These studies provide insight into the development of bulk material properties, such as melting and superconductivity, and a means of creating new materials that could possibly be exploited in nanosensors, diodes, transistors, and other nanoelectronic devices. The array was formed by the process schematically outlined below in which solvent evaporation on a substrate leads to the observed self-organization of the nanocrystals. This makes the science both exciting and challenging. Our highly multi-disciplinary activities involve a variety of other faculty on campus in the Departments of Physics, Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering through the unique infrastructure that the Texas Materials Institute provides. We also maintain close ties with collaborators in Europe at the Universitiy of Birmingham, the University of Bologna, and University College Dublin.
Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal.
The rest is poetry, imagination. The stray lovers have gone home. The house is cold.