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Join us in congratulating Criss Zhang on a successful defense of his dissertation, Controlling Microstructure and Magnetic Responses in the FeSiB System under Magnetic or Mechanical Inputs, and graduation ceremony. To Dr. Zhang, Congratulations and we wish you all the best in your next adventures- Read More ...

Researchers May Have Just Solved the Rare Earths Crisis - News @ Northeastern Professor Laura Lewis setting up the Atomic Force Microscope to image the magnetic domains of Tetrataenite in Iron meteorite samples

The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering hopes our awareness and appreciation will be raised by making Masato Sagawa its 2022 laureate. He is a Japanese scientist who invented the neodymium-iron-boron (Nd-Fe-B) magnet. Nd-Fe-B is the strongest permanent magnet in wide-scale use today, found in everything Read More ...

Tier 1 funding has been awarded for Interdisciplinary research that combines faculty experts in materials, policy, and computer science to investigate the use of magnetic microwires as a novel authentication tag. This technology could provide a unique and secure method of validating the authenticity of Read More ...

MIE Ph.D. candidate Criss (Xiaoyu) Zhang just received $10 K research grant from the IEEE Magnetics Society for a year-long international collaborative project with students from the Ames Laboratory (Ames, IA, USA) and ICMM (Madrid, Spain). This proposed research seeks to utilize mechanical stress to Read More ...

Nanomagnetism Group member Andrew Pike graduated summa cum laude with a BS in Chemical Engineering and Physics and as a member of the University Honors Program. Andrew’s contributions to the group include building tools to probe the nature of magnetic materials and performing simulations of Read More ...

NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has generated tremendous interest in how the virus spreads throughout populations as well as how it is deactivated. New types of surface treatments that exhibit antipathogenic “contact-kill” capabilities are urgently sought to protect public health and welfare. To this Read More ...

Adrian Fedorko received the 2020 Physics Research Co-op Fellowship from the Physics Department. He will be on a 6-month Co-op during the Summer-II and Fall semesters, working on spintronic materials and devices in Dr. Heiman’s lab.

Prof. John B. Goodenough, professor at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with M. Stanley Whittingham of the State University of New York at Binghamton and Akira Yoshino of Meijo University, "for the development of Read More ...

Gregory Stephen received his PhD degree from the Northeastern Physics Department in May 2019. His topic was “Heusler Spin Filters for Room-Temperature Spintronic Applications”. His work focused on synthesizing and studying the antiferromagnetic and electrical properties of the spin-filter material CrVTiAl. The semiconducting properties were Read More ...

Congratulations to Dr. Brian Lejeune successfully defending his Ph.D. in May of 2019 entitled Composition-Lattice Interactions in Ternary Transition-Metal Boride Ferromagnetic Systems. His Ph.D. work focused on structure-composition-magnetism interactions in rare-earth-free intermetallic ferromagnetic borides with a specialization in near-room-temperature magnetocaloric materials in the AlFe2B2 family. For Read More ...

ChE & MIE Professor Dr. Laura Lewis was appointed Northeastern University Distinguished Professor, the highest honor the university can bestow upon a faculty member. Dr. Lewis joined Northeastern University in 2007 as the Department Chair of Chemical Engineering, she has won prestigious awards for her research. Read More ...

Brian Lejeune (left) and his coworker in Ames Lab Brian Lejeune, a Ph.D. candidate in Nanomagnetism Group, is half-way through his six-month SCGSR (Science Graduate Student Research Program) fellowship in Ames Laboratory. Since January 2018, he has been working on the growth and characterization of Read More ...

          Big thanks to our two REU students (Alastair Fisher and Juan Mesa) for all the hard work during the past 10 weeks. They've both gone above and beyond what we expect from undergrads with very little time to do it Read More ...

Laura H. Lewis of Northeastern University has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program grant to Spain in the field of Materials Science from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Prof. Lewis will be carrying out research at Instituto Read More ...

Dr John Goodenough, co-inventor of the Lithium Ion Battery, is currently leading a team of researchers to develop a new type of glass battery that could challenge all current conventions for fueling vehicles. This new battery is claimed to be able to fully charge in Read More ...

Mildred Dresselhaus, a professor at M.I.T. and writer of over 1,700 publications, died on February 20th, 2017. She was an inspiration to women of science and engineering everywhere and was known as the "Queen of Carbon" for her innovative techniques for studying individual layers of Read More ...

Congratulations to Clark Luckhardt (seen above) and Ekaterina Stonkevitch for earning their certification in using Scanning Electron Microscopes! On January 20, 2017, Luckhardt and Stonkevitch completed basic training and were certified.

Magnetic Domains in a Meteorite — MFM mode, image size 10 micron x 10 micron Calendar image: Keysight Technologies See the winning image (above) of magnetic domains in tetrataenite (L10 FeNi) captured by Nina Bordeaux (Ph.D. Candidate – Chemical Engineering Department). The image was selected Read More ...