Weiss Group in the News

Recent News Stories on or including the Weiss Group

Cover story in Scientific American June, 2000: Computing with Molecules.

Chris and Paul at the Feynman Awards 2000

Alex Kandel wins the American Chemical Society Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education.
See also Chemical & Engineering News, January 24, 2000 issue, pp. 56-57.

ChemWeb interview with Paul Weiss. (Membership is required to view, but it is free.)

Paul Weiss named to US National Committee for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).

J. Christopher Love wins the Foresight Institute Distinguished Student Award for 2000.

Centre Daily Times Article featuring Rachel Smith: Nanoscale Technology Is Science and Art (15 January 2004)

Weiss group wins IM softball championship (2004)

Chemical & Engineering News Article showing Rachel Smith at the Philadelphia Fall 2004 American Chemical Society Meeting (Print version) (30 August 2004)

Molecular Rulers

Scientists Create 'Molecular Rulers' Enabling Precise Construction of Nanoscale Structures (Eberly College of Science News).
Chemical & Engineering News News of the Week article on Molecular Rulers (12 February 2001).
Nanotech Alert article on Molecular Rulers
United Press International article on Molecular Rulers.
Space Daily article on Molecular Rulers (13 February 2001).
Penn State Intercom article on Molecular Rulers (15 February 2001).
Penn State Daily Collegian article on Molecular Rulers (20 February 2001). (artwork)
Cover story in The Chemical Engineer Story (March 2001). Cover
Cover story in Materials Today Story (March 2001). Cover
Science et Vie Micro (SVM), article in April 2001 issue (in french).
Molecular rulers article on the back cover of the Summer 2001 issue of Science Journal.
Research Penn State article on Nanofabrication (Fall, 2001). Page 38, Page 39, Page 40, Page 41, Page 42.

Chemical & Engineering News 10 December 2001 Cover

Chemical & Engineering News Chemistry News of the Year included Molecular Rulers (and molecular switches). (10 December 2001). C&E News Cover 10 Dec 2001
Center for Nanoscale Science Nugget on Molecular Rulers

NanoApplications Workshop on Molecular Rulers and Chemically Advanced Nanolithography held in collaboration with the North Carolina State University Center for Innovation Management. (12 July 2005)
Center for Nanoscale Science Nugget on NanoApplications Workshop

Combining Photolithography with Molecular Rulers: Advanced Materials Advances in Advance article Hybrid Approaches to Nanolithography: Photolithographic Structures with Precise, Controllable Nanometer-Scale Spacings Created by Molecular Rulers (15 March 2006)
NSF MRSEC Nugget on Molecular Rulers: A Marriage of Molecules and Metal @ Pennsylvania State University

Self-Assembly across Surfaces
Folha de Sao Paulo article on self-assembly across surfaces (in Portugese, 10 October 2001).
Chemical & Engineering News www edition of article (22 October 2001).

Displaceable Monolayers
Nature Research Highlights article on adamantanethiol self-assembled monolayers. Nanotechnology: Going for Gold (16 June 2005)
statecollege.com article on adamantanethiol self-assembled monolayers
The All I Need Article New Material Could Improve Fabrication of Nanoscale Components (2005)

Comments on Penn State Research
Centre Daily Times article on Penn State Research (on-line) (print version)

Nanolithography and Chemical Patterning
Chemical & Engineering News cover story on click chemistry (and patterning) with Barry Sharpless (11 February 2002).

Technology Review article on Innovations in Nanotechnology (June 2002).
Weiss serves as faculty escort at graduation for student marshal Suzanne Bisceglia (June 2002).

Molecular Electronics
Science News article: Molecular Electronics: Next-Generation Technology Hits an Early Midlife Crisis (Science 302, 556, 24 October 2003)
Commentary, letters, and corrections to the above article ((Science 303, 1136, 20 February 2004).

Nanoscience
TEQ Magazine of the Pittsburgh Technology Council cover story on Nanoscience. (September 2005)

Synthetic Biology and the International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition
Nature cover story on the 2005 iGEM Competition Designs on Life (24 November 2005)
Center for Nanoscale Science Nugget on Penn State's iGEM Team
Penn State Live Story: Penn State team a gold medal winner at iGEM competition (13 December 2007)
Penn State Live Story: Penn State team a gold medal winner at iGEM competition (13 December 2007)

Molecular Carriers
MIT Technology Review article on Ludwig Bartel's group's work on molecular carriers features Kevin Kelly and Paul Weiss. (23 January 2007)

Substrate-Mediated Interactions
Science Article Surface Science: Long Intervals in the Islands (pdf) (8 June 2007)

Photoisomerization of Single Molecules
Science Editor's Choice Chemistry: Free to Switch (30 May 2008)
Penn State Eberly College of Science News Story Tethered Molecules Act as Light-Driven Reversible Nanoswitches (23 June 2008)
Physorg story Tethered molecules act as light-driven reversible nanoswitches (23 June 2008)
Eurekalert story Tethered molecules act as light-driven reversible nanoswitches (23 June 2008)
MRS Materials News story Tethered molecules act as light-driven reversible nanoswitches (24 June 2008)
Nanotechwire story Tethered molecules act as light-driven reversible nanoswitches (24 June 2008)
Materials Gate story Tethered molecules act as light-driven reversible nanoswitches (25 June 2008)
NanoST World story Tethered molecules act as light-driven reversible nanoswitches (25 June 2008)
Science Daily story Tethered molecules act as light-driven reversible nanoswitches (25 June 2008)

