CBES investigators Samuel Stupp and Erik Luijten published a new paper in Science magazine, “Reversible Self-Assembly of Superstructured Networks." Stupp's laboratory created bio-inspired, dynamic materials for the project, and Liujten's group performed simulations which suggested chemically reversible structures in the materials can only occur within a limited range of supramolecular cohesive energies.

Danna Freedman has earned the 2019 American Chemical Society (ACS) Award in Pure Chemistry "for the design of qubits at the molecular level, opening new opportunities in quantum computing and information processing." The CBES investigator will officially receive the award April 2, 2019, at the ACS national meeting in Orlando, Florida.

Northwestern University researchers, including CBES senior investigator Chad Mirkin, have developed a first-of-its-kind technique for creating entirely new classes of optical materials and devices that could lead to light bending and cloaking devices.

Using DNA as a key tool, the interdisciplinary team took gold nanoparticles of different sizes and shapes and arranged them in two and three dimensions to form optically active superlattices. Structures with specific configurations could be programmed through choice of particle type and both DNA-pattern and sequence to exhibit almost any color across the visible spectrum.