In the News...

• The MSE 505 S2012 class, based in the IAC, has visited DuPont Company in Wilmington, Delaware. The class is enrolled 36 students. It was fascinating for them to see the impressive facilities and advanced equipment in use at the DuPont research center, April, 19, 2012.
• Liberty Science High School Students’ work is published in Material Letters. Daway Chou-Ren and Thomas Hartke working in the PRISM imaging and Analysis Center in the summer of 2011, as part of the Liberty Science Partnership program who have received numerous award and recently have been publish for their work on Thermally Grown Oxides. Their work was also presented in the Intel Science Competition where they received the Army Achievement Award, and the ASM Materials Education Award. They were also semifinalist in the Siemens National Science Competition, March 23, 2012.
• The IAC director, Nan Yao, has been elected a 2012 Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America (MSA) for his contributions to the development and application of advanced microscopy techniques, March 20, 2012.
• Quasicrystal is extraterrestrial in origin. Princeton and IAC researchers find the natural quasicrystal was most likely formed during the early days of the solar system, roughly 4.5 billion years ago, making the mineral perhaps older than the Earth itself, January 12, 2012.
• The image work entitled "Electrified Crystals" won award in Princeton University Art of Science Competition, November 29, 2011.
• IAC played a key role in the discovery of natural quasicrystals. This work was mentioned in 2011 Chemistry Nobel press release, October 5, 2011.
• Dutch (astro)physics undergraduates of the Radboud University Nijmegen were impressed with the powerful instruments in the IAC during their recent visit to the US., February 2011
• Bridge Academy Science Students Toured the Imaging and Analysis Center as an introduction to the Integrated Science curriculum "Materials Science", January 11, 2011
• Imaging and Analysis Center scientists helped the discovery of 650-million-year-old sponge-like creatures which pushes back fossil record by at least 70 million years, August 19, 2010
• Imaging and Analysis Center has installed a Bruker D8 Discover, high-resolution x-ray diffractometer and a FEI Quanta 200 field-emission-gun environmental-SEM. Both instruments are in full operation, Fall, 2009. IAC News Letter f2009
• Imaging and Analysis Center scientists provided conclusive evidence in the discovery of the natural quasicrystal, June 5, 2009
• PRISM imaging and analysis center becomes a new member of the NSF MRSEC-organized Materials Research Facilities Network, and is the only MRFN site in the mid-Atlantic region. January 26, 2009
• IAC won a major NSF research instrumentation grant for the acquisition of Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope (ESEM) (PI: Prof. George Scherer), August 2, 2008
• IAC is very pleased to have Gerald R. Poirier joined the center as an Imaging and Analysis Specialist. Gerald has extensive experience in the area of microscopy and had worked in the University of Delaware for over twenty years before joining Princeton July 15, 2008.
• Princeton students honor the IAC director for excellence in teaching. Excellence in Teaching Award, Princeton Engineering Council, December 13, 2007.
• The IAC summer research student through the partnership with the New Jersey Liberty Science Program has won The 2007 National High School Science Fair Grand Prize, June 12, 2007.
• The IAC draws eager group of students from NSF founded REU summer research program. Princeton Packet article on PRISM/PCCM's REU program, June 16, 2006.
• IAC director delivered a keynote speech entitled “Microscopy for Nanomaterials Characterization” in the Nano Science and Technology Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 7, 2005.
• The IAC helped in uncovering strong evidence that the ancient Chinese used diamonds to polish Sapphire-rich Stone as long as 6,000 years ago. Harvard University News Release, February 11, 2005; Innovations Report, February 14, 2005; Science Daily, February 16, 2005; Alumni Weekly, October 5, 2005; BBC NEWS, May 17, 2005.
• “A smashing success of the first Oxford-Princeton Summer School in Advanced Materials Characterization”, The newsletter of the University of Oxford, 18 November 2004, Vol. 5 Issues 3. (School Brochure)
• “Visiting students gain research experience in Princeton labs”, Princeton Weekly Bulletin. August 01, 2003.
• IAC director delivered a lecture entitled “Structure and Properties of Nano-scaled Materials: From the Oldest Nanoparticles to the Latest Nanotubes” in the first Odyssey Seminar Series at Princeton University, February 13, 2003.
• “Sophisticated Imaging Techniques Reveal an Unseen World” Princeton with One Accord. Spring 2002.
• “Big picture begins with smallest details” Princeton Weekly Bulletin. February 26, 2001.
• “How small is small?” Princeton Weekly Bulletin. February 26, 2001.
• Chi, Suberr. “Where the Telescope Ends, the Microscope Begins...”, Innovation. 2 Feb. 2001: 26-29.
• Trister, Andrew. “Getting Wired in the Microworld”, Innovation. 2 Jan. 2000: 36-38.

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