Molecular Plasmonics
Nature Materials Write-up on Active Molecular Plasmonics (PDF). (February 2009)
Nanotechnology Now Article Molecular Machines Drive Plasmonic Nanoswitches. (11 February 2009) Penn State Eberly College of Science News Story Molecular Machines Drive Plasmonic Nanoswitches (11 February 2009)
Penn State Live News Story Molecular Machines Drive Plasmonic Nanoswitches (11 February 2009)

New Families of Molecules for Self-Assembled Monolayers
Penn State Eberly College of Science News Story A New Family of Molecules for Self-Assembly: The Carboranes (24 March 2009)
Physorg story A New Family of Molecules for Self-Assembly: The Carboranes (24 March 2009)
Penn State Live News Story A new family of molecules for self-assembly: The carboranes (25 March 2009)
EurekAlert story A new family of molecules for self-assembly: The carboranes (25 March 2009)
Science Daily story New Family Of Molecules For Self-assembly: The Carboranes (26 March 2009)
Science Centric story A new family of molecules for self-assembly: The carboranes (26 March 2009)
Chemie.De story A new family of molecules for self-assembly: The carboranes | PDF (27 March 2009)
Materials Today story SAM Meets Carboranes (26 May 2009)

Outreach
Chemical & Engineering News article on Penn State's Action Potential summer camps features TJ Mullen (pdf). (9 August 2005)

Chemical & Engineering News Cover Story on Fifty Years of Imaging Atoms Meeting (28 November 2005)

Nano-scale Applications
NanoApplications Workshop on Molecular Rulers and Chemically Advanced Nanolithography held in collaboration with the North Carolina State University Center for Innovation Management. (12 July 2005)
Center for Nanoscale Science Nugget on NanoApplications Workshop

Visualizing Chemistry
Chemical & Engineering News Guest Editorial by Dr. Nancy Jackson Visualizing Chemistry. (30 July 2007)
National Academy of Science Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology Poster Get the Picture? (30 July 2007)

ACS Nano
Chemical & Engineering News Story ACS Nano Editor is Appointed (5 February 2007)
ACS announces ACS Nano (5 February 2007)
ACS blog on ACS Nano
ACS Nano is wins Highly Commended in the Association of Learned and Society Publishers New Journal Award. (October 2008)
ACS Nano wins PROSE Award for Best New Journal in Science, Technology, and Medicine from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers. (February 2009)
Chemical & Engineering News Article on PROSE Awards for ACS Nano and the ACS Publications web site. (10 February 2009)
EurekAlert Article on PROSE Awards for ACS Nano and the ACS Publications web site. (12 February 2009)
Nanotechnology Now Article on PROSE Awards for ACS Nano and the ACS Publications web site. (12 February 2009)
Azo Nanotechnology Article on PROSE Awards for ACS Nano and the ACS Publications web site. (12 February 2009)

Jobs
Dr. Alex Kandel joins the Notre Dame University Chemistry Faculty.
Prof. Chris Keating joins the Penn State Chemistry Faculty.
Dr. Lloyd Bumm joins the University of Oklahoma Physics and Astronomy Faculty.
Dr. Kevin Kelly joins the Rice University Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty.
Dr. Tom Pearl joins the North Carolina State University Physics Faculty.
Dr. Zach Donhauser joins the Vassar College Chemistry Faculty.
Dr. Greg McCarty joins the Bioengineering Faculty of the joint University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University.
Dr. Charlie Sykes joins the Tufts University Chemistry Faculty.
Dr. Jennifer Hampton joins the Washington and Jefferson College Physics Faculty.
Dr. Luis Fernandez-Torres joins the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey Chemistry Faculty.
Dr. Anat (Hatzor) de Picciotto joins the Montclair State University Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty.
Dr. Susan Gillmor joins the George Washington University Chemistry Faculty.
Dr. Tao Ye joins the University of California at Merced School of Natural Sciences Faculty.
Dr. Chris Love joins the MIT Chemical Engineering Faculty.
Dr. Pengpeng Zhang will be joining the Michigan State University Department of Physics Faculty.

Alumni
Dr. Stephan Stranick (group alumnus) featured in Chemical & Engineering News Anniversary Issue: New Voices in Chemistry.
Dr. Stephan Stranick (group alumnus) featured in Chemical & Engineering News again on 30 April 2001, p. 37 and p. 38.
Prof. Chris Keating's nanorod assembly work featured in Science on 3 August 2001, p. 782, p. 783, p. 784, and p. 785.
Prof. Chris Keating's nano-scale striped metal rods featured in wired.com, nature.com, NPR's Weekend Edition, and many other places! (October 2001)
Prof. Kevin Kelly's Group's Single Pixel Camera in USA Today, BBC, Live Science, and elsewhere. (September 2006)