The Carbon NanoSolenoid on the Cover of Nano Letters

Nano Letters features our work on the Cover of its January 2016 issue

nalefd_v016i001.inddGraphene forms helicoids, akin to the mathematical Riemann surface for log(z), naturally occurring as screw dislocations in graphite or anthracite. In the Nano Letters paper, we demonstrate that the miniscule pitch of such winding carbon ribbons endows them with largest magnetic inductance per volume, which surpasses any current technologies. If voltage is applied, electrical current must flow helically, producing near the center strong magnetic field orders of magnitude greater than that of planet Earth.

The image was produced from the actual atomic geometry, using VMD, our own Edgecount tool, MeshLab, Python scripting, and the mighty Gimp.

New Materials for Better Electronics

2016 CASC Brochure features work from the group

casc2016An image illustrating recent work from the group is featured in the 2016 Brochure
published by the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation – an alliance of 85 of America’s most forward thinking research universities, national labs and computing centers, including Rice’s Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology.
On page 13, the highlight box “New Materials for Better Electronics” features our recent work on two-dimensional black phosphorus.