Will It Slip or Will It Grip: Scientists Ask, “What Is Snail Mucus?”
Posted on September 5, 2023 in ASRC News, Nanoscience Initiative
A new study breaks down the complex structure of snail mucus and identifies novel proteins. What is snail mucus? That was the question posed by researchers in a new study […]Matthew Sfeir Named 2023 Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator
Posted on August 23, 2023 in ASRC in the News, Photonics Initiative
The five-year award will support Sfeir’s work to investigate the infrared and terahertz properties of novel organic polymers that could enable design and development of advanced photonic and quantum-based technologies. […]No Longer Ships Passing in the Night: These Electromagnetic Waves Had Head-on Collisions
Posted on August 14, 2023 in ASRC News, Photonics Initiative
ASRC researchers show it’s possible to make photons that cross paths interact, paving the way for technology breakthroughs. NEW YORK, August 14, 2023 — A research team at the Advanced […]ASRC Researcher Adam Overvig Named A Finalist for the 2023 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists
Posted on August 9, 2023 in ASRC in the News, Photonics Initiative
The Blavatnik Family Foundation and The New York Academy of Sciences announced today that Adam Overvig is a finalist for the 2023 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists. Overvig, a […]‘Crushing’ chemical innovations at the heart of newly expanded NSF center
Posted on August 8, 2023 in ASRC News, Nanoscience Initiative
Scientists to reveal the atomic-level workings inside the crushing and grinding of mechanical chemistry, with the potential to scale up their advances to make chemical manufacturing more sustainable and cost-effective. […]Pulling Water Out of Dry Air
Posted on August 7, 2023 in ASRC News, Nanoscience Initiative
ASRC Nanoscience Initiative professor Xi Chen has received a prestigious National Science Foundation Early Career Award—one of the agency’s most competitive grants. The five-year, $538,547 in funding will support Chen […]Mark Hauber to Lead the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center
Posted on July 20, 2023 in ASRC News, Environmental Sciences Initiative, Nanoscience Initiative, Neuroscience Initiative, Photonics Initiative, Structural Biology Initiative
New York, NY, July 20,2023 — The City University of New York Graduate Center is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Hauber as the executive director of its Advanced […]Study Finds Temperature Can Affect How Small Molecules Bind to Therapeutic Targets
Posted on July 13, 2023 in ASRC News, Structural Biology Initiative
The discovery could help streamline new drug development. More than 90% of clinical drug development efforts fail every year. A key factor driving the failure rate is that researchers currently […]The Second Life of Plastics
Posted on June 14, 2023 in ASRC News, Environmental Sciences Initiative
A National Science Foundation grant will help an ASRC-led multi-institutional team track and quantify how plastics break down in the environment More than 25 million metric tons of plastic end […]A Novel Method for Squeezing Molecules Together Could Significantly Reduce Chemical Manufacturing Waste and Its Negative Environmental Impacts
Posted on June 8, 2023 in ASRC News, Nanoscience Initiative
Using nanotechnology, scientists have used mechanochemistry to develop a scalable, sustainable technique that would be more energy- and cost-efficient than current chemical manufacturing methods. NEW YORK, June 8, 2023 — […]