December 3, 2012: A research team supported by the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science (KIC) has shed light on the topic of electron cooling through the first known direct measurements of hot electrons cooling in graphene. The team, which published its finding online Dec. 2 in the journal Nature Physics, includes lead researcher and KIC Director, Paul McEuen; first author and KIC Postdoc Fellow, Matt Graham; and co-authors Jiwoong Park and Dan Ralph, both KIC members.

November, 2012: KIC member David Erickson, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and Largus Angenent, associate professor of biological and environmental engineering, have teamed up to design and build a completely new type of bioreactor that efficiently delivers light and collects fuel produced by algae inside the reactors. 

October, 2012: KIC Member David Muller‘s research produces ‘ordered’ fuel cell catalysts with increased efficiency and durability.  The research team has published a paper describing this work in the Oct. 28 issue of the journal Nature Materials.

October, 2012: Kavli Institute at Cornell Members Kyle Shen, Darrell Schlom and David Muller's paper, "Quantum Many-Body Interactions in Digital Oxide Supperlattices," featured as cover story for October Issue of Nature Materials.

September, 2012: By combining oxide molecular beam expitaxy and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, Kavli Institute at Cornell members Kyle Shen, Darrell Schlom, and David Muller have gained the first insights into quantum interactions in transition metal oxide superlattices.

August 2012: Integrated circuits, which are in everything from coffeemakers to computers and are patterned from perfectly crystalline silicon, are quite thin - but Cornell researchers and Kavli Institute at Cornell members Jiwoong Park and David Muller think they can push thin-film boundaries to the single-atom level.

May 31, 2012: Cornell alumnus Winfried Denk, Ph.D. '90, co-inventor of two-photon microscopy, has received the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience. Denk was cited for two imaging techniques that have helped answer questions about how information is transmitted from the eye to the brain, according to the Kavli Prize citation.

May 31, 2012: Jiwoong Park, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Kavli Institute at Cornell member, finds that the "stitching" between individual crystals of graphene affects how well these carbon monolayers conduct electricity and retain their strength.

May 31: The 2012 Kavli Prize Laureates in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience were selected for making fundamental contributions to our understanding of the outer solar system, the differences in material properties between nano- and larger scales, and how the brain receives and responds to sensations such as sight, sound and touch. 

May 30, 2012: High-temperature superconductivity starts with nanoscale electronic oases.  J.C. Séamus Davis, the J.G. White Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences, and Kavli Institute at Cornell Member, has for the first time observed how a high-temperature superconductor evolves as its chemical composition is modified. The research was reported May 20 in the online edition of the journal Nature Physics.