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.
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."
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Dr. Nancy Sandler is a theoretical condensed matter physicist whose work explores how quantum materials behave under complex physical conditions. Her research interests include electronic properties of two-dimensional systems, time-dependent phenomena in driven and quenched electronic systems, and spin qubits in microwave cavities.
Dr. Alexander Govorov and international collaborators published on ACS Nano in detecting gold nanoparticle chirality using linearly polarized light, "Beyond Geometrical Symmetry: Revealing Near-Field Optical Chirality on Achiral Gold Nanoparticles under Linear Polarization Excitation."
Dr. Alexander Govorov and colleagues published "Efficient and reversible chirality induction between protein and achiral plasmonic assemblies" in the Journal Nature Materials. They show "that the mechanical stretching of protein molecules anchored within achiral gold nanoparticle assemblies strongly enhances and reversibly modulates plasmon-coupled circular dichroism."
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 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.
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
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.
Use the Scopus database through Ohio University to access hundreds of NQPI publications authored by Ohio University faculty and student researchers.