University of Maryland researchers have created a fabric that can automatically regulate the amount of heat that passes through it. When conditions are warm and moist, such as those near a sweating body, the fabric allows infrared radiation (heat) to pass through. When conditions become cooler and drier, the fabric reduces the heat that escapes. The development was reported in the February 8, 2019 issue of the journal Science. Chemistry and Biochemistry Professor YuHuang Wang and Physics Professor Min Ouyang co-authored the study.
Chemical Physics Ph.D. Student Meng-Chang Wu published a first-author paper “Twin-beam intensity-difference squeezing below 10 Hz” with Paul Lett, adjunct professor of physics at UMD, JQI Fellow and NIST staff scientist. The paper was published in the journal Optics Express on February 8, 2019.
Christopher Jarzynski, Dave Thirumalai, former IPST postdoc Christina Marchetti and UMD alumnus Jordan Horowitz were among the American Physical Society’s spring 2019 prize and award winners. All four conduct research in statistical physics.
Tsung-Jen Liao, biophysics Ph.D. student and NCI-UMD Partnership student, published a first-author paper titled "Allosteric KRas4B Can Modulate SOS1 Fast and Slow Ras Activation Cycles" in Biophysical Journal on July 24, 2018. Paper co-authors included NIH's Ruth Nussinov and UMD Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry David Fushman.
Earth’s magnetic field provides an invisible but crucial barrier that protects Earth from the solar wind—a stream of charged particles launched from the sun’s outer layers. The protective properties of the magnetic field can fail due to a process known as magnetic reconnection, which occurs when two opposing magnetic field lines break and reconnect with each other, dissipating massive amounts of energy and accelerating particles that threaten air traffic and satellite communication systems.
Daniel Rogers founded Terbium Labs on a simple yet sobering reality: critical data will always be a risk, and data breaches are inevitable. Considering that 85 percent of breaches are detected by a third-party and that the average breach takes more than 200 days to discover, there’s a burning need to identify and remediate data breaches much faster.
On August 14, 2017, a groundbreaking University of Maryland-designed cosmic ray detector will travel to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the SpaceX-12 Commercial Resupply Service mission. The instrument, named ISS Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass (ISS-CREAM), is roughly the size of a refrigerator and will remain installed on the ISS’ Japanese Experiment Module for at least three years. The massive amounts of data ISS-CREAM will collect could reveal new details about the origin and diversity of cosmic rays.
This year, instruments designed and built by Eun-Suk Seo's group (Physics/IPST) will journey to the International Space Station for a three-year mission to capture cosmic ray data beyond Earth’s atmosphere.
University of Chicago Assistant Professor of Chemistry Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan (Ph.D. '11, Chemical Physics) has been awarded a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship in Chemistry.
Two professors and an alumnus from the University of Maryland have been selected as 2016 Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates in physics. The Citation Laureates program uses a variety of criteria, including scientific research citations, to identify the most influential researchers who are likely to win the Nobel Prize.