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NQPI: Materials Science and Engineering, Nanoscience & More

Nanoscale & Quantum Phenomena Institute

NQPI faculty members having expertise in biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, physics, and other relevant fields. They engage in research ranging from organic materials to semiconductors and spanning the macroscopic to nanoscale and quantum regimes.

Saw-Wai Hla Named Falling Walls 2024 Laureate in Physical Sciences

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. 

His achievement in the 2024 Physical Science category honors his work as a physicist at Ohio University and the Argonne National Laboratory for "Breaking the Wall of 128 Years of X-ray History."

View His Interview about Pioneering X-ray Advances and Breakthrough in Single-Atom Detection

Dr. Saw-Wai Hla