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Quantum Phase Transition Detected on a Global Scale Deep Inside the Earth

Spin transition discovered in the Earth’s mantle; finding will improve understanding the Earth’s interior, and enable better understanding of tectonic events including volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. More

Oct 12 2021 | By Holly Evarts | Visua Credit: Nicoletta Barolini/Columbia Engineering

Barmak Named 2023 Fellow of ASM International Society

Katayun Barmak, the Philips Electronics Professor, was named a Fellow of the ASM International Society More

Apr 26 2023

Billinge Named Flack Lecturer for the Swiss Society for Crystallography

Simon Billinge was named the Flack Lecturer for the 2023 Howard Flack Lecture Series of the Swiss Society for Crystallography SGK/SSCr in November 2023 More

Apr 07 2023

New research is helping scientists better understand how microstructures change

A team of materials scientists and applied mathematicians, including Prof. Katayun Barmak, developed a mathematical model that more accurately describes such More

Apr 24 2023 | Phys.org

Pets, Politics and Pandemics

Prof. Simon Billinge has launched a new open course on systems theory More

Feb 22 2023 | Coursera

Billinge's Research Published in Nature Materials

Simon Billinge's newest paper, "Dynamic crystallography reveals spontaneous anisotropy in cubic GeTe," published in Nature Materials More

Feb 21 2023 | Nature Materials

Yang Receives DURIP Award

Yuan Yang was awarded an instrument from the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) program. More

Nov 28 2022

Wentzcovitch Named President-elect of AGU’s Mineral and Rock Physics Section

Renata Wentzcovitch, professor of material science and applied physics, and earth and environmental sciences, has been named president-elect for the American More

Nov 17 2022 | AGU.org

Seeing More Deeply into Nanomaterials

New 3D imaging tool reveals engineered and self-assembled nanoparticle lattices with highest resolution yet—7nm—about 1/100,000 of the width of a human hair More

Apr 13 2022 | By Holly Evarts | Photo Credit: Oleg Gang/Columbia Engineering

Barmak and Colleagues Win AFOSR MURI Award for Precision Testing and Evaluation of Computer Chips

Katayun Barmak and colleagues have won a highly-competitive Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Award from the Air Force Office Scientific More

Mar 28 2022

Yang Named 2021 Materials Today Rising Star Awardee

Yuan Yang has been named one of the 2021 Materials Today Rising Star Award Winners More

Jan 20 2022 | Materials Today

Simon Billinge Mentors Student-Led Team That Wins $60,000 Google Research Award

Project will improve computational capabilities for researchers in East Africa through a local organization that trains PhD students in materials science More

Jan 06 2022 | By Allison Chen

Mary Rose Conservation Project Featured by Numerous Media Outelts

Simon Bilinge is part of an international team who has applied a new method - ctPDF - to discover potentially harmful substances within the Mary Rose’s wooden More

Nov 04 2021

Billinge: Researchers Use New X-ray Technique to Conserve Henry VIII’s Favorite Warship

International team applied new method--ctPDF--developed at Columbia Engineering and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility to discover potentially harmful More

Oct 28 2021 | Columbia Engineering News

Barmak and Colleagues Win the Prestigious NSF DMREF Award for Microstructure by Design

Katayun Barmak and her colleagues won a 4-year $1.8 million National Science Foundation 'Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future' (DMREF) More

Sep 28 2021

Uncovering Hidden Local States in a Quantum Material

By heating the material, scientists discovered states of local broken symmetry, which may enable the technologically relevant properties—such as those for More

Jul 06 2021 | Brookhaven National Laboratory

Barmak Paper Featured on Cover of Journal of Applied Physics

Barmak's paper is featured on the cover page as a featured article More

Oct 04 2021

Building Tough 3D Nanomaterials with DNA

Columbia Engineers use DNA nanotechnology to create highly resilient synthetic nanoparticle-based materials that can be processed through conventional More

Mar 19 2021 | By Holly Evarts | Photos and Animation Oleg Gang/Columbia Engineering

Billinge - Think Like an Engineer

Simon Billinge and his group uses AI to invent stronger, more sustainable materials More

Jun 24 2021 | Columbia Engineering Magazine

Yang Wins 3M Award

Yuan Yang, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, has won a 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award. More

May 19 2021

Barmak Serves on Organizing Committee for SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science

May 19 2021

Yang featured in Scientific American

Yuan Yang comments on a new study published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces More

May 21 2021 | Scientific American

Billinge Applies Data Science to Scientific Domains

Research from Prof. Simon Billinge and colleagues was recently published in the article, "Active Reaction Control of Cu Redox State Based on Real-Time Feedback More

Oct 28 2020 | JACS

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2020 Simon Prize Award

May 21 2020

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2020 MSE Senior Design Project

May 08 2020

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2020 Senior Award Winners

May 06 2020

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A rainbow of layered paints could help buildings to keep their cool

Apr 30 2020 | Nature

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Enabling New DNA-Based Therapy For Anti-Cancer Drug Delivery

Scientists designed a tunable peptide-like molecular coating that enables 3-D DNA origami to maintain their structural integrity and functionality in different More

Mar 13 2020 | By Brookhaven National Laboratory | Images Courtesy of Brookhaven National Laboratory

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Gold in Limbo Between Solid and Melted States

Mar 02 2020 | Brookhaven National Laboratory | BNL Newsroom

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Billinge Wins EPDIC Distinguished Powder Diffractionist Prize

Jan 09 2020

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Prof Oleg Gang Makes 3-D Nanosuperconductors with DNA

Complex 3-D nanoscale architectures based on DNA self-assembly can conduct electricity without resistance and may provide a platform for fabricating quantum More

Nov 10 2020 | By Ariana Manglaviti | Illustration Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory

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Nano-objects of Desire: Assembling Ordered Nanostructures in 3-D

Scientists establish new nanofabrication platform for directing nanomaterial components of different natures into 3-D arrays with prescribed organizations; More

Jan 13 2020 | Team Photo Credit: Columbia Engineering | Assembly Schematic Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory | Platform Schematic and Fluorescence Images: Courtesy of the Nature Materials Paper | VIDEO CREDIT: JANE NISSELSON/COLUMBIA ENGINEERING

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Billinge and Barmak: Engineering the Future of Cultural Preservation

Feb 21 2020 | Columbia Engineering Magazine | Columbia Engineering Magazine

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Yang Named One of MIT Technology Review's 'Innovators Under 35'

Prof. Yuan Yang was named one of the "Innovators Under 35" by MIT Technology Review More

Dec 19 2019 | MIT Technology Review

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APAM Faculty Featured in Columbia Engineering Magazine

Jan 02 2020 | Columbia Engineering Magazine

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Porous Polymer Coatings Dynamically Control Light and Heat

New inexpensive, scalable design takes advantage of the optical switchability of porous polymers; could be used for heating, cooling, and lighting buildings, as More

Oct 21 2019 | By Holly Evarts | PPC Transparency Photo Credit: Jyotirmoy Mandal/Columbia Engineering | Thermoregulation Photo Credit: Jyotirmoy Mandal/Mingxin Jia/Columbia Engineering

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