Drs. Hee-Jong Seo and Saw Wai Hla are recognized for their national and international prominence in research and named 2025-26 Presidential Research Scholars.
NQPI Research
NQPI's faculty represent a broad range of expertise and their research spans organic materials to semiconductors, and the macroscopic to nanoscale and quantum regimes.
Researchers in the News
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Collaboration Develops a New Microscope Design
NQPI distinguished Prof. Govorov collaborated with Prof. Chang Group at UMass-Dartmouth to develop a new microscope design for artifact-free dark-field imaging of chiral nanoparticles, a critical tool for the field.
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Named Falling Walls 2024 Laureate, Receives Feynman Prize
Dr. Saw-Wai Hla has been named the 2024 Laureate in the Physical Sciences by the prestigious Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year awards for his ground-breaking research creating the world's first X-ray of a single atom. He also received Feynman Prize for excellence in nanotechnology experimentation.
View His Interview about Pioneering X-ray Advances and Breakthrough in Single-Atom Detection
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Biotesting with Less Expensive Materials: Replacing Colloidal Gold
Lateral flow testing technology has been around for decades, but only recently received widespread use and attention during the coronavirus pandemic in the form of COVID-19 tests. A large part of what makes most lateral flow assay (LFA) tests function is gold. The OHIO team’s work consisted of using titanium nitride (TiN) and gold-covered copper (Cu@Au) nanoparticles as components in test kits for the first time.
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Researchers Demonstrate Tunable Superconductivity
Quantum Technology Article: M. A. Mojarro and Sergio E. Ulloa, from Ohio University, alongside their colleagues, investigate superconductivity within a specially designed two-dimensional material, a lattice structure exhibiting a nearly flat energy band that can be tuned with a key parameter."
2026 Publications
- Electronic and thermal properties of the phase-change memory material, Ge2Sb2Te5, and results from spatially resolved transport calculations
- Tandem mechanochemical engineering yields highly crystalline metal–organic frameworks
- Artifact-Free Dark-Field Scattering Microspectroscopy for Single-Particle Chiral Measurements at the Nanoscale
- Proximity-Assisted Synthesis of Large Area MoS2 on Different Target Substrates by Chemical Vapor Deposition Using a Mo Nanofilm Substrate
- Epitaxial columnar growth of strain-free antiferromagnetic Weyl semimetal Mn3Sn on wurtzite c-plane GaN/Al2O3(0001)
- Near-infrared plasmonic activation of molecular oxygen for selective oxidation of biomass derivatives
NQPI Publications
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