009 Micro-tensiometry: IRG3

2009 Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Tin Oxide: IRG2

2009 Controlling the conductivity of SnO₂: IRG2

2009 Sticky Polyelectrolytes: IRG1

2009 Sensitizing NMR: IRG1

2009 Self-healing thermoplastic elastomers: IRG1

2008 Traveling Display Booth for Promotion of the Materials Research Facilities Network: Facilities

2008 Build-your-own-Buckyball: Introducing Materials in the Eighth Grade: Educational Outreach

2008 Hyperpolarized water as an authentic contrast agent for perfusion MRI: SEED

2008 Squid Beaks use Novel Materials Trick to keep from Tearing Off: SEED

2008 Ordered arrays of metal nanoparticles in semiconductor hosts: IRG4

2008 A novel method for interfacial microrheology: IRG3

2008 Probing the structural hierarchy and energy landscape of an RNA T-loop hairpin: IRG3

2008 Transparent Conducting Oxides Enhance Light Extraction from Light Emitting Diodes: IRG2

2008 Non-traditional Processing of Polymeric Materials: IRG1

Luke Laurie - Recepient 2006-2007 Albert Einstein Distinquished Science Educator Fellowship

2006 Materials Research Outreach Program

2006 Complex Fluids Design Consortium

2006 Specific, Reversible and Programmable Bonding in Supramolecular and Macromolecular Materials: IRG1

2006 Soft Cellular Materials: IRG3

2006 Oxides as Semiconductors: IRG2

2006 Nanostructured Composites: IRG4

Models and Materials (2005): Linking Art and Science in Secondary Education

MRL Teacher wins 2005 Microsoft Innovation Teacher Award

2004 Inexpensive Polymer Coatings that Conduct Electricity
Fredrickson, Kramer and Heeger
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2004 Water Soluble Conjugated Polymers for DNA Sensing
Bazan and Heeger
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2004 The Quantitative Study of Interfacial Instability
Induced by the Reaction of End-Functional Polymers.
Kramer and Fredrickson
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2004 Epitaxial films for device applications
IRG2
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2004 Undergraduate Research Poster Session
Summer 2003

New Dielectrics (2003): Bismuth Zinc Niobate Thin Films
Susanne Stemmer, 2003
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Structure of actin cross-linked with α-actinin (2003): a network of bundles
Safinya Group, UC Santa Barbara, 2003
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Web silk is a trampoline of soggy molecular helixes (2003)
Helen Hansma, et al, 2003
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Biotechnology Provides a New Route to Semiconductors (2003)
Sumerel, Kisailus, Weaver and Morse, 2003
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Base Pair Stacking in Aligned Films of DNA-lipid complex (2003)
C.Y. Yang, D. Moses and A.J. Heeger
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Rapidly recovering hydrogel scaffolds from self-assembling diblock copolypeptide amphiphiles
Andrew P. Nowak, Victor Breeveld, Lisa Pakstis, Bulent Ozbas, David J. Pine, Darrin Pochan & Timothy J. Deming
Nature 417, 424–428 (23 May 2002)

Breaching the Membrane (2002):
A better understanding of the structure and function of the cell membrane and its components is providing drug developers with new avenues for breaching the cell’s outer defenses to deliver drugs or DNA
Science Vol 296 3 May 2002
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Nano-Scale Visualization of Liquid Interfaces During Coalescence and Rapture (2002)
Jacob Israelachvili and Gary Leal
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Novel Method of Biocompatible Colloidal Stabilization (2002)
Nano-compartments Enclosing Vesicles, Colloids and Macromolecules via Interdigitated Lipid Bilayers, Langmuir, in press.
Kisak, E. T., Coldren, B. and Zasadzinski, J. A.
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Microrheology - 2001
"One- and two-particle microrheology", A.J. Levine and T.C. Lubensky,PRL 85, 1774 (2000).
"The response function of spheres in a viscoelastic medium", Alex J. Levine and T.C. Lubensky, PRE 63, 041510-1 (2001).
"Two-point microrheology and the electrostatic analogy", A.J. Levine and T.C. Lubensky, PRE accepted for publication, cond-mat/0140132.
"Dynamics of viscoelastic membranes", Alex J. Levine and F.C. MacKintosh, Submitted to PRE and cond-mat/0108552.
"Microrheology in active gels: the breakdown of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem", F.C. MacKintosh and Alex J. Levine, in preparation.
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Hierarchical Self-Assembly of F-Actin and Cationic Lipid Complexes: Stacked Three-Layer Tubule Networks (2000)
G.C.L. Wong, J.X. Tang, A. Lin, Y. Li, P.A. Janmey, and C.R. Safinya,
Science 288, 2035 (2000).
Featured as Top Story in Chemical & Engineering News - 2000, 78, 11 (2000).
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