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Discovery of a new type of magnetic reconnection

Professor Shay's group has discovered a new type of magnetic reconnection in plasmas using massively parallel numerical simulations on large scale supercomputers. Its visualization shown here was also featured as the front cover of Physical Review Letters Vol. 98, Issue 21 in 2007.Read More
Spin pumping in magnetic tunneling nanostructures

Joint experimental and theoretical efforts of researchers from the UD Center for Spintronics and Biodetection have demonstrated for the first time that pure spin currents can be generated in microwave driven magnetic tunnel junctions without any applied voltage. Pure spin currents are not accompanied by any net charge current and offer a pathway toward ultra-low-dissipation nanodevices.Read More
Secrets of water revealed from first principles quantum simulations

Prof. Szalewicz's group has developed new first-principle high performance simulations of water molecules. They will aid science and industry in a broad range of applications, from biological investigations of protein folding and other life processes, to the design of the next generation of power plants.Read More
VERITAS scans gamma-rays from extreme astrophysical phenomena in the universe

The Bartol Research Institute is a part of the VERITAS collaboration which operates the highest sensitive instrument to detect very-high energy gamma-rays from extreme astrophysical phenomena in the Universe. VERITAS is now scanning the night sky searching for remnants of exploded stars, distant active galaxies, powerful gamma ray bursts, and evidence of mysterious Dark Matter particles. Read More
Neutrino research in Antarctica

The UD Astroparticle Physics team led by Prof. Gaisser is part of an international collaboration to build IceCube Neutrino Observatory in a cubic kilometer of the Antarctic Ice. When completed in 2011, it will open super-sensitive new eyes into neutrinos as the high-energy messengers from the universe, formed during such cataclysmic cosmic events as exploding stars and colliding galaxies.Read More
Quantum-interference-controlled molecular electronics

Using first-principles quantum transport simulations executed on massively parallel supercomputers, Nikolic group has proposed a new type of molecular transistors where a single ring-shaped organic molecule is connected to electrodes made of graphene nanoribbons. Read More

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For two molecules on blind date, new method predicts potential for attraction or repulsion

May 15, 2012 - Krzysztof Szalewicz, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Delaware, and Rafal Podeszwa of the University of Silesia Institute of Chemistry in Poland have developed and validated a more accurate method for predicting the interaction energy of large molecules, such as biomolecules used to develop new drugs.

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Dr. Alston J. Misquitta

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Dr. Misquitta received his Ph.D. in 2004 while working on the subject of intermolecular perturbation theory under the supervision of Prof. Szalewicz. He currently works in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in UK, and has been a College Lecturer at Murray Edwards College since 2009. His main research focus is concerned with understanding molecular aggregation from first principles, which he addresses through theoretical approaches. Dr.

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